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by freen 5y ago
The terrible truth is that so much of industry relies on the precariousness of its employees: Walmart is the largest beneficiary of food stamps in the country.
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by freen 5y ago
Nyc does do it: housing is a right in NYC. You need a place to sleep, we give you one. It’s not great, because again, GOP, but it’s better than sleeping rough.
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by freen 5y ago
Ask the GOP. Sane countries house their people. It ends of saving huge amounts of money. Single unhoused person with chronic illness can cost a city in excess of a million dollars a year. Some people can’t countenance the “wrong” folks get
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by freen 5y ago
There are enough empty houses to house every homeless person in the country: there are ~ 19 million empty houses in the country. (in 2019)
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by freen 5y ago
~500k homeless in the country. [0] Average monthly rent in the US:~ $1000 [1] Bezos net worth: $213 billion [2] Average return on investment for DJIA for the past ten years: 10.6% [3] Paying rent for all homeless folks is $6 billion a year
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by freen 5y ago
Perhaps for models of the future, but for historical predictions of the current climate, prior models have been astoundingly accurate, and if anything overly conservative in their predictions. What evidence do you have that leads you to bel
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by freen 5y ago
Look at that serf, decrying feudalism! Such a hypocrite, participating in it! If you are anti-slavery, yet eat chocolate, I have bad news for you.
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by freen 5y ago
Wet Bulb temperature above 35C is deadly no matter how much water or shade you have. If the global average increases over 1.5C, most of the tropics will experience prolonged deadly heat. https://www.theguardian.com/science&#
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by freen 5y ago
No, it was the September that never ended.
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by freen 5y ago
Yes, and individual tulip bulbs were at one point valued at 10x the annual salary of a skilled artisan, so around $1mm each. Fools and their money.
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by freen 5y ago
Robert Strange McNamara was a Republican. As were the cast of characters who were largely responsible for the disinformation campaign inside the pentagon that lead up to the Vietnam war: Team B. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Seymour Weiss, e
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by freen 5y ago
One ton of shit is not equivalent in any sense to a single ounce of ice cream.
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by freen 5y ago
Quantity != quality.
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by freen 5y ago
Sociopaths are gonna sociopath. The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: team B of the pentagon/soviet fame, Vietnam, civil rights, tobacco, trickle down economics, Iraq war
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by freen 5y ago
Censorship resistance isn’t worth billions, and how much actual utility does decentralization buy you relative to the inherent performance costs of a decentralized system? I don’t buy it.
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by freen 5y ago
Absolutely useful, if your definition of utility is the separation of fools from their money.
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by freen 5y ago
Oh, yes, fully agree on the novelty. Fountain Codes are also super cool, were totally novel, and had and continue to have limited utility. While all useful ideas were once novel, the inverse is rarely true. And that’s problematic when your
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by freen 5y ago
The list of use cases would be better served, and in most of those cases is already well served, by a single database. Trusted interpersonal relationships are a feature, not a bug.
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by freen 5y ago
So, this is the argument I hear all of the time: that there is interesting work being done. In my noodling around in the space, I haven’t found a project that makes me think “ahh, this is a really compelling use case for the blockchain”. Wh
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by freen 5y ago
Would you consider doing only a single room? Dining room/livingroom only? Would be much more compelling, at least for me.
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by freen 5y ago
Frankly, I feel like the blog posts and updates Aline are worth the price of the doohickey itself. I’ve learned so much about electronics manufacturing!
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by freen 6y ago
Qualified immunity for police officers includes immunity from criminal prosecution and is extremely different from the civil liability you are talking about.
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by freen 6y ago
Sounds like they don’t have a business, and should shut down.
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by freen 6y ago
And exceedingly rare.
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by freen 6y ago
This is great. I love all of the work being done around SQLite. If bedrockdb ( https://bedrockdb.com/ ) replicated to object storage like litestream, I’d be in heaven.
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by freen 6y ago
Sedition isn’t legal.
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by freen 6y ago
Facebook is the slow motion, global scale, online equivalent of the Fyre Festival.
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by freen 6y ago
It is well known that the bulk of the budget for the American communist party was, and continues to be funded by CIA stooges’ dues.
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by freen 6y ago
It’s an actively adversarial environment.
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by freen 6y ago
You are not.

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