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by ausbah 6y ago
calling it a free market is laughable naive. the market is lopsided in favor of businesses because many laws at the state and federal are explicitly pro-business and anti-union; see "right to work laws", the 1947 Taft-Harley act,
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by ausbah 6y ago
the cost, feasibility, and moral imperative of each of those things is vastly different. "curing cancer" has been happening and world hunger has been dropping for decades now, mind uploading is still far on the horizon, and thinki
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by ausbah 6y ago
I feel like one of the main points was just that lower content creators aren't getting their fair share, like to even get to the point on monitization requires jumping through a bunch of hoops and even then your labor is still underpai
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by ausbah 6y ago
totally ignoring how even if you look fine on the outside, abuse still causes mental trauma if you want a force of people that are mentally resilient, make the job tough. you don't need to needlessly harass workers because it gives the
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by ausbah 6y ago
this is a stupid argument, the African slave trade and it's ramifications are so throughly discussed in America because it is the main type of slavery that occurred in the US
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by ausbah 6y ago
can anyone speak to companies like Cellbrite? how haven't they been sued into oblivion by phone manufacturers?
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this is just a rehash of "you shouldn't complain because other people have it worse"
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by ausbah 6y ago
merit weakens class privilege but it doesn't destroy it. even on tests of merit like the SAT, higher class students usually have advantages in tutoring, more free time to study, etc. it is certainly still possible for lower class child
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by ausbah 6y ago
most researchers have mediocre, marginal, or straight up "un-sexy" contributions to a field, that's just how most research happens. it doesn't make anyone "less of a researcher" though I also would also everyon
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by ausbah 6y ago
"build bigger cluster munitions to deter our enemies"?
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by ausbah 6y ago
that's disingenuous at best. AI systems are already deployed in the judicial system, surveillance systems, healthcare, and who knows how many other domains that effect people's lives - with many instances to suggest that a large
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by ausbah 6y ago
there was a small push by the meat lobby to do exactly that a couple years ago [1] I think it's a silly form of regulation. there are plenty of non-milk milk products, or "fruit flavor" things that don't have any fruit
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by ausbah 6y ago
honestly, if you aren't able to write an accurate perspective on something - I would rather see someone not try and write on something they don't know then make a half-assed attempt from info off the top of their head. at best the
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by ausbah 6y ago
queer and gay are still identities within the LGBTQ spectrum, what do you think the Q and G are for and they over he / she is just a nicer way, gender-neutral of writing when referring to any person no information or differing perspect
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by ausbah 6y ago
I can imagine this enabling massive amounts of virtual rent seeking by "renting" digital "commodities" at some point
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by ausbah 6y ago
you know "free loaders" aren't why most people are homeless right?
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by ausbah 6y ago
the process is literally posted on the Bureau for Labor Statistics site [1], it's like the second result on Google https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm
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by ausbah 6y ago
I think it's a combination of science is simply harder because the low picking fruits have mostly been picked, and environments that lead to breakthroughs like fission appear only under exceptional circumstances
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by ausbah 6y ago
this is one of the "selling points" of most cryptos isn't it? that the # of assets in circulation is fixed and not susceptible to manipulation by a central entity
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by ausbah 6y ago
you can probably say the same thing about pro-coiners who keep saying mass adoption of cryptos and blockchain in everyday life is right around the corner
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by ausbah 6y ago
unless there is data pointing to abuse like this being widespread, I think the alternative of evicting those who can't pay rent in pandemic is still a greater sin
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by ausbah 6y ago
there's been a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy for most of the past 20 years; but saying the same thing for Healthcare, immigration, tax policy, or whatever is not true
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by ausbah 6y ago
survey papers, reproducibility papers, and the like are still valid contributions to science
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by ausbah 6y ago
wasn't the real issue that the standards they cited were quoted later in the process than normal
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by ausbah 6y ago
pretending the democratic party and republican party are identical or even "mostly similar" is a willfully naive reading of politics
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by ausbah 6y ago
and pay artists for letting them play their songs (or whenever a song is actually played, or some combination). which has a huge impact when they're one of few music hosting platforms people use
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by ausbah 6y ago
people who say programmers need "passion" in this field always strongly smells of gatekeeping to me
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by ausbah 6y ago
when your business model classifies paying workers fair wages and normal benefits as a "risk", your company shouldn't exist
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by ausbah 6y ago
I'm not convinced "free market" really holds any substantive meaning anymore.

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