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by etchalon 4y ago
Sorry, yes, everything I said is mostly relevant in the US, and is the only country/culture I can speak to with anything resembling authority. I know things are much different elsewhere.
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by etchalon 4y ago
The amount of ignorance in your post about the realities of poverty in the US is so hilarious it’s like a copypasta. “Stupid poor people. Just find a friend with a car and go to Costco!”
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by etchalon 4y ago
The importance of the study I linked is that it examined consumption in low-income populations, and not the broader public. As my point was that sugary drinks are often a form of caloric replacement, and not preference, for low-income peopl
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by etchalon 4y ago
As another child of an overworked single mom, allow me to cheer for your comment. The amount of paternalistic "just make better choices!" nonsense in this thread is giving me a headache.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Growing up poor, my house and the houses of my friends basically had three options – milk, sugary drinks and water. And milk was rationed like it was war. Sugary drinks are cheap, shelf-stable and dense with calories. When you don't ha
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by etchalon 4y ago
I'm being explicit about what "demand" means, and how the economics of grocery stores intersect with things like physical space, infrastructure, government regulation, etc. lest someone think "there's not enough dem
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by etchalon 4y ago
You're collapsing "demand" into "they must not want it" instead of "the size of the demand doesn't match the minimal demand needed for the economics." Grocery stores are very low-margin. They basicall
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by etchalon 4y ago
Money changes everything because you can't pay your rent with good grades.
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by etchalon 4y ago
You could paint this as "rewarding good students", but it's also just as likely to punish students in situations beyond their control, or in situations which aren't ideal. As someone who had to juggle a full-time job, in
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by etchalon 4y ago
I didn't have much of a choice. They bought our mortgage.
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by etchalon 4y ago
And yet, despite unfettered access to Twitter's internal communications, evidence has yet to be posted by the journalists tasked with exposing that fact.
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by etchalon 4y ago
It could also be said the central issue is that Twitter's political leanings went against many elsewhere, therefor, everything is a conspiracy and nothing done was done with good intentions.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Trump was in charge of the FBI when this happened, and its director (Wray) was appointed by him.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Their organization seems weirdly large if that's their sole job.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Maybe, but the generally excepted judicial standard is "the government can't impugn freedom of speech, outside of a compelling interest." That includes the Executive.
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by etchalon 4y ago
That isn't reflected in the evidence posted.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Based on that hour-long talk, I'd say Carmack just had a fundamentally different set of priorities. He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.
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by etchalon 4y ago
The user numbers are self-reported, and unlike when Twitter was a public company, the owner has no legal reason not to lie.
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by etchalon 4y ago
It's based on publicly available information, that is required to be publicly available by government regulation, specifically for the public good. https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certifica...
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by etchalon 4y ago
Based on the regulations, yes. The regulations do not require Apple allow third-party stores without a cost/fee. Only that they allow them. Apple's within their right to say, "OK, but that third-party owes us 30% of their rev
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by etchalon 4y ago
You're going to continue paying Apple to verify your app. Either you'll pay Apple directly, or the non-App Store will collect the 30% they have to send to Apple.
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by etchalon 4y ago
This is a ridiculous idea.
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by etchalon 4y ago
As far as I know, there is not a finite allowance of time the public is provided to digest information before forming opinions on it. That one outlet may have a slight time advantage over another is always going to the case (efficiency and
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by etchalon 4y ago
Why would I care if someone makes money smuggling accurate information through the press? The whole reason we need a press is so accurate information gets smuggled to us.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Government employees are not supposed to leak, but not because of commercial concerns. What a weird thing to be worried about. "It's not fair that Deep Throat talked to the Post first!"
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by etchalon 4y ago
This slideshow is relatively old, and frameworks have gotten better, not worse, since then. Server-side DOM mutation is deeply interesting, but I don't think it can be grafted onto existing server-side frameworks. Someone will need to
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The Frantic Texts Exchanged by Crypto Executives as FTX Collapsed(nytimes.com)
4 points by etchalon 4y ago|2 comments
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by etchalon 4y ago
A group chat including crypto leaders shows Binance’s Changpeng Zhao accusing FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried of orchestrating trades to destabilize the industry.
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by etchalon 4y ago
If you take someone casually rounding up from 90% to 100% as a deep reason for concern, I have some bad news for you regarding weather forecasts.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I'm talking about the origination and evolution of a specific practice, called, specifically, "shadow banning". Yes, other techniques exist. Sometimes people, being imprecise, ignorant and/or lazy, call those techniques

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