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by Seenso 7y ago
> That’s a good example. I don’t know much about it, what benefits does the union in this case provide that isn’t achievable without one? This seems like an important benefit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_(
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by Seenso 7y ago
> While I agree if the 10x is making 120 and it moves to 150 that is good for everyone. But what if there is a 10x who actually makes 200. Would you ask them to take a pay cut so everyone is on that same 150? I think that one key aspect
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I don't mean to say that people shouldn't do a good job at work or that they shouldn't try to continuously improve. But I think that an environment and a mentality of continuous competition between individuals is not nec
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I went to a paint supply store and they had a good number of N95's in stock. What store was that? I just called my local Sherman Williams, and they're sold out. Was it a store that's little known to consumers? Personal
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Just in terms of salary isn’t an union somewhat contradictory to the engineering ethos of meritocracy? I mean we’d like to think that the good ideas win and impact and outcome matters. We hold up the 10x engineers and those that make a
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by Seenso 7y ago
> If you do not punish incompetence when lives are on the line, then you should expect more deaths due to incompetence. We send people to prison for far less than this. The difference here (vs drunk driving) is the situation that led to
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by Seenso 7y ago
> masks if it isn't already too late for that, etc. I don't know about surgical masks, but N95 respirators have been nearly totally sold out at retailers for a couple weeks. I know there are questions abut the use of N95 respir
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Sounds great to me! We need more competition in the browser market. I'm almost certain that a Facebook browser would end up being Chromium with tight Facebook integration and extra-invasive data collection. If Microsoft made the d
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> There should be only one regulation for fb, display following warning on all pages/screens: Statutory Warning: This product is specifically designed to cause behavioral addiction so you are guided down a slippery slope of over
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> No one has an unrestricted right to go out and literally speak... > Yes, you do have every right to go out on public property and literally speak. No, you don't. Most states have laws that prevent you from doing that at a
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The first amendment doesn't say anything about ensuring any sort of level playing field for speech from different parties. It says that the government can't make any laws "abridging the freedom of speech." The First
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by Seenso 7y ago
> breaking and entering are not speech. That's kinda my point. You're not allowed to trespass in order to exercise free speech rights, because private property rights are balanced against free speech rights. The to quote the F
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> Removing campaign finance would not impair the content of free political speech, but merely its magnitude to the extent it is amplified by money. > Reducing the ability of someone to broadcast their speech is an impairment. Not
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by Seenso 7y ago
> If you lock down political speech, you no longer have a democracy (yes, I know we are a republic). Because then the government gets to control what is or is not allowed. Political speech is already locked down in many ways by the gover
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The long term implications have been that American companies are richer than ever before. That's medium term. Long term is Comac and Huawei drive down Boeing and Apple's market share until they're bit players in their i
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by Seenso 7y ago
> It's crazy to me that with all of Signal's emphasis on security (being designed by one of the top security researchers in the world, no less), they chose to make tying your account to a phone number a requirement. It isn&#x27
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I’m not sure why Amazon didn’t just block non-verified-purchaser reviews, increasing spammer costs significantly. I don't think it'd do much good. There are already large groups that subsidize verified purchases to get 5 sta
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by Seenso 7y ago
> to hell with doing the good to the people, let's get rich first! The real sad thing is that some people don't seem to know the difference. They've convinced themselves that whatever they do to make money means they must
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Having signal be tethered to a real phone number does give you a point to root your account around, and allow recovery. It also makes it dead simple for most users, even nontechnical ones, to use and understand. They don't even h
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Signal would have to be much better with features everyone (not just the tech-savvy) can appreciate to be able to outweigh Whatsapp's network effect. Network effects work both ways, and they're only an insurmountable barrier
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I stopped using Signal when it was clear i was not able to back up my message history (or transfer it to a new phone). You can do that on Android.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> You got to be kidding me. You rely on FB "exclusively" for news? That's like trusting a Nigerian scammer with your money! Context is important. In this case, he actually has some pretty defensible reasons for using Faceb
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> We need to stop untethering the text from the historical and cultural milieu of its origination > The reason we still read these people at all (Thucydides, Machievelli, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, etc) is because their work transcends
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by Seenso 7y ago
Watching the video a little further, it describes a time in the early 90s when the Caucasian sheepdogs were nearly extinct, "poorly bred," and "food for wolves." It looks like there was a breeding project to make them f
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by Seenso 7y ago
What about this? https://youtu.be/x4eImh13-ow?t=1072 It appears to be a Georgian documentary, and they describe a Caucasian sheepdog as being larger and stronger than the local wolves. When I try to Google this topic, I&#x2
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by Seenso 7y ago
> So much for anyone trying to raise sheep or cattle. They did this parts of England, and if you follow sheep farmers on Twitter, the gore was tremendous. What if the flock was protected by a pack of large herding dogs, like German Shepa
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I'd say not wholly unmaintained. It hasn't seen any commits since 2017. Has it needed any since then? That's the real question.
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by Seenso 7y ago
>>> Then again, we're talking about DoJ indictments of foreign soldiers for allegedly accessing data that was open to all... I just noticed that you made a pretty mind-boggling claim there. Is it really your position that Equ
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by Seenso 7y ago
> TFA and my first comment ITT are about China. Your reply to that comment was about Russia, so everything from that on down was probably a waste of time. Can you even follow the thread? The TFA is an American indictment against some Ch
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by Seenso 7y ago
> It's a little ironic as well, especially since the US is so keen on blocking Huawei over espionage concerns. It's not ironic to play a game to win. Saying this is ironic is like saying it was ironic for the US to try to keep

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