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by moate 5y ago
I worked in pricing and I always framed it as a scale with "Greed" on the left and "Customer Service" on the right and the 2 ideas being in a tug of war. Greed wants to charge customers infinite money and provide 0 produ
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by moate 5y ago
Sometimes I like to use the following example when it comes to semantics and discourse: If you start a sentence with the phrase "This isn't a sex thing, but..." no matter what you say afterwards will be interpreted as having
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by moate 5y ago
Oh I get that, but that's my point. Saying "this isn't a conspiracy theory because that phrase has negative connotations I don't want associated with MY conspiracy theory" isn't going to make it not a conspirac
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by moate 5y ago
Let's break down the phrase: "Conspiracy": A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful; the action of plotting or conspiring. "Theory": A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain somethi
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by moate 5y ago
Partially incorrect. The artist was paid a fee as well as provided money to use for the piece and to purchase/frame it. This article didn't make entirely clear which of that money they're asking for.
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by moate 5y ago
Imagine the (very?) likely clown shoes scenario of the museum holding him in breach of contract, being required to return the pieces, and then watching them sell for a cool million at auction. Look at what just happened with the Banksy shre
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by moate 5y ago
Point of order: it's not JUST the US, it is most of the world.
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by moate 5y ago
Because "free market solutions adoption" doesn't happen. We live in a society, and there are some amount of beliefs shared by large groups within that society(In this case, "wearing a seatbelt isn't a personal choic
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by moate 5y ago
EMT's who have to come to the scene: Not you Doctors in the ER who have to treat you: Not you. People injured as a result of your body flying around: Not you Seatbelts save lives and lower the costs for everyone by not required additio
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by moate 5y ago
Depends on your needs. If you're selling a phone as a set of individual component parts, I'm never going to buy the latest/greatest camera because I don't use my phone for that. That means that over the 5 years I own thi
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by moate 5y ago
Presumably you'd be able to swap out some hardware to be able to increase ram/processor performance. If I were designing this as a real product I'd still make some choices similar to the megacorps (yearly product releases bei
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by moate 5y ago
So this whole thing is just a push for Right to Repair laws? I get that most hardware companies want to go full John Deere/Apple on this, but that's an issue with the hardware/software integration. An iPhone is made of the sa
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by moate 5y ago
What forces, and what biases are you talking about specifically? Why have they lost credibility in your eyes?
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by moate 5y ago
I realize grammatically I fucked that one up: I would be better off without them. The world would also be better off without them.
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by moate 5y ago
I would advise you not try and make any assumptions about someone else's situation based on about 4 sentences in the comments' section. The world would be better off without them, nevermind me.
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by moate 5y ago
Oh I haven't spoken to my parents in 2 years. Don't worry, that's taken care of.
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by moate 5y ago
Not so fast! When it comes to demographics for groups, things don't always break down along populations. Think about how there we don't see women as ~51% of computer engineers. That said, previous numbers show that gun ownership b
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by moate 5y ago
I specifically said "less likely". Less is not always "none". I may be willing to befriend .00001% of their userbase today compared to .0001% 10 years ago. Let's bring this back: Of course there are interesting, wor
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by moate 5y ago
I just don't know people that still use Facebook with any regularity. I understand selection bias is at play (I'm inclined to hang out with people like myself, and I think Facebook is a flaming trash-pit). I made friends on Facebo
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by moate 5y ago
Not trying to come at you here, but is the implication of this statement I only think I want millions of dollars and no responsibility to a job/"the grass is always greener"?
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by moate 5y ago
Giong to make some bold guesses here: This is a single man without children. The idea of a single guy in his mid-20s being unable to find meaning in his life seems pretty normal. I'm not saying getting married or having kids mean you&#
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by moate 5y ago
As someone in that cohort who was also there for the "glory" days of early FB (when you had to have a college email to sign up), I have to agree that at this point the idea of making friends on FB weirds me out. How? Why? FB is wh
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by moate 5y ago
Meetup? Am I missing something that FB offered vs Meetup other than user base? (TBH, I never used FB to meet new people, just encourage relationships with people I had met elsewhere and I haven't been on the platform in years)
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by moate 5y ago
>>Maybe it's better to keep your mouth shut when giving feedback to females. Again, Why risk your entire career for one person? That's my logic at least. I hope that doesn't mean I am sexist. Here's your simple tes
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by moate 5y ago
Any, depending on content! If you don't think "doggo discussion" is a liability, you don't understand how passionate people get about dogs.
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by moate 5y ago
I think you should look some of this stuff up. Your expectations aren't really in line with the law. As someone else has posted, once you let a little non-job related material in ("cute doggo pics!!!") you're almost alwa
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by moate 5y ago
Just out of curiosity: what are your thoughts on Unions, the epitome of "employer hosted employee activism"? Of course management is going to be least tolerant of things that represent financial risk to them, and there's noth
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by moate 5y ago
Set up honey-pots to demonstrate labor abuses? Now there's something I can get behind.
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by moate 5y ago
At that point, who cares? You live somewhere else, not your problem. That's sorta the whole point of leaving a country for political reasons, you feel it's unfixable and not worth hanging around. It's defeatist and doesn&#x27
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by moate 5y ago
Maybe? Let's get some definitions: Who counts as a journalist/reporter? Who should we be respecting? Of course "person who writes articles published in print news" is going away. But is the guy writing a well researched

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