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by jrsj 4y ago
In general it’s also a problem with what is considered diverse. If you’re a white man from a poor family with no college education, the policy is to explicitly discriminate against you. If you’re a white woman from an upper middle class bac
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by jrsj 4y ago
If the average person actually knew what these initiatives meant they would be against them. In practice what it does is make it so members of designated groups typically win by default whenever they & other candidates meet minimum requ
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by jrsj 4y ago
They work fine but they’re relatively expensive. 3% of the total cost of a transaction can be a double digit percentage of the profit margin of a sale. Then there’s the risk of chargebacks etc adding more cost on top of that.
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by jrsj 4y ago
Within the next year you will literally be able to go to CVS and buy whatever you want via Lightning Network and it’ll be nearly instant. An actual completed transaction too, not something that doesn’t settle until later.
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by jrsj 4y ago
Yep. A lot of major institutions want to get in but can’t until there’s a regulatory framework in place.
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Only a problem if you’re a fan of U.S. imperialism.
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Walmart any other major retailers are about to start taking payments via Lightning Network this year. Will be able to pay from cash app or others without explicitly converting from USD. Cheaper and faster than Visa etc.
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by jrsj 5y ago
It isn’t obviously, it serves the exact purpose of conducting censorship on behalf of the regime without any hard govt power being employed. The legality isn’t what I’m concerned with — if that were the problem we would be able to solve thi
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by jrsj 5y ago
There’s really no need to post yet another “crypto is a scam” comment on every single one of these posts. I mostly agree but it adds nothing to discussion and we’ve all heard it a million times already.
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by jrsj 5y ago
Not really in the same ballpark as simultaneously banning an individual or a news story across every social media platform
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HN has generally good & reasonable moderation and isn’t engaged in blatant political censorship, it’s not that complicated.
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by jrsj 5y ago
Hunter Biden laptop story was legit & censoring it across all social media simultaneously was absurd. Considering his financial connections to Ukraine & current events it’s even more fucked up that it was censored.
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by jrsj 5y ago
Hacker News isn’t comparable to Twitter. They’re not doing coordinated censorship with other big tech companies or working on behalf of intelligence agencies to spy on their users etc. Twitter & other large corps aren’t just private com
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by jrsj 5y ago
These companies all spy on you on behalf of the government and have censored legitimate news stories in a coordinated fashion to manipulate an election. Their connections to intelligence agencies alone make them effectively public instituti
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by jrsj 5y ago
Not when there’s bidirectional communication happening between govt and tech companies on these issues. We’ve seen them coordinate to erase particular stories from the public narrative etc. They literally have manipulated elections by doing
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by jrsj 5y ago
They’re cheap, extremely reliable, relatively fuel efficient, and very practical for their size.
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I don’t think it was ever cool & it’s kind of always been a low status job as far as white collar stuff goes. Lots of negative stereotypes about us.
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by jrsj 5y ago
It’s turning womens bodies into a product to be purchased. You can try to lawyer it however you want but it’s obvious to anyone with a degree of common sense that it’s not a good thing. Not for the women directly involved or women who aren’
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by jrsj 5y ago
A small minority by comparison who aren’t exploited in the same way.
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“Sex work” is just the commodification of women & does not deserve to be legitimized as a profession.
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Not only does the third type exist, they appear to be the default.
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by jrsj 5y ago
most “professionals” aren’t professional about this (in my experience)
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by jrsj 5y ago
You might be overanalyzing a bit. I think it really comes down to sports cars being cool & vans being…vans. All the “Porsche” part really does is get more clicks (because people know what it is).
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by jrsj 5y ago
Biggest thing I don’t see mentioned about this: the only people in a position to deal with individual cases corruption are themselves corrupt and only wish to do so in order to pursue their own political agenda. Anti-corruption is more ofte
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by jrsj 5y ago
I would do this but every time there’s a problem I’m too busy proving why it isn’t my fault since everyone defaults to blame shifting in those situations. The documentation has to be focused on what mistakes other people made & what mis
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by jrsj 5y ago
I had a very similar experience. It seems like they’ve just stacked too many different complex pieces of software on top of each other & the result is sometimes unpredictable and difficult to debug behavior that can pop up in any layer
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by jrsj 5y ago
Most editors will warn you about this now as soon as you type it
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by jrsj 5y ago
I’ve never worked with anything that made me want to quit software entirely more than React Native, and didn’t feel that way at all about Flutter. Maybe it’s just me but I feel like the developer experience of Flutter is much more consisten
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by jrsj 5y ago
It seems to me like all societies are trending towards low trust. Technology that can work in a low trust environment though can alleviate some of the pain that comes with that though. Since cryptocurrency was already mentioned recent examp
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by jrsj 5y ago
Kroger has a unionized workforce in theory, so what the hell is the union doing in this case? And if they aren’t acting in the best interest of the people they’re supposed to represent, why?

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