Jochim

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Incentive. Farms and factories require water as an input to fulfil some other purpose. They have no incentive to extract more water than they need for their processes, increasing the price incentivises them to reduce their consumption. In c
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> TikTok/CCP supporters keep dragging it in that direction to avoid the main issue. You were the one to bring human rights into the conversation: "with one of the worst human rights violations in the modern world". > It
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The US has spent the last four decades moving as much of it's manufacturing to China as it can. That pollution might be occurring in China but it's a result of the production of US products, at the request of US companies, for exp
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> Capitalism is based around bad decisions being punished What constitutes a bad decision in your view? My perspective is that Capitalism actively encourages and rewards the kind of behaviour most would consider to be morally and ethical
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While I largely agree, it could be argued that banks engaging in risky behaviour might attract depositors with higher interest rates than a more responsible bank. If depositors know that their money is fully covered, you incentivise them to
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I'm not quite sure what your point is. We ask exactly that question to voters at each election.
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I'm not sure the Waltons are a great example to be honest. They pay many of their employees so poorly that they're in receipt of state benefits. Society is effectively paying a portion of Walmart's labour cost. Until that&#x2
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> I’d rather have both have short, free terms with copyright extendable by a tax, Why allow extension at all? The initial term serves as a societal "thank you for that cool idea". I'm not sure I agree that financial succes
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> ByteDance is financially backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, and Hillhouse Capital Group.[34] As of March 2021, it was estimated to be valued at $250 billion in private trades.[35][need
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Corporate entities are a societal construct. Their very existence is defined by what society chooses to give them.
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Some of them might. Those commitments may have been affordable at the time. There's not much you can if your situation changes once you owe the money.
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Not sure about the US but in the UK it's now supposed to show up on your credit report. You also need to be the type of person that keeps on top of your finances. The main trap for inexperienced/impulsive people is getting locked
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AFAIK the interest rates on credit cards are nowhere near that of even regulated payday loans. The lack of interest on most cards if you repay in full each month can also make them a useful buffer if you have short term liquidity problems,
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I think the root cause is the lack of social consequences for this kind of antisocial behaviour. Charles Boycott[0] engaged in a similar kind of behaviour and in response the local community refused to engage with him. That particular kind
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Legality and morality are not the same thing. There are many activities that may be technically legal but still make you someone society would be better off without.
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That's both reassuring and a bit depressing :P I'm young enough to have only caught the tail end of Framework in my professional career but I do recall a lot of Razor Pages content showing up when looking for tutorials on MVC. It&
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Being more specific is definitely helpful. I've found that ChatGPT is less frustrating than DDG/Google, probably just due to the conversational nature. You can ask ChatGPT to correct itself if it doesn't give the answer you w
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Precisely. It's certainly not an issue exclusive to the .NET ecosystem but it is a minor annoyance in my day to day life. On the plus side it only affects work on legacy projects that haven't been migrated yet. One day will be the
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Rider is great. If you haven't tried VS in a while, VS2022 moved to 64 bit and the performance is much, much better than 2019. There appears to be a lot more coming, many of the preview features focus on making as many interactions as
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I view frequent upgrades in the same way as LetsEncrypt's short certificate expiry. It encourages you to create a system that you trust to be upgradeable, rather than a beast that sits, untouched for fear it rears it's head in som
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The only frustration I've experienced in actually working with it is that it leads to polluted search results. Trying to find solutions to ASP.NET Framework problems usually requires discarding a whole bunch of irrelevant ASP.NET Core&
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.NET Standard specified a common API that was implemented by the .NET Core and .NET Framework runtimes, allowing library authors to easily target both platforms. .NET Standard solved a problem at the time but as elucidated in the article, i
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What's natural about the provision of tens of thousands of parking spaces, dedicated carriageways, tunnels, bridges, signalling infrastructure etc.?
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That famed flatness brings along with it less famed strong winds. Having cycled on some of those windy days, it was more challenging than most of the hilly cities I've lived in.
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It really depends on the place. I've never encountered one where the manager had total control over who was working when. Availability would be requested before creating the schedule and one would be made up based on that. Even then, i
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I think the thing that makes the recent layoffs so controversial is their context. Layoffs on this scale are understandable, maybe even justifiable, in the case of a 2008 style market crash. Layoffs on this scale do not feel understandable
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> I actually see elegance and justice in the cold, ruthless capitalist approach; I tend to think of it as tough love... But I don't believe that the system we have today is capitalism and so this cold, ruthless approach is actually
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I find this take kind of odd to be honest. From a capitalist perspective, the paternal employer-employee relationship is one of mutual benefit. Ensuring that the the employee's incentives align more closely with their employer's.
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The UK also has some of the poorest workers and working conditions when compared to neighbouring peer countries. The worker classification has resulted in a situation of extreme precarity for millions of people by explicitly creating a clas
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> With that said, working at McDonalds and paying a pension is completely different than working a gig job, because you are expected to work when scheduled and will be fired if you don't, while an Uber driver works when he sees fit.

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