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by mulmen 2y ago
> Where does this wish to spread baseless misinformation come from? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668637
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by mulmen 2y ago
Sure if all employees are in one office. As soon as you need to talk to someone who is in another location and you’re right back to email and video calls.
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by mulmen 2y ago
You made an assumption of intent. You could have just pointed out the Samsung product.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Hard to say. Profit per sale doesn't tell the whole story. Mach E and F150 Lightning help Ford offset the CAFE contribution of their high margin gas guzzling cars and trucks. How much would they be making on Mustangs if they had to
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by mulmen 2y ago
> How is that different than “anything”? Because the possible values are known. > What greater insight or context do we have if it’s a small-int null? The insight is that null is not a value. It’s not a smallint or a boolean or a dat
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by mulmen 2y ago
> which is the business that all of the large social media companies are in. I agree with you. If this is the case and money is speech, can a well-intentioned organization just collect donations to advance their message? Like when Phili
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by mulmen 2y ago
It’s not. Your link makes the same mistake I already addressed. It conflates nullable booleans with tri-state logic. Null is not a value. It is the absence of a value. > The SQL null value basically means “could be anything”. This is
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by mulmen 2y ago
SQL is not three valued. Neither is NULL . BOOLEAN is accused of being three-valued but it has two values and like all values they can be unknown. Similarly a SMALLINT has 65,536 possible values not 65,537.
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by mulmen 2y ago
It’s not and it’s not, respectively.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Volunteers aren’t forced to work so no, they aren’t slaves.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Larger in terms of acres but what about damage? When was a town wiped off the map by fire and there was no news coverage?
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by mulmen 2y ago
When was the last time a fire of this scale and destruction occurred but wasn't headline news?
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by mulmen 2y ago
Then that is the basis of our disagreement. I can’t consider the practice ethical given my understanding of economics, human nature, and history. These two Wikipedia pages show examples of why I don’t think this practice is ethical. https
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by mulmen 2y ago
> What's your definition of slave? A person who is forced to do work. > Are you saying that they are slaves no matter what? They are slaves as long as they are forced to work. > What would make them not slaves? Not being force
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by mulmen 2y ago
The desire to escape is strong in prison when the decision to fight fires is made. The self preservation instinct doesn’t kick in until the danger becomes real at which point it is too late. This difference in perception is what prison lab
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Slave labor is the labor of a slave. Removing the labor does not remove the slavery. What is happening in California is indentured servitude. I consider that to be a form of slavery. The labor is precisely what makes it slavery. >
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by mulmen 2y ago
Professional firefighters have to compete with prisoners for pay depressing firefighting wages. Prisoners have to do dangerous work and suffer long term health consequences for no compensation. Reduced sentences don’t count because the bas
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Where is the requirement to work and how does it punish them additionally? Forced prison labor is legal in California. This means if a prisoner refuses to work they can be punished for that refusal. This could be with solitary confin
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by mulmen 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for pointing that out.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Yes, exactly! And the presence of a choice in labor doesn’t change the fact that they’re slaves.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Right, this is the loophole in the human psyche that California is exploiting in their slaves.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Taking the option away doesn't help anyone. Except firefighters, prisoners, and society.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> The human mind is hard-wired to want to explore and get out. We also have a self preservation instinct.
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by mulmen 2y ago
Open ocean sure but I can see orcas from my house. The average person is still going to know to swim to land and forage for food, even if they fail. But orcas won’t have the first idea how to navigate self checkout. Why is the human naked
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Shouldn’t have built expensive houses for a start Why not?
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by mulmen 2y ago
That's longer than an Orca will live in a Wal Mart.
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by mulmen 2y ago
The problem with running prisons like a business is that they scale so well.
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by mulmen 2y ago
> Can you really be innocent while being a high level leader of an organization that is widely seen acting unethical by majority of the population? Yes. Loud social media trolls should not be considered as representative of the majority
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by mulmen 2y ago
Yeah to me this sounds like letting slaves pick their bunks. It’s technically autonomy but not in any meaningful way. It’s certainly not a free person choosing their living arrangements. I guess if you don’t consider prison labor to be sl
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by mulmen 2y ago
> yeah, I expect there are some foundational differences in world view at play. Agree. I find it fascinating that perspectives can be so different. > It it is sought after because it is an improvement over the alternative. Yep, no ob

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