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by parkingrift 4y ago
My friend… Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Two different US presidents warned Europe about Russian energy dependency, publicly. Who knows how many times this was brought up in private conversations. This was so easy to predict that even Don
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The only shocking thing here is that they had actually planned a fifth season. SPOILERS! They killed every every. single. human. Total extinction. How is that not the end of the show? Everyone is dead. All these great characters with multi
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by parkingrift 4y ago
This response is absurd idealism at its best. Just cut emissions, man, it’s that easy! How many bong rips before you typed that out? > The first thing we need to do is drastically cut our emissions every single way we can, as fast as we
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by parkingrift 4y ago
If you think it’s ludicrous go ahead and show us the realistic path to avoiding the known and even more catastrophic outcomes of climate change. Not some comically pie in the sky eco idealism. A path that has a chance of actually happening
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by parkingrift 4y ago
You’re comically cherry picking facts straight out of headlines, but without even reading the articles. 1/3 of workers lost or switched jobs. Who cares about job switchers? As for the rest I already sent you the literal underlying fed
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Loved Twitter under Jack Dorsey. Hates Twitter under Elon Musk. Jack Dorsey rolled in his equity. Do you really think these people are different?? Anyway, see you on Twitter in a few weeks.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Twitter was losing $360 million per year before Musk. These layoffs were going to happen whether Musk bought the company, or not.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
90 days severance during the holidays. VS Staying and having to work long hours under Musk. Maybe we have empathy for the wrong group…?
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by parkingrift 4y ago
It’s privately held so we don’t actually know that. However, SpaceX was valued at around $120 billion in their last funding round.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Yes he became the worlds richest man by luck. Incredible. The man isn’t smart. Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink were just luck. And he was lucky with PayPal. No, Musk is only a genius if he does it with a fourth, fifth, or sixth business. Perhap
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>and social networks, where people choose who to follow and who to block. This is mostly dead. You are not in control of the content you see. The algorithm decides what to show you. If your platform a) decides what content I see, or b) e
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Majority? By the end of 2020 the unemployment rate had dropped to 7.5%. Evictions were illegal. Unemployment benefits were padded an extra $500 PER WEEK. Stimulus checks were sent. Almost no one was struggling to pay bills by the end of
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The personal savings rate and unemployment rate disagrees with your assertion. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PMSAVE The actual reality is that the vast majority of people kept working but didn’t have enough ways t
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by parkingrift 4y ago
It is almost guaranteed that the NYC law will reduced down to only apply to positions which are physically located in NYC. I’d bet NYC based companies hiring remote workers will be exempt. NYC government is famous for overstepping and getti
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>If they truly need people of different levels of experience, it would make more sense for them to write separate job descriptions that accurately describe the responsibilities of the role. They would do that if not for laws like this. I
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Disagree. Back in 2006 it would have been really hard, but not in 2022. We’ve figured out all sorts of novel ways to scale platforms. I’ll put it another way. Which job would you rather have? Build a scalable Twitter clone? Or operate the b
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by parkingrift 4y ago
No I mean business success. Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, PayPal, and now Twitter. Just about no one took Musk seriously with his vision of reusable rockets or electric cars. And yet, here we are. …with armchair internet warriors saying he’s a j
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Twitter isn’t some engineering marvel. Anyone could go build a scalable Twitter clone. There are a handful of competitors on the market and a few open source projects. All things considered, it’s easy. Making a viable business out of it is
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by parkingrift 4y ago
We need not wonder. Nature has already given us a trial run. All this brouhaha over unintended consequences are going to ultimately be secondary to the known and catastrophic consequences of runaway global warming.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Why would anyone take him seriously? Well, maybe because he’s the richest man in the world? Or maybe because he’s the CEO of several of the most valuable public or private companies in the world? Maybe because he practically single handedly
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by parkingrift 4y ago
We already know how to find our way out. Stratospheric aerosol injection. We don’t need to invent anything new or spend significant sums of money. We will do it eventually, but only after green democrats finish their “perfect is the enemy o
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by parkingrift 4y ago
One is a statement of fact. Another is an opinion with a call to action.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
It is really hilarious to me that Google is making PB jump through hoops for this. Google is vacuuming vasts amount of user data without any explicit user consent at all. It's just buried in some encyclopedia length ToS.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Can you cite an example of an obviously misleading claim in Tesla marketing materials? People keep making these claims as if they are inherent and obvious truths. From my browsing of the Tesla site it does not seem misleading at all.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
That’s not how “legal departments” work. You don’t have to “run it by legal” to get approval. You do that to understand potential legal risks and then you make a business decision. Legal doesn’t run the business unless you’ve explicitly set
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Tesla did nothing of the sort. Elon got into trouble for influencing the Tesla share price. Which is almost comical to think about due to how common it is to do exactly that. Elon made a mistake of giving a specific number. If he just made
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by parkingrift 4y ago
It really just boils down to how you feel about guns and abortion. It’s interesting that people want to restrict rights in one area, and expand them in another. The people and parties just disagree on which is which.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
You could also rewrite this sentence to say that prohibition created organized crime.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>The platform is Windows, not Steam. When it's the only distribution channel, I disagree. It's a pedantic point, either way. >The issue isn't the App Store cut per se, the issue is having to be in the App Store to be o
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by parkingrift 4y ago
I think it’s high, but it’s also industry standard. Steam is pretty beloved in PC gaming, and they take 30%. Microsoft and Sony take an equivalent percent for any game to run on their respective consoles. Google takes 30% from the Play Stor

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