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1051.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
My local bookstore has 'email them and ask', which is much lower friction.
1052.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
That said, Seattle has a grass roots effort right now to try and get social housing on the ballot for November. There are folks here fighting for housing as a place to live, not as an investment.
1053.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
I believe working on the weekends is a failure, and we should treat it like any other engineering failure. Why did it happen, how can we improve things so this failure doesn't happen again. Track and assign AIs, and hold people account
1054.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Our society certainly didn't start as a representative democracy or a free market -- slavery was very much still a pillar of the government and economy. Fast forward a hundred years to the early 1900s and you have things like the Kern
1055.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
First, rude. Second, yes, three months of heavily restricted movement, limited access to resources (from flour to dental care), to knowing people who are sick, dying, or at high risk has absolutely changed my perspective. Knowing that we&#x
1056.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
I think about the depression era behaviors that stuck around in my grandparents as a good example of what to expect coming out of this pandemic. They learned certain things out of necessity and it changed their worldview on everything from
1057.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
This person has equity in three properties. Are they equally invested elsewhere or did they over leverage their current properties? Because something isn't adding up - either they put all their chips on one number (real estate) or they
1058.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
What? Non sequitur about gerrymandering aside, capitalism is not "the foundation of our society" in either a historical sense or a sociological one. It's our current mode of operation, but it's by no means axiomatic. We
1059.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
UBI, by the way, is not necessarily a replacement for all social welfare programs. I don't believe that's the original or modern idea outside of right of center circles. I've seen plenty of folks who advocate for it alongside
1060.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
That's a false equivalence. Landlords have huge equity advantages that the renters do not. That said, I agree, we should be deferring mortgages and canceling rents.
1061.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Is this a nightmare? I read a story of someone who had a very reasonable, strong emotional response to the error, but ultimately got credit for coming clean and republished their results with new data. (And a different conclusion.) This is
1062.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
I was going to come here and say that it reminds me of MoleZ. Glad to see it was an inspiration!
1063.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Densely crowded environment where people were unlikely to maintain social distancing, poor quality health care, probably poor quality sanitation. It seems reasonable to me that a prison would fare worse than a cruise ship.
1064.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
This is absolutely my reading. That someone is not really observing or listening to prisoner symptoms with much care either because of distrust between the prisoner and the medical technicians or because prisoners receive such poor care.
1065.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
What's the difference between a utility file and a package? That seems like a distinction without a difference to me. If you use the same one liners in more than one project and you copy that utility file over, the line gets even fuzzi
1066.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Because I didn't agree with him.
1067.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
No, we owe them good working environments, high wages, good benefits, time off, relief from their mortgages and rents, health care, voting rights, access to education, etc. I'm sure a few cases of beer would be nice as well, but let&#x
1068.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Search for the Game Development Policy for an example. You cannot develop games in your spare time with friends.
1069.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Not to mention their treatment of workers, whether it's in the warehouse or the ip restrictions on white collar employees.
1070.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
It's factually incorrect.
1071.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Walmart has (recently, as far as I'm aware) began lobbying for it because they know they can absorb labor costs more readily, sure. But the largest business lobbying group in the US advocates against raising the minimum wage, pushing b
1072.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
You don't need demographic information to take care of your workers. Everyone needs health care -- cover it. Even if not everyone needs parental leave -- cover it. Vacation policies and sick time -- cover them. Base your wages on the v
1073.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Ah the old 'Not my problem' argument. A couple issues with this -- companies actively campaign against legislature which increases wages, so it's not that they are just ignoring the welfare of their workers they actively pu
1074.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
I think the parent is objecting more to the fact that today's economy allows those with wealth to earn income from that wealth. (E.g. they own the property, they can earn income from rent. They own the factory, they can extract excess
1075.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
> 'Redistribution' is inherently unfair This is a peculiar, and unsubstantiated assertion. I certainly wouldn't consider this an axiom in any discussion about economic policy. Can you explain a little more? Or are you just
1076.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
I don't think the intent is the same. It may be that current interviews have outcomes that aren't egalitarian, but I haven't personally seen any evidence that would suggest that interview questions are specifically chosen to
1077.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
We all come to games with different skills, different amounts of free time, different levels of anxiety and capacity to learn. The only thing you "should" do is play the game at the level and for the reasons that are fun for you.
1078.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
Does it? I think it comes off as extremely patronizing. To each their own, I suppose.
1079.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
The full title starts with "/dev/null", which I don't believe is a thing in Windows?
1080.
by Pfhreak 7y ago
> This isn’t giving us any surveillance capability we didn’t already have. Wait, really? What surveillance capabilities does LoL already have without a kernel driver?

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