falcolas

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by falcolas 3y ago
I don't believe I'm talking about some kind of special lifestyle. I'm talking about living. As in being able to have a roof, sufficient nutritious food, heating, transportation, even some basic entertainment, all without havi
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by falcolas 3y ago
Sure. Roommates have been a thing since forever. A few things make that harder though: - Having a partner - Having a child - Working from home - The more roommates, the larger the apartment/house, the larger the costs And that's a
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by falcolas 3y ago
> people who cannot communicate clearly are going to have a lot of trouble working with something which requires clear communication Kind of like programming. Framing the solution to a problem in a clear and logical fashion is the hard p
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by falcolas 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835787
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by falcolas 3y ago
And lower than the median income for the US. Gotta compare those wages to where you're earning them, otherwise we're all "effective billionaires" because we don't live where the average income is under $2 an hour.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Too bad minimum wage doesn't mean "a wage you can live on", or that argument might mean something.
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by falcolas 3y ago
In Kansas City (whose cost of living is about 15% lower than the US median, and the home of the first person in the article) a 1br apartment would cost about half of the $15 an hour wages (pre-tax). I said it in another comment - inflation
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by falcolas 3y ago
These people don't live in Europe. They live in the US. They'd be paid accordingly less if they lived in Europe. Though they'd probably have better safety nets.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Technically in the US too. But rent would still cost you about half of that pre-tax income.
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by falcolas 3y ago
$30,000 a year is barely a living wage now. Especially if you have a partner, let alone a child. Rent for a 1br apartment rent (in Kansas City) would take about half of that income every month. $30k just above the poverty line for the lower
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by falcolas 3y ago
This is with MagSafe. Sure, there’s not the same misalignment issue, but there’s still a gap, made worse by cases.
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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, I’m not a huge fan of current wireless charging because of how inefficient the tech is. So much energy is wasted bridging the space between the coils. The evidence? The heat generated by the coils, which you can easily feel, especiall
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by falcolas 3y ago
It is. The springs which hold the cable in are in the plug, whereas they are in the socket for lighting. These springs are effectively consumable components.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> They're not working at a bar at 1am, they're waiting tables at the local pizza place and bringing a beer out with the pepsis. That's what you assert, but that's not what the law says. And I'd love to think tha
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by falcolas 3y ago
> working from home is just a net negative for the company Probably because the research doesn't really back that statement up. Plus, the moment you have more than one office, you're effectively working from home even when you&
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by falcolas 3y ago
Whelp. With that visualization I'm done with the internet today. And you're wholly correct. Just depressing.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Don't forget cleaning meat packing plants. Fucking cush jobs, amirite?
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by falcolas 3y ago
Serving alcohol... ugh. Bartenders already get enough guff from patrons. Imagine a 16yo having to deal with trying to cut somebody off.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> opportunity What an odd choice of wording - as if meat packing is some highly desirable industry that children are clamoring to get experience in (even as adults avoid it when they can).
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by falcolas 3y ago
I went to UND for piloting back before 9/11 - and the airlines generally only hired for life. It's fascinating to see how this is changing.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I doubt that Emiko Omori and her surviving contemporaries would agree with you. Emiko Omori is a survivor of the Poston internment camp in Arizona.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> You need to cite sources about people in the US getting “vanished” for simply using a VPN. The restrict act hasn't passed yet. So no, I can't cite anything but the jail time and fines proposed in the bill.
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by falcolas 3y ago
An exception used around 10,000 times per year as of 2005. And congress hasn't done anything to reign them in. And I'll freely admit that China is going to be worse, with less oversight. But not only is the comparison a fallacy, i
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by falcolas 3y ago
> checks and balances of power Only in theory, when it comes to National Security Letters. If you can't prove the government spied on you specifically, you can't take them to court to get a check or balance.
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by falcolas 3y ago
High rewards vs. risk, to be sure. And it's not as if CS reps are not in demand, so any "burned" asset could easily be re-used. It's not as if their reason for being fired would be communicated anywhere.
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by falcolas 3y ago
You're right. But every social media and advertising company do both , regardless.
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by falcolas 3y ago
To be even more explicit, Facebook and Google collect info which the US government can and does request from them. See: Transparency Reports from both.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> an automatic system distributing the $$ I pay YT So youtube red instead? They split the creator portion of your subscription between the creators you watch (assuming they've setup the ability to get paid by YT). Worth quite a bit
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by falcolas 3y ago
Right, we've never heard any news of employees of other social media apps targeting exes, reporters, or celebrities. /s We totally have. EDIT: I worked for Amazon in customer service back in the early naughts. They had an explicit
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by falcolas 3y ago
Relatedly, Apple has a feature which will silence your alarms when you look at the phone. Which apparently my phone thinks I do periodically while I'm dead asleep. It's frustrating to wake up naturally and see the "Snooze&#x2

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