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by jojobas 4mo ago
The distinction is if Mr. Kempf tried to charge all these people 1 dollar a year he would have gotten maybe a few million, and probably wouldn't have gotten much of the annual ~100 people to contribute to his product so the product wou
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by jojobas 4mo ago
Billionaire founders make some millionaire employees. Why are they (or rather us?) entitled to more? They are working market jobs for market pay.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
It created another monopoly to collect more rent, and some would say it's a worse one to boot.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
His core premise is that one's not required to cheat, use immoral loopholes or abuse anyone to become filthy rich, as a prominent US politician has claimed. That stands unchallenged.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
You'll like Spintires.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
Both devices handwave on how the cooling required to condense the water occurs.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
It is a dessicant dehumidifier, useless for the same reason as this MIT/Berkley thing from 9 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns
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by jojobas 4mo ago
You can wear silica gel since about 1918 - only needs some heat to get the water out and cold to condense it. Then again, why would you want to wear your dehumidifier (ok ok water harvester)? Is it for excursions into damp areas, so that yo
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by jojobas 4mo ago
So a dehumidifier with extra steps.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
This sort of thing can't work as it would break basic laws of thermodynamics. Best case it's a dehumidifier with extra steps.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
Teachers are underpaid. No occupation paying under median wage in the area should be granted work visa.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
India accounts for 70% of H1B against say UK, France or Japans 1% each. Alaskan school teachers are paid below Alaskan median wage. If you support importing workforce to be fill less-than-median-paying roles you haven't thought about i
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by jojobas 4mo ago
Teachers were like 4% of all H1Bs. Using CS/AI H1B proceeds to increase pay to rural teachers more seems like a no-brainer. The current Alaskan teacher pay seems to be below median, which seems like an good threshold to disallow H1B wo
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by jojobas 4mo ago
If you genuine shortage is not worth some 33k a year, it's not a genuine shortage.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
It's awful news for all of these, it vacates any attempts to force these industries to make themselves attractive for Americans.
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by jojobas 4mo ago
Hardly an argument to import teachers on work visas.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
Yeah yeah, then there's Komachi from Akita. This doesn't change that without subsidies Japanese farmers would fold to the 3rd world cheaper rice.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
The subsidies are to protect Japanese rice production from countries where the same labour is done for way less. All praise free trade, where poverty is the most exported commodity.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
Immigration without assimilation with number as high as required to keep Japan population from falling is unequivocally ceding. Even much more approachable cultures get non-assimilating enclaves. The immigrants won't be considered as b
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by jojobas 5mo ago
Whatever the answer to people having fewer kids is, it's not "cede your land to some other people who will". Japan's population around 1900 was mere 43 million people - when most of them were required to work the fields.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
This fragmentation is not violent and it's not what produces the shockwave, the term "break up" is more appropriate.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
If you could look at this catastrophic fragmentation you'd find it's about the same pace as dirt spreading on the ground as it gets tipped off a dump truck. The fragments outward speed is negligible compared with their forwards sp
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by jojobas 5mo ago
>then expands rapidly Except it doesn't. The breakup has roughly the same dynamics as dirt spreading as it gets out of a tip truck. The shockwave is not produced by the outward motion, it barely has any speed.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
No, it's a misnomer as with any other meteor. If you were to witness the breakup from the bolide's reference frame and without all the rushing air you'd never call it an explosion.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
The speed scale for disassembly is nowhere near the forward speed; you never get anywhere close to 45 degree debris divergence angle. It's also, again, not the disassembly that causes it to be bright, hot and loud. Wikipedians can also
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by jojobas 5mo ago
It's buying the recordings from consented third parties.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
Well now it's money for doing something bad AND getting fucked, so something may change.
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by jojobas 5mo ago
No? There is no violent expansion or bursting, even if the sound is similar. It is as much an explosion as a supersonic jet passing by, and that is not much. The term makes people think atmospheric heating causes an actual steam explosion a
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by jojobas 5mo ago
PSA: meteors have nothing to do with explosions. The shockwave comes from meteor's movement alone, the parts never move apart with any speed comparable to their common forward motion. A breakup will increase surface area and therefore
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by jojobas 5mo ago
Even Australian Aboriginals had weapons of war. Some of the seals spoken about in the article depict swords and shields. There is no way anything of value didn't have to be defended by force.

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