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by jellicle 6y ago
Except that the part where your company makes extra money and you get a fat bonus happens now, while the part where consumers eventually lose faith in your ratings takes years. And you can spend 10% of the extra revenue on a bunch of ads ta
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by jellicle 6y ago
You would still see yacht ads on the site for Yachting Magazine. What you wouldn't see is hemorrhoid ads targeted to you because you searched for hemorrhoid cream three days ago on a different computer.
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by jellicle 6y ago
To be clear if anyone has any doubt, antitrust law talks about firms having "market power". That's all that is required; the ability to move the market in bad ways. A monopoly (strict definition) is not in any way required to
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by jellicle 6y ago
Um, I believe AI is seeking physical access to the trial because they have sought - and were specifically denied - remote access to it. If you want to write some justifications for why the government is refusing to let the public watch a vi
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by jellicle 6y ago
All the things that anyone thinks can go wrong with online voting are already features of the voting system today. Your votes are tabulated by online computers, who send votes electronically to other computers, all of them with bottom-of-t
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by jellicle 6y ago
> Because of this asymmetry there is a large risk that with non-anonymous vote people with power will force large number of people to vote for them. Why doesn't this happen today? Any politician can "force" someone to requ
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by jellicle 6y ago
For what it's worth, the employer is in the wrong; the employee need not go back to a materially worse job (as a demotion from 40 hours to 8-10 hours would be) and can continue receiving unemployment and looking for a comparable job.
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by jellicle 6y ago
Your figures are wrong. If they worked (and received UBI, because that's what UBI means), their monthly income would be $5280 vs. $2600 for playing video games.
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by jellicle 6y ago
The point is that on the day that the USPS hires a 20-year-old employee they immediately need to set aside money for this worker's healthcare at age 90, which is an astronomical sum (as projections of future healthcare costs are inevit
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by jellicle 6y ago
> for most unemployed Americans, wrong. It's 100% wrong as of today (the article is from May), as the $600 supplement has expired and won't be renewed. In fact I'm not sure why HN is discussing an expired, won't-be-re
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by jellicle 6y ago
If there are 100 press releases that say "earth is round" and 10 press releases that say "earth is flat", how many of each should be publicized by your local newspaper?
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by jellicle 6y ago
Yes, a number of Democrats are complicit, but it is certainly mainly a Republican objective.
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The USPS is the largest unionized operation in the USA. Republicans are trying to drive it into crisis and kill it. So they passed a law which requires it to set aside vast amounts of money to prefund retirement obligations on a scale which
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by jellicle 6y ago
Mail delivery, like many internet services, has very nice economies of scale. Once you are paying the setup cost for someone to go to every door every day, the marginal cost of adding one more package is not high. So USPS can probably offer
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by jellicle 6y ago
While the article is simply a local report about a local issue, it got reported because the USPS is intentionally slowing down mail delivery nationally, under a new boss who was appointed to wreck the agency: https://www.washingt
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by jellicle 6y ago
Seems like you didn't read the article. The issue, according to the article, is that USPS management is intentionally delaying regular mail in favor of Amazon deliveries.
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by jellicle 6y ago
They're complaints by the public about police treatment of them, so have nothing to do with "showing up late to work". They are also only records where the complaint has been substantiated by the [tilted towards police] Civil
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by jellicle 6y ago
I believe the general idea now is that oil companies will pay for it as a fig leaf. Dig up 1000 tons of oil, pay for one ton of carbon capture, runs lots of commercials about your environment-friendliness, profit.
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by jellicle 6y ago
Can you explain how we could preserve or restore natural environments in a world with ever-increasing CO2 concentrations?
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by jellicle 6y ago
Everyone uses an electronic POS system and it will round however the manufacturer told it to round (which will be correctly). The only people you have to worry about cheating you out of 3-4 cents in a world without pennies (the maximum you
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by jellicle 6y ago
> It's bad UI if people just learn where to click. That is literally the entire and sole purpose of a user interface.
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by jellicle 6y ago
Nope. Most natural gas is produced by fracking; the fracking process produces great amounts of excess methane which is released into the atmosphere; fracked natural gas is approximately as bad as, or may even be worse than, coal.
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by jellicle 6y ago
The city hired a non-profit to manage the park. The vast majority of funds spent in Central Park come from the taxpayer. The main reason for the setup is so that the city will have plausible deniability when rich people want to use part of
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by jellicle 6y ago
> assuming that our government has enough money lying around to pay everyone this much all of the time (we don’t, this is actually very expensive for the taxpayers). If you want to learn more about why this statement is completely wrong,
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by jellicle 6y ago
> You're advocating making the equivalent of a small city jobless based on the actions of a very small contingent. No one has ever advocated that every person at Boeing be fired and that's not what happens in large corporate ba
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by jellicle 6y ago
One way to look at it is that 5% of all B-2s ever built have crashed.
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by jellicle 6y ago
The NLRB hasn't done any enforcement for decades at this point and is currently engaged in eliminating the paper protections that still exist. I would say the opposite: the USA has much less in the way of worker protections than people
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by jellicle 6y ago
> Edit: I know the first million, as illustrated in the scenario this article presents, is exempted. I'm using myself as an example. The point still stands - extreme wealth would be hidden, and the rest of us would have to pay. So y
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by jellicle 6y ago
I bought a cheap laptop (very similar) from Dell. It was worthless. Ars is correct that the disk space available is completely insufficient to run Windows, no upgrades can be performed, and also you cannot turn off Windows upgrades, and als
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by jellicle 6y ago
Cynically, if doctors are financially rewarded for performing treatments, doctors may prefer a test with significant false positives over one with minimal false positives. (If your knee jerks and you start saying things like 'doctors n

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