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by Aunche 1y ago
> you'll notice that they never actually make things less authoritarian They tried, but it was blocked by Republicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act
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> The exact same thing is true in reverse. This is an odd thing to say when Steve Jobs achieved most of his success after parting ways with Woz. Jobs was the product guy at Apple. He laser focused on every detail to make sure that the
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Poverty isn't hard to solve because "society needs it" but because it is a statistically likely outcome. If you live in a world where everyone has $100, and every day, each person randomly gives $1 to a random another person,
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> % required spending on actual Medicare care by health insurers (limiting administrative and marketing expenses) That part stayed in. Note that this actually isn't relevant for most people get their insurance through an employer wh
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High deductible plans are the norm because HSAs are basically free money. Maybe Obamacare really is to blame for shittier health insurance, but it's also possible that IBM is just paying relatively less than it used to. Employers can d
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Being manned is a major difference. Humans need a lot of space. Pressure grows with volume, which is cubic, but the hull grows with area. You can also submerge components in oil, which is much better at resisting pressure than air.
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What YIMBY deregulation do you view as problematic? YIMBYs aren't calling for more billionaire row towers and multifamily to single family townhouse conversions. They are calling for more apartment complexes, ADUs, and other utilitaria
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These are ironically the weakest counterarguments to abundance housing. Rich people don't move to a city because of their love of 5 over 1 buildings. Otherwise, developers could just build them in rural Kansas and everyone would be hap
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It's actually even worse than that. The $19/hr and health insurance comes from increasing menu prices, so with flat percentage tips, you're paying more purely for the privilege of paying more.
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> Given the brutal blockade of Gaza, the continuous encroachment of settlers in the occupied territory, the continued refusal of a two-state solution, what exactly Israel expects to happen? Are you implying that this "blockade"
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> Does anyone still need testimonies like these to be convinced that Israel is systematically exterminating the Palestinians using kinetic force and starvation? Before October 7, activists insisted that Gaza’s border restrictions were dr
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The most popular new car is the RAV4, which starts at $29,500 today [1]. In 2010, a new RAV4 retailed for $21,675 [2]. Dealers were more flexible with haggling back then, but at best, that's still only a 50% increase. [1] https:/
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Romneycare wasn't really Republican , which was why it was it only passed in the overwhelmingly blue state of Massachusetts. Nixon signed OSHA, but nobody calls that Republican. The healthcare marketplace was proposed by the Heritage F
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The iPhone 13 mini had even worse performance than the iPhone 12 mini even though it wasn't released alongside an SE.
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What exactly has the US done to hurt their economy? They have subsidized green energy, but China does that to a much greater extent.
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All the companies that I've heard of that you listed were all founded before the EU.
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$5 million was the gpu hour cost of a single training run.
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Even assuming this is true, that doesn't make the article insulting. Myths about how housing does not follow supply and demand affect homelessness even more, but that doesn't make the person spreading these myths morally wrong.
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For the most part, supply follows from demand than the other way around. If people cared more about healthy food more than convenient and tasty food, then companies will sell and advertise healthier food. Chinatowns were historically poor,
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That's what she portrayed it as, but it doesn't pass the smell test. Why would a manager be yelled at for company wide statistics? This and all the other aggressive framing suggests to me that she's not a reliable narrator. I
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> indexing which Gaza families to bomb Wtf does this even mean? If Hamas used Google docs to plan their attack, does that make Google guilty of killing Israeli families? Coincidentally, this sort of hyperbole always seems to end at the c
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You can't have radical transparency without a blameless culture. Calling someone out in the open is in bad taste anywhere. It's also common sense. As Omar says, "If you come at the king, you best not miss." It's pos
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> "well, it lasted this long and the organizational rot only killed a few hundred people" It should be clear that is not what I meant. This reinforces my view that popular criticism towards Boeing is unhelpful and ironically is
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Are there actually more issues or are people just more aware of them? Like I said, commercial airline flights are significantly safer than they were in Boeing's supposed golden era despite these publicized scandals.
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> Fatal Recklessness at Boeing Traces Back to Long-Standing C-Suite Greed I suspect this is true to a certain extent, but IMO this narrative has been exaggerated to the point where it is completely useless. If Boeing execs were only focu
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A company has to follow the local rules of a country. Was Microsoft bribed to censor the Tiananmen Square Massacre on Bing?
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Social media platforms rank content based on how profitable it is to them. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Maybe it would be unprofitable to resist censorship requests on behalf of US government, but the exact same pressure would
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Indeed even the Soviet Union depended on a proto-capitalist black market to make up for market deficiencies. In order to incentivize the elites to do anything at all, they had to exchange favors with each other, which meant that corruption
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California doesn't have a separate tipped minimum wage, has a high minimum wage, and mandates larger restaurants to provide health insurance benefits, so 15% sounds about right. The higher minimum wage gets baked into the menu prices,
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This is why Amazon started as a bookstore. Jeff Bezos didn't just happen to like books. It was meant to sell everything from the start. Rather, he started out with books because he identified it as an area where an online marketplace s

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