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by jzb 5y ago
An actual acknowledgement would be cool.
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by jzb 5y ago
It’s probably because Apple ignored them the first time, and then pretends re-adding things people never wanted removed is “innovation.”
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by jzb 5y ago
I imagine they’re pushing podcasts because they aren’t paying royalties on most or any of them.
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by jzb 5y ago
I haven't thought about him in ages, or cdrtools, but I benefited heavily from his software once upon a time. The cdrtools flamewars seem positively quaint these days. Clearly a talented developer and his work definitely was a help in
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by jzb 5y ago
"Alternately, find a way to prevent crime." Easy. Stop criminalizing use of drugs and sex work. End the bullshit "war on drugs." We have a huge criminal class in this country. Wage theft[1], for example, is a huge crimin
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by jzb 5y ago
This may shock you, but a lot of people aren't in jail for violent crimes - much less homicide. Drug offenses account for nearly half, according to <a href=" https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statist
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by jzb 5y ago
The saddest part is that, if presented with this information (cost), a substantial portion of the U.S. populace would declare that we are treating prisoners too well and that we need to find new ways to charge people for being incarcerated.
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by jzb 5y ago
"But if this issue goes unresolved for a long period of time, my employer might pay me to fix the issue myself and contribute the change upstream. That doesn’t sit well with me. We pay Google a lot of money to use their products, and h
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by jzb 5y ago
Maybe? Maybe not. I'm not certain that restaurant owners know to the penny what people will or won't pay for this or that on a menu. It depends a lot on how cost conscious the customers are and other factors. Try bumping up the wa
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by jzb 5y ago
As a guy who gets a pretty standard, quick-and-easy cut, I get this. At the same time, $50 a month or whatever is pretty cheap compared to what I looked like after my partner tried her hand at cutting my hair at the start of the pandemic. $
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by jzb 5y ago
Have you ever worked a job that depends on tips? Try serving a table of 20 and working your butt off and then getting no tip from the table because they "don't believe in tipping." The correlation between "great service&
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by jzb 5y ago
That's the crux of it in a lot of cases. People have come to view a certain class of work as "not worth" paying a living wage. What's worse, the jobs they view as "not worth" a living wage are the ones that do
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by jzb 5y ago
That doesn't seem to be working so well with drugs. We've filled prisons with people engaged in low level illegal activity but we don't seem to have made any dent in illegal drugs. In fact, probably the opposite.
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by jzb 5y ago
1) Lists are kludgy and 2) the UI for adding people to lists rather than just following them is more of a PITA. As I said, though, literally any business model other than just letting people be paid users and see what they want to see witho
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by jzb 5y ago
It's not persistent and they also keep futzing with things like throwing "so-and-so liked this tweet" into the timeline. I just want to see what people I follow actually publish, not their likes or follows or whatever.
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by jzb 5y ago
Apparently Twitter will experiment with any revenue model except 1) actually just letting people pay to get rid of ads + see content in chronological order without other bullshit, or 2) allowing users to edit tweets which people have been
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by jzb 5y ago
Before my father passed he still grumbled about me buying a meal and he was retired!
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by jzb 5y ago
“already dropped it” That doesn’t make it okay. Being taken into custody is something I’d consider an overreaction and frightening for a person to endure. They should’ve looked into it before moving to pick them up in the first place. If th
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by jzb 5y ago
Trying to lay any of this on BLM is bullshit. This is directly tied to the attack on the Capitol by Trump traitors.
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by jzb 5y ago
My take on the book was it could’ve been ~20 pages, but had to be padded out to full book length. A lot of that in the self help category.
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by jzb 5y ago
B. Definitely B. I’d happily choose a phone that’s chonkier if it was an option.
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by jzb 5y ago
“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.” No. Stop using Medium, please.
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by jzb 5y ago
Well, for one thing.. then I'm a publisher, not a journalist. Running a business does not appeal to me in the slightest. Secondly, most of the problems facing publications are market forces that aren't going to go away just becaus
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by jzb 5y ago
This is a particularly naive viewpoint on journalism / the publishing industry. Journalists may be the face of the industry, but they're not the primary deciders. They don't control the business decisions, or indeed many of t
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by jzb 6y ago
I guess that makes Batman a hell of a writer.
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by jzb 6y ago
FTA: "Ultimately, package registries need to align their incentives with those of maintainers." Putting it all on the registries to come up with a viable business model and provide this to maintainers without any responsibility[1]
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by jzb 6y ago
That's because the airwaves are public, so the FCC could regulate / require equal time in the public interest. A TV or radio station isn't operating entirely on its own dime - it's using a public resource, so it should b
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by jzb 6y ago
The problem is that a ton of the people hit with this are students on Chromebooks. Our district standardized on Chromebooks and issued one to every student. Assuming the teacher isn't on a Chromebook this would likely mean about half t
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by jzb 6y ago
"Not many would complain about an exec getting a bonus during this time if it was actually reasonable in the first place." This right here. If the CEO made, let's say, five times what I do - or some reasonable multiple duri
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by jzb 6y ago
"You are under the impression that companies love throwing money at executives, but just like regular employees, companies only pay the minimum they NEED to pay them to keep them around." Only because we have a system where every

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