Afforess

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by Afforess 5y ago
Cash value != Benefit value. That you interpret the cash value as being identical shows you trust management over the employees, who this actually effects...
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by Afforess 5y ago
> No more paternalistic benefits. Cutting benefits and calling it a feature. Amazing. A lot of "work will set you free" vibes from this.
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by Afforess 5y ago
This is a compelling argument because what? The US government is incapable of passing new legislation to regulate/outlaw property? An interstate-trading crypto ban would be legal, as far as I can tell.
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by Afforess 5y ago
And I thought zombie movies were so unrealistic. Truth is stranger than fiction.
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by Afforess 5y ago
Breach of contract settlements are typically far more than the initial outlay. That's the whole purpose of contracts, agreeing on a future outcome in advance.
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by Afforess 6y ago
You drink it then. It was editorialized correctly, the government is planning on dumping radioactive water into the ocean. Saying that the water is "treated" and thus not a problem is equally misleading.
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Suga says time ripe to decide fate of Fukushima No.1 water(japantimes.co.jp)
44 points by Afforess 6y ago|54 comments
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by Afforess 6y ago
RIP Alamo Ritz: As part of this bankruptcy, Alamo Drafthouse will close down underperforming locations, including the flagship Alamo Drafthouse Ritz location in downtown Austin on Sixth Street. I've been there for a lot of special Al
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by Afforess 6y ago
>The problem here as I understand it is that ERCOT stepped in and artificially set an absurdly high wholesale price Incorrect. ERCOT set a price ceiling, not a price. The wholesale price without the ERCOT price ceiling would have been fa
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by Afforess 6y ago
Good. It is bizarre to me that one could post literal death threats online endlessly without fear of any consquences, yet if you were to yell the same threats in a public location, the police would be summoned. My main concern would be that
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by Afforess 6y ago
Yep: https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1346909804036386816
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by Afforess 6y ago
This is an incorrect take, and deeply frustrating that it is so pervasive, given that there is literal evidence of it being wrong. China, especially Wuhan, was the center of the virus outbreak early in 2020. China successfully locked down a
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by Afforess 6y ago
heat dissipation. "charging" a battery is an exothermic chemical reaction.
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by Afforess 6y ago
These charts are an amazing Rorschach test, every one with a pet political ideology sees the evidence for their own point of view. HN is quite the big tent of opinions.
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by Afforess 6y ago
> our currency is being debased at a rate we have never seen. Looks at $1 gasoline. Looks at $2 eggs. Looks at $3 gallon of milk. Debased. Sure thing. (Maybe gasoline is an unfair example, but essential good prices are largely unchange
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by Afforess 6y ago
So it is true.
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by Afforess 6y ago
Comparisons of hog fecal matter to nuclear waste are tens of magnitudes of danger and complexity apart. A person can move hog waste. The most complex equipment the human race has ever designed can move nuclear waste.
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by Afforess 6y ago
Nuclear waste has not existed in the medium or long term. It hasn't even existed longer than the Catholic church, a mere blip on histories timescale. Of course there is no evidence. But the short term failures do not give me hope.
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by Afforess 6y ago
There is no evidence nuclear waste can be disposed of safely in the medium or long term. Only technocrats and elites want more nuclear energy. Its not the will of the voting public. This is a defeat for the environment and democracy.
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by Afforess 6y ago
>We did get it under control, and indeed massively reduced it, and the bad things did not come to pass. Checked Asthma rates lately in the United States? 1 in 8? Higher? That is not normal, and indeed a "bad thing".
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by Afforess 6y ago
Another factor which has not been mentioned much is that an unfrozen Laptev sea will affect the placement of the jet streams. Open sea will result in a lower albedo and greater evaporation on the surface, year-round. This in turn will chang
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by Afforess 6y ago
NSIDC records began in 1979 for the arctic sea ice. Earlier records have to be intuited from proxy sources, such as anecdotal accounts or early photos.
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by Afforess 6y ago
It still boggles my mind that Chris Sawyer wrote Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in pure assembly, only failing back to C to handle windows sound apis. The game is a masterpiece, it defined an entire game genre for decades. And RCT ran sm
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by Afforess 6y ago
Fuck cancer, and Fuck the US Insurance system. I am in remission from leukemia at age 29, and my insurer was billed >1M USD. I payed out over $10000 in personal costs, despite a "$2000" /yr deductible (my treatment was ov
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by Afforess 6y ago
> Economists are as effective as astrologists at predicting the future. [citation needed] > I see this assured economic doom repeated so much without being questioned as anything but guaranteed I wonder where this incredible confiden
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by Afforess 6y ago
Pledged.
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by Afforess 6y ago
Google (okay, Alphabet) is the only big tech company that I can imagine would ultimately _benefit_ from an antitrust breakup. Google keeps killing low-to-medium profitable smaller product lines and tools because it can't spin them off
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by Afforess 6y ago
What part of "Hacker" in "Hacker News" did you not notice? Hackers have always been involved in politics. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a serv
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by Afforess 6y ago
Yes, then draft them. I'm in favour of martial law for this crisis.
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by Afforess 6y ago
How is lemmy going to avoid the fate of the last reddit alternative (voat)? Voat attracted the communities banned from reddit, e.g the worst of the worst: jailbait, creepshots, beatingwomen, etc. The users most interested in an alternative

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