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by fnimick 4y ago
Congratulations, you're seeing the results of capitalism and libertarianism in action. It's more profitable to cut safety and government obviously shouldn't step in to mandate it, as that would be too much intervention in the
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Okay, say you're Joe Biden, or some prominent Democrat in office. Republicans come to you and say: either we pass this bill without safety provisions, or we will gleefully destroy the entire economy and the public will blame you for it
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Yes, the strike is supposed to hurt the company. Unfortunately, a rail strike would have put something like an estimated 3 million people out of work immediately, and would have cut off food and water supplies to millions of people. That&#x
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That's exactly what it is. I didn't intend to sugar coat it. There are certain functions that are so critical that people who work there are not allowed to strike and disrupt the economy. Railroads are one of them. Democrats tried
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That doesn't seem likely considering their terrible safety record with people at the scene who should be empowered to detect and stop it.
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It's a bit more nuanced than that, not that you'll find that anywhere in comments sections on the internet. Rail workers wanted to strike. There's a law allowing Congress to prevent that to avoid a catastrophic disruption to
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> Rail companies laid off more than 20,000 rail workers during a year period in 2018-2019, representing the biggest layoffs in rail since the Great Recession, and the nation’s rail force has dipped below 200,000 – the lowest level ever,
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Not weird at all. People don't like change. There's a reason NIMBY attitudes are nearly universal. I don't agree that it's how it should be, but even in an already urban area (Somerville) getting things built is like pul
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It's called "motornormativity", and it's measurable. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42160/20230201/breakin...
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> if you antagonize them within the bounds of the law, they'll step outside the law to get you back. This is exactly the problem. Police shouldn't be allowed to mete out extrajudicial punishment for being offended.
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Similarly this is the approach Sony took with the PS5. It accepts any sufficiently fast nvme drive via the standard connector - just plug it in and it works. No proprietary expansion card like Microsoft and Seagate are selling for the new X
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It can be nice. It takes mental effort to manage an open system and make sure you don't run anything malicious - a limited, sandboxed environment you can always rely on to work is much easier by comparison. I do miss the PS3 linux opti
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They would much rather miss out on potentially talented individuals than hire one sub-par person. They care much more about avoiding false positives than false negatives. I also had someone candidly tell me that they deliberately select for
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This is just depressing. How is the technical interview process valuable _for companies_ at this point when it seems to be evaluating how well you can prepare for their specific leetcode interview, and how well you practice the incantation
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These just allow you to claim deductions which reduces your tax liability - it's not like you get a _credit_ out of it.
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It lets a transpiler like Babel or Typescript use the new syntax and output the equivalent code that works on older browser. Same reason async/await was useful far before there was native browser support - you could immediately use it
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by fnimick 4y ago
"If you can buy the things you need not through Amazon, you should do so." Is that better? I really struggle to find an example of something that you can only buy on Amazon, short of relisted aliexpress garbage that you should be
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Care to share how you can get a $180k tax credit for buying a house?
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Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine(theverge.com)
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The first “Bored Ape” NFT game costs $2,300 for three weeks of play(arstechnica.com)
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Pretty sure this is the "future" according to https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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Why would renters want property values (and therefore rents) to go up due to a lack of supply?
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And what happens when your hypothetical "emergency" isn't due to a personal failing? There are people homeless in the US right now because of medical debt due to illness, is that their fault too?
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The roof also comes with a loss of any sense of personal autonomy and the threat of violence from other people in the shelter. There's a reason people treat them as a last resort, and it's not drugs. It's that being in a shel
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> the people who complain about tech workers and gentrification in a place like San Francisco The people who are complaining about this are not the same people who are restricting housing access. A similar dynamic happens in Boston, wher
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You just invented the Chinese "social credit" system all over again. Sadly, I know a surprising number of people lamenting that we don't have it in the US - the thought is that collective punishment works to force a group to
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> catastrophic loss of downforce if they got too near other cars. The drivers had to work around this by not following too closely While the downforce loss was significant, it was predictable and could be easily avoided. The equivalent f
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Relevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/
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So, fun racing/physics lessons learned here: the reason fan cars and (in general) primarily ground effect cars are banned are because of unpredictability leading to unsafe situations. In a car that uses underbody suction to create down
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine

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