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by petsfed 3y ago
Hard disagree. There is a lot of space between people being completely free to leave a job they dislike, and being held in a job by explicit threats of violence, and there's not a sharp line marking where practices get exploitative. Co
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by petsfed 3y ago
To point 1: Goat and sheep herding is kind of a weird one, where they are really more akin to H1B workers than your standard exploited immigrant. Raising sheep and goats is a skill that is typically learned as a child, and there are just no
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by petsfed 3y ago
If there was a way to bend this particular exchange into the style of the article, I would. Its definitely in the same spirit.
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's a tension here between the two user groups who need to interact with the name: whatever software system manages the things, and human beings. I worked on a system that had dozens of small-form-factor linux computers, that serve
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by petsfed 3y ago
I want to be very clear here that I don't actually think there's much moral to this story. They had an idea of how bad criticality could be, but there was no real deterrent other than Fermi telling Slotin and others that if they k
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by petsfed 3y ago
One of the things I noticed with the experiments I participated in was that while the drama was very real for me , to an outside observer, its actually kind of dull. To keep the pacing tight and keep the audience interested, they have to s
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think you missed some nuance there. If I only realistically have between 9 and 11pm, I am pretty limited on what hobbies I can take up. It's not just that I'm literally time constrained, but also that the time I have available i
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by petsfed 3y ago
How many of those people feel like they have time to pursue more fulfilling activities? Speaking only for myself, my more fulfilling hobbies feel like a zero-sum proposition when I factor in taking care of myself, my kids, my home, etc. Wha
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by petsfed 3y ago
The problem is that community owners should have the right to moderate what is posted on their community. If I'm a small-timer running my Space: Above and Beyond fan forum on a raspberry pi in my garage, I should have the right to re
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Note that prescribed fires aren't the only way of removing excess vegetation, there's mechanized mowing and goat herds for example. Which works fine for the areas east of the Flatirons (that is, the plains), but that's on
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by petsfed 3y ago
I had to look it up, since it'd been several years since I drove past the BIG FUCKING SIGNS that tell you how much the toll is, indicate that you only get a discount if you're carpooling, and that you need the transponder for that
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by petsfed 3y ago
I already feel it when I see the number every 2 weeks on my paycheck. Or when I'm advised of my property tax bill every 3 months. Or register a car. Or buy something at a physical store. Taxes are everywhere, and you have to work reall
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by petsfed 3y ago
This is because every member of that consortium uses some combination of dark patterns and nonsensical restrictions to divert users away from the free option towards their pay options. Propublica did a report on this (linked several times i
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by petsfed 3y ago
This sounds kind of like a conspiracy-theory, so it's worth providing a source. Norquist himself, and his organization Americans for Tax Reform, believe that making tax payers go through the process of preparing their tax return forces
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by petsfed 3y ago
Eagle was popular because you could get it for free as a hobbyist. That suckered me in years ago, convinced my employer to pay for the license, and then they got acquired by Autodesk literally 2 weeks later and refused to honor the license
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by petsfed 3y ago
The point is that without pockethole jigs or CNC, certain "wood workers" couldn't build anything that actually held up. Its not an aversion to the technique per se, its an aversion to the kind of person who uses them for eve
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by petsfed 3y ago
This is line of reasoning is a pro-tech disease: "Dangerous thing X has always been technically possible, but logistically prohibitive. Since we have not explicitly done anything to prevent thing X in the past, new technology that remo
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think the lesson to be learned from e.g. the Cambridge Analytica scandal is that given enough computational power, mass surveillance is indistinguishable from targeted surveillance. I feel like I should be putting on my tinfoil hat saying
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by petsfed 3y ago
> blaming communism for the Great Chinese Famine in Mao’s China is unfair, when fascism is a much better explanation Not to nitpick, but was Mao's China fascist , strictly speaking? I ask because the big 3 fascist regimes of the 20
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think part of the subtext of what Conrad Anker is saying in the article you shared is that there needs to be consequences for groups that don't bring the resources and capabilities to deal with their own trash, waste, and (if it come
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by petsfed 4y ago
The contrast between your link and the original article are interesting. The article specifically addresses the point of customer/client expectations in light of the cost, and the response from the guides questioned is "expedition
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by petsfed 4y ago
Given some of the controversies around poorly trained police, I'm not sure the problem here is that it takes too long to become a police officer. Rather, there aren't enough people trying to become officers, so the normal latency
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by petsfed 4y ago
The problem is that sometimes, you aren't really cut out for the PhD. Or the program burns you out. What then? What if you and your advisor have such severe conflicts that a PhD (or whatever) is not really feasible? What if your adviso
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by petsfed 4y ago
I worked retail for 2 years after completing a master's in condensed matter and transistor physics. It just happened to be during a time (~2014) when that degree alone was insufficient in getting me a job, even an entry-level one. I th
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by petsfed 4y ago
>Tenure hurts if you happen to be teaching biology and have a bunch of people who want you fired because you teach politically motivated Critical Race theory. Considering that CRT is a legal and historical theory, not a biology theory, I
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by petsfed 4y ago
The specious inference here is that because electric vehicles weigh more (which is true, the heaviest model of the Mercedes E-Class is actually the hybrid), we should be careful about encouraging people to own electric cars. This is the &qu
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by petsfed 4y ago
Looking at the the google earth projection, I wonder if that too is just an artifact of the origin. That is, it has features that seem to correspond with the latitude and longitude axes. Not sure if that's just apophenia at work, or if
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by petsfed 4y ago
It happened at least after 2013, because I went skiing with a guy who made it a point to return everything he'd ever bought from REI because of a court case he read about. It was a sort of super-boycott. I chose an extreme case, becaus
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by petsfed 4y ago
I disagree. The distinction is very valuable when it comes to how you design the system for maintenance. Firmware is not simply software that you take for granted, its software that is designed and tested prior to release such that updates
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by petsfed 4y ago
I think you're talking past the parent's point here. Firmware as I understand it (also as a microcontroller firmware programmer) is about the same as what the parent understands. I think your metric about "too simple to scr

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