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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Citizens united was literally a judicial coup against constitutional rule. We went from flawed democracy to literal plutocracy the day citizens united was ruled on. Politicians must fund raise before their primaries and we see many fundrais
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The 737 MAX, stock trading senators, and bribe taking justices are all the same thing for the same reason. Power is doing something and then saying "what are you going to do about it?" The supreme court takes bribes and says &qu
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Oh by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, would you be sure and tell her... SATAN SATAN SATAN" Is there meaning here? I feel like there is something to get that I don't get.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Because computer science was one of the most in demand fields for many years, attracting the most ambitious and talented undergrads -- that is to say, the average google employee is pretty well educated likely via a liberal education instit
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
What's a good way to take a stance?
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This is why we need tech unions. We should be able to take an ethical stance without getting fired.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Without an idea of how many cases were not dropped, it's hard to understand how valid what I feel you are implying is. There will always be false positives, so the existence of false positives is not surprising. It's upsetting and
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Saying something is biased on one side and therefore wrong or unfair is incorrect because it denies the idea of objective truth. If there is no such thing as objective truth, then nobody has any foundation upon which to make any judgements,
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The date is a signifier that it is a loophole with a low bar, otherwise something more directly related to being a bakery would be there. Subway, for example, would be able to bake a few bags of bread per day and put them on the counter top
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I've read both articles, and I don't buy your characterization of the situation. The primary question I have is: "Did Newsom use his power to try to benefit his friend?" Both articles, to me, say "yes, he attempted
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The problem is that it is consistent with the average person's understanding of politicians. Newsom was caught in several situations of "rules for thee, but not for me" during COVID, the conflict of interest that is congressi
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
How does Wolfram Alpha do it? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=integrate+%28e%5E%28x%2...
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> It's entirely possible that an acquisition company was a more profitable idea than an an engineering company, but still. I think the primary criticism engineers have against "MBAs" is that they make money, but frequently
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Intentional artificial feeling time wasting mechanics, XP weekends, increased drop rate weekends, etc. All of these things knock a person right out of immersion. Frequently they also damage social behavior. "Pay for power" is at o
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The author claimed Netlify's own support agent said it was an L7 ddos and offered a 95% concession because it was a ddos. There is no reason to question whether it was a ddos or not because, allegedly, both parties in this dispute alre
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Defaulting to unbounded liability as the standard operating procedure for cloud infrastructure should be illegal.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Because it's unbounded liability. Not to mention the strong conflict of interest for netlify, who stands to gain from their customers being attacked. Netlify is getting paid for something criminal in nature having occurred. It's l
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
When a company has a mission statement, that mission statement's core purpose is to define when you leave money on the table. It defines how you plan to achieve long term success, otherwise every single company would have one mission s
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I think it makes a lot more sense if you separate a country from their elite. It seems quite clear that the German elite class had been wholly corrupted by Russia who offered them enrichment at the cost of Ukrainians and ultimately long ter
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Imagine a city with acute food shortages and controlled prices (e.g. Caracas, Pyongyang). People join long queues before bakeries daily, and still only average half their calorie needs. The supply of bread then improves so that they av
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Lets say we're playing prisoners dilemma. You know I will initially attempt to cooperate. You know that if you defect, I will still try to cooperate. What is your most rational strategy? Your most rational strategy is very obviously to
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> One of the parties is the party of no. Not at all. The republican party realized that if they want to push unpopular policy they cannot do it via democratic means. So they made the very strategic decision (and strategically correct, si
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
In a "me vs you" situation in the context of the relationship, whoever cares about the relationship the least has the most power. The republican party sees power as the most important goal and are willing to sacrifice the union to
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Home ownership rate is a poor statistic to make the point you are attempting to make, particularly because homes are "bought" with debt. Saying someone can "afford" a home because they are in one doesn't speak to be
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I thought that was a good article, but it dances around the core of the issue by not declaring what motivation is and how managers should think about it at the start. Intrinsic motivation is a function of autonomy, mastery, and purpose. A m
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Johnny Harris did a fairly short piece on TurboTax that is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhV4Z76mXrI I watched it expecting to hear it talk about an army of lobbyists. I watched it expecting to hear about
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> the world's best public transit. FWIW, Tokyo is maybe a contender for 3rd. Taipei and Seoul are both an order of magnitude better than Tokyo for public transportation, in my opinion. I recall NYC being better than Tokyo, too (wh
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Dense housing creates highly walk-able cities with extremely good public transportation. Furthermore, high density foot traffic creates improved economies of scale for businesses. Economies of scale might shift society to one where you don&
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I think the core problem with the authors analysis is that it does not ask for intensity of opinion. I think when looking at "choice" * "intensity" results would be much more homogeneous. I think if the author accounts f
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Are plastic bags from a grocery stores just bike-shedding? I am not asking rhetorically. That's what I suspect, but I really don't know. If you have a 20oz soda every day, that's 19 lbs a year? Food packaging plastic? Soap&#x

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