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by jellicle 7y ago
Well, the root comment here is boldly assertive but completely wrong on the facts. What sort of reply should it receive?
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by jellicle 7y ago
If you doubled the wages of every McDonald's worker, burger prices would have to go up by 30 cents or so to compensate, if I recall the math properly.
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by jellicle 7y ago
There are different systems in use today. In many other countries, judges/prosecutors are charged with much more of a "figure out the true facts of what happened; do justice" role than they are in the US system. https:/
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by jellicle 7y ago
Climate activists have made the much more subtle point that it is unjust to expect nations which have never industrialized not to industrialize so that rich industrial nations can run their air conditioners with the doors open and their SUV
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by jellicle 7y ago
Generally no, they can't. In the US. Other countries have different rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...
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by jellicle 7y ago
But Amazon's response is bullshit. The data is from government stats, and the reporting threshold is the same as it ever was (basically, if an employee is admitted to the hospital): https://www.osha.gov/report.html Am
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by jellicle 7y ago
The OSHA incident rate is per 200,000 employee-hours, which is roughly 100 people, full-time, for a year. So for every 100 people that Amazon employs full-time-equivalent in that warehouse, about 26 of them will have a serious OSHA-reported
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by jellicle 7y ago
A lot of comments in these threads talking about the "maximum price increases" as 10%/year. There aren't any maximum price increases. .org can increase to $5000/name/year, or $50,000.
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I come away from reading that completely convinced that the decision to sell .org will be a terrible one for internet users and .org name holders.
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The FAO report says, roughly, that climate change will have strong adverse effects on crop yields but this will be offset by growing industrialization. In short, that once you fill Kenya and India with a bunch of GPS-controlled John Deere
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by jellicle 7y ago
This is like claiming that we can't fix measles because, if humans left the planet, measles wouldn't be fixed. What???? Humans are actors. Collectively, we have huge powers to shape the planet. We have used those powers to chan
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by jellicle 7y ago
The "apocalyptic claims" about climate change are actually consensus minimums from large numbers of climate scientists. Headlines should generally read something like this: "Thousands of climate scientists come together
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by jellicle 7y ago
How will it improve your life to work 80 hours a week for 3 cents an hour, living in the USA? What can you purchase with your two dollars and forty cents (before tax) of weekly pay? What job skills will you be learning?
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by jellicle 7y ago
I bought the road in front of your office building and now I'm charging $10,000/trip for you to use it. Sorry. I'd be happy to buy the building from you, at a slight discount.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Right. You go to the opera, you order the car to drive around the block for two hours and then pick you up. Cost of gas is cheaper than parking and by definition, you're not affected by any traffic congestion caused as you're sit
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by jellicle 7y ago
I would love to see some test cases of that. Call in an unknowing jury by normal procedure, conduct an apparently-real trial, present evidence that a) DNA means X did it and also b) X has three friends who swear to an alibi. I'll bet
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by jellicle 7y ago
I've read a dozen studies so far that indicate Uber increases traffic and congestion in cities it operates in. Quite a lot, actually. Increasing commute times by 40% or more in some of the studies. Venture capital is paying people t
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by jellicle 7y ago
Vast numbers of people are currently employed writing/updating articles with titles like "What You Need To Know About Cats In Mid-November 2019". This is Google's fault.
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The fact that Pinterest links still appear in every search suggests this isn't true, or isn't very true.
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That's a huge reduction in world emissions for a rather tiny cost.
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You can watch it in action in Greece of the past decade.
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by jellicle 7y ago
You've taken a quote from a study that talked about the lower bound of the range of estimates (earliest possible ice free date) and specifically mentioned the high range of uncertainty (even in the news story pull quote), and you'
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by jellicle 7y ago
The author's job is the President of the Canadian Nuclear Association. https://cna.ca/team/john-gorman/ This is probably helpful to evaluating his arguments. (My view, if it matters: we can put inexpensive so
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by jellicle 7y ago
Of course they do. So much vaccine misinformation in the world.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Probably the best way to cut air travel pollution is with a combination of high-speed electric trains between all major cities (make it convenient to get around without flying) along with a ration book for air travel - everyone is allotted
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by jellicle 7y ago
I would guess that as of 2019 there is no political party of any size in the western world not using such services. If they have an annual revenue of $1,000,000, they're doing it. Many of them will be doing it through a PR firm to mai
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by jellicle 7y ago
> vaccines are not required to go through double blind studies Of course they are. So much vaccine misinformation in the world. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectivenessqa.htm
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We need more growth in cities and less growth in "sprawl" areas.
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> are also studies that suggest change for the worse. There aren't. The literature is surprisingly uniform. I mean, I'm sure you can find something funded by a libertarian thinktank that says otherwise, but nothing by credibl
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Why would it strain credulity? That's been the experience with every minimum wage increase, ever (economic boom, not bust). And the explanation is easy, trivial even: people who eat at restaurants have more money to do so. US's o

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