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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Roughly half of Hong Kong received subsidized housing in 2019. I strongly doubt they all choose not to work. The idea that because one receives a benefit like housing or socialized medicine they'll just decide not to work is absurd. Th
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
In the US, landlords would still pay property tax, but not income taxes if they didn't collect any income. Things might get complicated if you rent significantly below market rates though I'm not sure about that. The US, unfortuna
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's well past time we built and maintained affordable social housing in this country. Not gigantic, underfunded, monolithic projects but appropriately scaled, tax funded, distributed apartments. It's been successful in many parts
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
They are still workers. Dividing ourselves into office workers and FC workers just causes am unnecessary rift. Both worker groups need protections and should support each other in achieving them. Solidarity is important.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There should be data available for #1 -- it's not something we should need much subjective discussion around. Re #2: I love all the other stuff. I never use EC2. Lambda, Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and API Gateway are
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It absolutely is. There certainly isn't equal access to 'some learning'. Sure, resources may be online, but learning still takes time, energy, and a background of prior learning.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Of course. When we evaluate the efficacy of a strategy, maybe we shouldn't just repeat what the author of that strategy says. This is a place where we can look at data and draw conclusions rather than just become a mouthpiece for someo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Doesn't this person have a vested interest in saying their approach is successful? Also, the article fails to define success -- death toll, economic impact, and long term health consequences from exposure to covid are certainly all fac
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'd be curious if you've got some figures or if you are just guessing that it's the case. (Intuitively, I'd agree with you, but I couldn't find any info.) Assuming also that the externalities of the existing brick m
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Neat map! Some usability issues -- if one border is entirely within another border, e.g. near Seattle, I couldn't figure out how to click it. Also, I wish the map was larger without fullscreening. Edit: The title also seems to be not q
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
If you aren't already familiar, check out Kitboga: https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga He live streams calling scammers that are running exactly these sorts of scams, tries to tie them up for as long as possible, wasting the
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's shorthand because we're on an internet forum. I'm trying to convey that science generally agrees with lgbtq advocacy - sex is not just male or female, gender is a separate concept than sex and is also not just buckets, g
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I've seen it all the time. If someone is in pain, for instance, I've seen tons of people stop and say "oh shit, I didn't realize how much this hurt you". We're social creatures built to respond to joy, anger, p
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That doesn't really help, that set might as well contain the sources the parent commenter suggested. Several of those sources are really low quality organizations.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That works fine for simple axioms, but how do you square where science and "popular" opinion differ? Eg, science is pretty clear there is a climate crisis caused by human activity, science is pretty clear that lgbtq+ people are va
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I definitely had the first impression that this site was selling "sealioning as a service", and agree that trying to get people to "debate me, bro" is fundamentally not understanding the problem on social media. Marginal
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Civility is often used as a cudgel against the disadvantaged. Maybe someone lacks the upbringing, or is experiencing emotional distress, or had difficulty articulating their ideas for any reason. While I agree that avoiding ad hominem attac
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
At a very quick glance, less featured and Pascal. I'd expect to find more Godot resources online as well.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Measuring non work activities by how much opportunity cost there is in salary is a losing game, imo. Cooking isn't time that I can be paid for. (And besides, shouldn't we all be considering that time ours and not our employers any
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's going to blow your mind when you realize all words are made up. Even more so when you find out that definitions change and new words are invented every year.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> The vast majority of police are heroes. Citation very much needed.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I know plenty of contractors who improve their own homes in their spare time, artists who paint in their spare time, writers with side projects, teachers who do planning/look for lessons, etc. etc. That said, I think we'd all be b
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> they weren't breaking ... any more rules than other groups on reddit Do you have data that backs this assertion? Because it seems to run counter to the stated reasoning for the removal of the subreddit.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Is this comment satirical? Because when I look around in the states I very much see a deeply held belief that making a profit, operating a business, and earning money is one of the most important things you could do. Those things come wit
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> What does this mean exactly? "Hey you, lost the game, eh? Well, motherfucker, you better bend over and get ready to take it from <person>, you fucking loser, eh?" (Laughter) I mean, maybe that's just joking around
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Footage from the protests shows pretty extreme violence, and SPD shot and killed a black man in lower Queen Anne in May of this year after charging him with a dog. Yes, the suspect had a knife and was very loud, and may have been suffering
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Engineering manager asked a report to 'bend over and take it' from the only openly gay guy in the studio. Lots of off color jokes, (e.g. including animals having crudely animated sex in the background of builds that got sent to pl
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's good that this is finally happening. Games has been long overdue for a reckoning. There's a really strong culture of worshipping individuals in games, particularly lead designers/creative directors, and a whole lot of ba
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Having worked in software for the past decade, including 3 years in games, I'm inclined to say that the culture in games is more permissive towards bad behavior and unprofessionalism. For instance, I once saw a manager tell one of his
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Outrageous is your word. Have you seen the video? The cop full on decks a woman who gives his arm a light push. It's definitely out of line, he's not trying to defuse the situation, he's grappling another woman and is clear

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