Clubber

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by Clubber 2y ago
Why is this not criminal fraud? If you or I did it, we'd be prosecuted.
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by Clubber 2y ago
Aware
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by Clubber 2y ago
Bottled water is no better than water from the tap*. *Except in Flynt. Bottled water also has around a 1600x markup.
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by Clubber 2y ago
It never was, the 13th amendment (which abolishes slavery) has an exception for convicted citizens: AMENDMENT XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been
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by Clubber 2y ago
A few narcissists I've met in tech have potential but never get past first base because they are incapable of admitting they're wrong, and therefore incapable of improving. They are perpetually junior devs that are good at self pr
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by Clubber 2y ago
It used to be calculated as total debt as a percentage of GDP (as opposed to interest payments) and there were concerns it shouldn't go above 100%, otherwise we'd get stagflation like Japan. Now the new goalpost is interest paymen
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by Clubber 2y ago
>And while the PR impact of this hasn’t been negligible, it’s also been light. Outside HN it hasn’t really registered. I divested all my GOOG stock when the Gemini debacle happened. I figured they were too entrenched in political ideolog
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by Clubber 2y ago
>If your goal is to change the companies behavior, then protesting and getting fired and getting a WaPo story is more effective than resigning in protest. I bet they are equally ineffective.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>But mostly I disagree that anyone serious actually thought that entering on a global marketplace would turn any kind of nation democratic... There's certainly research on the subject. https://cepr.org/voxeu/col
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by Clubber 2y ago
Also, if you attended college, you got a draft deferment. There were quite a few Ph.Ds awarded in that period. https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23300/report/u-s-doctorate-awa...
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by Clubber 3y ago
I think if you look past the last few news cycles and back into the 70s and especially the 90s, you'll better understand what our strategy with China has been. >I think the hopes were that China, once prospering in the global market
552.
by Clubber 3y ago
Adam Curry theorized on his podcast a few years ago that the TikTok ban chatter was a protectionist move to help Facebook, Twitter and other US social media companies.
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by Clubber 3y ago
What does that have to do with anything I said? Do you think we ally with countries for moral reasons? We allied with Stalin after he invaded Poland with Germany earlier in the same war.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>At this point is naive to think that the grievances with china are because “they are not democratic”. No, the kid gloves are off because "they are not democratic." It's like being nice to the weird kid in school and the w
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by Clubber 3y ago
I think the hopes were that China, once prospering in the global marketplace as a big player, would turn democratic. Over the last decade or two, we've come to realize the opposite has happened and the Western powers are adjusting. Of
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by Clubber 3y ago
Protest activities like strikes and sit-ins/sit-downs and whatnot are voted on and approved. When a few members do this without voting, they endanger everyone in the union for their personal beliefs. If the union voted on it and it was
557.
by Clubber 3y ago
The waterfront homes in my area sure aren't coming down in price. They're over the top and rising.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>The UAW literally had all their members sit down in various places throughout the factory and offices of GM in the past... I don't know why you think they "wouldn't be able to get members off" from this. Ya but that
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Fuck the poor They're students at UT Austin, I'm pretty sure they'll be alright.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>A lot of old timers think it'll eventually get better - but it won't for new grads. It will, just have to wait for the next hype train. Long live the hype train. Toot toot! I'm an old timer, so take that for what it&#x27
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by Clubber 3y ago
>The pandemic proved that organizations can continue to function even if the workforce is distributed globally, plus visa processing in the US has basically ground to a halt due to systemic issues internally at USCIS. They realized this
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Small farms are dying by design. To make it real, during the Live Aid concerts in the 80s, there were an uncomfortable amount of farmers committing suicide due to losing their family farms of generations. Farmers hit the Great Depressio
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I don't know what it is in US culture and society that makes it so hostile towards anyone and anything even vaguely suspected of a crime, but this sort of thing is shockingly common, even when dealing with children. The justice sys
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by Clubber 3y ago
Don't forget peak crime including the introduction of school mass shootings (Columbine).
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by Clubber 3y ago
>at this stage your default assumption is that the 3 letters agencies control the government through blackmail or corruption Hoover was known to blackmail and he defined the FBI. Do you think it has reformed itself since then, or just go
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Having a lot of money and having loving parents are not related in any way I can tell. They're not, they serve different needs. Perhaps indirectly related, but having money certainly doesn't make you a good parent. Those are j
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by Clubber 3y ago
>All of these things just seem to be proxies for "your parents are rich". 1. You have good parents (attentive/loving/encouraging/supportive/available). 2. You have access to a good education. Those
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by Clubber 3y ago
There's usually carveouts for people with certain disabilities. It allows companies to pay them below the minimum wage. I would be surprised if that was abolished with the increase in minimum wage.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Corruption and moral decay.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>Putting aside the fact that the App Store is profitable.. why does it have to be? Why does it have to be profitable? Because if it isn't it goes into debt and eventually shuts down. >Companies are not required to nickel and dime

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