ROTMetro

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by ROTMetro 4y ago
This. I am a garbage human being and even I pass on working on 'solutions' that just make the world a worse place.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I remember when the business park we were in had to spray paint the tree branches/roots in the little redwood loop behind us to make it vision impaired accessible. Wasn't much of a break to walk through a vandalized forrest. Weren
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
No. I moved from the Bay Area to a rural area, we have an entire tent city out in the countryside too. It's just way less visible and people are more understanding of it as the average citizen lives pretty close to that level. Lots of
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I fled too. I miss so many aspects of the area, but the politics got so toxic when the libertarian hippies (let's all just get along) were replaced by authoritarian progressives (our way is the only truly good opinion, therefor the onl
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Also, in the US precedent sets if something is scientific in the eyes of the court, not science.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Is Forbes a tool for pushing Chinese psy ops? Can we trust Chinese owned media to not have nefarious motives? Forbes is owned by Hong Kong–based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments and are working on being bought by a Chines
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
So why not just push for subsidies since that is the entirety of the argument you just made? Does China have it's own version of the Jones Act? Since China is the 'model of success' as the largest ship builder, do they allow
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
No, they don't actually.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Which then keeps at least BASIC knowledge of shipbuilding available in this country, should we suddenly require grow in that industry (which is crucial). You are either misleading the purpose of this act or are willfully ignorant.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Man, sounds like we DEFINITELY need to protect that market then doesn't it? It's like having a professional army, you don't have enough soldiers to fight a world war, but you have enough knowledge base to train people up SHOU
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
And here is the real motivation. They want to replace trucking with external non-American salaried workers. No thanks. What a garbage position to take.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
If you have a major spill on a river, to what area is the impact contained, versus if you have a major spill on land?
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
You answered yourself in the last sentence. Google's algorithm is designed to maximize their add return not to immediately return what you are searching for. Imagine this use case. User searches for a video that costs Youtube royalty f
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
You can f right off with this post! Dude, really? Like you couldn't do the whole spoiler make the text black unless I highlight it thing? This friggin guy making all us old dads cry. But seriously, hits right in the feels.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
My son had a springsuit at 1. We would just sit in the sand at Manresa. It was some of the most peaceful, most content, most important time in my life. I don't really remember any discussions from a holiday dinner. But I remember sitti
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Where do they pay more than the competition for the same physicality of the job, and same injury risk, same pushing workers past what is safe? Show me a single business that has the same STATISTICALLY accurate (not your current 'seat o
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
When I was at the halfway house out of prison, not 1 person went to work at Amazon's warehouse. We went to less pay sorting human waste at the recycling plant in 120 heat before that job, because everyone knows how bad it is. Good luck
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
No, it means that it is reproducing the original work and is not producing a new original work. It is basically a really fancy Instagram lense, but it is still 100% derived from the underlying works and therefor derivative instead of a newl
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
...said the music industry about samplers in the 1990s.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Would we have Shakespeare's plays if he didn't make money? Which encourages better plays: I write a play, and I can license theater companies to be able to perform it. Therefor better writers are attracted to the industry (instead
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Hasn't that always been the case? When I lived in the Bay Area and networked, and was exposed to so much of how people did things, I was able to land much more contracts because I could come up with simple existing solutions. Once I mo
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
You will then increasing get LESS sharing and MORE silos. There is a reason copyright laws exist, it's because they are a NET PLUS to society. It's not just 'for the benefit of EVIL corp'.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Also, for older people, new technology was dangerous. New farm equipment, new machines, etc. So they were brought up with the mentality of 'if you don't understand EVERYTHING about this, don't touch it, on risk of life and li
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
This is copyright. I put it out there with a government guaranty that I get to retain ownership out of it. Society at large benefits because more people put their stuff out their. You want to break that deal and you will end up with less sh
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
What makes the rules outdated? The fact that you want to get away with what they were designed to prevent?
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
What if a service could scan surveillance videos and show everywhere you have been ever? Who here is doing a startup to secure licensing rights to every companies surveillance camera videos to make the AI/Surveillance version of Equifa
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Am I the only one that thinks Reverb Machine getting posted for the Kate Bush breakdown was interesting, but this second time in not very long with it just being another breakdown seems super iffy?
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
People that don't think price collusion/illegal carterls hidden as software taking advantage of the fact people don't want to be homeless, please report this to the FTC. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/assi
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Don't get to a hospital when new medical students start doing their residencies ;)
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Ah yes, how dare I challenge a fisherman whose income is based on 'harvesting' from the ocean (imagine an entire industry the existed by going into national forests and harvesting whole herds of elk or flocks of birds, people woul

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