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by foobarchu 4mo ago
Yeah I'm more worried for people spending all their income on high rent apartments or quickly depreciating cars.
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
I think the question was intended more as "what does PE have to do with Wikimedia", not "why is PE a problem".
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
As others have said, there's even more at stake with a nonprofit. Charities famously milk their employees dry by emphasizing what good and important work they're doing, to justify overworking and underpaying them. If someone choos
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
Being elected by a majority doesn't negate crimes committed, as much as a certain president would love everyone to believe that. Being elected shouldn't have anything to do with being punished, whether they won by 1% or by 99%
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
Using AI to identify the ideal neighborhoods to sell meth in doesn't mean it's legal to sell meth.
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
The difference in my mind is that prediction markets and gambling are betting on outcomes, not long term behaviors. You could make the argument that they are the same, in the sense that buying a stock is "betting" on a company to
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
As a complete non-expert, as far as I can tell, the only true agreement out there is that certain very specific substances are bad for you if you consume them too often. That's tobacco, alcohol, painkillers...and that's about it f
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
I don't see why this matters a single bit. You can easily flip it around and say that the businesses were clearly fine with all this because they kept importing, so why shouldn't the entirety of the tarriff refund go to consumers?
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
Sales pitches are literally the same thing as "the selling point". Neither of those is necessarily a synonym for why you personally use them
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
It's a new problem in the sense that now executive management at many (if not most) software companies is pushing for all employees to work this way as much as possible. Those same people probably don't know what stack overflow ev
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
Where's the bootlicking? I'd the article chooses to lie about why he was arrested for no reason (and try to paint him as "a farmer" rather than a known activist), then people are going to focus on the untruths and wonder
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
That is A solution. To be "the real solution", it needs to be within the grasp of a regular person. Self hosting your entire digital life is absolutely asking too much of the vast majority of people This is like saying the real
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by foobarchu 5mo ago
I looked at buying tickets for a local hockey game last week, and the venue goes through Ticketmaster. The service fees were exactly the same as the actual ticket cost, maybe the total 200% of the list price. I ended up going to the physica
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> Git is buggy Citation needed on this one. Every problem I've ever seen arise with git came from someone not understanding the model or not knowing all the commands. Those don't make it better, but they don't mean it&#x27
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
From what I can gather, Hunter Biden was guilty of tax evasion, possessing a firearm when he shouldn't, and lying about drug use. He shouldn't have been pardoned, sure, but you cannot possibly believe that's more corrupt than
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> puts candidates they know aligned with their views, resulting in 'just wait until my turn comes and I will do as much as damage as possible' cycle. There is exactly one party in the US that does this, and it's because th
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
I can think of few things more synonymous with capitalism than Wall Street.
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
I was there as well, the bush presidency lasted my entire middle and high school career, and I got the chance to vote for Obama in my senior year. I remember things very differently. Everyone cared about the Iraq war, gay-straight alliance
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> since I don’t know any SWE who uses needs their numpad Not while coding, but I use mine very frequently in the other 60% of my job.
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> all that needs to be done The honor system is never a sustainable solution. It's not even down to corporate greed, it's just not something that works at scale, especially when there's money to be made, and even more espe
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> the low cost of $20/month? At what threshold does this stop being true? AI firms are famously hemorrhaging money and it will not last.
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
That's why I don't like to claim massive productivity boosts, personally. It's helped me out with the tedious bits that are still necessary. It's also great as an idea board, where I ask for some sample approaches to a p
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> Historically speaking, there were a few shoot-outs in the 80s and 90s. The Hollywood shooting and I think one historically bad incident with cocaine traffickers in Miami - bad days for the police showing up with .38 revolvers and a sho
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
The best experiences I have are those where I can describe what I want done with details. Rather than asking it add toml parsing, I would tell it to exactly which library to use ahead of time and reduce the number of decisions available to
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by foobarchu 6mo ago
> "There's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective." > "I do believe that autism comes from vaccines" He can claim he's not antivaxx, but he repeatedly makes statements that are pulled straight f
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by foobarchu 7mo ago
Doesn't always help. My mother (of grandparent age but coincidentally had 5 kids who didn't want to procreate) stares at her phone 95% of the time when I visit. I'll be telling a story and she's on Facebook, doesn't
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by foobarchu 7mo ago
That is false. Google gets a 20% cut instead of 30%, because the headline is completely wrong.
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by foobarchu 7mo ago
This viewpoint isn't a slippery slope, it's a runaway train. "You moved into a neighborhood with lead pipes? That's on you, should have done more research" "Your vitamins contained undisclosed allergens? You&#x
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by foobarchu 7mo ago
I have a feeling you'd start into see costs start to align if the subsidies that go towards beef producers were reallocated in the direction of more sustainable alternatives.
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by foobarchu 7mo ago
> do something about it. On a scale of ease of saying vs ease of doing, this one is off the charts. The beef lobby is very powerful, and for 99% of people literally all they can do is to reduce their own consumption and annoy their fri

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