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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Most of your points I'm ignoring Easier than a counterpoint, sure. > Sure it can happen, but there needs to be actual evidence before anyone should assume it is widespread. Do[1] you[2] read[3] the[4] news[5]? [1] https:/
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
I'm not talking about Zuck trying to buy a personality in the form of a custom yacht. I'm talking about Epstein and people like that who prefer to rent people against their will, or the Sacklers who will gladly set ethics and deat
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
"Alongside a minimum corporate tax rate, the pact includes provisions to ensure that multinational companies pay tax where they generate sales and profits, and not just where they have a physical presence. That could have major ramific
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Everyone at a university is taking the same test with the same expectations, usually to some national or international standard for that field of study. Each FAANG has their own set of tests that are not standard or internally consistent, e
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Adjust that for the fact that they have basically no rational reason whatsoever to commit crimes They may have no rational reason to fear prosecution, but they commit crimes all the time. Becoming untouchably wealthy does not remove ba
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
They aren't even held accountable when they sell products that spark a nationwide overdose epidemic. "That may seem like a lot of money, but billionaire math can be deceptive. The Sacklers proposed to pay the $4.5 billion out over
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
I agree generally, but I think the reason executives lean on seniority is because they have no confidence in their own team to make a good technical hire, or spending a lot time/money/effort on the hiring process isn't a prio
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Or do they just memorize the answers Yes, and guess where they learned it from? Regurgitation and handing in "something" on time can pretty easily get you a degree, even at a top tier school. That will get you further at most
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
When you don't have a good argument, it is best to stick with hypothetical situations. As soon as you move from straw men like "imagine three firms" to reality -- let's say, any F500 company -- it's too obvious that
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
It absolutely is. When your boss asks for overtime and weekends to support the company in a startup culture, they take the most valuable thing any of us has. The exchange is about more than money and time: they are also expected to pour the
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> I'm arguing about the feasibility of it in light of naive statements. I have directly addressed your question with the fact that already a third of Americans are in a single payer system, and most of the world has a single payer o
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Obama has also been endorsing Medicare For All since 2018. From an article about that subject: "The facts are undeniable. Citizens of developed countries with variations of single-payer systems — Britain, Germany, France, etc. — pay ro
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Deep down he knows that all he did was create a cleaner version of MySpace at the perfect moment. He's used that lottery ticket to acquire companies built by people smarter than he is, and he'll keep trying to tie their genuine in
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
It was an anecdote about how complicated the US system is. Other countries figured out decades ago that adding competition to healthcare does not bring down the price or lead to better life expectancy. It is not complicated. https:/&#
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
It's not that complicated. When we setup competition for infrastructure, we needlessly duplicate management, marketing, accounting, and everything else that does not directly result in the service being provided. The US is doubly idiot
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Five nines uptime only exists in the mainframe world. Everywhere else it's a requirement set by someone in management, which is met by the vendor in their marketing material. It's never achieved over the long term, but enough time
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
That's why Vienna mixes subsidized housing and regular housing, often in the same building. They also allow families to stay in their housing or purchase it as long as they pay the higher rate related to their rising income.[1] The pro
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Posted in another thread, but there is a very interesting theory about why Germany has stable housing prices compared to other nations. This funding model may also explain why local municipalities are against multi-family housing, which is
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
I am helping a few people getting started with web dev, and I have had good success using Svelte. It's not necessarily the best choice if you're trying to start a resume to get hired, but if you're trying to get comfortable w
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Germany is nearly halfway to replacing fossil fuels and nuclear power, other countries are even further along (though they are smaller). Pretty sure they qualify as a modern human civilizations. I've heard nonsense claims against renew
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
That's something that can certainly happen in the lifetime of my grandchildren, if I have any. The problem is that even a two or three foot rise in seas (the current projection for Miami in 2060) requires trillions of dollars across th
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> That seems like pure nonsense and perhaps a way to market their goofy experiment to gullible journalists. Grasslands evolved in symbiotic relationships with the animals that tread on them, just as in any other part of the biosphere. As
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
You can't claim that taxation is a complex subject, yet begin by asking simplistic questions about it. Even then the concept is easy to understand, and expected rational behavior: the wealthy evade taxes because they like money and use
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Rich white dudes have a lot of empathy for other rich white dudes.
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
"collude: cooperate in a secret or unlawful way in order to deceive or gain an advantage over others" Shareholder votes are public, but anonymous. The more typical scenario is that you hold on to the shares and create demand for t
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
'The Illinois-based worker explained that once the $15 minimum wage was enacted, part-time employee hours at their store were cut from an average of 30 to 21 hours a week, and full-time employees saw average hours reduced from 37.5 hou
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
They could start by ceasing their union busting efforts. Last year they posted a job looking for a senior intelligence analyst to gather info on "sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Yes, because instead of just paying higher wages and letting individuals decide what they'd like to spend their money on, they have this PR stunt. Amazon gets some free marketing, another tax write off, and they can use this as evidenc
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
The EU is already dependent on other regions because without imported synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals, they won't be able to produce the same yields anyway. Most countries there already have 10% or more farmland dedicated to
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Social Security is solvent if you remove the income cap. Right now, if you make $140k annually, you pay into social security as much as Jeff Bezos does. You'd also have to figure out how to eliminate other tax loopholes at the same tim

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