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by nrb 8y ago
That site appears to be changing tons per ticket based on flight class to try to capture a higher donation.
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by nrb 8y ago
I pulled that number from http://co2offsets.sustainabletravelinternational.org/ua/offs... which takes into account origin and destination, any additional legs, and month of the year. SFO -> JFK direct round-trip in
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by nrb 8y ago
I was referring to cultures experienced and perspective gained more than terrain covered. Most people today cannot afford to travel as slowly as he had the great fortune of doing. I agree that a carbon offset doesn't absolve you of res
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by nrb 8y ago
I think never traveling beyond a 30-mile radius is more detrimental to society as a whole than an occasional flight. After all, a carbon offset for a round-trip cross-country commercial flight is about $10 which can at least mitigate that i
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by nrb 8y ago
> (Free) Money (Awarded To Lottery Winners) Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life
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by nrb 8y ago
I responded with an extreme example because of your extreme conflation of "needing to do some type of work of your choosing" with wage slavery. You seem to be ignoring the central point that you GET TO CHOOSE THAT WORK.
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by nrb 8y ago
Sure you do have a choice; you can go live in the wilderness and live entirely self-sufficiently. Just because a choice is unreasonable to you doesn't make it less of a choice. More importantly (and my entire point) is that you have a
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by nrb 8y ago
A non-incarcerated person has agency. They have a choice of what work to do, where that work takes place, when to work, the ability to negotiate wages, etc.
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by nrb 8y ago
I never commented on the behavior of Microsoft because they have nothing to do with the topic at hand: Google being held to a standard that THEY established when they said they were getting out of China (at least partially) because of ongoi
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by nrb 8y ago
Yeah, I equated the two concepts: they created rules to specify what they do and don't want on their platform. Sorry if it came across as them deciding arbitrarily on the fly.
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by nrb 8y ago
The following are not equal: 1) Google has decided that it does not want this content on their platform. 2) The totalitarian government has decided that nobody can access this content on any platform.
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by nrb 8y ago
Google, by their own admission, was supporting totalitarianism in censoring search results before they decided to stop doing so several years ago. I don't see what Microsoft has to do with holding Google to their own self-established s
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by nrb 8y ago
"The government" is people. Are you arguing that society, collectively, should not establish a system of rules that reflects their social norms?
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by nrb 8y ago
The main issue with this approach is that running your lambda in a VPC results in painfully slow cold starts, on AWS at least.
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by nrb 8y ago
> our success is more important than some animal's success. Why?
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by nrb 8y ago
Advertisers don’t want their ads displayed alongside “adult” content, this is strictly a financial decision.
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by nrb 8y ago
The fee is a deterrent so that sites don’t spam appeals for their blatantly outside-the-rules content.
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by nrb 8y ago
That 8% number sounds astoundingly high for the US, does anyone have any data to corroborate this?
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by nrb 8y ago
Perhaps it could also be at least partly related to the systemic and indiscriminate killing of people of color by police forces across the entire country. I can't say I blame would-be "good cop" cadets deciding not to join th
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by nrb 8y ago
"Workers have to fight hard and endure a long time for every $ of income. Investors on the other hand will never be satisfied with their piece, they will always need more, and sooner not later."
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by nrb 9y ago
Not sure what you're talking about... nothing in our Constitution prevents this outright. This is already in action to some degree in the US: employers are already able to use criminal background, public records, and (in many places) c
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by nrb 9y ago
Just because you aren't doing browser fingerprinting doesn't mean the third-party script you are loading into the user's browser isn't.
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by nrb 9y ago
That's only part of the equation. Survival often necessitates taking a sub-optimal deal. Employees are very more likely to be forced into this position than an employer, who can often survive with reduced staff.
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by nrb 9y ago
Indeed, this one of the many reasons some night clubs have bathroom attendants.
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by nrb 9y ago
Not entirely random: you need a place to set your drink while using the restroom.
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by nrb 9y ago
This program goes beyond branding efforts, according to the report[1] the partner program includes: - high-effort engineering engagements - early tech engagement - launch partner status - game bundling - sales rebate programs - social media
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by nrb 9y ago
Where will climate change be the root cause of mass migration?
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by nrb 9y ago
Using that math, the initial investment of 15000 returned 4000x
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by nrb 9y ago
Skipping the resume filter meaning making it to starting the phone screen process in the first place.
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by nrb 9y ago
1. If you are out of town and trying to relocate to SF, they handle all the scheduling, travel, lodging, and transportation for you. 2. Skips past the resume filter, HR phone screen, and technical phone screen. After you've gone throug

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