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by bena 2mo ago
The number of Walmart workers on some form of government assistance is significant. Significant enough that Walmart couldn't operate without them. Not to mention, Walmart manages to capture those government dollars through accepting EB
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by bena 2mo ago
I would say a corporation's taxes should, at the very least, cover the tax burden generated from not paying their employees enough to make a living wage. So if their employees are on government assistance, the cost to provide that assi
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by bena 2mo ago
> You'll see this often in the social democracies of Scandinavia, like Sweden or Denmark. These are countries with strong welfare states, and yet, the corporate tax rates are often lower than the U.S., even if you look at the most r
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by bena 2mo ago
Name one that is not "one's a policy and the other is not".
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by bena 2mo ago
What's the actual difference, because you haven't actually supplied one. You've just said "They're different. One is a thing, and one is a criticism of a thing". So, does the criticism not hold value? Because a
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by bena 2mo ago
It's not. Peak homicide recently was in 2022 and it was 280 deaths for the year. While not great, it's not "dodging bullets every day". New Orleans is also experiencing their lowest rate of homicide in years.
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by bena 2mo ago
No, D2F only matters if you're trying to optimize stroke between two hot-swappable participants. And then it's really if an angle allowed by Base to Floor (B2F) and Length (L) is compatible with an angle allowed by the other parti
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by bena 2mo ago
I think that's one thing people truly forget when they ask "Why can't we do things like this anymore?" AT&T paid people to fuck around. Claude Shannon, father of Information Theory, founder of Artificial Intelligence
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by bena 2mo ago
Most of those things were invented by a company granted a government monopoly on communications and not allowed to directly profit off of any of those advances. AT&T threw money at smart people and said, "Do stuff. Then we'll
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by bena 2mo ago
If incidences of cancer of any type are 1 in 100,000 for the population at large, then generally any slice of that population will have similar odds. Which includes people with cancer. So those who already have cancer, have a chance to deve
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by bena 2mo ago
Because lobbying is essentially just the process of petitioning the government. Mostly. It's buying dinners so you can talk with a Representative or Senator one-on-one. It's traveling to D.C. or the Congressperson's home stat
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by bena 3mo ago
Than what? It's 21oz compared to the 7oz regular size and 12.4oz "Pantry Size". It's like $5-$6 for the box. That's been true at both the local grocery and WalMart.
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by bena 3mo ago
I'll admit that I tend to implicitly trust that the larger boxes on the shelves contain more. I haven't checked the price-per-unit in a bit. Granted, my closest grocery is not a WalMart and I'm typically purchasing mass-pro
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by bena 3mo ago
And I don't disagree, but the posting of the article feels more like bait of a sort. But I've noticed that if you mention anything that could be seen as slightly critical of LLMs, you'll get people out of the woodwork suggest
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by bena 3mo ago
I think the biggest pushback this article will get here is the date. Although all he's saying is basically, "It's a tool, not a silver bullet". But the article is 3 years old and people will note that the models have b
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by bena 3mo ago
Do you know how often is the score keeping system replaced or requires repairs? You could potentially have a decent side gig replacing scoring systems for a fraction of others
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by bena 3mo ago
Not just the UK, labor is usually the dominant cost of anything. Our house flooded about half a foot a year or two ago. I had to replace all the baseboards. The damage was assessed at $40k. I tried to contact contractors to do the work, but
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by bena 3mo ago
Not just no, but fuck no. Intimacy does not scale. No single entity can intimately care about even hundreds of people. So these chatbots are the property of an entity that does not care about you. This is different from people you would int
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by bena 3mo ago
He was looking for a sugar baby?
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by bena 3mo ago
Oh man, the past was fucking wild, because you would do this. You'd just show up to the theater and look at what was playing. Or, if you were close to a store, you'd go and buy a newspaper that had the movie listings for your lo
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by bena 3mo ago
I think you're being accused of being a sockpuppet.
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by bena 3mo ago
Proud 2.2%er But I also have had it installed via Crossover at some points to check out a Windows-only game. Which I just realize also skews the statistic because Crossover basically creates a Windows VM.
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by bena 3mo ago
While the Famicom was decent, the NES had mechanical problems. The Famicom was a top-loading console, like the SNES, but had hard-wired controllers that came out of the back of the console. There was a controller port on the front that was
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by bena 3mo ago
Hilariously, his self-scans did not catch this. It's also not cancer. AIG makes him more susceptible to certain cancers, but he does not have cancer yet. And looking at what he's done compared to the symptoms, it's possible h
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by bena 3mo ago
He’s not saying that’s why the article was deleted. He’s saying that to say that’s why Bill is acting like he is. Saying he doesn’t care while making a lot of noise like he cares. Complaining about rules he hasn’t looked up. Then accusing t
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by bena 3mo ago
That tracks. I wouldn't trust e-gas either. Seriously though, I was thinking on how I had to stop and get cat litter, milk, and cereal on my way home today when I read what you posted. While I get some consumables online; pet food, fil
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by bena 3mo ago
I'm surprised e-commerce is still under 17 percent. It makes me want to check my purchasing habits to see if I'm around that mark.
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by bena 3mo ago
I think that's what the satire is trying to warn against.
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by bena 4mo ago
However, the distraction car is breaking the law in Smokey and the Bandit. It’s not incorrect for them to try and pull it over.
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by bena 4mo ago
To be fair, Leetcode/Hackerrank also runs arbitrary code.

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