Wyoming23

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by Wyoming23 2y ago
Wow, another New York Times article that's against West Coast technology companies. At this point, I don't think the NY Times needs writers, an LLM can easily cover their mandate to disparage tech and anything that rivals the Amer
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by Wyoming23 2y ago
These posts are tiresome. They all boil down to "my view should be the middle". You could just as well claim the Democrats are far left and the republicans center left.
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by Wyoming23 2y ago
> The main purpose of "problems", and especially of homework, was a show of social submission, designed to persuade the teachers to reveal the next secret. Of all the weird misunderstandings kids have about the world, this migh
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by Wyoming23 3y ago
Oh come on, no there isn't. Have you seen what life in Tokyo looks like for the average person today? The size of apartments, the crowds on subways, etc. People's quality of life would be far better if the population density were
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by Wyoming23 3y ago
Your experience doesn't match mine for US. Either SF is unique (almost certainly true) or the specialists they're referencing are extremely in demand for specific conditions. With my regular PPO health insurance from my employer,
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Spanking a child and beating a child are two completely unrelated things. It's my understanding that spanking isn't the optimal way to discipline children and still shouldn't be done, but conflating it with beating a child is
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
No one should be shocked that a gimmicky reality TV show that had 600lb contestants with lifelong eating disorders shed weight incredibly rapidly while living in a house for a month with fellow contestants didn't provide long term solu
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Dang, how does this title not qualify as flame bait?
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
I once read a comment from an expert in that field who said that it was essentially impossible to prevent contamination, and that they had to constantly test and then shut down and sanitize when they discovered a different species of algae
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Doesn't the service provider (AT&T or whoever) have a copy of the messages they could subpoena? It seems shocking to me that deleting the messages off the phones makes them inaccessible to prosecution, when presumably there are bac
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Which is why a million Americans died and tens of millions have long term neurological, lung or other organ damage from the disease.
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
You're overthinking this. Yes, you could buy a second AC and do complex wiring and control trickery to hack the system... Or you could just not sign up for the voluntary system and pay an extra couple bucks a year. Any effort to hack t
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Frustrating to see NPR going to clickbait and such silly dramatic reporting. I'll save you a click - a female representative proposed an update to the dress code, to bring the women's dress code more in line with the men's. T
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Your example is kind of unintentionally hilarious, because "hard work works" is in fact an incredibly controversial stance, and one that has caused people to lose jobs, "get cancelled" or be called racist, unsympathetic,
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Texas has been doing far worse things. Allowing fracked gas power plants to operate without proper winterizing so they fail in the cold, unfairly shifting costs off of the fossil fuel operators who control the state government onto solar an
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
This system also obliterates the middle class and penalizes saving money while rewarding irresponsible behavior. It essentially makes the system be "tell us how much money you have, and that's what the price is for you". If y
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
You're confusing "teaching assistants" with teaching a class. A typical setup would be to have a professor give 3 lectures a week, along with open office hours, and design the curriculum. Then to have an assistant or two who
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
My current employer has stock options and annual bonus for all employees. A previous employer did too. There used to be fairly common stories of people who worked as receptionists or whatever becoming millionaires in IPOs because they'
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
I don't get what the issue is here. Option A- you task some employees with buying office furniture and equipment and then waste everyone's time by having some extra meetings and emails and bureaucracy where someone asks "is t
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
This reminds me of the early days of every new technology when the media predicted doom and gloom. Every time an electric vehicle caught fire it was national news, and then someone in the comments would point out that they weren't catc
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Vietnam isn't free by any measure of freedom. Even in the context of a college classroom students can't say anything that goes against the government.
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Obviously. Why else would people on hacker news advocate for all the socialist economic policies that humanity just spent the entire 20th century proving don't work? Sadly history repeats so we'll probably just have another "
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Hilarious framing, kind of like banks pushing their failures onto unsuspecting victims by calling it "identify fraud" when they give money to a scammer. Your friends aren't "leeching off your subscription", Netflix
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
It's not like the chemicals causing dropping sperm count are doing only that. We have dropping testosterone levels, outrageous obesity levels, anxiety, depression, autism, other gender and sexuality abnormalities, cancer, auto immune d
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Every choice and action a human makes is on some spectrum of consent. At one extreme is a literal "gun to their head" moment where it's obvious there was no real choice and correspondingly the person shouldn't be held re
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Your guess is close to correct but with some critical differences regarding the power dynamics and incentives between Spotify and record labels. The record labels pulled off the ultimate coup right when technology was making them irrelevant
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Of course the real problem is that dividends shouldn't be taxed in the first place. The entire economy operates on a rule of no double taxation, except for dividends. It's income that's already taxed at the corporate level, t
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
No, what you're describing is non-discriminatory hiring. Removing bias and discrimination from hiring is non-controversial across the political spectrum. Diversity initiatives are the opposite. It's explicitly not about who's
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
It seems like we do know all the reasons though? It's multiple factors, but they're all mostly easy to observe, measure and identify. High-sugar, high-fat, packaged foods with preservatives, emulsifiers and artificial colors becam
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
They're incredibly innovative in the intellectual property space. Their lawyers have successfully sued an incredibly diverse range of people using a wide range of unique and esoteric arguments. Even when they're not successful in

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