notaustinpowers

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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
IDK man, I think arresting people for just existing in public who have nowhere else to go is a morally reprehensible act and has no right existing in a form of government that should operate under the best interest of it's citizens. Bu
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
"Congrats, still doesn't mean that a homeless person should die in a ditch on the side of the road as some form of karmic balance."
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Have you seen the housing market in the past few years? Skyrocketing interest rates and construction levels not seen since before 2007, all which (to any economist who passed ECON 101 would say would lower housing costs) and homes are still
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
And saying "just build more houses" isn't going to solve it either.
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Great, if only 9% of vacant homes are what a normal person would think of as a vacant home, we can still give every homeless person 2 homes each! The issue has never been housing inventory in an effort to making housing more affordable. If
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Would you rather they slept in the sewers?
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
There are enough vacant homes in the US to give every homeless person 25 homes. That is not the root cause of the problem.
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
It's now, effectively, illegal to just exist as a homeless person. Sleeping in your car? Jail. Sleeping under a bridge? Jail. Sleeping on a park bench? Jail. Sleeping in the woods? Jail.
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
If you don't trust professionals or experts in their field then there's no reason to have a discussion on this. Let's just replace the government with a Magic 8 Ball.
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
> Expertise carries zero weight in a democracy other than it's ability to persuade voters. Would you rather the "holistic healer" who says only drinking green juice for a week to "detox" your kidneys make laws? O
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
It's even a more blatant lie because 404media found the credentials in a Telegram group. So, yeah, there's no way this wasn't exploited by multiple people.
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Who knows, maybe in the future one of those opinion pieces may be the first digital record about a specific topic found by some future civilization. In the same way that the Complaint Tablet to Ea-Nāṣir doesn't provide much historical
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Because we don't need AI in our lives as everyday consumers. For business uses, it makes some sense (code completion, proof reading, rewriting, etc). This isn't a product for consumers, this is a product for shareholders. Apple&#x
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
>Then you don't know kids I'm the oldest of 5 siblings and have helped multiple family members, friends, and neighbors with their kids. I feel comfortable enough to say that I do know kids. In total, I'd say I've help
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
I get where you're coming from, but times have drastically changed. I feel we'd see better results in teaching kids from a young age how to responsibly use smartphones, use them for research, fact-checking, how to protect themselv
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
True, I wish there was more information and data on this across networks like that (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, etc). I makes me wonder if this information is intentionally withheld so those who want to make money as a content creat
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
I would be more interested in knowing the percentage of those who are attempting to make a profit creating content but haven't earned any money yet. I believe on YouTube it's something like only 0.25% of channels make any money.
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Yeah, that's shitty, and it's no excuse, but I understand that, as a company, Proton will still have to comply with Swiss law, and if Swiss law requires IP Address monitoring in "extreme criminal cases" which I doubt Pro
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
If a government says "Give us everything you have on this user", and Proton gives them a sheet of paper that says "Here's the primary email for the account, we don't have access to anything else", the order is
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
You're making multiple conjectures to get to that conclusion, of which the only evidence presented is another company based in a different country than Proton. It may be true, it may not be, but there needs to be more information or fa
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
From the same transparency report page, they refuse any requests from countries that are not Switzerland, and only provide information to Swiss authorities when necessary (I.E. valid international legal assistance, violations of Swiss law,
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
The content is only a part of it. We are a species specially-suited to pick up on others emotional states and factor that in our responses. A mismatch in response to certain emotions is going to cause further problems as, to an angry custom
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
This idea that OP has that someone's intellectual ability has to somehow be geared towards furthering humanity is, to me, dangerous and ultimately unproductive. Yes, we are creatures who value productivity and creativity, but it's
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Exactly, VC's and Wall Street hate sustainable growth, or stability (they call it stagnation). Instead, it has to be pedal to the metal growth quarter after quarter, more money, more value, more customers, all of which are finite res
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
I'm young, so a lot of my experience is mainly from being a kid/teen that was enamored by the tech industry, to joining in on the tail end (early 2010's). In the 90's/2000's, the tech industry was seen as the p
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Archive: https://archive.ph/xlh7n
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
> biggest pride parades in the world Do you mean NYC Pride or Sao Paolo Gay Pride Parade?
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Because of the 535 politicians we have, 45 of them have received donations just during the 2024 election cycle. Big names like Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, Mitt Romney, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, etc. It's bipartisan
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
There's a few different aspects: They're using non-publicly data provided by their friends/partners to set rental rates. This data includes lease length terms, de-marketing reasons, etc. They then use this data to set a price
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by notaustinpowers 2y ago
I live in Atlanta so I'm familiar with vacancy rates here. This data from Costar shows it's the highest in the nation and has gone up around 60% around 7.5% to 12% since Q1 2021. https://www.costar.com/article&#x2F

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