Shawnj2

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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Our tax system is broken, we don’t have enough taxes on the top end and too much on the bottom end. Compared to the “golden age” (if you were a white man) of the middle class, the 1950s, the effective tax rate for corporations has dropped m
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
IIRC that is the original goal of beeper, to act as a universal messenger front end
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In my industry/workplace it’s the norm but the work I do is very cool and I don’t have to work crazy hours/the pay is decent so it’s not that big of a deal
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
My workplace has this as a requirement for a legal reason and we recently switched from Jira to the equivalent MS timesheet platform and it’s way worse. The other side of the grass isn’t always greener
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Reducing cars in large cities would be a good idea but a more basic thing is just to enforce pedestrian safety standards on vehicles. Eg. If you hit someone with a car they need to go over the hood instead of just being smashed by the front
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
I think there is an information war Israel is still winning just because they have more media resources. Accurate and unbiased information about what is happening in Gaza is somewhat hard to find while Israel has a lot of reliable informati
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Do the opposite and run WSL?
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That’s also not considering people who “ask ChatGPT things” instead of googling and don’t consider it the same as search
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
It increasingly seems like Brightline West is actually going to happen which is great
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This isn’t a thing that makes sense to regulate at an individual level, like how BP tried to pass off the fact that they are destroying the environment on regular people for not using reusable bags or whatever. Left as is car manufacturers
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Does it still work?
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In fairness the dev is a 16 year old. It’s still bad practice but this is a minor mistake all things considered compared to most programming projects by people of that age
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~10M isn’t an unreasonable amount considering most mastodon users have an account on a small handful of default servers
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In that case the easy way out (and what plenty of Hackintosh/console hacking/emulation/etc. communities have done since the beginning of time) is to just download the file directly from Apple when the app starts up the first
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I really like a lot of what John and Hank green have done with their fame recently, funding healthcare for low income companies and publicly calling out drug companies when they screw extremely poor people over
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If you assume humans will never live on a non earth planet then it has literally 0 value lol but if we set up a moon or mars base in the future it will hold a lot of value
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I think there are real benefits to having people in space for scientific purposes but not really for military ones. Plus a lot of human space travel is preparing for an eventuality that we will have a moon or mars base which will need peopl
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Sure, we already have that, it’s NASA. Most NASA astronauts are former test pilots who would have no concerns doing military missions
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Sure but that means it is reliant on earth for replacement parts for the habitation modules/structures so not self sufficient.
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Pretty unlikely- you don't actually need to put people in space for most military purposes, at least not anymore. Most human spaceflight missions can be done far cheaper by not using humans, especially when we have computers and AI as
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Either way it’s a huge number of launches
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Reduce the scope of new expensive projects?
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I think it’s more of SpaceX’s problem for building their rocket launch site in the middle of a nature preserve
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We will probably put people on mars eventually but a Mars colony is basically just not going to be self sustaining. We have Antarctic bases that are definitely not self sustaining which is a similar thing
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In order to send HLS to the moon they need something like 20 regular starship launches which is a bit insane. I think it will be great for putting people and things in LEO but past that point I’m not sure.
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Unfortunately the entire thing is cut like that but I do think the actual content of the podcast is good.
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The bigger issue is that part of the reason why Starship didn’t make it to orbit is because debris from the launch pad being destroyed was kicked back into the engines.
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Yep a huge reason (some) people don’t like Snowden is because he leaked extremely classified information. I’m sure he himself only wanted to give away information that exposed the NSA’s surveillance network and only actually distributing th
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Better deal than having doctor who paid for by the BBC
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Amazon is a cloud computing company that uses its resources to host an online shopping website

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