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by olliej 2y ago
There’s so much wrong with this. The people paying the property taxes are the tenants. Except they’re paying market rate for the property while the owner pays far below that actual rate. In other words the artificially lowered tax rate is j
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by olliej 2y ago
Executives get large amount of their compensation in stock, and also get pretty direct control of the value of that stock (oh no! We did a bad job and our stock price will drop! Let’s use company money to buy back stock to push the value up
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Businesses in CA got people to vote for prop13 in the 70s I think (the propaganda justifying it was essentially “the Supreme Court said your property taxes have to pay for the same quality of education for poor people”, but the actual reaso
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by olliej 2y ago
Yeah I recently looked at rent costs down in the South Bay (thinking “tiny shitty apartment to avoid 12-15 hours of mandatory commuting 3 days a week”) and it’s insane - like “more than my mortgage payments” insane.
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They also don’t care about any other issues presented by vets. There’s always money for another multimillion dollar demo day or training exercise but not enough for medical care.
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by olliej 2y ago
Super clickbait title here. They’re doing what seems to be literally the standard for windows anti cheat. That they’re Chinese owned is moot as worrying about evil Chinese government hackers is to me a secondary concern to the long and il
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by olliej 2y ago
No, the issue is not “mugshots” bad it’s “automatic enforcement mechanisms with a very well documented tendency to produce false positives” are bad. The issue is not “facial recognition to prevent fare dodging”, it’s facial recognition to p
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The issue isn’t “is there a fallback” it’s “there is incredible bias in who has to use those fallbacks, who has to schedule trips allowing for that fallback, and who gets erroneously subjected to false imprisonment”. If all people regardles
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by olliej 2y ago
The problem is that that’s essentially what most “facial recognition” systems used for law enforcement and adjacent do: they filter by skin color - false positives are overwhelmingly black.
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Under Finnish law he isn’t - his prior crimes were a long time ago (caught anyway), and largely afaict while he was a kid. Most countries don’t treat children as adults, and in many - as here - crimes committed as a child get cleared. I get
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by olliej 2y ago
I like that the dude posted a video of himself being arrested as “FBI Arrested by Dumb Cops” where everyone blindly accepts that account as truth. So great.
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I mean “investors” in the WSJ sense always want either profit now, even if it tanks the company in the long term, or BS hype wagon to drive the stock up, again regardless of the long term impact. The WSJ acts as though the only portion of t
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by olliej 2y ago
It remains absurd that we have a mechanism that n the road to allow self driving” cars, but only if there’s a person in the drivers seat that has greater focus and skill than an airline pilot.
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by olliej 2y ago
There hasn't been decades of decriminalization though? There have been decades of extremely harsh enforcement, far exceeding that applied to, for example, alcohol, fraud, sexual assault, ... What there has been is decades of "mayb
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by olliej 2y ago
> Not sure why you think so. There had always been a minority of Jews in Palestine. By 1890, that was a 10% minority. By 1947, that was a 30% minority. What exactly is bullshit about saying this? There were the indigenous inhabitants of
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by olliej 2y ago
> Israel didn't "invade" the land. Jews moved into the land legally, and then the rulers of the land at the time gave it to the UN to recommend what to do with it, given that there were two peoples there. Right, and rememb
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by olliej 2y ago
Yes, just like apartheid SA had free and fair elections. Palestinians have no rights in their homeland, Israel invaded it and every time they take more land they simply claim the original occupants aren’t part of the country their home is&#
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The goal here is to ensure that once you get someone into prison they functionally can never really escape, largely because the US constitution left a giant “you can have slaves” gap, coupled with “you can disenfranchise anyone you want by
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by olliej 2y ago
What entities would have those keys? Different branches of the same government means there’s only a single entity with all the keys. Pretending otherwise is maliciously naive. Every entity or group of entities I can think of you suggesting
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I “love” the now constant language of “accountability” from groups that have none, and have only ever demanded more power and less accountability. How about a ban on additional powers until law enforcement and governments can demonstrate an
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I’m sure Tennessee is a great place to live if you’re a straight white man, of course the core state principles of women having no right to bodily autonomy, only straight white people have the right to exist. My assumption is it will become
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by olliej 2y ago
My question for someone in the UK is whether you could file a defamation complaint or suit against the entities reporting you as being a debtor given it’s clearly got significant impact and cost and stigma and clearly they’re not doing basi
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by olliej 2y ago
I was going to make a snarky comment, but I realized it's possible you just don't know how cookies, 3rd party or otherwise, work. 3rd party cookies are the original way advertising companies spied on users, and the only way the va
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All Google had to do was not enable 3rd party cookies in chrome. Safari and WebKit by default have always blocked 3rd party cookies by default - literally from day 1 - but google added support for them and enabled them by default because
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by olliej 3y ago
There are multiple species and broods of periodical cicadas - they're literally called that - it's really quite an interesting phenomena, but they have evolved life cycles in that are prime numbered years long, and frequently rela
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Google could easily scan for price information. What google is getting is "what did you buy?" so they can target advertising.
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by olliej 3y ago
No, JS is part of the web. You wishing it was not does not mean it isn’t. A site isn’t broken if it doesn’t work without JS anymore than it’s broken if you disable TLS or CSS or any other part of the web.
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by olliej 3y ago
I’m not sure what people mean by hosted now - I just have basic hosting with html, css, and ssh. Technically it supports php, etc but I only have that in a few places for silly reasons. Some people seem to go all in on containers and AWS or
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by olliej 3y ago
The ability to use a JIT is not determined by the framework being used. It is a sandbox property for the process. If you use JSC in a process that cannot use a JIT it will just use the interpreter, that has always been the case. But more to
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The whole goal of sanctions is to induce behaviours change without resorting to actual weapons. What do you think sanctions are meant to be?

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