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by moyta 10y ago
I'd say the vote was suppressed, but that is mainly due to how hard it is in the US to vote. You need to be registered to vote months in advance, depending where you live you likely need to show up to a polling place and wait for hours
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by moyta 10y ago
It really is a reflection of how our media values things, shocking content gets airtime, reasonable well formed opinions get minimal airtime. What Ron Paul did inside the republican party, whereby his supporters ran the party at the state l
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by moyta 10y ago
Definitely, there are a ton of libertarians here, to the point that my prior comments in threads like this would fluctuate up & down by 5 to 10 points for a few hours after posting. Was quite fun to watch!
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by moyta 10y ago
It doesn't have to be that way, flattr & the like do provide a viable path to monetary gain for the news industry outside of advertisers. What this means is just like you may have paid for a paper in the past, you should set a budg
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Why is it so hard to back up and restore Signal? Why do you lose your keypair?
2 points by moyta 10y ago|1 comments
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by moyta 10y ago
They could just put an OrangePi Zero in a case and kick it out the door, all they would need to do is slap a HDMI header on there, the PHY is the same. The Allwinner chip they chose is very similar to the H3 chip it appears.
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by moyta 10y ago
Have you looked at the teardown of what this product actually is? Its using a very cheap Allwinner chip inside a plastic case, a similar board can be had for $7[1]. I highly doubt Nintendo is producing much in house, they probably have PCB
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by moyta 10y ago
Well, that and AMD has x86-64 & ARM licensing and experience sitting right there in house, ready for Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, etc to say what IP Blocks they want, with a 3 month lag until that custom chip is ready. Nvidia did make wha
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by moyta 10y ago
Nah, PM stands for Project Manager, the person who coordinates & manages a project to make sure it happens on time and on budget.
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by moyta 10y ago
Sure, they occasionally help out Mary's Place and the like, not disputing that. Many other companies do so too. From what I've heard from Amazon workers, from drinking with them on Cap Hill, or from my own neighbors who work there
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by moyta 10y ago
Quite a few others, to the point that they put on a job fair: http://kuow.org/post/amazon-hires-homeless-workers-and-every...
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by moyta 10y ago
Sure, what I write may be good, but it is polarizing. Its much easier to get karma writing the obvious answer that OP may not know as compared to writing about controversial things like worker protections & how their destruction hurts e
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by moyta 10y ago
Yeah, I'm finding it really quite interesting to watch my total karma vary by 5 to 10 points as people read my comments. Maybe I should graph it on munin, would be interesting. In regards to a union, perhaps that or a guild would be id
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by moyta 10y ago
True true, I didn't say the model wasn't messed up and that practically the same effect didn't occur, but my comment was primarily on the overt wage theft at Amazon, versus the hidden wage theft that occurs as a contractor at
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by moyta 10y ago
Exactly, despite how mobile American workers are, there is a huge cost & risk associated with changing jobs, which gives the employer the upper hand when negotiating with current employees.
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by moyta 10y ago
How is it a load of BS, have you gone and talked to employees at Walmart, Target, Amazon and other major employers? Most feel they have no choice to comply, and if you get even a bit outside the cities on the east or west coast they are rig
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by moyta 10y ago
That is pretty good, just wish the BBC wrote a better article and ended with suggestions on who to contact regarding wage theft & how to organize to fight back against it, instead of ending the article with the Amazon contractor saying
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by moyta 10y ago
Talk to your state's Dept of Labor and Industry. Your state has a hotline for you to anonymously ask if what your employer is doing is legal, and if your employer has other H1B visa holders, you can likely stay anonymous during their i
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by moyta 10y ago
When there is no serious labor movement, and enforcement of labor laws is weak, employers can do practically anything they want.
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by moyta 10y ago
At least here in the states, workers rights are very poor, and Amazon will hire nearly anyone. I know that they were only offering homeless in Seattle & Bellevue nigh shift hours as a temp employee, which meant they could not live in a
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by moyta 10y ago
Nah, you don't see Uber or Lyft contractors having 15% to 30% of their hours driving go completely unpaid. They do mis-classify employees as contractors, but they don't go quite as far as Amazon and many other employers doing wage
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by moyta 10y ago
Is this news? They do this right in their hometown, wage theft by Amazon is an institution. They "ask" employees to come in an hour or two early for a shift, and stay a few hours late. Unless the BBC is trying to organize Amazon w
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by moyta 10y ago
Yea, I say this as I slowly rewrite major chunks of this libre project (all in PHP :P) to be competitive with the titans of the industry in terms of features. I feel like they went to their clients and asked them what they wanted, and didn&
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by moyta 10y ago
Perfect code doesn't exist. The only goal is to accomplish a task good enough, and rewrite as needed, we're humans here, not perfect code writing bots. Ideally your code will do what your business needs it to do, not what people c
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by moyta 10y ago
No, I can definitely tell the difference between the two, I was just trying to give an example of what I experienced in scouting in the US.
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by moyta 10y ago
Depends what troop your son joins, the strong surviving troops that have more than a dozen scouts & stable funding are either filled with atheists & have a few openly gay scouts, or are run by the Mormons. I know in my patrol alone
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by moyta 10y ago
That is really quite sad, outside the Mormon run troops, most are very accepting here in the US, that being said it can get pretty fucked up pretty quick conversation wise. Making me think back to singing "Killing the baby seals"
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by moyta 10y ago
Definitely, if I were forced out of my home, I would be able to hit the ground running with minimal fear. I know what to do to improve my situation when I've been dealt a crap hand thanks to scouts, and how to deal with others around m
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by moyta 10y ago
Damn straight, if I could have the choice I would have thrown my vote away on John McCain this election, I might not agree with most of his positions, but you can definitely respect him. His enduring fight to end and prevent our use of tort
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by moyta 10y ago
Depends on your troop, I know by far we were the best funded troop in our council, but that was purely due to the area we were able to sell christmas trees in. Without that, we would not have been able to get half our troop to go on trips,

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