BrainInAJar

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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
> Or game developers can just hire non-union employees. And then immediately be sued by the union & former employees for retaliation under the labor acts. Businesses already tried that sort of shenanigans
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
Unionization literally is there to fix management problems. By giving workers a say as to what management is allowed to do
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
> it disincentivizes work "work" is a funny term. Accepting for the sake of argument that it disincentivizes economically beneficial work, what if it frees up eg, artists and other culturally important activities? Or family car
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
it was cheaper for AMD to produce one chip and then selectively cut the multiplier lines to differentiate sku for different market segments, so if you closed the lines again you'd get a different, faster clock multiplier
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
Code is a social activity. "lousy programmers" are the ones that are rude jerks to others.
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
There is no population that is better serviced by scooters than bicycles and better public transit
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern_troll
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
Car manufacturers have absolutely no incentive to care about anyone outside the vehicle until they start being held liable for collisions and that's why any talk about self driving cars being safer is naive at best or disingenuous at w
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
"you can choose not to own slaves under slavery, but you can't choose to own slaves without it"
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
Should've gone with your first instinct. They cannot arrest you for not unlocking your phone, but you will be denied entry, forever.
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
and constitutionally speaking, permanent exile isn't considered a punishment for noncitizens, so SCOTUS can rule whatever they want is unconstitutional, it still means they're gonna do it
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
at the border you are not yet on US soil. They can deny you for any reason at all
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
I had a powerpc laptop in 2005
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
there's no such thing as "smarter", even. That's a projected property not an innate quality. People who prefer classical music are trying to project an air of sophistication and intelligence but aren't any better at
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
> If you want equivalent costs to the rest of the world, expect the US expectation of care, turnaround time, and time-to-service to decrease drastically. I'm a Canadian that moved to the US. My wife has bilateral hip dysplasia. One
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
> parallels with Canadian parliament, where theoretically all decisions must be ratified by the seemingly powerless Governor General, who represents The Queen This sounds to me a lot like the executive is superfluous, much like the monar
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
> but that it would have to be much _more_ like grocery stores to call it a free market. Except not really. If I'm poor I can choose to eat nothing but ramen. I might not like it, it might not be the best for me, but it'll keep
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
but they might be harder. Which is the point. Private people can resist abhorrent policies by putting up roadblocks or at least not making it easier
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
> The reason drugs are cheaper in Canada and Europe than in America is because of American laws that prevent importation. The reason drugs are cheaper in Canada and Europe is because of the massive negotiating power of a single buyer
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
that's 1.2M lines too many
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by BrainInAJar 7y ago
Labor is the source of value. The managerial and owner class is paid and gets rich through the surplus of your labor. If your boss stops working, value is still created. If you stop working, everything grinds to a halt. You are being taken
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
"Linus was usually right on the technical aspects" Memory overcommit. OOM killer. "Security is just a bunch of masturbating monkeys" Linus is frequently extremely wrong on the technical aspects, in addition to being a hu
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
All of them failed because they're all wrong. Markets aren't conversations, they're power relationships. Hyperlinks reinforce hierarchy (see: what news is surfaced vs. what is hidden,) And nobody is immune to advertising, beh
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
nobody earns a billion dollars ...
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
The biggest lie capitalists ever told you was that unions were about money. They're about control. How's your open plan office? Do you like it? Can you do anything about it? Unions can help.
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
What about just eliminating medical bills entirely?
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
rats, titanic, etc.
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
This is just a great example of the amazing innovations that come out of socialized medicine. Throw this in the face of anyone who tries to defend private health care on the basis of innovation
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-10-07/local/me-51336_1_sout...

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