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by dporter 5y ago
The three classes described in the article, core contributors, bounty hunters, and network participants are just employees, contractors, and share holders with new branding. The most meaningful difference is a lack of labor protections.
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by dporter 5y ago
The difference is that one doesn't need a special education to identify porn. The average low-wage content moderator at Facebook likely does not have the scientific background to distinguish between bullshit and science. Case in point,
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by dporter 5y ago
> "I know I'm not alone in missing the hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration of our in-person meetings and the sense of community we've all built" Easy to say when you're not commuting an hour
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by dporter 5y ago
The article isn't about "enjoying unaccustomed courtesy and understanding from the world." It's about the author's experience on a year long vacation. "Actually, depression isn't that bad because I don&#x2
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by dporter 5y ago
I think the article itself is what downplays and trivializes poor mental health. "Well, you know" is just the new version of "fine" - a way to brush the very real things the author mentioned under the rug and not speak a
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by dporter 5y ago
Lets be real - the reason Facebook and other networks were banning these opinions wasn't because they were scientifically unviable, it was because they were right-wing talking points.
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by dporter 5y ago
If they had time to sit in a phone booth and do mindfulness meditations they probably wouldn't be peeing in bottles.
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by dporter 5y ago
If they had time to sit in a phone booth and do mindfulness meditations they probably wouldn't be peeing in bottles.
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by dporter 5y ago
I find it hard to get on board with Chia being a better alternative to Bitcoin because it uses less energy when the tradeoff it makes is the manufacturing and waste of millions of terabytes of hard drives. Does not seem very environmentally
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by dporter 5y ago
Another thing I never see mentioned in the articles about restaurant staff shortages is how awful working at a restaurant is. The restaurant industry has more sexual harassment claims than any other industry, with 90% of women and 70% of me
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by dporter 5y ago
According to the New York Times vaccine tracker [1], only the Oxford-AstraZeneca (known as Covishield in India) and Bharat Biotech (Covaxin) vaccines are approved for use in India, and neither of these vaccines are available in the USA. [1]
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by dporter 5y ago
Loss of grant money
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by dporter 6y ago
> The company said users will be able to report such behaviors but it may also investigate cases proactively, for instance if there is a verified news report that a user has been arrested. > ... > The new standards will apply even
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'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature(bbc.com)
116 points by dporter 6y ago|1 comments
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by dporter 6y ago
The constraints of the Twitter platform make it uniquely bad to challenge something like Substack or Patreon, which leaves... Onlyfans as the only paid content platform they can take users from?
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by dporter 6y ago
Treating desks like hotel rooms instead of apartments. Instead of having one desk that is "yours," you get assigned to any available desk every day. It seems like a terrible way to work, but it cuts down on the overall number of d
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by dporter 7y ago
Seems like part of the plan really. Why pay license fees to other studios when they can make their own movies?