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by hourago 4y ago
> Abrham Amare, a researcher and son of chemistry professor Meareg Amare, said that his father was targeted by a series of threatening posts because he was ethnically Tigrayan. He reported the posts, some of them shared over 50,000 times
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by hourago 4y ago
> Q: What does software do? > A: It produces and reproduces capital. > Q: Who does software benefit? > A: People who own capital. This makes a lot of sense. If we want better software (less dark patterns, less loot boxes, etc.)
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by hourago 4y ago
You are right. We are firing you to cut costs could put the blame on the company, we are firing you because your code is ugly puts the fault on the employee. It is all about blaming.
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by hourago 4y ago
> The absolute cruelty of Musk through this whole process is astounding. That is by design. There is a mindset were powerful people feels that they need to show up their power, otherwise why do they have it? That is one of the reasons i
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by hourago 4y ago
Economic hardness causes people to fall easier into drug addiction and makes mental illness to go untreated. Give everybody an economic chance and most derived problems would be drastically reduced.
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by hourago 4y ago
> where would you find the extra trillions needed every year? From where does that number come? Will not the increased productivity of the population make up for any possible cost? It seems that the USA has found a lot of trillions from
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by hourago 4y ago
> ...very particular demographics as examples. All the west has similar demographics (age, gender, ...) . So, what do you mean by this?
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by hourago 4y ago
Divide the 360MM country in subdivisions of 5MM and problem fixed. Why more people makes this solution stop working? And what do you mean by non-homogeneous? It is not like all Finnish people is the same, they are not clones.
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by hourago 4y ago
> Housing First does not work for the mentally ill, drug addicted, or other causes of homelessness It works. It solves their homelessness then there are other measures for other problems. And not all drug addicted or mentally ill people
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by hourago 4y ago
Astroturfing is catching up with Musk. He has been been lying for years about his investments. From self-drive to Dogecoin there is more vaporware than reality at this point. The Hyperloop was just evil. He sold shares based on his personal
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by hourago 4y ago
Capitalism stops working when monopolies take over markets. It is urgently needed to break up all the monopolies and go back to healthy competition. Many problems that we see in society today come from power accumulation in a few hands. The
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by hourago 4y ago
> Our current climate of political polarization makes it easy to think itʻs about the content of the speech, or hate speech, or misinformation, or censorship, or etc etc. Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't socia
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by hourago 4y ago
Money talks. The average Burning Man attendee: "Burning Man census reveals the average burner has a household income of up to $100,000 is 35, male, white and will spend nearly $2,500." Burning Man requires a lot of work in advance
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by hourago 4y ago
> Think of elephant matriarchs who may be the only ones to remember where to find water during unusual droughts, or birds and whales that perform long-distance migrations. Some of these species have been hunted to near extinction, causin
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by hourago 4y ago
TLDR; some people likes some things, other people other. It is not possible to make everybody happy with a gift.
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by hourago 4y ago
I can see that living in a van is for the poorest and for the high-earners. Ones get it out of necessity, the others as a luxury. It cannot be a mainstream solution, thou. Even if it just about sewage this type of lifestyle does not scale t
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by hourago 4y ago
That seems to be done on purpose but I am not sure why. Do people really buy more stuff because they clicked "buy" to get the info? Or is it just some arbitrary metric that is being improved without having real impact on the busin
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by hourago 4y ago
> When asked about these issues, a spokesperson for Shutterstock told The Verge that there were “lot of questions and uncertainty around this new technology, specifically when it comes to the concept of ownership,” but that the company’s
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by hourago 4y ago
> Many smart people we spoke with, including entomologists and wheat farmers, speculated that maybe the cars have changed, not the bugs. As vehicles become more aerodynamic, the thinking goes, their increasingly efficient airflow whisks
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by hourago 4y ago
That looks very good. And even if it starts in Europe it makes enough sense as to other countries to follow.
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by hourago 4y ago
It makes a lot of sense. To drive around Sweden at night is a scary experience. As you drive thru the dark road deer look at you from the sides, that ones are not the problem as one can see them. After several hours you pass a big dead male
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by hourago 4y ago
> As a Dutch citizen I was simply happy about the fact that they were able to recreate Amsterdam in such a beautiful way. But if you live in New York, San Francisco or London you would be tired of seeing your city in games. Even games l
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by hourago 4y ago
> Do people who have to take call to provide emergency medical care still get to use cars? That is a good argument against shopping malls or high rise buildings, as they are bigger and vastly most inaccessible than superblocks. If shoppi
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by hourago 4y ago
> App Store app reviews, restaurant review apps and food delivery apps. Fortunately it's not a big deal if these are scams. It's just a few dollars. Tourists traps excel on this niche of scam. They serve bad food at high prices
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by hourago 4y ago
> Crusader Kings III doesn’t actually feature any states in the narrow sense of the word; none of these rulers have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force I find this kind of adaptations incredible interesting. Most games look at the
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by hourago 4y ago
But there are always pressure to reduce public "costs" to reduce taxes. That European health care is better for the average person is not a given, it is something that Europeans need to keep pressuring to not lose. I have seen deg
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by hourago 4y ago
> the cynical would say purposefully Underfund public services, complain that they are bad and move them to more expensive private companies is a well known tactic to increase private profits a the cost of citizens well-being. It is trie
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by hourago 4y ago
This is one of the problems with automation. You can always find some drunk guy that does something stupid. But if you have dozens or hundreds of robots and something happens that they are not prepared for you get chaos. Right now it is not
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by hourago 4y ago
> Older trees that are maintaining a steady state should consume a net of almost 0 CO2. They are a storage of CO2. If we replaced all old trees with new ones we will gain a lot of potential for CO2 capture but at the cost of releasing ma
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by hourago 4y ago
> But our society is disintegrating, and in such a society, the only successful people are self-reliant, confident, and individualistic — because the community life that protects the dependent and the weak is dead. Too many people has ap

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