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by curryst 6y ago
> There's only so much productivity we can utilize. What happens when we've saturated? Unemployment. There's only so much productivity we can utilize _at a given price point_. It's possible wages could fall instead,
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by curryst 6y ago
Both the value of the worker and this situation both ignore the supply side. A $5 bill is worth $50, assuming there is a supply of people willing to pay $50. Likewise, a worker is only "worth" $50/hour if there is a supply
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by curryst 6y ago
I think some of the "essential" businesses were more essential to people maintaining their sanity than essential for people to survive. It was a "bread and circuses" play. Liquor stores and dispensaries are on that lis
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by curryst 6y ago
SSNs are probably the closest existing parallel. How many people in the US of voting age haven't had their SSN leaked yet? Obviously SSN is abused in the things it is used for (I.e. identification), but I don't see any indication
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by curryst 6y ago
> How many kids need to die from attending school and catching covid? For me, 1 is enough and we are already there. This is equally as irrational as people who just want to fling the floodgates open. ~5 children per year die on playgroun
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by curryst 6y ago
Fwiw, I also have Containers on my Firefox, and I'm 99% sure I didn't install it. I've never used them, but I suppose it's not out of the realm of possibility that I installed them while hacking on a side project at 4am
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by curryst 6y ago
> Nothing wrong with a system where the infrastructure is a regulated utility and ISPs can use it. Or, alternately, ISPs could continue to own the infrastructure but be required to allow other ISPs to rent or pay for passage on their la
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by curryst 6y ago
Those months are unpaid, is there any practical reason why you would wait until they give you 3 unpaid months rather than just quitting at any point?
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by curryst 6y ago
> BTW, giving this advice depresses me. I'm constantly amazed companies make such a weak effort to retain employees via good compensation policies. The cost of recruiting and interviewing candidates, not to mention training new hire
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by curryst 6y ago
> In my view, we are just workers--our only leverage is our willingness to walk away, which is usually fine with the company. They have a long line of candidates out the door. You have more leverage than that; not all workers are equal.
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by curryst 6y ago
I wonder if there are HIPAA implications around the data collected from these? This might be slightly more reasonable if HIPAA applies to this data. If not, I wouldn't step within 200 yards of those things. From press releases, healt
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by curryst 6y ago
Measuring the risk of travel in terms of hours seems largely pointless, unless I'm missing something. It equates an hour bus ride with an hour plane ride, which are not interchangeable, so it makes sense that the associated risks are
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by curryst 6y ago
> This is not true. It is only illegal to crack DRM of copyright-protected works. Once a work falls out of copyright, it's fully legal to crack any DRM. There's a huge grey area there for DRM schemes that are used on expired wo
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by curryst 6y ago
> Surely, there could a be a whitelist for major legitimate porn sites with an automated response that those sites are legitimate businesses not hosting illegal material. That probably only works for sites that are run by producers. The
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by curryst 6y ago
A big part of it is that nurses have been granted authority to do more procedures/prescriptions, and are now overlapping with doctors. For healthy people, a nurse practitioner could probably fulfill all of your standard medical needs.
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by curryst 6y ago
It is of note that they're claiming a social engineering attack on an internal employee; not a wide spread social engineering attack on each individual account.
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by curryst 6y ago
I'm also guessing there's some compliance mess involved. I can't imagine that all banks have some moral stand on not banking for marijuana businesses. My guess is that processing charges for them constitutes some from of &qu
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by curryst 6y ago
It probably depends on whether the legal requirements are relative or absolute, and I don't know which they are. If the law explicitly stated measures you must take, they're probably fine. If the requirements use some kind of rela
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by curryst 6y ago
They absolutely have opinions, often about how to interpret the law. This is why Supreme Court decisions always have the "dissenting opinion" document listing out why they think the majority decision was incorrect. Many laws are
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by curryst 6y ago
> At the same time, they are unwilling or unable to create an environment that is safe for the folks in the communities working or shopping there. One thing I'm curious about is the liability for having armed security guards. I&#x
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by curryst 6y ago
Sprawl definitely plays a large part in this. In the suburbs, grocery stores are exceptionally common. There are 2 within walking distance of my house. I would pass by several large grocery stores before I hit a convenience store. It&#x
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by curryst 6y ago
I have noticed loss prevention being fairly pervasive, but I have rarely noticed actual security guards. The difference being loss prevention is there to stop shoplifting, and are generally instructed to never use any physical force. They
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by curryst 6y ago
So the government bans private ownership of firearms, and I refuse to turn mine in. I assume some series of fines accrues, which I ignore. Does the government simply allow me to keep them because I'm refusing to comply?
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by curryst 6y ago
You can have your shell commands be idempotent. For instance, I have a number of places where I trigger a shell command only if an Ansible managed file changes. It's only non-idempotent if the shell command runs every time, and the she
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by curryst 6y ago
This has actually literally happened. The sibling comment has the full story, but the tldr is that someone accused of murder brought the actual murder weapon (a gun) into his lawyer's office and turned it over. Legal and ethical issu
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by curryst 6y ago
If they did, there's always going to be a debate over whether something was caused by the trial. You get a rash and have to go see a dermatologist, was it a result of the trial or unrelated? Or more seriously, you develop cancer. Wa
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by curryst 6y ago
Going off the Washington Post's data, there were 1,003 police shootings in 2019. Before I break it down, these numbers overlap. If you want to see the non-overlapping data, feel free to check out https://www.washingtonpost
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by curryst 6y ago
I think it depends on how much crime was prevented by police, either through action (i.e. arresting someone) or by threat of action (i.e. police might show up). Statistically, the chances the police in Minneapolis were going to catch someon
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by curryst 6y ago
I'm not a manager, but my managers are typically available by phone for "oh shit" situations. I say typically in the sense that they keep their phone around, and will answer if it goes off, but don't make a promise that
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by curryst 6y ago
You need rigorous tests though. At some point you end up with a hacked on version of typing. I appreciate that Typescript will tell me "this value might be null, and that function doesn't handle null" rather than writing a bu

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