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by hnbad 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than "X is easier to read than Y". When we read text, we don't read letters, we read words. So familiar word shapes help reading text more quickly. Lowercase letters have more distinct shapes
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Switzerland isn't some rogue state, the population has legal means to force the government to do essentially whatever they want. So the human rights violation is essentially being committed by the population themselves. Well, no.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Only if you limit yourself to a surface level reading of those two facts and don't think about them. First of all, "Swiss voters" didn't reject the law, a majority of Swiss voters did. That may sound like semantics but i
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by hnbad 3y ago
Kindergeld is a fantastic example of something that should be a UBI. It's intended to go to the child and be spent by the parents on the child's behalf - legally, it's considered income of the child, not the parents. That&#x2
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by hnbad 3y ago
A lot of German law is based around the unstated assumption that business owners are 19th century industrial tycoons and all workers are employees. There are a lot of protections for employees (dependent workers) but practically zero for fr
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by hnbad 3y ago
FWIW in Germany in order to apply as a notary you have to be a lawyer and the number of notaries is very limited and they're lifetime positions. As with all public officials, there are severe penalties for professional misconduct and l
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by hnbad 3y ago
The duration for private bankruptcy was recently cut to 3 years so it's a bit faster now at least. For corporations there's an entire process but in simple terms the company is handed over to an externally appointed handler who tr
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by hnbad 3y ago
FWIW Privatinsolvenz is not instant although the duration was shortened from the very excessive 7 years down to a more reasonable 3 years. During insolvency you're also prohibited from founding/owning companies or freelancing, tho
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's also not mentioning that incorporating (or being an Einzelunternehmer exceeding €600k) means you need to do formal accounting (Bilanzierung) which is a lot more involved than what any non-expert should handle personally so you wil
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by hnbad 3y ago
Another fun example: if you have a child, you won't automatically get Kindergeld (child benefits) even though you have to sign paperwork for the birth certificate. You have to apply for child benefits and parental leave and maternity c
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by hnbad 3y ago
I couldn't reliably tell you the difference between a $30 bottle of wine and a $300 bottle of wine but that's why I don't claim to be an expert on wine. Also, there are other coffee places than Starbucks. Saying barista is an
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by hnbad 3y ago
I actually doubt there's a neat defineable ceiling for the skill of a welder nor a barista so it also comes down to where you make the cut-off because any improvements beyond that become negligible in terms of ROI. But that would also
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Unfortunately, much if not most of the time this calculation by the worker will be in error. As they tend to exclude the company scaffolding that they are not responsible for but that enables them to make their contribution. I literall
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sure but unless you're Tesla, welding quality is more relevant to your bottom line than coffee making quality (yes, I'm aware there's more to being a good barista than just making the coffee).
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'd go even so far as to say that the Jedi were institutionally unequipped to deal with Anakin. They tried to have it both ways by keeping him around to prevent him from turning to the dark side and stunted him to prevent him from beco
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm not sure who you're explaining this to and why because it's largely orthogonal to what I said. The cut gem's label price is based on an appraisal. The appraisal is based on the market rate (a real-world approximation
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by hnbad 3y ago
> The endgame of intersectionality is -- gasp -- considering people as individuals. I'm not sure I read your tone correctly but this is indeed what authors like bell hooks try to get at: being Black is one thing, being a woman is an
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by hnbad 3y ago
> That's a silly definition of "enough" to label as a fact. There's no "factual" definition of "enough" as "enough" is subjective. I'm also not sure what you're trying to argue.
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'd put it differently: the proper response to women's mistreatment in the past and present is not to teach women how to avoid being mistreated but to teach men not to mistreat. Alas, we only teach them not to mistreat but not wha
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sure but you seem to ignore that we don't exist in a socialist society. Cashiers may have an undesirable job and self-checkout may distribute this undesirable labor among the many instead of burdening a single person with it but those
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by hnbad 3y ago
There was a news story a while back about how some chain stores were not going after most shoplifters directly but would keep the recordings on file and press felony charges once a certain total had been exceeded, so instead of getting a sl
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by hnbad 3y ago
This isn't what they meant apparently but in a very literal sense, pay can never be enough because it is economically necessary to underpay workers relative to what they contribute because profit by definition can only exist from surpl
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by hnbad 3y ago
They likely meant that onboarding takes three days. As there is no meaningful metric for competence beyond that (or at least no metric that is measured and used) "good" doesn't apply. There are of course tons of ways a good,
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by hnbad 3y ago
Case in point: LLMs that only work because of armies of underpaid offshore workers assisting in training.
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by hnbad 3y ago
I live in a country where stone houses are the traditional norm and wood frame houses are still seen as flimsy despite becoming increasingly popular for new family homes. The way I understand it, a major difference between the two construct
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by hnbad 3y ago
Oh, absolutely. I wasn't questioning whether it would be sold for the price discussed here. I was wondering why the appraisal was that low (turns out: because the appraisal on the website is an unrelated sample and the appraisal in the
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by hnbad 3y ago
Seems like a good reason to double check your auto-subtitles. That's a massive difference and the appraisal was meant to be a big reveal at the end so this isn't just a minor detail.
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by hnbad 3y ago
What do you think is missing from the "standard library" as of ES2024? That's a complaint I've heard since ES3 if not earlier and the trend ever since ES2015 has been to address that so I'm genuinely wondering what
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by hnbad 3y ago
Given that the US isn't a perfect capitalist system (i.e. what supports of capitalism often refer to as corporatocracy or crony capitalism) why would you assume that he didn't do the closest thing to illegal that he could get away
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by hnbad 3y ago
That explains the listed price, it doesn't explain the disparity to the transcript. Given the comments, I presume he said a different figure in the audio track than the transcript (and therefore subtitles) says?

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