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by Proziam 3y ago
Attributing my perspective to dishonesty seems, well, dishonest. The fact is that members of this forum are broadly more informed and versed in statistics when compared to the general public. The general population, through typical news sou
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by Proziam 3y ago
> I never saw anyone question the efficacy of the vaccine There is just about a zero percent chance this is true. Many people were openly frustrated that the vaccinated would still get and spread covid despite originally being told that
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by Proziam 3y ago
The history of property tax involves quite a bit of taxing "intangible property" such as corporate stock. It has obviously evolved dramatically from its original purpose. Similarly, the income tax in the US was started to pay for
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by Proziam 3y ago
I have the exact same belief about property taxes. I believe they are perverse at the core. If you own something you should not then have to also pay "rent" to avoid having it seized and auctioned off (at a discount, no less) to t
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by Proziam 3y ago
If a person's primary residence isn't given an exception this will guarantee that people get kicked out of their homes once the land value increases too much. Similarly, if the tax on a rental property becomes too great the rent w
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by Proziam 3y ago
I've worked with quite a few people who absolutely can do quality work but who will intentionally avoid actually doing it. People who browse social media most of the day, get lost in their phone frequently, would rather wait 2 weeks to
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by Proziam 3y ago
The entire scandal went in one ear and then out the other.
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by Proziam 3y ago
This is a wonderfully articulate write-up confirming what I've suspected about Apple for a long time. I'm glad I finally have a good reference to send people when this comes up, because the amount of "Apple is good for privac
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by Proziam 3y ago
Emotional vs Medical. A person struggling with narcolepsy doesn't fall into the same bucket as the person who just wastes time at work so they don't have to do work.
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by Proziam 3y ago
Lazy is a convenient catch all for "This person lacks the emotional fortitude to do the work when the option of not doing the work presents itself." There are a million reasons/excuses for people to be lazy depending on persp
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by Proziam 3y ago
You forgot the most common case: Someone skilled produces low volumes of medium-to-high effort work because they are the sort of person who would rather browse social media, or engage in office gossip, or play "call a meeting to discus
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by Proziam 3y ago
Most people consider low-effort to be lazy. You can absolutely put in a lot of hours, but be putting in near-zero effort. This results in sloppy or careless work, but the root cause is the laziness of the person.
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by Proziam 3y ago
Exactly. Wake me up when the ice road trucks (half joking) are self-driving.
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by Proziam 3y ago
Cellophane, or plastic? One of the two is biodegradable.
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by Proziam 3y ago
I'd need to see what the argument is for "Family dog, which can be trained, can communicate its needs, enjoys play, is capable of empathy, and feels emotion isn't generally intelligent/sentient" IMO - We're bui
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by Proziam 3y ago
If it's moral to selectively breed animals to produce superior health outcomes and compatibility with our own species, it seems that the same should hold true for AI. Just don't get PETA involved in the discussion
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by Proziam 3y ago
I switch between Gnome and KDE pretty regularly on my primary workstation because I occasionally get bored and procrastinate by telling myself that I should check out the latest thing on the other side. It makes literally zero difference
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by Proziam 3y ago
[1] Everyone gets asked to implement backdoors in this game. This includes games companies like [2] Riot Games and the popularly recognized cases of apps like [3] TikTok and [4] Snapchat. It's also worth noting, people assume (wrongly
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by Proziam 3y ago
In almost every large company the incentive structure is such that hiring is a "win" for everyone involved. It's a win for the HR team doing the hiring, often they have quotas. It's a win for the manager getting more hea
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by Proziam 3y ago
Companies don't hire themselves to death. Managers hire themselves towards promotions and kill the company in the process.
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by Proziam 3y ago
Is it "competition" when you're up against state-sponsored actors who will use tactics the rest of the world would consider illegal?
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by Proziam 3y ago
Even with effort I couldn't make them not appear 'flush' and I'm beginning to question my sanity
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by Proziam 3y ago
Apple hardware is prohibitively expensive for most of the world. That's probably the primary driver for the market share gap. Even in the US, the brand is a status/class symbol to some extent. That said, I have heard the "tru
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by Proziam 3y ago
It took less than one human lifespan to go from the first powered flight to a man landing on the moon. I see no reason for humans to be stuck on Earth for 100,000 years at our current rate of invention and growth. If "we" are here
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by Proziam 3y ago
I have the same experience running good old fashioned Debian. It just worked out of the box on both my desktop machine and Framework laptop. Detected all the necessary drivers meanwhile wifi, touchpad, and all the usual suspects just worked
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by Proziam 4y ago
Many controversial pages on Wikipedia have a clearly identifiable bias which becomes impossible to edit because, as you mentioned, they are somewhat 'protected.' For such instances it is always advisable to go directly to genuine
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by Proziam 5y ago
> For example, universities and hospital bills have shot up way more than inflation, just huge. It is not a coincidence that you picked two industries that thrive on the magic of regulatory capture. Student loans, which follow a person e
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by Proziam 5y ago
Every company begins somewhere. If you want new companies to make it, allowing for there to continue to be 'plenty of opportunities' in the future, then accepting that there are times when repairing the ~sins~ necessities of the p
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by Proziam 5y ago
> My guess is less than .01%. Because it's prohibitively expensive vs the cost of a new device due to the policies being discussed in this thread. There was a time I could get a screen replaced in a phone for $40-50. Today, Apple li
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by Proziam 5y ago
The feature exists but the overall quality and variety just aren't the same. For whatever reason, people get comfortable with the familiar and even a cosmetic change creates a barrier. I have no doubt signal will catch up though.

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