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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
The article is full of these false dichotomies, and relies on the bias of its audience to replace reason with hope. Most of its assumptions would be reasonable to make if we had the carbon dioxide levels of the 1980s, but that's four d
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I've never understood that sentiment. The US has the second amendment, and it doesn't seem to do much for personal freedom there. Europe does not, and I feel a lot more free in most European countries than I do in the US, especial
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I would not have trusted it anyway, but even for people who are more on the "optimistic" side (not to say naive or something worse), the following two paragraphs should alert everyone reading this to the possibility of it being ev
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
You probably will dismiss it, based on your username, but people like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Baboumian completely demolish your argument.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Rather off-topic, but when you wrote: >Seriously, spirit is like taking a bus. I thought to myself "ah, a decent airline then, not as bad as others in this comment section describe it", and only at your next sentence did I reme
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
While this is rather off -topic, it would be more productive to look at the situation in the US when talking about that. For decades, the supreme court and politicians have taken away more and more rights in the name of security. But these
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Your understanding is correct, though I believe that you, jordanb and me are tilting at windmills (as most commenters seem to think the laws are insane without even trying to understand the dynamics behind them). The allure of the fantasy o
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I can see how this might seem like an obvious solution at first glance, but all it would do is make the problem of amateurs destroying the context of finds worse, and by a lot. This kind of incentive will provide for many artifacts and litt
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
"The dude just loves metal detecting and he won't be stopped!" As someone who used to be in that field, I never understood why people don't do any research before getting into metal detecting. It should be obvious after
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Might one of the reasons be that these things are easily gamed? And maybe another one, that such workplaces by their nature select employees who would describe themselves as "driven, work-hard-play-hard 10x programmers not looking for
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
It's not about the same experiment, unless I am mistaken, but it's a great comic nevertheless, thank you for sharing.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
>I think the lack of child labor is a great example of the market working pretty well[...] This is a rather unique perspective, I think. Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the decline of child labor mostly due to laws? I&#x
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
There are a lot of climate change deniers on hn, though they have mostly moved on to denying the human impact on climate instead, after outright denial became harder and harder to argue for. Some have even already moved on to the third phas
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Didn't catch that, thanks!
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Why do so many comments see not listening to / viewing ads as immoral? Even if this will become the new norm, and there are fewer advertisers and people would make less money from it, this change could be very positive for the podcast
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Just in case someone needs the reference, the onion uses '"no way to prevent this" says only nation where this regularly happens' as a reoccurring article at every major school shooting[0], to highlight the frequency of
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
>Is anything in the article actionable by me personally? I believe this is a rather short-sighted view, but I can understand it. I often feel the same way, and have phases in which I completely ignore the news because of it. There's
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Just so there's no confusion, eviks means "everything" by voidtools, which is really amazing. The difference in search speed is like day and night.
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I could see that, actually. When the one percent can just escape the consequences of forever chemicals, there's no longer a need to actually do anything against them in their eyes. Just as with climate change, where a lot of them hope
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Long read, but definitely worth it imho. It's fascinating how that famous Upton Sinclair quote about it being "difficult to convince a person of something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it" (paraphrased)
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
He already had me at his mention of survivorship bias (something that I feel is ignored a bit too often in this space), but the whole speech was great! I'm generally on the other end of the spectrum (playing it safe instead of followin
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Germany reporting in, couldn't see that becoming a thing here. I have about 99% wfh currently, and if my employer would try to implement something like that, the union would probably not even have time to get involved because the works
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Accessibility usually benefits lots of able-bodied people. A lift or long enough ramp helps pregnant people, those with broken legs or the elderly instead of just wheelchair users. Decent UI design with good colours helps not only the visua
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
>Booking.com is a Dutch company though. Booking.com was an example I used because it was still fresh in my mind from another post today[0]. The comments not only talked about how the EU only hurts US companies, but also it included a dis
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
There have been some attempts by EU and national courts and lawmakers to curb the proliferation of dark patterns in the gaming industry over the past couple of years, and I welcome every one of them. Lootboxes are just gambling in disguise,
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
Good point. They'd have to, and this would mean the energy companies model of "privatise the profits, socialise the losses" might go into hyperdrive. On the other hand, nuclear energy is heavily subsidised already anyway, an
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
You are correct, of course, but then the circle of enshittification[0] begins anew. The competitor starts out great, as Google did, with its clean front page without any bullshit. They defeat the incumbents, establish themselves, create a q
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
It's rather sad that even the author concluded that they would continue to use Airbnb in the future, and there are no real consequences for the company. The profit from scammers as much as from legitimate users, so like Google (blogspa
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313733
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by fnordian_slip 2y ago
I believe that having enough days off work every year makes a huge difference in quality of life. So much so that when our union negotiated the option to forego a 5% pay raise for 12 days more paid vacation per year, it was a no-brainer for

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