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by imgabe 2y ago
My wife hadn’t had Facebook for years. She tried to make an account to use marketplace and it got immediately banned with no explanation. I don’t know what’s going on with Facebook but I guess if you didn’t start using it 10+ years ago it’s
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by imgabe 2y ago
I kept getting texts about politics with a link to some survey or scam or something. I looked up the domain in the link and found it was registered through Cloudflare, so I filed an abuse report. I still get the texts, although not as much,
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by imgabe 2y ago
The index is how you’re meant to search a paper book.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I think the best equilibrium is probably when gambling is illegal but unofficially tolerated as long as it doesn't cause too many problems. Some people are going to gamble, but it should be dangerous. You should have to deal with the m
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by imgabe 2y ago
I think tech people underestimate how much people want to print things. My wife is printing stuff all the time. Proofreading things on physical paper is better than on a screen. You read more carefully and catch more mistakes.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Sideloading would be better. Adding regulation just means another layer of even more clueless bureaucrat you have to appease.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I have this same problem with books. One thing that helps with nonfiction books: just skim it. Especially if it's a pop-sci, business type book that is a lot of unnecessary fluff to make word count. When it gets tedious, skim the rest.
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by imgabe 2y ago
If they say they don’t have a phone, fine. If they later have a phone out in class, you tell them to put it in a cubby. If they have it and don’t take it out in class it’s not a problem.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I don't know why this is hard. At least in the classroom if not during the entire school day. You get a cabinet with a bunch of cubbie holes, kids put their phone in at the beginning of class, they take it out at the end of class. They
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by imgabe 2y ago
There is a ton of hand-waving in this paper, and they include water from electricity generation (which can easily change depending on the source) and the chip manufacturing (which would have to be amortized across the lifetime usage of th
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by imgabe 2y ago
Water. Does. Not. Disappear. The water circulates through a cooling system. It soaks up heat from the servers and goes outside and cools down, then goes back again. You are not "using up" the water. This is article is nonsense.
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by imgabe 2y ago
> A second opinion on the validity of the targets was given by AI. Unbeknownst to the humans, the AI advice was completely random. > Despite being informed of the fallibility of the AI systems in the study, two-thirds of subjects allo
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Then the government can tax that money, and that gives it non-inflationary spending room to reallocate those resources. Hmm, why might it be important to have a non-inflationary means of spending? I wonder. Of course, the government
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by imgabe 2y ago
Look, if you actually knew what you were talking about you would be able to explain it in a few sentences. I'm guessing you're misremembering something you never really understood from the econ elective you took in college ten yea
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by imgabe 2y ago
Smugly insinuating that you’re right without providing any sort of reasoning does not make you look as cool and smart as you think it does.
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Taxes don’t fund government spending. Cool, then let's just do away with them altogether. This is great news. All those people saying I needed to pay taxes so I can have roads and schools and a military and everything must be wron
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by imgabe 2y ago
The government only gets money by skimming off the top of private enterprise. If the percentage is too high then there’s nothing left to skim and the system collapses, so yes we should care what the percentage is and we should want it to be
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by imgabe 2y ago
Usually the person at the register is not the one preparing the order in these situations, or if they are, then they're in your view the whole time. I don't think that's much of a concern.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I agree, but tipping at sit-down restaurants is far more culturally ingrained. Tipping at counter-ordering restaurants is newer, and a gray area, there's still time to nip it in the bud before it becomes the same cultural expectation.
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by imgabe 2y ago
There are several states that already don't have a separate tipped minimum wage, including California, and they all have restaurants that operate just fine. The rest of the world does not have tipped minimum wages, and very little tipp
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Taxes are not an automatic good. There are things we want the government to do. It costs some amount of money to do those things. We should figure out what that amount of money is, tax enough for it, and the rest belong to the person who ea
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by imgabe 2y ago
Don't tip standing up. If you're ordering at a counter, that's not a tipped job. What are you even tipping for anyway? You haven't gotten your food yet, they're not bringing anything to you, it makes no sense. If th
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by imgabe 2y ago
So Science or Nature peer-reviews the home page and then links to it from their page. You get the prestige from being linked to by a major journal. Everyone can publish anything, but the journals can lend credibility, which is all they do a
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by imgabe 2y ago
Why aren’t all scholarly papers just published as HTML on the author’s website? This is literally what the web was made for. Journals could still exist to peer review and aggregate links, so you’d have the prestige of being in the journal,
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by imgabe 2y ago
Buildings from 50+ years ago are not necessarily the most well insulated and efficient. Nothing is going to unrelease the carbon that was involved in making them, but they also consume energy on an ongoing basis and replacing them with some
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by imgabe 2y ago
> EU: creates regulation that makes doing that thing illegal Ah, yes. The cookie banners will save the children.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Instead of fretting about every data breach we need companies to start adopting security models that assume all the data is public and not rely on using SSN or address history or such for authentication/ authorization.
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by imgabe 2y ago
> You vacillate between personal responsibility and skipping requirements, which is it? Should we take you seriously or not? You misunderstand. These things you claim are requirements are not requirements. You do not need to be an "
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Needing to be an expert in healthcare, hiring processes, finances, and a dozen other topics just to switch jobs is a major barrier to the just switch mentality you are presenting. Nobody is saying you need to be an expert in all of the
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> Setting a floor on how shitty companies can be to their employees would a boon to everyone and likely make the whole economy more productive simply by reducing depression by a double digit percentage. Yes, we do that. It's called

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