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by mcntsh 6y ago
I wish I could share such a simplistic world view that voting for democrats is the answer which solves everything.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
So you believe that the advertising companies which run these companies should be the ones to decide what discourse is allowed online. At the end of the day Facebook isn't deplatforming people out of the kindness of their hearts. They
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by mcntsh 6y ago
If free speech in the real world created a world of "superstition, poverty, social unrest, and war" would I consider removing free speech there too? Well, no. As history shows things are always great until they aren't, and th
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by mcntsh 6y ago
The scale of Facebook and the role it plays in today's society stems way beyond the newspaper. In an age where communication mainly happens online, it is more comparable to a telephone, or even the internet itself. For (hundreds of) mi
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by mcntsh 6y ago
As a very left-leaning person who doesn't at all follow these types of conspiracies, I can't help but feel uneasy about decisions like this. Facebook is so ubiquitous and influential that it can be used to sway public opinion. Tha
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Who's going to force these companies to pay employees based on the value they generate? If no one, then market economics takes over. Just in the same way you don't pay for gasoline based on the value it provides you, companies are
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by mcntsh 6y ago
I think you're missing the point of parental leave. Parent's raising a newborn often don't even have the time to take care of themselves because it's so much work to care for the baby.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Sure, I just think it's funny how people blame the "evil corporations" for the problems while humans are simultaneously unwilling to solve the problems themselves.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
...are humans not to blame? Who's running these businesses? Who's cutting the corners? Who's buying the BP products?
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by mcntsh 6y ago
The people flying in those planes can make personally achievable reductions themselves. Everyone has to make the effort together.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
100% correct, and it goes both ways... the stakeholders who work at these companies, and the consumers who use their products.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Huh? I never claimed they shouldn't be responsible for their actions. Where did you get that from?
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> This mindset and ideal was created almost entirely by big corporations. Corporations aren't some faceless evil entity. They're made up by people trying to make money to buy material goods to raise their quality of life and st
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by mcntsh 6y ago
> Even if you go vegan, thrift all your clothes and minimize your consumption, you have such a tiny footprint compared to corporations that naturally value profit over the environment. If more people thrifted, went vegan, and minimised t
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by mcntsh 6y ago
The average carbon footprint of someone in the US is 16 tons, in Germany it's 9,5 tons.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
I see a lot of dialog online, passing the buck of responsibility with climate change to the rich and the "corporations". What people need to accept is that even their average western lifestyle has a hugely negative impact on the e
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Off topic, but one major thing I found interesting moving from the U.S. to Europe was how the SEPA system here makes products like Venmo obsolete and how Venmo seems like just a bandaid on top of the archaic banking system there.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here... that in around the world people are not suffering directly because of the quarantines, because they have "publicly accessible healthcare" and they don't "ditch t
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by mcntsh 6y ago
If you're a transplant working in tech in SF you're pretty close to elite. The background growing up might not fit, but the lifestyle in SF does.
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Then use your imagination and apply the hypothetical argument to other things. Another good modern example is the car. Imagine that you have $1800 in your bank account, you earn 8$/hr and your credit history is shot. Your options are
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by mcntsh 6y ago
I think you're over thinking it. The company agreed to pay you X amount because that's the market in the area you and the employer are competing in. Once you expand beyond that area the market changes. You're now competing a
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Why not? It's a business relationship; both parties are in it to come out as ahead as possible. Why would a company pay a remote worker $400k/yr in Oklahoma when they can just pick from a country-wide candidate pool who will do th
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by mcntsh 6y ago
The problem with taking sleeping medication is that you are treating a symptom and not a cause. In most cases insomnia is related to stress, and ironically insomnia itself causes stress which worsens itself.
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Can you explain why him advocating against masks proves his research wrong? Can you explain how this article proves he has sold his ethics to the highest bidder, and who's even paying for that kind of thing? I'm honestly asking.
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Wasn't it the goal all along to flatten the curve and gradually introduce herd immunity while softening the impact on hospitals? No one estimates a vaccine any time remotely soon and even with one it would take years at best to achieve
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by mcntsh 6y ago
> Germany is about to get rid of wearing masks in stores. That's like turning off the firewall because the attack is over. It's preventive, so you need to wear a mask before sth happens. There were 140 new cases in Germany yest
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by mcntsh 6y ago
Maybe because their life, family and friends are in the cities they're in? You can have attachments to the place you live in and resent gentrification at the same time.
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Tables are overly verbose and have stylistic limitations. There's just a better tool for the job, and 9 times out of 10 it's going to be flexbox.
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That's a pretty limited perspective. Economic growth doesn't benefit every business and every individual proportionally. I know people in the Bay Area who are worse off now than they were in first dotcom burst because while softwa
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> I am still unable to fathom why he thinks inequality is a problem in and of itself. Hunger, famine, war, disease, we all understand are bad because they have negative consequences on real human lives. Jeff Bezos owning 12% of Amazon do

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