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by _jal 4y ago
I've lived here since the early 90s, with a break in 00s. The city has gone down hill, no doubt. Rent increases have chased off my artsy friends, which is the primary reason I'm going to follow - I'm far less fond of greedy n
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by _jal 4y ago
This is a complicated story that's been made murkier by politics, I'm honestly not sure where the best starting place is. Marcy Wheeler is has been researching and documenting a whole cloud of related stories. These two are proba
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by _jal 4y ago
Finance.
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> Why should we not use the tools democracy provides to shape society? Turns out that's also a Red Queen's race. And if you look at the lobbying costs vs. potential rewards, there's a lot of room for escalation in US polit
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by _jal 4y ago
It is pretty easy to set off if you control your browser much (privacy-enforcing proxies, ad blockers, etc.). I haven't seen it with NASA, but I'm currently doing something that trips CF's verify-your-humanity bullshit on thi
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I told them something similar (didn't know about the CFO, I don't care enough to pay attention). I'm also amused by the headhunter I heard from who apparently was trying to specialize in whatevercoin/NFT/etc. startu
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by _jal 4y ago
You'd only think that if you haven't compared the burdens associated with each. Delaware has long-specialized in making themselves an attractive place to incorporate. California... has a different mix of priorities, let's say
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Too bad ibankers make too much to want to be study subjects.
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> Oh yes they do You can nutpick to find people saying anything, of course. Show me someone in a position of power saying that. I think they closest you'll find is someone like AOC, who has gone nowhere near that. > The AFL-CIO l
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Nope. And the desks were doors on sawhorses.
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It's a classic assertion of power, pointedly ignoring any appeal to anything but more power.
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> The demonization of unions is over the most successful cases of propaganda in the last century Ever notice how unions are somehow all the same entity, and seem to have to answer for things completely different unions in completely diff
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by _jal 4y ago
One grandmother died still convinced I was some kind of secretary. "He types for a living." Mom has a fairly reasonable idea of what I do. Once upon a time, she was the public library director and ran the NOC for country governmen
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by _jal 4y ago
Politics happens via communication, but what differentiates politics is that it is mostly about resource allocation. People don't (usually) get pissed off about idle chitchat. They do when their project is spiked.
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So who rates the raters? We don't have some infinite-regress rating system to qualify people to vote. Or to voice their opinions verbally. Or, really, for nearly anything. And for good reason - there is no objective point from which to
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by _jal 4y ago
Paying Google for things was a massive pain in the ass for us at times too, until we were "big enough". I don't know exactly how we earned the privilege of easy payments, and there may have been some decision other than a mec
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by _jal 4y ago
> you have created a national public college for pennies. You've slightly modernized correspondence school. Just to start with what's missing, the vast majority of students need some degree of individualized attention to learn
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by _jal 4y ago
Maybe it is a cultural thing. Zoom mediates almost all meetings at my company. We went full-remote in 2020, and are now heavily international. Screen sharing is heavily used, but nobody uses cameras except for presentations. Even aside from
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by _jal 4y ago
If you don't allow automatic location detection, it just breaks. Sort of a pattern with Wikipedia... every time I've attempted to assist with something, it turns out they don't like how I do things. So I don't.
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The comparison to a lawyer or doctor doesn't work. Your doctor may have many patients, but they are not making the same decision for all of them. Same with any lawyer you retain. Your elected rep has to represent people with diametrica
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Definitely one of the gems of what we now call the indie-web. I envy Rusty his attention span.
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> But also on hospital IT Hospital IT soaks in a special set of impossible choices. Vendors lock them to insecure OSes and inflexible contracts. Regulations are equally inflexible. In general, security is in tension with providing patien
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by _jal 4y ago
> landlines as a reliable emergency line Unfortunately, carriers are letting POTS rot. It is arguably unreliable now in some places. My grandmother's land line (semi-rural Ohio) goes out every few months and it usually takes a week
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by _jal 4y ago
> we've got to accept that some amount of child exploitation is going to happen Funny, that's the exact deal with have with guns - we accept some amount of mass child murder as the cost of the 2nd Amendment. Another datapoint t
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by _jal 4y ago
It isn't just about the employee abuse. A nonseasonal (or similar) company that has a large swing in employee-counts has a problem. If swings happen repeatedly, the problem isn't getting fixed.
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I suppose you now know better than to waste your time talking to me in the future, then.
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Ah, that's an excellent approach, much friendlier than some subscriptionware I could name. Thanks for the note.
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Why do you feel the need to play conversation-cop?
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Exactly. I have documents I wrote 30 years ago. Looks like this allows export as PDF, at least, but there is no planet on which I will voluntarily rent access to my own documents.
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by _jal 4y ago
And my point is, humans wear out. They stop driving cars and eventually die. There is a reasonable chance I won't buy another vehicle, so I don't care what the rest of the market does.

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