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by greendude29 4y ago
I see what you're saying and I'm half way there with you. The important things are: a) don't ignore (just in the same way you won't ignore any other person, it's not a status thing, just a human thing) b) don't
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by greendude29 4y ago
Agreed, but basic respect shouldn't be dependent on whether or not someone has an important job.
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by greendude29 4y ago
Is...being decent to everyone regardless of job status in life a new thing? Has tech come so far that we have to re-teach ourselves the basics and then brag about how we smile at "service staff"? Up next in a techbro blog post: &q
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by greendude29 4y ago
Why? Here's 3 reasons why it is bonkers to require this: 1. By requiring this, the government is foregoing its primary stake in preventetive justice, ie recidivism 2. This is double punishment 3. A government's role is to ensure i
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by greendude29 4y ago
There has to a term that refers to comments like the above - simple one liners that at first might seem true; they appeal to a basal irrational nature within us that has an impulsive reaction, as if a pointed jab. But the more you think abo
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by greendude29 4y ago
I don't understand this argument. Are you really worried about being tracked or what the outcome of that tracking is? When a company tracks you anywhere - let's say Google on Website X or Apple on Apple product Y, they will both u
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by greendude29 4y ago
> FB and Google have a global surveillance network to track people Please help me with this - what is Apple doing with its ad network that Google is not? "Privacy" is a marketing angle for Apple to monetize data - they do it in
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by greendude29 4y ago
I can't for the life of me why Apple people will go to all lengths to justify their standard corporate predatory behavior. Apple, like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. is a business that operates ruthlessly for money. What an insanely il
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by greendude29 5y ago
How strange, I've been using DDG for a few years now and only rarely do I need to go to Google. Do you have examples of searches where Google is definitely superior (just out of curiosity, not challenging the notion)?
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by greendude29 5y ago
Lord, what a bad take. The ends does not justify the means, ever.
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by greendude29 5y ago
Where is this 5% coming from that you and the OP are citing? Also there is undoubtedly natural churn rate to rental housing, but there is little relation between that and the proposed legislation which only applies to that property that has
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by greendude29 5y ago
> 1. A healthy nonzero vacancy rate of 5-10% reduces landlord pricing power. Unnaturally low vacancy rates work against tenants, not for them. Can you explain your rationale here? Can you also explain/cite "unnaturally low&quot
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by greendude29 5y ago
There is a global surge in housing prices. There are cities like Vancouver and Toronto where there has construction of 1000s of units has accelerated for decades, but the same crises exists. Are you sure you aren't just thinking within
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by greendude29 5y ago
I think you missed the point on why she didn't want to take medical leave - "As mentioned, I refuse to quit or to take medical leave as a response to the hostility; this is on Apple ER to resolve, not for me to hide from." [F
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It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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by greendude29 5y ago
Then you don't know what a totalitarian government is, you can disagree all you want :) Also mixing and matching is not as horrible a thing as you make it sound. Canada is doing it too for the second. Given that a largely white country
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by greendude29 5y ago
Quick example from today of excellent journalism: https://theintercept.com/2021/06/16/joe-manchin-leaked-billi... They also don't mix news and entertainment - the portion of the org that does TI is a non
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by greendude29 5y ago
Greenwald is no longer with the intercept, and he hasn't been an editor for a long time. Much of the world is a part of the USs economic imperialism, and hence isn't as far from the mothership as you'd imagine. All sources ha
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by greendude29 5y ago
I don't think that test does much. The original point was that there's no such thing as objective news, but rather facts put into context. If you're finding that context setting is consistent in its narrative, that's not
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by greendude29 5y ago
This sounds like a pretty childish take to be honest. Of course there is no such thing as objective news, but that's because reality isn't that simple either. CNN and most mainstream news are indeed trash (more like entertainment)
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by greendude29 6y ago
Is this a joke? Of course Apple and Microsoft won't get you any privacy (see Prism), but Linux and a good VPN can get the author everything they want. This isn't a high bar for computers. I'm not sure what part I'm missi
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by greendude29 6y ago
How is this not just littering? Don't litter the desert because of your childish fascination with a song.
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by greendude29 6y ago
> Seems like he doesn't make money off of wannabees but rather the successful ones, no? Depends on your definition of success. Founding a business that operates at loss but is subsidized in a false economy of other businesses doing
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by greendude29 6y ago
relatively shallow startup founder wannabees, ie the kinds of people he sells his anti-intellectual "genius" to in order to make money off of.
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by greendude29 6y ago
The above two comments are why I hate this website. People with very narrow views of the world making vast generalizations. No wonder Silicon Valley's ability to innovate has faded. We've taken people with mediocre intelligence, a
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by greendude29 6y ago
Why is this news? Who cares if Musk leaves. Business people hate paying taxes, and they will always where go taxes are lower. They've done this for the last century, and will continue playing the victim despite getting massive bailouts
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by greendude29 6y ago
...no? I wasn't making a specific claim, so didn't find the need to present data, you know, for the claim I'm not making. > I love this. You're conflating a business model that doesn't work under a set of (possib
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by greendude29 6y ago
Anecdotally: 100% counter to what virtually every Lyft driver who drives full-time has told me. Data-wise: Where is your evidence? I thought that by now, the free market would have solved all of the above problems? Philosophically: No one&#
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by greendude29 6y ago
> Only allowing high class Palo Alto residents helps keep the littering down. So much wrong with that sentence, it's hard to know where even begin.
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by greendude29 6y ago
Hmm, interesting. I user Gnome on Nvidia, but use the open drivers since Nvidia was difficult to get to a stable state. Did you just install the nvidia drivers from your OS's repo or get them directly from Nvidia? NB: The free drivers

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