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by abeppu 3y ago
But _should_ they go to just that particular worker? In HS, I washed dishes in a restaurant in my hometown. The waiters (all white, young attractive 20 somethings) would _occasionally_ share out a few dollars of tips to us on a very busy ni
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by abeppu 3y ago
> It’s sort of unthinkable in the US but lots of people sat in the cold last winter. It's weird, but the US _does_ have assistance for heating for low income families. This is not to say that it's always adequate, but it does e
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Booking.com makes a fortune so why is it leaving bills to small hotels unpaid?(theguardian.com)
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by abeppu 3y ago
Title edited to fit under permitted length. Switch to a new payment system has caused months-long delays for payments to a class of smaller partners.
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by abeppu 3y ago
Also, reframing only slightly, to a preindustrial person who spent all their time producing calories or spinning/weaving fiber for clothes, we're a post-scarcity society. We have so many calories it's making us sick and so mu
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by abeppu 3y ago
This only works if we all change our attitudes and values. But if we changed our values, we could optimize for human happiness today.
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by abeppu 3y ago
Hmm, I don't think 'remote work' is a climate action. Many of the people I know who work remotely live in areas where they are highly dependent on personal vehicles. Some of them moved to more remote areas where they could ge
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by abeppu 3y ago
But around 2.5% of emissions come from aviation (or maybe 3% of actual warming emissions). I think that puts it in the range of 10% of transportation emissions. Apparently personal vehicles are responsible for ~58% of transportation emissio
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by abeppu 3y ago
> One man in the Senate is responsible for this one. One man bears special responsibility, but as the recent confirmation of 3 top appointments shows, there are mechanisms that could be brought to bear. My (limited) understanding is that
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm sure there are _some_ discretionary choices made but ... what does a shutdown that doesn't hurt look like? At some level, the government is huge and expensive, and society is adapted to it continuing to operate. If we had a no
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by abeppu 3y ago
I don't actually expect GPS to be impacted in the coming week, but I think the big difference is that in the last partial shutdown, DoD funding had already been separately approved in September [2,3], and the shutdown started months la
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by abeppu 3y ago
No, by shenanigans, I mean the NDAA amendments that put in stuff about abortion and transgender policies in an effort to make even basic continued national security part of the culture wars. https://www.politico.com/news&#x2
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by abeppu 3y ago
Relevant this week: - GPS costs around $2B/yr to continue operating - Most of this comes from the defense budget - This year, because of shenanigans, the NDAA has _not_ yet been passed b/c there are significant and controversial a
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think whether and when during a senatorial term senility starts to set, or accelerates in is also pretty arbitrary. Picking one number, based on input from experts in psychology and medicine, and applying it to all high-level public trust
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by abeppu 3y ago
Publicly advocating for a policy change is also part of how democracies work. The "just vote" response as a mode of "don't talk about policy ideas" is silly for this reason; _how_ we vote is informed by our conversa
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by abeppu 3y ago
We should seriously consider mandatory retirement ages for all high public offices. We have them in the Foreign Service, and of course it would be bad for a diplomat to be in mental decline while negotiating a complex treaty. Multiple state
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by abeppu 3y ago
How does this plastic do with UV exposure over time? How does it fail? E.g. I made the mistake of using some plastic bins to store plant-related stuff on a mostly-shaded corner of my balcony. One day, when I tried to pick one up, the portio
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is that pretty obvious? Better in what contexts? I've seen someone here say that they really liked working with a virtual display from wherever, but the resolution of their whole display was 1080p. As someone who regularly uses dual 4k
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by abeppu 3y ago
So, presumably Aznar donated them to a museum out of a desire for them to be studied and shared with the world. It took 34 years for anyone to look into it. Should he have not donated them to this museum?
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by abeppu 3y ago
I dunno, Twitter demonstrated that a company which has failed to grow and achieve its goals can drop a lot of staff and ... do significantly worse than before but without totally dying. It hasn't shown that the resulting skeleton crew
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by abeppu 3y ago
I don't think it's a given that what a group can do, the constituent individuals can do? You probably need a team to build and ship a meaningful product regardless of the type of organization that develops it. It's a little w
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by abeppu 3y ago
I guess, how did you want the HIV/AIDS experience to inform the COVID response? I don't want to defend Trump and his bleach-injection suggestions etc, but we did: - develop vaccines at a really rapid pace (it's too bad they a
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by abeppu 3y ago
> My childhood was filled with warnings and media depicting the tragedy of HIV/AIDS, the surrounding bigotry, and the history of this pandemic still has some cache ... but for years, the HIV/AIDS crisis _was_ ignored, or even l
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by abeppu 3y ago
You copied info from that first page incorrectly; 85.6M is their estimate on number of infections and 40.4 million [32.9 million–51.3 million] is their estimate on deaths.
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think this the least constructive kind of unhinged purity-based framing. You're right about one thing -- Mondragon isn't a cooperative; it's a federation of cooperatives. I note that the paper you linked to by Kasmir points
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by abeppu 3y ago
Just to point out a demonstrated, viable, successful reality achieved under different values and assumptions, the Mondragon Corporation/cooperative produces car parts, among many other things, and has pre-agreed ratios for wages for ex
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by abeppu 3y ago
I find it interesting/surprising that the word "divorce" never appears in this article. My understanding was that the divorce rate also was lower for college-educated people. I'm also surprised by lack of mentions of fam
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm reminded of anecdotes from Murakami, who tactically wrote pieces of his work in English, and then translated back to Japanese, and preferred the style of the result. He also mentioned later learning of Hungarian writer Agota Kristo
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by abeppu 3y ago
Some comments have pointed out that this doesn't actually mention a difference from the base rate of violent deaths in the relevant countries. Sure, fine. I think the other significant missing numbers are those who die from human-drive
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by abeppu 3y ago
While I wish there were good principled methods for determining these choices, isn't a meaningful limitation that often when you first start writing the data, you typically don't know all of the ways it will eventually be used? So

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