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by 49531 6y ago
I think a better way to look at it is that workers should be able to protest working on a machine they find morally wrong. The world might be a better place if people directing resources were required to stop and think "Are the workers
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by 49531 6y ago
My only experience with social causes is doing labor organizing in Seattle, but that experience has been almost exclusively organized and run by uneducated working poor. My point being that from what it looks like, there probably isn't
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by 49531 6y ago
> It's interesting how this is organized by largely college educated people, many of whom are not PoC Do you have a source for this? I haven't been able to find a list of people involved in organizing this.
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by 49531 6y ago
While not super related, I've always been fascinated by shoplifter analysis of loss prevention you can find on the internet: https://raddle.me/wiki/shopliftingml
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by 49531 6y ago
They have that hand scanner tool, so you can scan larger objects without picking them up, and I often will forget I have smaller objects under the larger one I scanned. Also, scanning 1 item while holding two of it in your hand.
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by 49531 6y ago
As someone who has inadvertently stolen from Walmart on more than one occasion, I cant attest that their anti-shoplifting AI does not work.
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by 49531 6y ago
Well, also the fact that a police station is filled with armed police might also be a reason.
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by 49531 6y ago
You can use querySelectors in React, it's just normal JavaScript. You can also use refs if you don't want to use querySelector.
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by 49531 6y ago
I think the whataboutisms come up whenever China is mentioned because it feels a bit goofy to spend energy worrying about authoritarianism across the world while ignoring authoritarianism in your own country. I'm not saying people shou
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by 49531 6y ago
I think it's important to distinguish Marx's theories (dialectical materialism) from Marx's application of them. Marxists apply his method of systemic analysis to contemporary events to navigate global and local economic issu
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by 49531 6y ago
Isn't dialectical materialism an attempt at finding laws of history? I've always understood it as a sort of evolutionary biology for social science. This article mentions Marx, but only as a guy who had an idea of a communist soci
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by 49531 6y ago
Silas Marner by George Elliot. Changed the way I parent my children.
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by 49531 6y ago
You can find them for ~$30 on Amazon.
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by 49531 7y ago
Yea, unfortunately that seems to be the case. While local level officials in Wuhan punished some early whistleblowers for posting publicly about the virus the Chinese Supreme Peoples Court said they should not have been punished. I think Ch
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by 49531 7y ago
ERs in the US primarily act as triage and stabilization centers for emergencies. Treatment for chronic illness or preventative care can't reliably be found in an ER. An anecdote, the last time I had to go to an ER in the US was when I
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by 49531 7y ago
I used to work at a gig economy startup (uber for dog walking...) and we spent considerable resources lobbying local and national governments to expand the kinds of restrictions we put onto our independent contractors while still not labeli
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by 49531 7y ago
Anyone who has done even a little bit of labor organizing knows that getting contact information for your co-workers is the first step in forming any kind of worker organization. It's not illegal, but companies go to great lengths to p
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by 49531 7y ago
Here is one of my favorite threads by Marcin: https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/996056615928266752
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by 49531 7y ago
If y'all don't follow Marcin Wichary on Twitter you're missing out on a lot of great content. He's consistently highlighting interesting intersections of history, technology, and how humans live within it all. Twitter ca
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by 49531 7y ago
Not only will it be more fickle, there is 0 accountability from the public, and the corporation has unilateral control over the programs existence. Contrast that with entrenched public goods like schools, libraries, police and fire departme
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by 49531 7y ago
> Will this effort make it harder to build public infrastructure in the future? Yes, most likely. > But at the same time, homeless people don't care about your theoretical utopia. They need help right now, and there's a very
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by 49531 7y ago
It isn't about good or evil, it's about the fact that relying on large corporations' profit interests to solve public ills is a fools errand. So, sure, the public might get some good from a corporation's program, but as
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by 49531 7y ago
It's a really convoluted system which requires the kids to essentially be penned up and allowed to walk to their parents cars in a controlled way. They have a policy against walking since there are no sidewalks for most of the area aro
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by 49531 7y ago
I don't live in a sun belt city, but rather a smallish town (60,000 pop) in the US. I live less than half a mile from the nearest grocer store, but it's too dangerous to walk. No sidewalks, no shoulders. I have to drive. I live 0.
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by 49531 7y ago
You can usually find a therapist for a similar rate ($80-$100)/hr, or if you're lucky enough to have insurance that covers therapy, you can get it for less. I currently only pay a co-pay of $25/hr.
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by 49531 7y ago
As a society, should we really tolerate businesses who can only exist via exploitation?
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by 49531 7y ago
Unions are no more or less corrupt than any organization of humans (the businesses they work inside of especially).
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by 49531 7y ago
> It requires people who are able to fully parse the implications of what they are hearing to make sound and rational judgements on the rejection of an idea or the embrace of it. This is the crux of liberal (classical, libertarian, and c
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by 49531 7y ago
I think the fact that business school exists at all should be our first clue that Economics is mostly pseudo-science. It has little material value aside from propagandizing the ideas of the wealthy.
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by 49531 7y ago
I mean, how many of us work at Microsoft or Amazon? Companies currently in a bidding war to build the "War Cloud".

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