david_w

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by david_w 7y ago
What's always in question if is there suffcient amount of virus to infect someone. It's an empircal question that is just starting to be answered.
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by david_w 7y ago
I respect that you believe that and you can meaningfully connect the rhetoric of small government to specious criticism of consumer protections laws. Just realize that to a significant part of the thinking public, it's NOT about that.
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by david_w 7y ago
Fully agreed. Exactly the same response AND same attitude from our representatives. The attitude part of it was the worst- it's specifically designed to be unrewarding, to make you leave them alone . There are technical solutions
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by david_w 7y ago
The former President of the ACLU has decride the current positions taken by the ACLU. I believe she wrote a book on it. I actually remember the Skokie march. We were kids. I loved the ACLU and so did everyone else I knew. They were like Fr
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by david_w 7y ago
1) There is no American tyranny against Americans- that's hyperbole you shouldn't indulge yourself in. 2) The fact that Afghanis had AK47s and RPGs just everywhere in Afghanistan before America invaded in 2002 and without a 2nd A
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by david_w 7y ago
"just laws of men"... Well, since you brought it up, actually, the rule of men and not laws is exactly what we're afraid of. To you it's a feature, to us it's a bug. The number of people killed by their own governme
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by david_w 7y ago
Please, move to America... and bring all your friends.
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by david_w 7y ago
It's amazing that people in the freest nation on earth have to be battled by their own citizens to not give up the rights and tools that keep them that way.
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by david_w 7y ago
Is anyone really asking me this? Do you know the history of Afghanistan? The recent history post 1978? Everyone had guns to answer your question directly. Are you suggesting we can all have as many AKs as we want forever in exchange for t
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by david_w 7y ago
People Upset That Consitutionally Protected Speech In Jeopardy After 250 Years- A Clear Case Of Misogyny ! ..is a Babylon Bee headline that just writes itself.
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by david_w 7y ago
How do you propose the People should resist a despotic government. Supposing, as we must, the government literally becomes tyrannical, how do propose people resist it at that point? That is the whole reason we have a 2nd Amendment. That&#x2
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by david_w 7y ago
Like the EFF cares about free speech. Like they have showed up even once to campuses across the nation to defend the Constitutional rights of their ideological opponents. Everyone knows the EFF and the ACLU are thinly camoflaged shells of
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by david_w 7y ago
You're talking compensation not going up because too many people want the jobs and Amazon employees quit or strike because of COVID-19 working conditions so it's all connected. I appreciate that you either can't see that or
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by david_w 7y ago
The idea behind plastic guns is philosophical. The government should not be able to forbid a person form effectively defending his or herself ; it's a natural right which can't be taken away by any government. 3D printed guns giv
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by david_w 7y ago
I agree normally. 100%. At the risk of double posting from a thread above, what about Amazon's hazard of customer defection / new regulatory burden if people taking, and quitting these jobs, both, start dropping or spreading it? W
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by david_w 7y ago
OK I usually agree with this but the elephant in the room is- what if some large number of those let go and also employed drop dead and people perceive it's because of Instacart/Amazon's callous attitude towards their safety?
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by david_w 7y ago
Supposing a total lack of basic human good will towards their fellow human- which I don't assume they do not have- they are dependent on the good will of the public which is not absolutely bottomless. Serious answer, not snark.
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by david_w 7y ago
I'll bite. I am not going to give you enough information to ID me. I'll tell you some of the details but not the union name, sorry. Forced to hand over == I had no choice. Forced to. Do nothing for me == I was "reassigned&q
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by david_w 7y ago
Unless they're not hiring, right? And you need a job yesterday- owing to biology and all that jazz...
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by david_w 7y ago
Number 2 - I expect Amazon to meet some of their demands depending on what exactly those demands are and how long the adjustments are demanded to be in effect. I don't expect Amazon to accept this as a union's chance to get its bi
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by david_w 7y ago
I know what you mean and in ordinary times there's a lot to say for this kind of attitude. But just the raw force of supply and demand applied to this situation is amoral and ultimately feeds the anti-capitalist rhetoric. That's
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by david_w 7y ago
I've worked lots of these jobs in my time. Here is what I would feel better about: 1.) Everyone gets fever checked at the door starting shift. Fever people go home. 2.) Scheduling is devised to segregate employees into non-overlapping
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by david_w 7y ago
Did he have a CHOICE to be a part of a union? I sure didn't. It was mandatory- they had a legal right to a part of my paycheck.
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by david_w 7y ago
But that is the point of the other person, right? Why does the striker get to call the tune and not the non-striker. You assume the striker always has the moral high ground, why? That's a big assumption. I've lived this. When I wo
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by david_w 7y ago
But how do they even know? If the driver stuffs it away in their sock or whatever how do they even know ?
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by david_w 7y ago
"This should be done by the government. It feels unfair to pass this on to consumers" Where do you think the government gets its money? We tip our delivery / pickup people 5 bucks for orders which are well south of $100. Mask
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I worry a lot about things like this across the technology spectrum. Am I wrong?(mobile.twitter.com)
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by david_w 7y ago
Companies generate revenue to stay afloat by differential pricing- they price things so that some usually essential things are moderately priced and more expansive / powerful / nicer things cost more money. The people to whom the
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by david_w 7y ago
I love Taleb; he's a certified creative genius, better-than-chance-would-allow prophet and a regular guy with Good Judgment, all three at once- a rarity. I think he is wrong on this one however. Wrongest observation in the article: &qu
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by david_w 7y ago
Or, alternatively, not in San Francisco,CA. USA, as many people aren't.

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