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by gtowey 1y ago
I think it has to do with having no limits on executive compensation. There is no incentive to create long-term value when you can cost-optimize your brand into the garbage while creating large short term profits from which they can pay the
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by gtowey 1y ago
The problem I see is that main difference between those options is not quality, but features. For example with refrigerators you see integrated touch screen, viewing windows, and all kinds of esoteric features. But the core of the product,
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by gtowey 1y ago
It's not just being stupid, it's that the information space is overflowing with marketing and BS. It's a mammoth task to parse through it all and not be suckered in by a slick advertisement that says the product you're
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by gtowey 1y ago
I think it's worse than that. I'm starting to think that there may not really be an ethical way to be a tourist in a foreign country. Especially coming from a high cost of living area to a lower one. Just being there puts you in e
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by gtowey 1y ago
> the best way to determine whether Christianity is true is to live the faith and see what happens. So you're telling me you tried this with a bunch of other religions before you landed on Christianity? You became a Muslim, a Buddh
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by gtowey 1y ago
A lot of people seem to think my statement is a tautology, but it's not. It's exactly my point that not every material is good for its use. Even ones used in the overwhelming majority of cases -- like leaded gasoline. The ensuin
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by gtowey 1y ago
That's a silly statement. Pine is well suited to its use, otherwise, well, we wouldn't use it! It's by a massive margin, the most common lumber used in construction. Its strength and other properties are well understood and a
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by gtowey 1y ago
The consumer landscape has gotten so hostile. Once upon a time you could use price as a proxy for evaluating quality. More expensive versions of a product were generally better. Nowadays it's all smoke and mirrors; marketing, branding
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by gtowey 1y ago
Because the easiest person to extract money from is someone with no other option. We are right back to feudalism.
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by gtowey 1y ago
It's mind blowing to me that the court might deny the right of the authors to control licensing of this kind of usage of their work.
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by gtowey 1y ago
> The UK government explicitly refused to make a plan of action. Could you elaborate on that? I would assume that it would be the responsibility of the leave campaign to provide that, but that's not the case? I wonder, then if the m
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by gtowey 1y ago
What does it say that people who voted "yes" without a clear plan of action already on the table? It's like signing your name on a blank contract and trusting the counterparty to write up something that's good for you.
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by gtowey 1y ago
This is inevitable when a company has a revenue model where they claim to serve both users and advertisers. The wants of each will always be diametrically opposed. The customer with the deepest pockets always wins, which are the advertisers
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by gtowey 1y ago
50 years of attacks on our education systems have yielded exactly what was intended: a nation so poorly educated that they cannot discern truth from fiction anymore.
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by gtowey 1y ago
Diet matters. Protein, especially in the morning. Carbs and sugar are so bad for focus. Sleep is essential. Getting a full night of quality sleep will probably help more than anything else. If you often wake up feeling tired already then ma
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by gtowey 3y ago
I think there are two aspects to this which are worth challenging. First and foremost is the issue of companies trying to dictate what you are allowed to do on your own computer. If Google sends you the data, who are they to say how your c
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by gtowey 3y ago
> If its not done its because there is no money in it. In fact the opposite This bears repeating. It's the disease that has consumed software and is making all modern software the worst possible version of itself. I think it's
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by gtowey 3y ago
Agreed. Everything is at least a solid 30% more expensive than just 2020. Food has gotten insanely expensive in that time. Anecdotally, I can remember a burger at a restaurant was about $6 in 1999. Now average seems to be 15 to 20. I would
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by gtowey 3y ago
So most major waterways affect and are affected by interstate issues, especially when you take into account watersheds that feed into them. And anything you put into the air by definition is going to be impossible to contain within just one
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by gtowey 3y ago
So when companies are dumping so much hazardous pollutants into local water so that the river catches fire[1], who's responsibility is it to deal with that? https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/cuyahoga-river-
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by gtowey 3y ago
Because for the last 50 years or so there has been a vast effort to erode the regulatory power of our government. From the FDA and EPA, to the education system and more -- these institutions have either been captured by industry or starved
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by gtowey 3y ago
It really feels like tech companies are taking the approach of "we'll guarantee you anything you want!" As a sales strategy. The cynical part of me wants to say it shows that they have high confidence they can manipulate the
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by gtowey 3y ago
No idea. Though if you're after the absolute best viewing conditions I doubt Lick Observatory is it. Most because there has been a huge amount of development in the surrounding urban areas since it was built in 1888, so there is a lot
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by gtowey 3y ago
I've been to the Lick Observatory. One of the best kept secrets in the Bay area is that during the summer they have a concert series which performs at the observatory and includes the chance to look through their telescopes, mini lectu
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by gtowey 3y ago
I wonder the same thing. I suspect that the answer is they carry a lot of debt that they never really expect to pay off.
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by gtowey 3y ago
Advertising is a psychological war where thousands of experts in the art of manipulation combined with hundreds of years of learning and research funded by dump trucks of money are against you alone.
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by gtowey 3y ago
"Move fast and break things" isn't supposed to apply to your workers' health.
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by gtowey 3y ago
I agree with this, but I think there is a deeper level which explains this. And that is convenience is a product . The thing that truly defines how corporations in America have shaped our culture is that everything is turned into a way t
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by gtowey 3y ago
Go is the language that's not made for you, it's made to make the life of the next guy who has to maintain your code easier! :-)
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by gtowey 3y ago
It's not crazy. It's just the difference between a pointer and a value, which is like comp sci 101. I think the main things that make it such a trap is that the variable type definition is implicit so the fact that it's a poi

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