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by fnimick 3y ago
> to some the price of the stock is the only thing that is a measure of value of a public company. Who are the people who invest in a public company for any reason other than to have their numbers go up? That's the entire point. The
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by fnimick 3y ago
I'm not sure (EDIT: replaced 'it is' with 'it should be') a useful tool when taking non-convictions into account. If person A was arrested and then charges were dropped, does that make them less innocent than person
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by fnimick 3y ago
It is very much the same in the US. Some states and cities have implemented a so called "ban the box" law, but most of the country has not. I've filled out many background check, employment applications, rental application et
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by fnimick 3y ago
The map itself is wildly misleading. New York is colored in the map, for example, because four cities in the state have some sort of restriction on it (some only for government employees, too, so private companies can ask whatever they want
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by fnimick 3y ago
It is state and municipality dependent. https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/ban-the-box-...
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by fnimick 3y ago
It absolutely works that way in the US. Lots of jobs, financial applications, housing rental applications etc ask if you have ever been charged with a crime - not convicted, only charged - and even if you are found innocent, or the charge
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by fnimick 3y ago
You don't even have to go that far, just ban single-family-only zoning. The economic pressure to add more units will take care of the rest.
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by fnimick 3y ago
I think I disagree with your underlying assumption that as long as you, personally, are critically evaluating sources and are 'safe', it doesn't matter whether other people end up in the misinformation spiral. I can be as cri
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by fnimick 3y ago
> Who was really reading/believing articles written by random people anyway? I would not take any random blog as true or useful unless I was familiar with the author and their work. That works for you, but for everyone else who is l
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by fnimick 3y ago
This wouldn't be a problem, since you're willing to pay that 30% higher rate and all, right?
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by fnimick 3y ago
> As an iPhone user, I'm happy to pay a 30% tax to avoid the relentless scamming, outright malware, and impossible-to-cancel subscriptions in every other software market out there that isn't similarly controlled. I'm happy
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by fnimick 3y ago
And absolutely none of that influence matters when someone else who isn't as careful kills you. Trust me, as a cyclist, you learn very quickly how one impatient or careless driver can end your life with one bad decision.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Now do car-centric infrastructure that kills 50k people per year.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Having a vacation home is incredibly uncommon and privileged compared to a huge population that can't even afford a primary home that they own.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Not just that, if you get an e-ink reader that runs a modern version of Android, you can also edit documents, write emails, etc on a paper-like display. Far better than using a traditional tablet or phone for text communication. If there we
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by fnimick 3y ago
There's two massive hurdles to clear in public perception: 1) that addiction is a personal vice that people _shouldn't_ get help from others for, if they die on the street, it's their own fault, and 2) that helping people who
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by fnimick 3y ago
Any for-profit company would. In fact, if they are public, they are legally required to maximize profit without any other consideration.
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by fnimick 3y ago
> The assumption that Israel can only exist as an ethnostate is itself a political assertion - it's the hallmark of right-wing Zionism. I had a discussion at length on this with some very historically learned people (far more than m
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by fnimick 3y ago
Don't forget Smotrich, a leader in the current government, who said it was a "mistake" that the first Israeli government didn't "finish the job" of expelling all the Arabs from Israel. https://www.ti
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by fnimick 3y ago
FYI, blu-ray discs include executable code to, among other things, update the banlist of encryption keys on your player when you try to play a new movie. Even if you never plug your player in, there's still the very real possibility th
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by fnimick 3y ago
What's next is AI operated lethal weapons. You best believe all the elites are racing for those as fast as they can. As soon as those are a reality, all revolution against economic inequality becomes impossible. The U.S. army wouldn&#x
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by fnimick 3y ago
The pressure to benefit from deceit because outperforming competition is the only way to stay alive is unique to capitalism, though. "capitalism is not the simple proposition that profit justifies anything" - of course, but it nat
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by fnimick 3y ago
It can be smart business if the probability of it being disclosed is low enough. Using fake numbers as an example, if you can make an extra $1 million on repairs and will suffer $100 million in fines / lost business if it becomes known
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by fnimick 3y ago
Exactly. This is a company initiative to increase company profits. It's smart business, as long as it's not illegal or the fine is insufficiently high.
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by fnimick 3y ago
It's hardly a free market - it would certainly be more profitable to build a midrise with 20+ less expensive units rather than one expensive unit on a given lot - but zoning restrictions mean it can't happen.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Do you advocate for policies that restrict home construction / increase prices, since that will improve your return on investment?
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by fnimick 3y ago
If background checks weren't legally required, no store would be doing them. Every flagged check is a lost sale after all.
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by fnimick 3y ago
> a company with a mission to distribute the upside of AGI to “all humanity.” If anyone actually believes this, they're a fool. The mission of the company is to maximize profit. Any external benefit is a happy coincidence.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Everything old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 (see also, The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed, by John McPhee)
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by fnimick 3y ago
Startups running lean, which is what you need to do in order to maximize runway, don't have the money or time for "continuity plans". Haven't you ever joked about the "bus factor"? All the startups I've wo

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