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by bmismyname 4y ago
I don't work at Amazon, but I have a few insights here through insider backchannels. It basically all comes down to numbers and the amount of money spent on opposing the union versus how much money they will save on suppressing wages i
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Good luck and I hope you succeed, but the (unfortunate) reality check I'll give you is that money rules everything, and if you get even the slightest bit of traction, there is more than a trillion dollars in market cap behind ensuring
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Can we please just have high quality public transit, including high-speed inter-city rail?
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Technically Apple doesn't issue the card, Goldman Sachs does. It's also a pretty damn good product as far as credit cards go (and I've used them all). I ended up canceling all my other cards. The only feature the Apple one la
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Do you really trust the people running local governments to not mess things up? I certainly don't. I wouldn't trust them to look after my house plants.
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Puts aren't a good way to hedge against this because in the event the US empire does collapse, your US dollars won't be of much use. In fact, I'd bet that the stock market will actually shoot up to insane levels because the g
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by bmismyname 4y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but Apple is still one of the few big techies that is relying on making better products to increase revenue. All the others have gone down the path of "how do we trick people into transferring their
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by bmismyname 4y ago
The cops have way too much money, too much power, and are basically immune from responsibility. Plus there is a ton of evidence to show police don't reduce crime. You reduce crime by improving quality of life, which seems like the anti
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by bmismyname 4y ago
First it's slow, and then suddenly it's all at once. We're still in the slow phase, for the time being.
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Did you read the book? Or at least the wikipedia page? Here's a fairly recent paper with recent data comparing actual historical data to the book's predictions: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111&#x2F
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Plus most of the "innovation" in the west involved outsourcing all the manufacturing and pollution to places with cheap labour and lax environmental and labour laws.
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Did you forget a /s? This comment reads like satire.
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by bmismyname 4y ago
It'll keep working until it stops. You'd think that with Wikipedia and all the information at our fingertips people would be able to tell a sheep from a wolf, but instead they're more likely to believe the authoritative talk
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Fun fact: many major US cities still have lead pipes[1]. It costs about $20,000 to replace a lead service line from the water main to your home if you live in an older home/building, and the cities are not exactly working hard to repla
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by bmismyname 4y ago
I think the scheme they used was to require a phone number to set it up the first time, and after that you could switch to TOTP or whatever. Authy also harvests phone numbers.
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by bmismyname 4y ago
This is why I use a fake phone number when I'm forced to provide one, especially when ordering stuff off the internet. Good luck with your business, but I don't want to be in your database. It's quite annoying how every retai
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by bmismyname 4y ago
You can tell Twitter (and the other techies) don't care about "security" when they force you to use SMS for 2FA when we all know they're doing that to harvest phone numbers because they're a pretty o.k. way to link
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Surely they don't mean the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th amendments, or the Comity Clause. Maybe there is another amendment that says ICE can kick in your door if they saw non-white people loitering?
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Don't get me started on traffic laws. People lost their minds on the roads around the time the COVID lockdowns started. I've always been anti-car, but the kind of insanity I see all the time now (people running red lights, driving
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Good point. Another thing is that much of the big AG "food" crops (corn, soy, etc) are used for industrial purposes, such as cattle feed and ethanol.
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by bmismyname 4y ago
California is the biggest producer of food in the US, by a huge margin (about 50% more than Iowa, the #2 producer). https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17844 I would like to see how it breaks down by red vs. blue, and
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Call me a "doomer" or whatever, but I think the inevitable demise of the US empire starts with balkanization (i.e., the states splitting into their regional factions). Basically like a second civil war, except it will look quite d
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by bmismyname 4y ago
2 books I recommend for anyone interested in the history of this stuff are "Acid Dreams" and "How to Change Your Mind". The latter is a bit more pop-sciency, and the former is probably more factually accurate (though who
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by bmismyname 4y ago
There are already libraries that make it easier to do vectorization, which are equivalent to compilers that take generic instructions and convert them into SIMD equivalents (though it's somewhat more nuanced than this). The issue is no
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The Sex Theorem of Hiring(brndn.io)
2 points by bmismyname 4y ago|2 comments
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Same, I absolutely love this extension. You can whitelist the websites you use frequently, and for everything else it's like a groundhog day every day. The cookie banners can be super annoying sometimes, but they are easily removed wit
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Another one from WaPo mentioning 5 different 1-in-1000 year flooding events, in the US alone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/2... One or two events is a coincidence, 5 unlikely eve
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by bmismyname 4y ago
Good question, there are several, but the one I've played with is this tool from the NOAA: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/ I've used this tool to inform my decisions with regard to planning for my climate mitigat
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by bmismyname 4y ago
It's worth noting, the last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere (>400ppm), sea levels were significantly higher. Estimates are all over the map, but most of them put global sea at least 10m above our current levels. A few
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by bmismyname 4y ago
It depends on who you ask, but I've seen estimates that suggest at least 10m of sea level rise is already "priced in", so to speak. In the climate crisis discussion communities there's a saying that things are happening

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