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by perl4ever 5y ago
There have been articles, probably also threads on HN, about monkeys enslaved and used to harvest crops or something. I don't remember all the details, but they pull out their teeth so they can't bite, and coerce them into working
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I'd like to hear more about the industry of delivering food without prepayment.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>This sort of thing is why I still use cash as much as possible. >That way you have an atomic transfer. I get food, you get money. Oh no you don't. I got burned at a food truck that only took cash. I gave them money, they produce
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I originally tried/preferred Lyft because of all the bad publicity and stigma about Uber. However, I read that many drivers work for both anyway, and over time, on the infrequent occasions I needed a ride, I realized only one thing rea
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Yes indeed, so, companies that you can't trust, but can't afford to piss off, should be the definition of anti-trust targets. In an ideal world.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I looked at a used car (at a new car dealer) a few years ago, and got phone calls , one or more per day for weeks, until I called them back. I realize that maybe the person was forced to do it by their boss, and people hate being ghosted,
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't see anything about making tomatoes that are shipped to stores taste like fresh local ones. The only mention of improving taste says they may "increase the amount of sugar".
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>But then in the findings it basically says it's a complete non-issue As long as you don't live in California. That was my kneejerk reaction, and then I saw the response to your comment confirming I nailed it. Heck with reading
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>I'm a citizen of one of the states you mention and I can assure you: amidst all the disagreement and political polarization, there is complete consensus on not wanting a world dominated by killer robots. If what people "want&q
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>No, Alan Turing would be pretty bad at digging ditches It's a contrived example that illustrates something general. It could still be true - maybe Turing would have some insight that let him do half as much labor. But whether it&#x
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>You act as if this is some new phenomenon, but it's just the latest data point in a dangerous game played by both sides. Your list supporting "both sides", when in chronological order, starts with three instances in a row
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>They are not in conflict at all Yes they are. Imagine World War II. The best person to dig a particular ditch might be Alan Turing. But that's completely different from the best job for Alan Turing being digging that ditch. >bot
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Maybe the result (a) is intended and expected, but is not literally "by design" in that there was no other known way to design it.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I am a bit superstitious (even if not religious) about declaring that bad things can't happen to me. The culture I grew up in is pervaded with cautionary ideas like "pride goeth before a fall", "don't tempt fate&quo
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I am prepared to submit to authority, even on life and death matters, as long as there is a self-consistent message that I can in principle believe. I'm struggling with the internal contradictions of saying we have a life and death sit
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I think where I am vaccination rates are upwards of 90%, so I would think essentially everyone getting it is vaccinated or has had a previous variant. Or both. Multiple sites I've tried for making a booster appointment make you choose
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Something I never see people talk about is the difference between: (1) each job being filled by the person who's better suited for it than any other person *versus* (2) each job being filled by a person who's better
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I was told a story about someone who applied to a school of engineering somewhere or other, in the latter part of the 1950s. She had a sterling high school record, but they wrote a rejection letter explaining that they already had a woman
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't think any of those rights you mention avoid obligating other people. What if you're my neighbor, exercising your free speech in person, and I don't want to hear it? Your sound waves don't stop at my property line
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Well, definitions are what you make them. If, as you say, IP is property and if property rights are human rights, then it follows that human (and property) rights can take away property rights, compel people to do things, or force them to d
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I'm not wrong about my own awareness. I think I recall threads on HN about such things existing. But I'm not aware of how to use them or that my organization is using them. It wouldn't shock me if they were, but my prior is
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by perl4ever 5y ago
That doesn't sound worthwhile to me, because of the official records which would carry more weight anyway. People used to take notes to prove their boss wrong when he said "I never said that!" because they weren't under
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by perl4ever 5y ago
In my last sentence above, I was thinking more of cults in Roman times that were competitors, before Christianity took over. Modern cults that I've heard of are different.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I asked a born again Christian what a cult was when I was a teenager. He said a cult is where people worship a man as though he was God. I silently filled in the next sentence in my head: "...but Christianity isn't a cult, because
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by perl4ever 5y ago
How much water do you think is on Mars?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>Human rights cannot be rights for someone else to build or do something for you, because it inherently causes a restriction or obligation to someone else What are intellectual property rights?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
On the glass half full side: As the police have found, being monitored can actually help in the event of false accusations of misconduct. Furthermore, if you are monitored and nobody has a problem with your performance, now you have evidenc
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I mean, I'm not aware of centralized tools built in to Teams that are used to systematically evaluate people, and if they exist, I wouldn't necessarily expect they are being exploited by my organization. What I was referring to wa
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by perl4ever 5y ago
This seems to be part of Microsoft Teams.

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