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by esyir 6y ago
The same country with ridiculous public spending on medical care under the disguise of a free market medical system? Literally 1.2 trillion dollars of federal spending on healthcare in 2019. The same system that centrally plans and limits c
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by esyir 6y ago
I'm pretty sure apple is an outlier, and their margins are hardly razor thin. The iphone's margin has been estimated anywhere at about 60-75%. This argument might apply to commodity grade electronics, but not to apple.
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by esyir 6y ago
Don't forget the data cleaning, gathering and preparation too. That's pretty insanely expensive at that scale.
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by esyir 6y ago
If all you see is the right wing in the US, I don't think it's me who needs recalibration.
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by esyir 6y ago
Sounds like the eternal issue of open world games though. Olympic size wading pools is how I like to describe them. Many things to do, but with minimal depth and little, if any, impact on the game world. None other than skyrim is one of the
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by esyir 6y ago
Mind you, I'm personally opposed to a sugar tax myself, since I like soda, so you have my bias explicitly stated here. I'm also interpreting his initial thing as a proxy for the more established "unhealthy food tax", mos
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by esyir 6y ago
I'll say that this is less an issue with amazon and more an issue with the overall culture. Anecdotally, I've noticed a move from score based metrics to binary like/dislike based metrics. Thus, reviews also take a binary 5 st
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by esyir 6y ago
Sure, but the lower income strata are also the ones who are more disproportionally fat as well, so they benefit. Something I've always found amazingly annoying is the tendency to throw pragmaticism out the window for "virtue poin
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Because it would indicate wider support within the company I assume.
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So, I don't think there is one. At least not one compatible with democratic-like systems. The fundamental issue here, at least to me, is that the upvote is an "I like this" signal. The instinctive use of an upvote is to see m
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by esyir 6y ago
Then there's the opposite problem too, where absent of any deadline, you get Duke Nukem Forever.
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by esyir 6y ago
That sounds like the Witcher 3 to me. Great art, great story, great character/music. I hated the gameplay. I don't know why, but it felt horrendously clunky, even after the rework.
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by esyir 6y ago
Well, we're dev-enriched here. I think the mainstream gamer population would not be nearly as pleased. After all, Factorio and it's ilk eats people like us.
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I'd say that it feels like someone in the media has an axe to grind here. CDPR's policies seem like above average for the admittedly dismal field of game development, but they're drawing particular flack, especially when othe
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by esyir 6y ago
I dunno, my impression is that for a game company, CDPR is fairly employee friendly. Of course that's relative to the rest of the gaming industry, which is a well-known employee welfare shithole.
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by esyir 6y ago
Well, you're not wrong. Going to OP's statement of >a free, professional, and trustworthy press is vital for any functioning democracy. through all the rightful and wrongful critiques people have given the press over the past 5
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by esyir 6y ago
This sounds exactly like a common complaint about academic self-censorship, in which academics are terrified about saying anything that might contradict the politically correct consensus. Barring any odd discrepancies with the data, it it s
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by esyir 6y ago
What seems to have changed, to me at least, is that journalists have shed whatever veil of balance and impartiality they used to wear and have gone full fledged activist, even on the job. As such, their image is no longer of the semi-neutra
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by esyir 6y ago
Man, this reads to me like "My side's media is an angel and the other side is untrustworthy". Looking at The NYT's and the guardian's content on Portland/Seattle riots shows you the exact same phenomenon there.
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The livestreamers with sufficient common sense aren't going to do that and leave the most blatant evidence in the world lying around for their inevitable conviction. It's a bit harder (though not impossible) to hide that on a stre
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by esyir 6y ago
A definition of journalists that excludes small scale bloggers, and such would create a different population from say, one that comprised "anyone who self identifies as a journalist", for instance.
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by esyir 6y ago
We've seen the outcome of this. It's the turbo echo chamber that people here bemoan all the time.
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Then we're all journalists here for commenting to a global audience.
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If gawker is your example of journalism here, then i I'm perfectly fine with seeing it burn.
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On the flipside, you can say something similar about your response regardless of your actual position. What you've basically told him is: "Your experience is false, you're just biased and whatever your success was is a lie.&q
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by esyir 6y ago
This one is interesting, cause it really depends who you mean by "significant" The first author is generally the primary researcher. The last author is generally the PI of the entire lab, and the person of highest status in the la
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by esyir 6y ago
Hardware, training and bloody faang internships offered and the student body revolted? Jesus, if they did that where I was a student I would have celebrated.
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by esyir 6y ago
If I may put it differently, you know how most on the left see trump as infantile, poor of character, and so on
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It seems to me that the fundamental issue here is that Americans as a whole don't value education. The upper and middle classes might, but the lower classes and the younger segments of the population
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by esyir 6y ago
I don't think he's saying just keep out the sjws. Note that he's aiming it at the "advocates" and other such non technical roles, which he deems as gritfters/parasites.

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