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by flakeoil 3y ago
The only solution is to have less people use drugs so that there is less money to be made selling drugs. The best way to have less people use drugs is probably to make it illegal to use and buy drugs.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
We will most likely see that jobs that cannot be done by working from home will see an increase in salary and WFH jobs will see a decrease. I'm thinking about jobs like nurses, electricians, factory workers, teachers etc.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
You forgot Windows which is bundled with every Laptop sold even if the user does not want it. And the scary part with Microsoft is not how much share they have in each individual part, but that they have a big part of almost every field in
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I still don't get what you are trying to say in your original post, nor your comment. What are you trying to say? You sound like someone who like conspiracy theories.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I'm not sure what you are going after. It sounds like you feel you are not allowed to make up your own theories anymore. I would say that today it's almost too easy to be allowed to bring up your own theories and be sceptical of a
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by flakeoil 3y ago
> you can at-will change your asking price Not really. Only if they are willing to pay more. And only if you have no fixed contract. ass an employee you can also ask for more at-will. > flex your hours As an employee you can often fle
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I think what has taken a back seat is action. We could have moved to more fuel efficient cars a long time ago (smaller, lighter more aerodynamic cars than we have today). We could have invested more in solar and wind and moved away from coa
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by flakeoil 3y ago
But we can quite easily feel the difference between these ChatGPT messages which are too much and a genuine message. We know corporate BS when we see it. And in the example in this post I think the doctor said more or less the same thing to
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by flakeoil 3y ago
The next Enron.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
> What do we want from self driving cars? I would say, drive me long distances on the high way. The rest (last mile, city country side) I can do myself. It also aligns with the fact that it is easier to make autonomous driving work for h
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by flakeoil 3y ago
It's just one position, not an average. There are other positions with the same title with higher salaries. Quantitative Research can be anything, basically just an Excel inputer could be called that. I think salary expectations on HN,
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by flakeoil 3y ago
> Yet labor markets are strong, with record low unemployment across the board. I wonder if the anecdata or the real data are right. You have to give it more time. Even if this would lead to less employees needed, it will take a few years
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I think you have your numbers wrong. Big tech is in some cases 10-20 times bigger than AT&T (market valuation). Big retail is just around double if you look at Walmart and everyone else much smaller (if you remove Amazon which I count a
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I'm curious what happens with all the bugs that get stuck in the filters. I imagine a huge amount of air has to pass through everyday and bugs have no chance to escape these giant fans and they will get stuck and die in the different l
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Trader crimes are not so much about screwing the employer. It's often aligned with the incentives of the employer i.e. make as much money as possible. The crime is more in that they use unlawful methods (or take on too much risk) to ea
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by flakeoil 3y ago
That cannot explain why Americans are more obese than say Europeans as Europeans also have quit smoking in a similar amount as in the US.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
COVID is probably just a short term anomaly and not a major cause of death going forward. COVID was probably also a cause of death that decreased some of the other death causes.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
If you don't want to work, you don't have to. Why don't you just resign instead and stay in bed 9-5?
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by flakeoil 3y ago
At the end of the day, someone has to pay for it. Higher and higher salaries, more and more perks and benefits, less and less hours put into work. Sure there is time savings in not commuting, but there are also time savings in face-to-face
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by flakeoil 3y ago
But how many heat their homes with electricity? Many households in France (and the UK and elsewhere) are heating their homes with gas and the same goes for cooking. The share of electricity of the total energy consumption is also important
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Well, to properly erase (multiple overwrites and erase) I suppose IT would need to get the computer back for a while so it can fully complete without the employee removing the IT tool which can handle this removal. Secondly, would you want
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Sure, but the ones with less than $250k will still get their money even if the bank goes down. The thing is I wonder if there really is a bank "too big to fail". The rich people who have their money in that bank will not go hungry
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Yes, and there needs to be some kind of restriction on how much one can expect to be allowed to withdraw in a certain amount of time. If too many want to pull out, there should be an automatic stop and everybody should know about this. The
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the companies and people who held their money in First Republic would survive losing the money they had with them (in most cases it's only a part of their assets). I'm also quite sure the owners of the First R
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by flakeoil 3y ago
> Yes and no. This kind of thing only works if it's practically done worldwide. Otherwise it'll only hurt the EU a lot economically. I agree, but at least EU would get a head start and have companies and knowledge built up arou
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by flakeoil 4y ago
It just shows how problematic all this "surveillance" (voluntary and involuntary) has become. And it will become even worse. We now have cameras/door cameras at almost every private home/apartment and every street corner
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Yeah, well, I expressed myself clumsy. CO2 in itself is not bad, but the global warming effect caused by too much and unnatural CO2 in the atmosphere is bad. And that global warming effect slowly wreaks havoc with natures balance and long-t
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by flakeoil 4y ago
The most important part is to not get people into substance abuse in the first place. Many people start with light drugs (weed or subscription drugs) and then go to heavier stuff. If it is easy to get light drugs and easy to get heavy stuff
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by flakeoil 4y ago
CO2 in the air is damaging all life on earth, while a lithium mine at most damages the local area around the mine. It's probably much better to have a few local "dead" spots than a complete planet out of whack. And as a sibli
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> It’s a lot cheaper than the alternatives. Really? The efficiency is very low heating a house with wood unless you use it to warm water which is distributing the heat to radiators (and for heating warm water to the showers). Almost no-

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