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by adamsea 6y ago
> But from an economics standpoint it’s not a complete plan ... I don't know much about the economics. Curious, how so? > UBI is largely about symbolic equality, the kindergarten-level fairness of everyone getting the same amount
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by adamsea 6y ago
> She's been with Netscape since 1994 and remained a volunteer for Mozilla after the 2001 layoffs. She was one of the people who founded the Mozilla Foundation in 2003 and has been with them ever since. That sounds like pretty solid
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by adamsea 6y ago
500K !== 60K
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by adamsea 6y ago
1. The drive to work is a known risk. Much is still unknown about Covid-19 plus it is novel and (legitimately) scary. 2. It's not just you, you could infect your friends and family and children. 3. If someone actually compared the actu
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The way that the $600/week is talked about it completely ignores everyone (a substantial amount) of people who fell through the cracks. The unemployment system is not designed for distributing catastrophe-relief, and it's a d
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thank you for the link - just read it and love the review. I loved "Inside Out", but I have to say, Brody convinced me: "The film is on the wrong track from the beginning, when the first view of the world, through the eyes of
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by adamsea 6y ago
In a sense maybe the iPhone (and Android phone) is a mainframe? The user shares the system with ... the apps.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Not sure if someone who'd genuinely take issue with someone else not drinking would make a quality friend. Perhaps a good acquaintance, friend-of-convenience or friend-for-a-purpose, but friend-friend?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Well, cry me a river for the casino, which could afford to pay a living / more competitive wage, but I see your point about the other ones. Maybe then it says more about our current economic system as a whole. But my point was it seems
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed, but is this really the right time? A discussion about the benefits of UBI seems like an excellent discussion to have after making sure all the folks who will be in serious trouble once the $600 payments stop get some help from the
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The real pandemic is the debt bomb that Congress is foisting on the American public ... And how many Americans has that pandemic killed over the last few months?
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by adamsea 6y ago
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those ot
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by adamsea 6y ago
I wonder if that says more about the employer than anything else.
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by adamsea 6y ago
There's the saying "science advances one funeral at at time." '‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a ne
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by adamsea 6y ago
You’ve just described fast food! Except of course it’s not the workers but the business decision-makers plus economic environment/pressures that make the decision.
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IMHO it’s in part because of what I assume are different business models between a game like GTA and many / most businesses where a website / web app is core to their product. Different business models result in different environm
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by adamsea 6y ago
From TFA: "Early on, because of low pricing, Amazon lost more than $200 million from diaper products in a single month. It ran its chief competitor, Quidsi, into the ground. (Quidsi owned Diapers.com.) Then Amazon bought the weakened c
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by adamsea 6y ago
Are you complaining that the United States has laws to make sure organizations don’t simply choose to ignore the needs of blind people, deaf people, and other people with disabilities?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Amen. Fake it til you make it. Key life skill.
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure. I agree with you. And I'd say maybe music education - kids learning how to play an instrument, etc - is one area of focus. However I don't think it's supporting the arts that's sticking point when it comes to A
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by adamsea 6y ago
This is a pretty narrow take IMHO. We all have the freedom to do whatever; the issue is the consequences. The question I think is more about if as a society we think it’s important for musicians to be able to make a decent living at their w
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by adamsea 6y ago
FWIW what the article says about the nature of (most, not all) anger echoes some of the best advice I ever got: 'Holub calls anger a "secondary emotion," one that guards our more vulnerable feelings, such as grief, fear, aban
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by adamsea 6y ago
Interesting. I hadn't realized this: "Amazon was difficult to avoid in the real world as well. When I ordered a phone holder for my car from eBay, it arrived in Amazon’s signature packaging, because the seller used “Fulfillment by
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by adamsea 6y ago
You're absolutely right. It's not an excuse, and the example/hypothetical I shared would be a violation of my ideals. But that's my point. We're flawed. Which isn't an excuse. It's like, when the experts t
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah I agree about the government doing an investigation. In spirit I agree with you but think it's not as black-and-white as you described. For example: I forget to get a book as a birthday present. The p
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by adamsea 6y ago
This ignores the terrible way Amazon treats its warehouse workers. And Amazon's anti-competitive behavior for things like books. I do agree with you about the positive things they've done; I just think we also have to look at the
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by adamsea 6y ago
Respectfully I don't think it's as easy as you think. Consider, for a non-tech person: 1. I have to be told or take the time to discover the non-Amazon option exists. And (though I haven't tested it) my guess is these days it
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by adamsea 6y ago
I'd go even further and say simply that it tells us that human behavior is complicated. Someone is perfectly capable about caring about workers rights and ordering from Amazon at the same time. What if you forgot to get a birthday pr
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by adamsea 6y ago
I'm confused. Are you arguing government shouldn't take action, because the public can? Or the other way around? Honest question. Also (and forgive me if this is a a result of misunderstanding your comment) in a small-d democrat
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How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29)(theatlantic.com)
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