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by hourago 4y ago
What about not and just make life better for everyone? > In a sane world, Hairer would long ago have been given a healthy grant or a generous basic income, as well as a majestic set of lodgings wherever he so desired. Is this comedy?
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by hourago 4y ago
> Besides contributing to climate change, pollution from coal kills half a million people globally each year. That is an externality. My company gets there profit, other people die, but I do not need to pay for it. How is this legal?
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by hourago 4y ago
Ummmm... the machines to mine coal produce even more waste. The same for drilling equipment for oil. So, what's your argument?
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by hourago 4y ago
Many rights that everybody enjoys were won by unions and applied to everybody. You are generalising to all unions some hypothetical case. Better job opportunities for a part of the population means that all employers need to improve conditi
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by hourago 4y ago
T-shirts of Ernesto "Che" Guevara are the top example of this. It's too take an ideal, whatever you agree with it or not, and to convert it into a product for profit. It's to commercialise ideals, memories and anything t
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by hourago 4y ago
Sniffing glue may be bad, eating apples may be bad. But when we talk we quite often refer to the most general case. In that case there first option is "bad" but the second "good". "everything is the same" is no
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by hourago 4y ago
Is it cost effective? If companies think that this way of working is cutting development time and/or cost then it's the future. At least in the professional world. Even bugs are acceptable if the advantages of auto generated code
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by hourago 4y ago
> New Windows devices containing the Intel 12th generation chipset are triggering Examplify’s automatic virtual machine check. Failing by design, but you suffer the consequences.
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by hourago 4y ago
I wake early and do stuff. I go to sleep very early and when I wake up I'm full of energy to start to learn things or work on side projects. I was doing it the other way around. I will stay awake until late and try to go to sleep with
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by hourago 4y ago
"By reading this message you agree that me [the writer of the message] gets access to all your data and that you [the reader of the message] agrees on using the data for all purposes deemed as necessary to exploit such data for fun and
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by hourago 4y ago
> That doesn't necessarily mean I think the jobs must be made less tough Humans get injuries, psychological damage, and that translates to families and society. To make jobs insufferable just because Amazon can is horrifying. And so
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by hourago 4y ago
Many people were working these jobs without realising what a bad deal it was. They were kicked out during the pandemic and learned that any other job is better. The only thing that was keeping this jobs in place is imperfect knowledge. Most
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by hourago 4y ago
The poor do not steal in India either. Do you know how many poor people there are in India? Do you know what miniscule percentage are scammers? You need to rethink how you see Indian culture. Japan has a history with the untouchable. Again,
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by hourago 4y ago
> The euro is just another second tier currency backed by the european central bank which is extremely fragile. Which currencies are as strong or are in a better position, and are backed by stronger economies than the euro?
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by hourago 4y ago
Being poor doesn't make people evil. Inequality is the one that creates evil. If one country has way more than other there is a big incentive to try to get that money. Australians are not scamming Americans, Swedes are not scamming Ame
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by hourago 4y ago
Quite often the easier way to be a minimalist is to get a small apartment. Nothing activates your brain as necessity. Most things I own are extremely practical, like spoons or pants, or I have a emotional attachment to them, like friends pr
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by hourago 4y ago
News about a whistleblower. HN comments only about how taxis are bad. I see a problem here. Uber has broken the law to incredible extends, and it has corrupted many politicians. That's the truth, that are the news.
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by hourago 4y ago
> is in part because the taxi industry was absolutely horrible to consumers. But mostly because it didn't had to pay the same fees. It treated employees as independent contractors and negate their rights. And it burned millions on A
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by hourago 4y ago
> Why? The thought is that a museum hires the child of a hedge fund manager, there is a non-zero chance the wealthy parent will give or leave money to the institution when they die Another way that inequality damages society. When your
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by hourago 4y ago
> Literal or not, taxi companies really are as a rule something akin to local Mafiosos. Uber is NOT better. Read the article. They just take a bigger chunk from drivers and do not pay taxes. I want Uber to disappear because their uncontr
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by hourago 4y ago
> While taxi drivers must pass through a battery of paperwork, courses, exams and fees to offer what is known as public individual transportation in Brazil, private individual transportation services don’t have specific regulations on th
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by hourago 4y ago
> somehow noone mentions words like "war", "occupation", "civilian deaths" etc., when our soldiers are there... Read more newspapers. You can choose: https://www.google.com/search?q=civilian
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by hourago 4y ago
Europe did not believe to be omnipotent but they just though that Russia could be trusted. Putin has thrown away a great deal looking for personal glory at the cost of Russia's future. Did you believed that Russia was going to get Ukra
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by hourago 4y ago
Uber is well known for paying to manipulate on-line discourse. The amount of propaganda just adds to my grievances towards the company.
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by hourago 4y ago
> but people murdering others What is stopping them murdering Uber drivers? Your story seems a caricature and makes little sense. "Uber saved my country from assassins" Which country it was? Wich political party?
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by hourago 4y ago
Governments create rules that force corporations to take care of employees. Maybe not so much in the USA. But that can be improved thru higher taxation and better employment regulations.
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by hourago 4y ago
You misspelled fraud.
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by hourago 4y ago
That is going to be the fight of the next generation. Inappropriate videos on YouTube for kids, extremist propaganda in Facebook or fake products in Amazon all have that soulless automation as main culprit. (Let's not talk about Roblox
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by hourago 4y ago
> He's clearly eccentric in his approach to decision making Being called Eccentric is the luxury of the rich. If he was poor one will say "irresponsible" or even "crazy".
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by hourago 4y ago
Deadly!

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