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by nverno 5y ago
It's not just a run of the mill worker's strike, though, it's tactically ingenious- they were able to put huge pressure on people very quickly without ever needing to get violent or aggressive. Good for them.
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Did you look at the pedestrian deaths graph/100,000 at the bottom of that page? It's not just 'broadly to 50 years ago', the number of deaths has been decreasing, or pretty steady that whole time. Anyway, it was more jus
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by nverno 5y ago
This article seems pretty misleading. Looking at the historical trends [1], there were more pedestrian deaths per year 50 years ago. And that is before taking into account that the population has doubled since then! There is clearly an up
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by nverno 5y ago
I agree, it doesn't seem to be working as well as you'd hope. I wonder how much of that is due to people not taking advantage of the opportunity for cheap money, either because they don't know about it, or have no ideas how t
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by nverno 5y ago
It's entertainment, for the most part, and always has been. Crosswords have been popular in the NYT forever.
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by nverno 5y ago
> They just give it right to the finance industry I don't think this is the whole story. It passes through the finance industry, but when interest rates are low, everyone outside the finance industry (who is taking out loans) benef
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The data they used was ~3/4 USA, 1/4 UK.
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by nverno 5y ago
I actually thought it was a study in a foreign language until getting to the bottom half. I did just buy a carpet the other day, but I don't think that involved any of those textile words.
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by nverno 5y ago
But, that's not a valid argument anymore since the vaccine is freely available and not so effective at stopping the spread. Anyway, people live in such different circumstances- some people may live in near isolation already, it's
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by nverno 5y ago
Regardless, I don't think ignorance would be a valid legal defense, despite whether someone recognizes random sequences of bits as personal property or not.
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by nverno 5y ago
Everyone dies, and nearly every death could have been temporarily postponed had the person done something differently. Choosing how to live and how desperately to fight for those extra minutes is part of handling your own shit. Helping an
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by nverno 5y ago
You gotta remember the average 'layperson' is just as smart as you. Do you need people worrying about what information you see or hear? It's like worrying people will be corrupted by South Park, gangster rap, etc., etc. The
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by nverno 5y ago
The story of the turmoil at Evergreen college [1] a few years ago has enough similarity. Kids there cornered, berated, and essentially held hostage professors- it's pretty unbelievable. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by nverno 5y ago
Skepticism is a far cry from general negativity and pessimism. The relative scarcity of ad hominem attacks on HN is one of the most notable differences to other popular message boards. Personally, I appreciate the open attack on ideas and
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by nverno 5y ago
Maybe for some types of wealth, like land, water, etc., eg. serfdom. But, clearly not for NFTs, stocks, gold, etc.
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by nverno 5y ago
An incentive, not an obligation. No one is indebted to you if you dig up a pot of gold in your backyard.
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by nverno 5y ago
You could group people by hair color or eye color as well, without reference to any society. But, the social importance of that grouping could vary greatly between societies. Eg. not many people care about who is an Ionian or an Achaean i
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by nverno 5y ago
They can also distinguish at a much finer level than the typical black, white, asian races. It's a social construct because the cutoff for being one or the other is determined by whatever matters to people in a society, not because sc
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by nverno 5y ago
> Going after yachts, alone, is stupid virtue signalling I don't think people should "go after yachts" or that the labor market is unjust. People are as free as ever to choose where to work. Saying otherwise is simply a l
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by nverno 5y ago
It only makes sense to fine the corporations if they have high margins/highly overpaid higher-ups. A blanket law like this would just punish all the businesses that are barely getting by with huge labor cost increases.
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by nverno 5y ago
> Among the 81 cases, the most common symptoms were cough (83%), followed by runny/stuffy nose (78%), fatigue/lethargy (74%), sore throat (72%), headache (68%) and fever (54%) Sounds like the symptoms of a typical cold. I gues
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by nverno 5y ago
> If I do this while refusing to show any real proof of it and, when cornered by the truth, I claim that it was just my opinion and should be respected... well, this is a different issue. If that 'public figure' is the governme
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by nverno 5y ago
By this metric, everyone's personal opinions/worries/etc. are anti-democratic. The only pro-democratic material, with all the 'facts' and data, would be that put forth by the people with access to said information,
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by nverno 5y ago
Table four from the Twelve Tables [1]: > A father has the right to kill his deformed child. These were laws in ancient Rome, not Greece, but the societies shared many beliefs and customs. Not that this is proof one way or the other abou
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by nverno 5y ago
> It's obvious to everyone that neither Trump nor his supporters are oppressed, suppressed or censored in any meaningful way, and certainly not to the degree that they claim. Well, I'm not a Trump supporter, and have no horses
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by nverno 5y ago
Trump is banned from at least Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube- so it's not like Trump supporters have zero basis for their complaints. I think these platforms are generally considered mainstream, so being forced out of them can be pret
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by nverno 5y ago
There are a few, one of the popular ones on this site, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd1705 shows the results are pretty similar in different fields [[a search for "replication" on hackerne
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by nverno 5y ago
Defunding the police, along with every other policy, applies well in some areas and poorly in others. When I was a kid, our town decided to defund the police, cutting the force from 3 to 1 officers IIRC. It made sense because there was no
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by nverno 5y ago
It doesn't say anything about them being journalists, but instead that the guy was an 'operational' al-Qaeda target, and his kid an innocent victim. How is this an attack on free press?

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