BrainInAJar

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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
Funny you should say that on the anniversary of the Gwangju uprising, where Jimmy Carter sent the military to go massacre students protesting the US-installed military dictatorship in South Korea
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
Also who you are in life. When I was younger I didn't have chances. It's incredibly privileged to be able to take a position somewhere you might not have a job in 2 months because you have enough stashed away or enough family we
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
> In terms of poverty, is there a difference between getting more wealth vs everything becoming cheaper? Yes. The delta between the richest and poorest indicates a lot of things about a society.
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
> This dovetails nicely with Windows Subsystem for Linux Interix/SFU/SUA has always existed. WSL is just the latest iteration of it. And nobody uses it now just like nobody used it before
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
your CPU spends most of it's time idle and your disks are 10's of thousands of times slower. For systemic performance, if you can trade almost anything for clock cycles, you should do that.
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
noblesse oblige is no way to run a society. Stuff like this could be fixed, for instance: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
We could fix the current planet instead of rich people escaping to other habitats
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
What's that Franklin quote trading liberty for security and deserving neither? ...
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
That's demonstrably false
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
Not everyone can work remote. In fact I'd wager a majority, including many of those who think they can work remote, cannot. And teams dealing with remote workers is also a source of friction. Remote work is only part of the solution. U
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
Yes the all powerful bike lobby
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by BrainInAJar 8y ago
> Most places in the US at least are not very livable without a car absent subsidies, this would not be the case
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> we should be removing the need for sex work rather than accommodating it. What would that look like, exactly?
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> Presumably if you find a partner through the site you stop paying? The dating niche that OKCupid has traditionally filled has been non-monogamous relationships of various stripes
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
I thought this was the Democratic party platform
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
It was given 6 months of lead time, but furthermore no researcher is under any obligation at all to consider corporate profits when releasing their research
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Memory overcommit is the most hostile, idiotic misfeature to ever ship in any mainstream operating system. It's such a great example of why one should pay absolutely no concern to Linus
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> surely if this is required, applicants are going to drop. That's the point.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
This reads a lot like Pearson Education & such just want an in on the wildly profitable private prison industry
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
No, it isn't. Join an org doing something cool, then immediately start pushing to work remote. Or make sure that you'll see a good payout and cash out & gtfo.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
""It is concentration of capitals already formed, destruction of their individual independence, expropriation of capitalist by capitalist, transformation of many small into few large capitals.... Capital grows in one place to a hu
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Why not just solve the problem once and for all and build out a statewide public ISP?
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
that joke, on Silicon Valley, about the blood donation boy... is based on real life Peter Thiel https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
No, it's probably going to take a very fundamental reorganization of the economy. I can't see labour continuing along the path of increasing irrelevancy and the concentration of wealth continuing to increase as it has without some
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Notably, in the US. this speaks more to a failure of the healthcare system than it does to the success of ridesharing
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
I too believe the `$15 and a union` slogan. Companies aren't going to do it out of the good of their hearts
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> If you promise everyone money for life, many people won't bother to create wealth If you promise people they won't starve if they fail, they'll be more inclined to take wealth creating risks over safe career bets.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
it's unfortunate but not surprising that you can't buy very small, very fast SSD's for this purpose
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Better idea: single payer healthcare
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
That's what they said about the Mission several years ago.

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