patwolfe

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by patwolfe 3y ago
I think you are vastly underestimating the complexity and inefficiency of doing this for one of the most visited websites in the world.
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by patwolfe 5y ago
I think it’s a bit of a disingenuous example because Hasan has enjoyed TREMENDOUS success since then as well. Like, I think he got a few day ban (which is nothing long-term if you already have a following) and is now a top streamer in terms
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by patwolfe 6y ago
I'd say the current biggest problem is that the highest earners simply do not pay much in taxes through loopholes and avoidance, not that taxes need to be increased across the board. EDIT: the_gastropod's comment also under this p
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Agreed - I think skepticism is usually warranted, and there are unions that are very active in doing "union things" in America that do more harm than good to the working class. I just took issue with the "slactivism" com
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by patwolfe 6y ago
I think once they got to the point of forming an actual union (which, at Google, has a historical risk to job security) the "slactivism" potshots became inarguably unwarranted.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Yup, when there is nothing a company can do in a situation to avoid anti-trust regulation, that is a pretty good indication anti-trust regulation should have already happened.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Yeah, isn't the reason they are suing that the lawsuits have caused long-term damage... not sure what the above poster was getting at with their comment.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that 75% of Democrats didn't trust the 2016 election? While I've read reports about frustration with the electoral college among Hilary voters and a fear of election interference from foreign nat
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Yeah this is simply not true, the median American did not vote for a Republican senator.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Agreed. It feels like there is a lot of tone policing that happens around the way women and people of color talk about these issues (especially with regard to their Twitter posts) which is pretty disappointing.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Agree that the root cause here is not Amazon, it's a system (unregulated capitalism) that incentives this behavior. I think it's still fair to criticize actors in such a system, especially if such criticism is done with the contex
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by patwolfe 6y ago
Really disappointing to see the "Well, what did you expect?" comments already. Just because companies have been trying to prevent organization of their labor for over a century doesn't mean it isn't still messed up now.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
I believe you rent a day to buy in, but that’s a day of CPU usage measured by clock time. So it expires based on your usage, not 24 hours later.
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by patwolfe 6y ago
This seems misleading. If you needed to use anywhere close to 24 hours of cpu computation per day, wouldn’t you not use a cloud provider? And most tenants will only use a fraction of that per day, so 77 days of CPU usage could take years to
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by patwolfe 6y ago
I think the truth is these topics are ones people have a lot of personal investment in and as a result aren't able to objectively reason about very well. Betting markets on the night of the election reflect this as well.
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by patwolfe 7y ago
Isn't this Shopify [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify