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by ckw 4y ago
If someone wins the lottery repeatedly (Zip2, X.com/Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, The Boring Company) I'd entertain the possibility that they weren't just 'picking numbers'.
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by ckw 4y ago
If Tesla doesn’t have a culture that values safety, why are their vehicles safer in crashes than all other comparable vehicles?
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by ckw 4y ago
Except there was no gulf. The purpose of the proposed collection of novel bat coronaviruses was to facilitate gain of function experiments at WIV involving the alteration of spike proteins, including the introduction of ‘appropriate human
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by ckw 4y ago
> “We will use a large dataset of S protein sequences and full-length genomes generated from prior work and DEFUSE fieldwork to estimate SARSr-CoV substitution rate and its genome-wide variation.” (D1, p.15) > “Sub-Task 1.2 Collect mo
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by ckw 4y ago
The notion that sars-cov-2 arose naturally is risible. From https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966/defuse-propo... > “We will conduct in vitro pseudovirus binding assays, using established techniques2,
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by ckw 4y ago
This is lfp for everyone 25-54. The key point is more like 2000, when female lfp peaks. I’d argue it’s been in secular decline since, though the severity of the decline is temporarily understated, because we are at a cyclical peak. https:&
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by ckw 4y ago
Better still when they do the right thing for reasons of principle.
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by ckw 4y ago
The people who endorsed the repeal also successfully fought back attempts to regulate the OTC derivatives market, which arguably lead to the Great Recession. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born#Born_and_t
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by ckw 4y ago
Every god eventually tires of indulgence, so contrives a dream set before all desires were fulfilled. I expect it would look something like this.
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by ckw 4y ago
I received a message from a stranger on LinkedIn in fall of 2020: “Good talking to you the other day.” I assumed they’d intended to message some other person with the same name, but no, it turned out that someone had applied for a developer
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by ckw 4y ago
I agree. And I have been in a position where I had to accept exploitation. But I also think that workers often have some agency, and to the extent they do they should use it to protect those who don’t. Examples would be saving enough money
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by ckw 4y ago
Yeah the past couple days have been pretty shocking. In another thread someone effectively evinced support for child labor (i.e., four year olds shouldn’t be prevented from sweeping chimneys).
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by ckw 4y ago
CEOs aren’t exploited. (My actual position is more nuanced, but I think it’s irrelevant, as you must agree CEOs are not exploited).
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by ckw 4y ago
Sell yourself into slavery— it’s definitionally non-exploitative.
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by ckw 4y ago
People who accept gross exploitation harm everyone who works.
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by ckw 4y ago
You make no arguments. You adduce no facts. You repeatedly commit logical fallacies. On the other hand, I find Prasad's claims of fact true and arguments persuasive. This is a pretty easy call.
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by ckw 4y ago
So engage with those. How are those reading this thread edified by you simply claiming they are false, but presenting no evidence?
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by ckw 4y ago
It’s more extreme than that: Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority, and unlimited debate is just a rule— prior to 1806 there was limited debate. So the democrats could just completely eliminate the filibuster, in any form, and pa
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by ckw 4y ago
Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority, and unlimited debate is just a rule— prior to 1806 there was limited debate. So the democrats could just completely eliminate the filibuster, in any form, and pass what they choose, so long
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by ckw 4y ago
This is a really simple concept. There is a very small chance that the reason it’s difficult to understand is that you’re suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, a stroke, or some other medical issue, so to the extent that you can easily
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by ckw 4y ago
I did some research and it’s more egregious than I thought: Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority, and unlimited debate is just a rule— prior to 1806 there was limited debate. So the democrats could just completely eliminate the
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by ckw 4y ago
It’s almost as if, were we to decide collectively that everyone who works should enjoy a decent living, it could be so.
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by ckw 4y ago
GGP: How is it exploitative if the worker willfully enters into the contract? GP: But indentured servants enter willfully into their contracts, and indentured servitude is exploitative. So how is the willful nature of gig work relevant to t
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by ckw 4y ago
No. In a country like Denmark, even low status jobs like fast food pay a living wage (~$22/hr), provide a pension, 6 weeks paid vacation, etc. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/
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by ckw 4y ago
Do you mean gig workers enter into no contract, or indentured servants entered into no contract, or something else? Indentured Servitude: ‘Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a
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by ckw 4y ago
Yes, it is that simple, and yes, solar panels can be used to ship iPhones from China and fertilize crops and so on. And no, poverty, starvation, and mass death are not required to transition.
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by ckw 4y ago
I am correcting your misapprehension that the parent is equating gig work with indentured servitude. They are not. And I am reiterating the point the parent makes regarding the error both the grandparent and you make, in inferring from the
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by ckw 4y ago
Well you’re consistent, I give you that. What I would say is that collectively we decide on the rules of society— what conditions are acceptable and so on. And just as we have decided in the US that it is unacceptable to allow four year old
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by ckw 4y ago
It isn’t indentured servitude, but it cannot be distinguished from indentured servitude by the willful nature according to which the contract is entered, because indentured servants entered willfully into their contracts as well.
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by ckw 4y ago
Slave holders argued, often correctly, that slaves, as capital, enjoyed a higher standard of living than did wage workers, who could be worked to death and thrown away, and that this justified the institution. The original comment said >

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