Mirioron

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by Mirioron 6y ago
They are already paying them fairly . People willingly choose to drive for Uber over other things they could do. If you force Uber to party significantly more then they simply stop doing business. You can have your corrupt taxis back. It r
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Say we ban these kinds of low quality jobs. Where will these new jobs come from? Let's say you have a medium to small sized town/city. Which do you think is more likely the trend: 1. New jobs will spring up in the place of Uber dr
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> If individuals doing what was best for themselves at the present moment was intrinsically tied to longterm collective stability and wellbeing, then we wouldn't need government at all! I don't think that this helps your argum
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Just to add to this and spell out the obvious: if they have no better alternatives to being an Uber driver, then how does removing the option to be an Uber driver help them? The list of jobs they could do as an alternative is either the sam
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Or it shows how much (little) people care for the work of independent journalists.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Don't worry, they'll claim that the 30 hours is a new innovation. Work only 4 days a week!
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by Mirioron 6y ago
That is indeed the big signaling aspect Kaplan talks about. It's still signaling, that is, what the student learns during that is considered less important.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Are universities prepared for something like this though? Do they have some kind of pandemic insurance that will cover the costs of the entire student body if the government shuts the university down? Because I can see that being a very cos
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by Mirioron 6y ago
This doesn't follow at all though. Racism and discrimination require intent. If race and sex have noting to do with the firing decision then it's not racist or sexist. It doesn't matter what the outcomes are. You can obviousl
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Big business is also responsible for economies of scale. A small mom and pop shop can't really scale the same way a big business does. Another added benefit is that we get to regulate the products much more without swamping the busines
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> A person willing to express hateful speech is a person who is also more willing to engage in hateful acts. Considering how hate speech is a very flimsy term, I don't think that this always follows. I do believe that there's
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by Mirioron 6y ago
When you say something that is inconvenient to those in power then one way for them to deal with is to label you as a conspiracy theorist. These confirmed scientific theories weren't always confirmed and there was a time when they were
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by Mirioron 6y ago
NASA faked the moon landings, UFOs, Elvis is not dead, JFK second shooter, Marilyn Monroe murdered by FBI/CIA. These are examples of some of the most popular conspiracy theories from the US from over half a century ago. Apparently earl
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The studies show that it reduced the amount of overt hate speech on reddit. That's not the same thing as reducing hate speech on reddit nor is it the same thing as reducing hate speech total. The people who left might've ended u
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Just don't do this kind of tracing at all then. > Yeah, one govt tried that, people didn't like it and people won. After 21 months. Almost two years . From your own link: > For much of the Emergency, most of Gandhi's
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The fear is that journalists will focus on the one concern that affects them. Politicians see that and give journalists an exemption. Everyone else is still screwed.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Why do so many people need to go to college? Especially before they even know what life is really like. Couldn't they work a year or two and then decide to go to college?
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by Mirioron 6y ago
To be fair though, a part of ADHD can manifest itself this way. From what I've read it's a pretty common complaint that people with ADHD have trouble doing things they're not interested in. In a lot of those cases you also he
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Here's the question that inevitably pops up from this: what do you do if nothing interests you in this way? There are interesting things, sure, but those are usually fleeting. You'll be interested in something for a month or two a
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by Mirioron 6y ago
This is the norm almost everywhere that has conscription. There's a map of countries with conscription on Wikipedia (blue, red, and yellow): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription
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by Mirioron 6y ago
That's how I understood it as well. This idea seems to be gaining popularity in a lot of places. I wonder how much this is going to cost their local economy in the long-term.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> A hat store is non-essential. And then 3 months later you find out that all of your food supply workers sourced their hats from the hat store and they can't hire more workers because the hat store went out of business. Where did
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I think the implication is that she got in because there are many more outreach programs for women to get into college. But I could be wrong.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The preparations are unnecessary until they suddenly aren't. If you wait until bakeries close and supermarket bread aisles are empty, then it's too late. This is like having backups and disaster recovery in IT. You spend resources
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by Mirioron 6y ago
This is another example of our economy being so interconnected that it's really hard to tell what is and isn't essential. If you lack enough "non-essential" goods for your business, then your business doesn't work e
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> I don't see the evidence to support the Swedish solution, nor it as virtous example of science over common sense. The strong point of Sweden's response is that the Swedish economy is going to suffer much less. Other countrie
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Why does it happen though? What's the motivation behind the credit card companies? As in, what's the ultimate reason for this?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If you start holding them accountable for questionable ethics then you can expect to be lied to even more by them. They would constantly put out even more PR about how they are perfect angels and how their competitors are the worst people w
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by Mirioron 7y ago
That's a nice idea, but it seems to not really lead to better outcomes. Socialism and communism have these same kinds of power struggles. It seems to simply be part of human nature.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Forms of human behavior survive because they have a competitive edge against other behaviors. Self-interested groups naturally tend towards what works, so bad drives out good (in a moral sense) if it causes superior practical effects.

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