mrguyorama

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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
The simple solution is the one Europe adopted: Just cap fees. We do this for Debit cards and it's fine. >It's not clear to me what the net benefit is of a credit card over a debit card. In a fair scheme, the net benefit to the
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
>When Epic game store lowered its fee not a single game got cheaper for the buyers. At least one reason for this is that Valve has language in their agreements to prevent you from selling your game cheaper on other storefronts. Unambiguo
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
Why was that not a problem in the mid 1800s when we crisscrossed the entire country with railroads and telegraph cables? Sure is funny how FDR had us spend a little cash 100 years ago to ensure even the remotest farm gets electricity, and w
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
Jeeze. Bad week. Two absolute icons. And at the worst time too. I was really looking to escape to the only place not corrupted by capitalism..... SPAAACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
Prisoners in most states are literally underfed, and then "allowed" to buy more food, like a single packet of ramen for a whole dollar. This is because many states are full of people who are both weirdly "Free market"
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
Nebula has many of the better creators from Youtube. Nebula has no comments section. I find this to be a big indicator that it is built to enable creators to deliver good videos to their fans, rather than serving some other master.
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
My step sister came out of no where at a family gathering to swear Helen Keller was a fraud. I was fairly put off by this, so I pressed her to explain. After much back and forth, she finally got down to what had convinced her of this: &quot
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
AI cannot break physics. AI cannot magically make engines more efficient or CO2 not a greenhouse gas.
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
Every single front end employee in the new england grocery chain has cleaned the toilets. Every single employee in a fast food establishment has cleaned toilets, including the horrors you blame on homeless people, like shit smeared on thing
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
This is even true of Americans in America! Someone from bumbfuck nowhere visits one big city and generalizes their experience, good or bad. Or how all of HN is constantly convinced that the entire US is only SV or NYC, which is why they c
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
>If someone’s forcing society to pay for their living expenses, But the mentally unwell person didn't force society to pay for their living expenses. Society decided it couldn't stand them living their life the way they were
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
The primary shelter for my city is across the road from me. All the strung out, chronic homeless people hang out next door at the post office, because it's public property. They also hang out around my building, on the two streets arou
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by mrguyorama 1mo ago
You can't build that kind of shanty town in the US because the cops will come and steal all your shit. Otherwise it's exactly what homeless people in the US want to be able to do. Often times, these "sweeps" just trash
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
It should be helping you to understand just how absurdly cheap per unit a commodity consumer product is. Vs how much you pay for it.
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
It had to be made illegal to ask in the states, because so many employers used that information in an adversarial way. In places that don't have such a history, there's no reason for it to be taboo.
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
People need to understand this took decades of regulation, lawsuits, and political action to make electricity as nice as it is.
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
None of us took a test to be here. There's zero filter that could cause this effect.
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
Welbutrin, while having some sort of stimulant effect, and often prescribed for ADHD, is not at all the same as real stimulant medications. It often helps people with ADHD because they have been prescribed this almost-stimulant to anxiety o
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
It's called "Adverse Childhood Experiences", or ACEs, and the field of psychology has found them to be extremely good predictors of future negative outcomes for a long time now. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ar
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
This is because it's an airport and there are tens of thousands of gallons of kerosene around, including several gallons per minute per running jet engine actively burning and turning into combustion products. Even in a perfectly wor
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
The conditions that trigger the "Fuel like smell" of kerosene is that you are in a place where thousands of gallons of actual kerosene are handled, moved, spilled, and burned every day. The air quality at an airport is horrific, i
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
It helps smart people be barely more effective and helps dumb (more importantly, people who do not value effort, people who are lazy, people who are self absorbed) people shit out endless streams of worthless tokens that can swamp out eve
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
Middle management was all cut so all managers have 30 direct reports and "Don't have time" to do more than a couple 1:1s per year.
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
For Populous, see https://store.steampowered.com/app/319560/Reprisal_Universe/ It's very much a similar game.
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
Ah yes, the problem is that the workers have too much power! Not that, you know, there is clear evidence that police departments just don't put any effort into fixing problems. Ask any former cop. Unions aren't magic. In any other
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
You know fiction is.... not real, right? We have several films about the sun or earth needing to be restarted with a nuclear weapon. That doesn't make it something we should be concerned about. Hell, half the fiction about evil AI is a
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
The police officer is saying that he is so brain damaged or otherwise incapable of self control, rational thought, and restraint, that an attractive woman existing in his presence caused him to immediately commit many crimes to see her
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
>the solution is not to have the power exist at all, anywhere. This is nonsensical. The power always exists, it's just your fellow human beings doing things, to you, around you, with you, without you. You cannot do anything to not
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
The problem is not a lack of ethics courses. Many CS programs have those ethics courses. The problem is all the techbros who take those ethics courses and laugh at them as easy and pointless and don't care about them. There's a lo
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by mrguyorama 2mo ago
Maine has hundreds and hundreds of homeless people still, despite below 0 weather for much of the year, including a famous case of a guy who lived in the woods for like a decade.

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