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by imgabe 3y ago
Right, I picked a deliberately silly example. I just don't understand what these activists think Exxon is going to do. Do they think Exxon can dictate to the military how the military is allowed to use the fuel they buy? Because...uh..
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by imgabe 3y ago
> The new shareholder resolution calls on the oil company to reduce its Scope 3 emissions or those that result from the use of its products Exxon is supposed to reduce emissions from their customers using their products? How? If I buy Ex
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by imgabe 3y ago
It is! It also had Gates McFadden (Dr Beverly Crusher) and John De Lancie (Q). A surprising amount of Star Trek crossover.
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by imgabe 3y ago
True, the on-demand part is better, but I'm mostly talking about the breadth of the catalog. Turner was able to get broadcast rights to a whole bunch of movies that the studios didn't really know what to do with. This is partly wh
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by imgabe 3y ago
Don't even get me started on the absurdity that is region-locked content in the age of the Internet.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Oh, I already found it and watched it. It's just silly it wasn't possible to do that with any of the services I pay for.
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by imgabe 3y ago
It's not even doing a good job of that, though. The other day someone mentioned the 1990 movie "Taking Care of Business" with Jim Belushi and Charles Grodin. It's a pretty unremarkable movie, but I remembered liking it a
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by imgabe 3y ago
Sure things can feel all sorts of ways, but an initial gut reaction is not often the best one. People can choose to see themselves as a victim or they can choose to see themselves as having agency. Deciding that feelings are immutable thing
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by imgabe 3y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but we're getting into the weeds here. My point is just that choosing to voluntarily end a business arrangement, within the the terms of the agreement, does not constitute "victimizing" some
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by imgabe 3y ago
And there's a systemic solution, called unemployment insurance, that every company is required to pay into, and they pay more when they lay people off. What else would you have us do? These are grown professional adults we're talk
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by imgabe 3y ago
The company is not mugging anyone. They are exercising their right to end a voluntary association. This is a perfectly valid choice that either party of the employment relationship may make. If you usually shop at grocery store A and you de
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by imgabe 3y ago
> there are always cases of people getting laid off despite having positive performance reports, were hired shortly prior to RIF, were given assurances there would not be layoffs, etc. Right. And since we know this, isn't it basic
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by imgabe 3y ago
Sorry, someone who gets laid off is not a victim. It's a known part of the deal of having a job. You might decide to quit and leave the employer. The employer might decide they don't need you anymore and lay you off. You both have
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by imgabe 3y ago
Mandating a wage where it is unprofitable to employ people so the business folds or lays them off does not seem like it would help anyone in that situation. I'm sure there are people who, at times, are in difficult situations. But thos
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by imgabe 3y ago
We know what did happen 100 years ago with the Spanish Flu. People mostly had to keep going about their lives and millions got sick and died.
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by imgabe 3y ago
People can offer to pay whatever they want. Other people can choose to accept it or not. The point where what people offer and what people are willing to accept intersect determines the price. If you don’t like the amount being offered, the
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by imgabe 3y ago
These are not slaves. They are free to leave. Nobody is forcing them to work at this job for so little pay. There are plenty of other jobs that pay better. They should go get one of those if they want more money. If enough of them did, the
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by imgabe 3y ago
Employees also do not have a right to any particular career. That's nice that people have a dream to make anime for a living. I hope they get to realize it. But the world does not owe them a particular wage for what they want to do jus
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by imgabe 3y ago
$25 Billion what? Revenue? Profit? Total Transactions? That is a meaningless number without some context. It's also not a whole lot for an entire industry. Why is that supposed to mean that animators should be paid more? They could be
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by imgabe 3y ago
Generally, a project like this would require multiple grid connections, which they would pay for.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Amazon is the store. The manufacturer handles warranties. If your Samsung TV breaks you don’t complain to Wal-Mart, you complain to Samsung.
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by imgabe 3y ago
You would have to normalize buying elsewhere for it to make any difference.
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by imgabe 3y ago
On the Microsoft page[1] about this change they say > Storage of this “dark” data takes up space on servers and results in increased electricity consumption, generating 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 alone. Where "dar
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by imgabe 3y ago
Copying is not theft. > I think it’s unethical and exploitive to take my labor given for free to the community and claim it as your own for your personal enrichment. Nobody is claiming anything is their own. You gave it away. You did t
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by imgabe 3y ago
I would be against those software licenses as well. Where I make my own code public I try to use MIT license whenever possible. If I don't want people to copy my code ... I don't make it public. It's not that complicated. Ful
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by imgabe 3y ago
...and if you ask a human artist to exactly reproduce an artwork, that is copyright infringment, or forgery. I don't see how this is any different? The person using the AI to make exact replicas would be the one committing the copyrigh
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by imgabe 3y ago
In theory, sure. In practice, if you don't have the money to file the lawsuits to enforce it, no you don't. And if you think making money is unethical or exploitative, then it's unlikely you are going to be able to have the m
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by imgabe 3y ago
Considers profit "unethical", gives work away for free, mad that people take free work and use it for their own purposes. You can't have it both ways. You can either give stuff away and realize that once you give it away you
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by imgabe 3y ago
Hey, how did you get my Hacker News password?
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There must be a corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule) that any sufficiently complicated data analysis library contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug

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