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by gretch 4y ago
several benefits probably 1) Pickup is asynchronous, so no long lines will form. If it's busy you get the notification ~15 minutes later than you normally would 2) There's no possibility of shop lifting (not saying that _you_ stea
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by gretch 4y ago
Can you explain when you said "left policies forcing people to use these companies that entrenched them". I can think of no instances of this
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by gretch 4y ago
I got the cheapest option. It cost me $30 to add 256gb of storage in the form of a microSD card. I’m very happy with it and I think I got 95% of the satisfaction with minimal cost. There are some moments when I wish I had the better screen
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by gretch 4y ago
Disclosure: work at google YouTube was founded in ~2005. Google bought it in 2006. It is now 2023. YouTube has spent 2 years as its own company and 17 as part of Google. Try to remember what YouTube functionality was in 2006. It was very di
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by gretch 4y ago
Yes, but you have to defend it from other tribes who want to take it from you through violence. Same deal as everyone else.
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by gretch 4y ago
Okay so do it? Get a group of your friends and go become hunter gathers on the Yukon frontier.
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by gretch 4y ago
1) they should 2) they do: elon paid ~$10B in 2021 https://reason.com/2022/04/26/no-elon-musk-didnt-pay-a-3-27-... 3) if all billionaires in the US liquidated absolutely all personal wealth and evenly distrib
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by gretch 4y ago
Okay fantastic. California and the USA has extremely huge amounts of 'rural area with access to nature'. Enough for everyone with those desires to set up shop. I really don't think anyone would complain at all as many people
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by gretch 4y ago
I'm not going to argue if this is generally true or not, but in my N=1, I don't see how this applies at all to something like sunnyvale or santa clara (where I live). Which 'metropolitan core' are we leeching from? It&#x
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by gretch 4y ago
As a property owner, I've always found this to be remarkably short sighted. If the city booms, land value goes up. E.g. Manhattan. Trying to keep your small suburb a small suburb isn't maximizing investor value. edit: to responder
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by gretch 4y ago
When I visited, I found Seoul to be an amazing city. While there was higher density there, I would not describe it as 'congested' because they had planning for how to manage (mostly) foot traffic. I would be very happy if Sunnyval
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by gretch 4y ago
> If you want the power and will of the people to solve and enforce the solution to your civil problem, you owe the people something also. They don't. Hence 'settled out of court'
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by gretch 4y ago
> As citizens of a democracy, we (theoretically) get to have a say in how courts are run That’s not the point of civil cases between 2 private parties. If you want your say, call your congress person and vote for platforms which intend t
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by gretch 4y ago
To echo the sentiments of the other commenter: is it really fair to compare everything to the period immediately after the USA won a global mega war and all the other regions internally tore themselves apart? I assume you live in the US bec
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by gretch 4y ago
The definition of algorithm is: > a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. So yeah, I would hope that an algorithm was used. As opposed to what? "I like
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by gretch 4y ago
> Having your device remain owned by a vendor, who only "licenses" it for you to use opens up a whole new world of problems, some of which average person can't even imagine. Actually, everyone experiences this right now. M
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by gretch 4y ago
I didn’t deny it actually. The real healthy thing is to acknowledge what are facts and what are not facts. A ball is moving 15 mph. Is the ball moving fast or slow? Btw, you're whole framework for 'privileged' is broken becau
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by gretch 4y ago
It's not a useful/interesting to just say "you're privileged, stop having thoughts/opinions". We'd quickly just shut down all conversation ever because none of us are 8 year old british chimney sweeps cove
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by gretch 4y ago
> just a recognition of fact It's literally not a fact, it's an opinion. Hey what's your job? You don't need to tell me. But I'm gonna go ahead and say you're privileged compared to a rural chinese farmer th
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by gretch 4y ago
Are you so sure you have 0 people of this type in [country you are from]? Are you sure you are not seeing selection bias because the majority of users on this site are Americans?
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by gretch 4y ago
Just look at other companies. Here's Meta as an example https://about.meta.com/giving-together/ They gave $7B to all sorts of random stuff like cat shelters Pretty much every company has some stuff like this. Don&
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by gretch 4y ago
There is definitely some advantages to processed based thinking, but I think it comes with tradeoffs of it's own. I've seen a lot people personally who get stuck in a loop of trying and failing. Each time they'll say to thems
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by gretch 4y ago
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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by gretch 4y ago
It’s a not a contradiction. Oil infrastructure does not do the same thing that land/housing does. The USA does not have the same relationship with Saudi Arabia as it does with China (+ NK, Rus, Iran).
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by gretch 4y ago
If you are trying to actually rid the world of malaria, do you think washing the feet of the poor is the best way to do that? Like, I'm not saying that it's not a noble job, or that it doesn't need to be done, but how does it
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by gretch 4y ago
> Which is a direct response to your original point which was an absurd hypothetical about how Tim Cook should be allowed to make as much money as he wants Dude you’re so deep in your own mind hole. Read the post again to see that no suc
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by gretch 4y ago
What do you mean 'fight it directly'? You think he can just flip a switch from American businessman to becoming a PhD level biologist and epidemiologist and be actually effective at getting anything done? He's funding the wor
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by gretch 4y ago
Okay cool. I’m not against that at all. Tim Cook isn’t responsible for the govt though. What is your point? You came onto a thread about time cook and his Apple compensation and started complaining about govt tax policies?
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by gretch 4y ago
> making money that is beyond the amount of money that they would need to buy a nice house and feed themselves well. What if he has a cause that he's working toward? Like he's donating X million every year toward Y disease cure
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by gretch 4y ago
It’s probably a runaway positive feedback loop. Someone is an asshole to you, you’re less likely to treat the next patient as well, leading to them treating the next nurse a bit worse.

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