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  • There’s a lot of marxist debate over this, but the general view is best shown by this phrase:

    “When the Spanish came to the americas, they demanded the peoples to become christians. When the English came, they wiped them out.”

    Even the Spanish Queen Isabella in the 1500s after Columbus’s voyages demanded that the indigenous peoples be considered subjects with full rights. The Spanish never tried to systematically wipe out the indigenous in the same way the english did.

    And by the time of Bolivar, a big chunk of Latin Americans were, although christian, supportive of indigenous resistance, and slave rebellions like in haiti. At the same time presidents in the US were decrying the haitian revolution and carrying out the largest scale genocide of our time.











  • I firmly believe you should develop apps natively for that platform. That means jetpack-compose for android, and swift ui for iOS.

    These write-once-for-all platforms layers are always bloated, slow, unoptimized, and behind the official native specs.

    Decent programmers know how to learn new languages and frameworks as necessary, and most of the concepts are the same across programming languages. Nothing near as difficult as learning a real language.








  • Home ownership rate is the percentage of homes occupied, not the percentage of people who own their homes (or even have positive equity in them).

    From what I could find, 1/3rd of the adult population rents, another 3rd have mortgages with negative equity, and 1/3rd have positive or paid off mortgages. I couldn’t find the number who fully own their homes.

    Either way all of the above categories could still be house-poor, meaning you’re spending most of your income on housing and upkeep, and could still be a paycheck away from homelessness, unable to pay rent/mortgage. I had a relative who fully owned her home, but was unable to pay the property tax and her house was seized.