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by kortilla 5mo ago
That’s not how city water works.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
This is an extremely privileged take that completely ignores the improvements the world has made in lifting people out of absolute poverty. Making enough food to prevent starvation is literally a solved problem. We make more than the world
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by kortilla 5mo ago
… yes, that’s why he mentioned that he isn’t cool for selling 538…
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by kortilla 5mo ago
> If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even. No you wouldn’t. You’ve just described 2nd hand smoke which you can easily get hit with walking
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by kortilla 5mo ago
I wouldn’t say it’s piss poor in the entire US just because it is draconian in those 3 states.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
We’re talking about a Google employee that makes 5x or more of what a European counterpart would. Lack of termination notice and other at will employment is easy to plan for when you make so much money. Until someone starts providing exampl
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Medication for normal emotions
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Culture clash between starlink and falcon has to be the dumbest thing I’ve heard. Falcon only exists in its current form because of starlink and starlink only exists because of falcon. Starlink is by far falcon’s biggest customer and starli
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by kortilla 5mo ago
A company isn’t going to fix stupidity.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Nope, they will be in a low earth orbit that will decay and enter the atmosphere without maintenance burns
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Flagged because this discussion about dnsmasq and another dns resolver implementation that has relatively no rollout worldwide by comparison is pointless.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Many companies build on top of open source to make money and don’t contribute back. That’s not the problem.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Don’t get into open source if you don’t like your users using the software however they see fit.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
“You can outsource your thinking, but not your understanding.”
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Legislation is already passing to make cars spy on you under the guise of preventing DUIs. They didn’t even need to stoop to the pedo references.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
No, Apple famously doesn’t want stuff leaked even if it would be good.
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by kortilla 5mo ago
But you don’t have to use Google. That’s the critical difference and why people should be so much more skeptical of using the monopoly on violence to enforce things. Millions of people live in the US and don’t use Google products or pay Goo
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by kortilla 5mo ago
> Paradoxically, "developed" nation inequality has hit 1920s levels. That’s not a paradox. Inequality is a completely separate measurement that emerges anywhere there are extremely wealthy people despite the average population
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by kortilla 5mo ago
Can you enumerate some of these benefits? They famously arrested Jack Ma for not bending to the CCP enough. I don’t think that’s really a benefit (e.g. if the equivalent in the US was Democrats arresting any CEOa politically against them).
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by kortilla 6mo ago
Teslas or cyber trucks? If you mean teslas in general then you’re being willfully ignorant because model Ys are the best selling car in the US.
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by kortilla 6mo ago
Don’t make shit up about people you don’t understand. >American alt-right/far-right/MAGA/techbro Bucketing these all together doesn’t even make sense. A “techbro” has completely different reasons to dislike the EU (regulat
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by kortilla 6mo ago
HR doesn’t squirm because they are lying. They squirm because they minimize lawsuit surface area as much as possible. I have been on the giving end of performance layoffs in big corps and there is an extremely strict script you have to stic
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by kortilla 6mo ago
It is not the textbook example. The textbook example is regulatory capture where people put in an artificial gate and charge people to cross it. Everything functioned fine without the gate and nothing was improved by the gate. An apartment
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by kortilla 6mo ago
Medallions are artificial limits, land isn’t. Also your rent comes with significant rights beyond a chunk of land. It’s not rent-seeking at all. Leasing out a rivalrous asset does not land in that category in the slightest.
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by kortilla 6mo ago
Despite paying rent for an apartment, it’s not rent-seeking. You get a place to live out of it that wouldn’t exist without the owner renting it to you. Rent-seeking is a very specific economic term where a party inserts themselves into a tr
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by kortilla 6mo ago
It’s not that depressing if you view it as her wanting to help society and sees a job as the main way of achieving that. When nobody is paying you to do something it’s easy to lose the feedback loop of “I’m at least providing this one perso
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by kortilla 6mo ago
“Half cash, half stock.”
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by kortilla 6mo ago
Yep, that Obama spearheaded and was the keystone piece of legislation of the entire administration
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by kortilla 6mo ago
They interestingly invested very little into it and it imploded on them spectacularly.
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by kortilla 6mo ago
Why would they suggest switching to a lower fat percentage milk?

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