JoeJonathan

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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Pardon my myopia, but what’s an example of Republican-proposed legislation or reform aimed at protecting Americans from exposure to potentially harmful waste products? I genuinely don’t know.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
I hadn’t visited in a few years and was shocked to see how ubiquitous Pix has become! People use it to pay at stores and restaurants. And even before Pix, domestic bank transfers were already instantaneous.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Or because it’s actually a huge scam.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Kevin Roose made some version of it on the Hard Fork podcast.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
The Dutch East India Company is often considered integral to the history of capitalism, if not the start of capitalism itself, and was granted a 21-year monopoly on trade by the Dutch government.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
How would that work in a real estate market? How could you convince landlords to lower prices?
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Was your doctor reluctant to prescribe it for occasional use? As I understand it, providers typically expect you take ADHD meds daily. I ask because my attention issues are task-dependent, but doctors tend to view even the suggestion of occ
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
But is the underlying logic behind earning to give actually sound? Because it sounds to me like ideological cover for plain old earning. It also strikes me as deliberately blind to the ethical externalities of working certain high paying jo
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Ah yes, these companies 100% want to reduce remote work due to productivity issues and not because they want to exert power over there employees. Because, as we all know, there's absolutely no way to measure productivity than by counti
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Elon?
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
I’m glad you pointed out that Reddit gets a free pass. Aside from the fact that r/TheDonald flourished there, r/all regularly shows videos of people dying and men smacking women (r/pussypassdenied). There’s also a weird, self
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Not sure if the technology will get there, but I can see AR being much more useful. I don’t want to cut myself off from the outside world, but I’d love to be able to put on a pair of glasses that allow me to use a giant monitor without need
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
The thing is, speaking as a total non expert here, people have been taking about VR since the 90s, and it’s always kind of sucked. It’ll get much better over the next decade, of course. But even then, how many people want to sensorially sev
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Blows my mind that just as everyone was crazy to return to normal life, Meta was like, hey wouldn’t it be great if we could do more of that?
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
California has some of the most stringent labor laws in the country, and labor attorneys have told me judges tend to not look favorably upon contracts that are in direct violation of those laws… especially when those contracts are drafted b
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Right, there’s no archaeological evidence of some ancient Scandinavian migration because… they were so eager to get to Oklahoma? You really have to be committed to some weird Viking romanticism (and to hate those gross Southern European Cat
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
I find it hugely frustrating, but it's not that complicated. Ever since prop 13 passed in 1978, homeowners' property tax has been pegged to the purchase price rather than the assessed value, creating a huge disincentive to sell. I
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Agreed on all counts, but that doesn't make the problem of politics any less real. People problems are always the hardest to solve, especially when deeply problematic policies like Prop 13 are written into the state constitution.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
In what way is building more housing simple? If it were that straightforward, California (which has much more space and money) would have done it, and Californians wouldn't be moving to Portugal.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
It's not like universities are just lining their pockets. I'm a humanities professor at a small liberal arts college with a high tuition, and we struggle to pay professors fair wages (when compared to peer institutions, which does
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Even if all these "key indicators" were accurate, how do they are they indicative of a lack of "a counterculture?" This article might as well be titled, "14 warning signs of social decadence," "14 warning
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
What do you mean by frustrating? In my memory of 2008, there was a real sense of panic, far beyond anything we're seeing right now. Before it was evident things had gone really wrong, plenty of people had a sense that something had to
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
But the reason we find them convenient is that, at least in most of the US, cities are built for cars. Before cars became common, Los Angeles was zoned for higher density and had trolleys that extended all the way into the city's NE re
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Apologies here, but could someone ELI5: what's the appeal of a stablecoin? If I want to hold something in an asset pegged to the dollar, why not just hold dollars?
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
As others have pointed out, and as a few media outlets have increasingly covered, there's a big difference between sticker price and net price. A minority of students at private universities pay full sticker price, and if I had to gues
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
Would they really jettison retail after investing so much in building distribution centers/delivery operations all over the country?
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
95 million homes total, or available homes? Seems like it would make a difference. That said, I suspect you're right that AirBnB is less responsible for driving up housing prices than, say, the fact that the pace of homebuilding hasn&#
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
These threads are so boring.
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
You mean you don't want to watch Love is Blind, Love is Blind Japan, Love is Blind Brazil, Love is Blind Season 2, Queer Eye seasons 1-5, Queer Eye Germany...??
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by JoeJonathan 4y ago
> For most of american history, "arranged" marriages were the norm Were they? First-wave feminists made serious headway in challenging marriage norms as early as the 1850s/60s. The language of "soulmate" comes fr

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