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by drewrv 6y ago
USPS has to deliver mail to every address in the country, whereas UPS and FedEx do not. Comparing a public service that handles the long tail and edge cases to private companies that can axe unprofitable routes (or outsource them to USPS) i
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by drewrv 6y ago
This reminds me of a similar article I once read: "I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life." https://slate.com/human-interest/2005/12/my-coffeehouse-nigh...
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by drewrv 6y ago
> I suppose some “conspiracy theories” are more socially acceptable than others. I think if there's a massive amount of evidence, it becomes more socially acceptable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_inter
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by drewrv 6y ago
There are different types of reporting, specifically there's a difference between reporting a story and running a profile. If your piece is about morale within the state department, an unnamed source who works there could be acceptable
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by drewrv 6y ago
It's possible to have an immoral result without any individual doing an egregiously immoral thing. In fact it seems like a lot of law and corporate structure encourages these situations. Some examples that come to mind are paying low l
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by drewrv 6y ago
I'm not sure where you're located, but the Jump bikes in Seattle are now operated by Lime (even though you still rent them in the Uber app for some reason). https://www.geekwire.com/2020/jump-bikes-return-seat
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by drewrv 6y ago
MacOS absolutely does this. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
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by drewrv 6y ago
There's a collection of racist quotes from him here: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
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by drewrv 6y ago
I recently had to get a new laptop and went with windows for the first time in a decade. Macs are still great to develop on for now, but looking at the trajectory apple has taken, the growing pains ARM will likely bring, and also the trajec
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by drewrv 6y ago
This argument conflates government punished speech and socially ostracized speech. I’ve never heard articulated how a society without consequences for speech would actually function. Being moved by a powerful speech or sermon is certainly a
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by drewrv 6y ago
In 2020, free speech is being attacked by the president literally trying to block the publication of a book because he doesn't like the content. People who are upset about website moderation policies or unruly college kids are probably
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by drewrv 6y ago
They're not exactly clear about it, but I think the use case they're getting at is that you can have one screen for videoconferencing and a second one for materials that are being presented. We had a setup like this at my office t
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by drewrv 6y ago
Nobody wants them "to be the arbiters of what is allowed to be discussed". People want platforms to take responsibility for how they are used to spread misinformation. They want leaders held to the same standards as everyday users
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by drewrv 6y ago
That "the president is too dumb to understand the context of his words" is not a strong defense.
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by drewrv 6y ago
> The shadow restaurants opening up to serve these markets that massively lower the quality of the food in shared terrible kitchens (most not zoned for that and with little to no safety equipment) but using the restaurant name anyway? Or
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by drewrv 6y ago
He's not a freedom fighter sticking up for oppressed minorities here. He's a billionaire who is endangering his employees to make even more money. His employees are in a really bad situation right now, they get to choose between r
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by drewrv 6y ago
> We’d be ‘short’ high-tax markets and ‘long’ low-tax markets over the long-term.” This seems really silly. My wife and I are considering leaving the city we love but tax rates have nothing to do with it. The reasons we want to live in t
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by drewrv 7y ago
The "labor market" is a social construct created by laws and customs. Collective action is one of those customs, and it's supported by laws. That the company paying workers has an app shouldn't matter.
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by drewrv 7y ago
> Because 99.9999% of drivers are human and have no issues seeing the concrete barriers and not hitting them head on at full speed. In this particular case, a human driver did crash head-on into the barrier somewhat recently.
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by drewrv 7y ago
> What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now? Traditional media has always fact checked political ads. If Facebook can't do it, that's a sign to me that they're too big to responsibly sell political ads.
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by drewrv 7y ago
I feel like there should be a law for social media: "Sufficiently passionate fanbases are indistinguishable from bots"
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by drewrv 7y ago
It still amazes me that the line of reasoning they publicly went with, around their decision not to fact check political advertisements, is that no one company should have that amount of power. The logical conclusion of their own argument i
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by drewrv 7y ago
Respecting your abusers was much more prevalent.
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by drewrv 7y ago
The big companies have always been able to pay more than startups, but it feels like salaries have shot way up at the big cos since the wage fixing scandal was exposed. It makes me wonder if the wage fixing had a larger effect than anyone r
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by drewrv 7y ago
Check out Goat Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Simulator "The game, initially developed as a joke prototype from an internal game jam and shown in an early alpha state in YouTube videos, was met with
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by drewrv 7y ago
There are already outposts doing science in Antarctica.
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by drewrv 7y ago
Funny you mention CSV because my mind immediately thought of that as relatively easy, compared to dealing with Excel. Fortunately a good chunk of users don't even understand the difference between the two. A lot of these items, like ph
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by drewrv 7y ago
Then why would management try to crush any organizing activity? Couldn't Sundar just say, "Interesting idea, let's take a vote"
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by drewrv 7y ago
Cuban is straight up lying about how he might need to sell his basketball team. Or he's lying about how much stock he owns. Either way he lacks credibility. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/30/mark-cuban-i-ha
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by drewrv 7y ago
There are some terrible^squared assumptions baked into this. The first bad assumption is that billionaires don't have any liquid assets. Nobody clever enough to earn that kind of money keeps 98% of it in an illiquid private investment

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