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by eqdw 7y ago
Unless "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, there is no conceivable way this is true. Young peoples' actions do not support the idea that they believe this. You'd see a lot more people doing insane things to cross it
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by eqdw 7y ago
I don't know how you made that happen but my cost of living expenses while in college never exceeded $10kCAD a year
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by eqdw 7y ago
A long time ago I heard someone say this about Rogan. I think they were trying to insult him, but it's actually really true. Why is Joe Rogan so popular? Because he's Oprah for men. It's that simple
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by eqdw 7y ago
Given that most labourers are paid hourly, I suspect that the speed (or lack thereof) with which infrastructure projects are built _ is _ the reason why they're so expensive
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by eqdw 7y ago
I agree with you, but just to play devil's advocate for a second as I've run out of JIRA tickets for the day: If you are a major world superpower, and you want to impede other powers from threatening you, but you want to avoid any
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by eqdw 7y ago
That alternative existed before Twitter, and will continue to exist after Twitter
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by eqdw 7y ago
Your right to breathe clean air in your house is violated by somebody using a juul in a different house five miles away?
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by eqdw 7y ago
Ban e-cigarettes, but get pot smoke blown in your face on every other street corner. I don't know why I keep expecting consistency in my public policy but I am once again thoroughly disappointed.
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by eqdw 7y ago
I have been fucking around on the internet, without any supervision whatsoever, since I was 12 years old. As far as I can tell, I turned out fine. Is the internet that much worse than when we were kids?
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by eqdw 7y ago
"The beverage known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm and also obesity" Great, another thing everyone will ignore. Literally nobody pays attention to these warning labels. And further, the more thing
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by eqdw 7y ago
> US government operating a real UFO Or some other nation. By far the most likely explanation to me is that this is some classified military tech.
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by eqdw 7y ago
Problem: "Planes are consistently later than our stated arrival times" Solution: "Why don't we give more accurate arrival times, so passengers can be more confident in those stated arrival times and minimize disruption t
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by eqdw 8y ago
> Everything I consume in the States is of a vastly, abysmally lower quality. Every single thing. The food, the media, little things like fashion, art, public spaces, the emotional context, the work environment, and life in general make
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by eqdw 8y ago
I finally made the switch over from 11 years of macbooks, and I bought a Dell XPS and put Manjaro on it. This was a good decision, in every way _except_ for the touch pad. The touch pad is utter garbage compared to the mac touchpad, and sev
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by eqdw 8y ago
Not true. At-will is state by state. And, of course, there is nothing stopping either you or your employer from negotiating different terms.
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by eqdw 8y ago
I mean, it kind of is. But also, that's what negotiation is. If the company didn't want to be occasionally held hostage, it should have included a "you can't hold us hostage" clause in its employees' work contr
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by eqdw 8y ago
Believe it or not, some people actually are willing to work harder for more money
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by eqdw 8y ago
YES!
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by eqdw 8y ago
To be fair, I have seen tons of headlines to the effect of "crime is the lowest it's ever been in decades, so why are we still hiring so many police officers" There is absolutely pressure to loosen the (enforcement of) laws w
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by eqdw 8y ago
It's not hostile, it's professional. I advocate for my interests, you advocate for your interests, and we negotiate to find out a compromise that works for both of us. During this process, I do not worry about your interests (that
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by eqdw 8y ago
Non-competes are illegal in California. If your contract contains one, the non-compete clause is null and void
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by eqdw 8y ago
As I understand it, when a company unionizes, there are three main ways that you as an employee are impacted: 1. You are required to pay a certain amount (either percentage or flat fee, I'm not sure) of your paycheque into a new politi
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by eqdw 8y ago
The German model is explicitly illegal in the US. I cannot explain why, but I saw a guy on reddit once break down why German unions are great, US unions are terrible, and why the US can never have German unions
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by eqdw 8y ago
If any app or service offers me the ability to pay them money in exchange for removing ads, I do I do this even if the price is rather large. I think the most I've ever paid is $25 but I'd go higher.
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by eqdw 8y ago
Lots that provide parking spots are usually required by law Don't get me wrong, I'm in agreement that this is a bad use of limited space. But the cause of this bad use is "mandated by law", not "accidentally incenti
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by eqdw 8y ago
Remember when youtube was down for like six hours a few months ago and we still haven't heard why?
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by eqdw 8y ago
Huh just curious, do you perchance ride in cars? Or trains? or planes? Do you use electricity? Do you own anything plastic? What about metal? I think you'll find if you ask yourself these questions you will find that the answer to your
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by eqdw 8y ago
If you assume: a) Google is about 70% men; and b) The "error" in pay (eg how under- or over-paid you are) is randomly distributed Then it will be trivially true that more men than women are underpaid If you, in addition to this, a
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by eqdw 8y ago
You know that the H1B program is actually _not allowed_ to discriminate based on country, and equal numbers of H1Bs are reserved for each country, right? The fact that some countries have a decades long wait list and others do not is not be
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by eqdw 8y ago
My understanding of the deepfakes timeline: 1) One day somebody posts a handful of really obviously faked janky looking porn videos. We all have a good laugh, briefly imagine the possibilities, and then move on 2) Like 3 weeks later, every

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