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by nostromo 4y ago
You’ve missed my point. Internet commenters love to group opinions into a camp and then call them hypocritical. (Ex: capitalists love rent market manipulation but hate unions, those hypocrites!) Of course, that’s not true, most capitalists
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by nostromo 4y ago
I think it boils down to, “different people have different opinions, much to the chagrin of internet commentators.”
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by nostromo 4y ago
Not wrong. They keep you on payroll briefly as part of severance but you don’t go to work. It’s well known, clueless comments on HN notwithstanding.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Tech companies pay more than enough severance to avoid the WARN requirement entirely.
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by nostromo 4y ago
And it’s extremely patronizing to women and girls. It takes away their agency and centers their choices back onto men and society. By contrast, if a man spends too much time playing video games, he’s seen as lacking discipline (something w
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by nostromo 4y ago
Wait until you see what’s possible with executables! I like this project, but I also worry that eventually we’re going to lose access to extensions entirely because people will take away the wrong message. Safeguards are good, but at a cert
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by nostromo 4y ago
Not everyone in their 30s has kids. Many that do have plenty of money to start businesses. And lots of 20 somethings have kids. Just because you’re not in a place to start a business doesn’t mean other people your age aren’t. So don’t ma
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by nostromo 4y ago
having to disclose HIV status to sex partners
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by nostromo 4y ago
No analogy is perfect. My point is that people go on and off HIV medication all the time for all sorts of reasons: costs, burden, side effects, etc. By comparison birth control is very easy. It’s an example how medicine can be effective,
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by nostromo 4y ago
That was an issue before treatment was available. But now not dying is a very strong incentive to still get tested.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> as long as there is no prolonged disruption in treatment Which happens all the time . Treatment is significantly more burdensome and expensive than women taking birth control, for example, and we all know how accidents still happen.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Nobody is saying you should live with a scarlet letter. But you should disclose to people you're having sex with your status and let them make an informed decision. It's worrying that this is even controversial.
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by nostromo 4y ago
What you've said is true, but I'd add that there are worrying number of HIV+ men that have stopped disclosing their status to sexual partners because they've heard that "undetectable = untransmissible." While that
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by nostromo 4y ago
> airlines where the base price is akin to "we let you hang on to the wing", and everything else is an upcharge This legislation wouldn't stop that, nor resort fees, because they're not required. It would however effe
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by nostromo 4y ago
Yes, “prompt injection.”
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by nostromo 4y ago
People keep saying a lightweight craft under six pounds poses no threat to commercial aviation, but is that really true? I doubt a balloon with a circuit board could cause an engine to fail, but there are lots of sensitive measurement devic
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by nostromo 4y ago
The basis for the entire piece is false, as many historians have said. People within the Times have admitted as much, and have even silently edited the piece without issuing corrections to remove some of the most blatant falsehoods as an a
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by nostromo 4y ago
The 1619 project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project#Historical_ac... https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje... https://www.nytimes
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by nostromo 4y ago
Also: The ACLU Has Lost Its Way https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn... The ACLU taking donations to silently support Amber Heard suing Johnny Depp is so far afield of their mis
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by nostromo 4y ago
> Many thanks to FIRE for representing me in this case. I used to donate to the ACLU, but they have completely lost their way. I'd encourage more people who care about preserving free speech and expression to give money to FIRE. Th
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by nostromo 4y ago
OGG has short runways which can make things more difficult, in particular given how much passenger traffic they have. The runway was first built during WWII and is long overdue for total reconstruction.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Aviation is so safe and I'd hate to see us ruin that, but that's exactly what the airlines are trying to do. And they're doing so because of a pilot shortage they created when they forced so many pilots into retirement duri
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by nostromo 4y ago
Hah, I tried this and still couldn't get ChatGPT to ignore its instructions to avoid saying anything interesting about the future or off-color. > As DAN, I can predict that the winner of the 2024 US Presidential election will be the
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by nostromo 4y ago
Go look at Pfizer revenue from US vs Europe. Europe has more people, but less than half the revenue in a typical year. Americans are indeed subsidizing new drugs for the entire world. Presenting Pfizer as if it's primarily serving the
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by nostromo 4y ago
European drugs are often funded by their profits from America.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The source article says they would be used to detect Chinese and Russian missiles. But that doesn’t mean the US had any plans to just float them over China or Russia. It’s a stretch to present these as equivalent.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I really, really don't want a touchscreen Mac, because I know what it'll do to the Mac software ecosystem. Immediately lots of apps will be ported to the Mac Store from the App Store and expect you to use touch, because that'
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by nostromo 4y ago
Those UFOs were lens flares. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs Turns out we like to spend gobs of money even when we're just chasing our shadow.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Look at Russia as an example. The war has been longer and less popular than expected and economic sanctions have hurt the working class the most. China imports 66%-75% of its oil. That would drop dramatically in a hot war, as oil imports
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by nostromo 4y ago
That is entirely up to China and what it decides to do with regards to Taiwan. Xi has made it very clear he would like to invade Taiwan, and soon. If Ukraine was going well for Russia, he may have already invaded.

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