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by pigsty 4y ago
It’s a problem of choosing not to enforce it. Some rich person says “teehee, I actually have no money! It’s all in (some country)!” and the US gov says “oops! Guess you really are poor!” They take a letter of the law instead of a spirit of
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by pigsty 4y ago
Generally, matters of national security are exempt from consumer goods safety regulations. A typical company also can’t easily handle, say, plutonium, but if the military needs it, an exemption is granted. The typical consumer gets by witho
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by pigsty 4y ago
Iron pans are ridiculously cheap these days and they last forever if you bother to read the 3 line instructions included with them. Teflon isn’t as great as people were deceived into believing. Even if you’re absolutely meticulous with care
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by pigsty 4y ago
That example is one reason why legislation is necessary. There will always be detractors saying we should just make people want to make the right choice, but all it takes is one person in a company to make a decision that outweighs the coll
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by pigsty 4y ago
Inflation has been going on basically constantly for centuries. Nobody is really expecting to buy a coke for a quarter or anything again, but people are expecting the prices to not grow 10% every couple months so that they’ll be able to swi
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by pigsty 4y ago
> As a renter, you have no risk. Remember 2008 when housing prices tanked? As a renter, you have the risk of your rent shooting up year after year as has happened these past few years basically globally. Housing prices tanking are mostly
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by pigsty 4y ago
Or it’s like driving a reliable Toyota with a proven safety record vs not wanting to pay for some new vehicle with a seatbelt subscription and updates that brick your car randomly or blare ads at max volume while driving down the interstate
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by pigsty 4y ago
Office is so bad that it’s unbearable. Photoshop became subscription-only and now I’m stuck with spyware that auto-launches and runs in the background in over 2 dozen separate processes and more bugs and glitches than I ever had on paid ver
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by pigsty 4y ago
Putting enough tall grass in a park to keep geese away would also have the consequence of making it keep humans away. Some untouched areas are fine, but if geese are avoiding it because they sense danger, humans will do the same. It comes
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by pigsty 4y ago
Oiling eggs seems like a laborious and environmentally bad solution (oil, even vegetable oil, being dumped everywhere and flowing into ponds doesn’t seem good). If you’re going to strangle eggs, I think there are much more efficient methods
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by pigsty 4y ago
Unfortunately, humans explicitly evolved to consume animal products. There are B vitamins that humans can only naturally acquire through eating animals that we die without. It’s possible now to generate those B vitamins, but saying humans d
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by pigsty 4y ago
Setting a reminder that’s visible the moment I wake up and see my phone has a better chance of reminding me than something I’ve written on paper. But I personally use both. Paper is for ongoing goals I’m working towards since I’ll glance at
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by pigsty 4y ago
Jack Ma could have 10% of his wealth and that much more could be in the pockets of his workers, and he’d still be one of the richest men ever on earth. Plus, knowing people who’ve done 996 in China, they were basically sitting in an office
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by pigsty 4y ago
I’m not sure if cheering an oppressive billionaire who got rich off being a borderline slave driver is a thing to do. A man who has more wealth than he could spend in a thousand lifetimes expects people to work 12 hours a day, six days a we
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by pigsty 4y ago
I think it’s the problem of being a relatively more pointless waste of life. Eating a whole animal at least provides substantial nutrition. Also the fact the animal is left to suffer for hours or even days, motionless and alone at the botto
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by pigsty 4y ago
There’s been lots of fraud revealed lately. Japan has been simply covering it up very well. Just a few examples that I recall this past year or two include faking emissions tests for vehicles, faking steel quality tests, faking GDP by count
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by pigsty 4y ago
Elon is certainly awful for all that he’s doing, but couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company instead of taking legal action to ensure he did it? People up top were eager to cash out at the expen
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by pigsty 4y ago
Copying an artist’s style is very much not considered copyright infringement and is how artists learn. Copying a work itself can be copyright infringement if it’s very close to the original to the point people may think they’re the same wor
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by pigsty 4y ago
Most doxxing is just taking public info found by a 2 second Google search given the right starting point. There are countless videos of people screaming in fast food restaurants. If someone recognizes that area, looks up public addresses in
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by pigsty 4y ago
So more people learn that trade and another one loses its staff. Labor shortages aren’t just money. Nauru has tech labor shortages. Singapore has notable farmer shortages. There are teacher shortages in the US even where wages pay well beca
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by pigsty 4y ago
Get outside of the top 20 and you’ll find innovation. This is true of any entertainment medium.
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by pigsty 4y ago
Apple dragged their feet on introducing webms to Safari and they still often require fiddling with to get working on iOS. If Apple isn’t jumping at supporting a format, it’s generally safe to assume they’ll do all they can to not support it
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by pigsty 4y ago
I literally have the equivalent of $1500 in my wallet right now. Why? Because I withdrew it and might end up buying something with it, either in one big purchase or ration it throughout the month. Any country that considers that a crime or
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by pigsty 4y ago
Why should anyone have to prove what’s in their pocket is theirs? Why not have police question people for wearing shoes that are a little too nice or seize expensive watches?
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by pigsty 4y ago
How much of that 179 billion was exchanged for legal goods and services other than crypto or cash itself?
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by pigsty 4y ago
Yeah, Latin characters are kind of limited in their sounds and few if any languages really experiment with them. Vietnamese is one of the few recent adopters I know of to add unique accent marks, although they still use the same character s
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by pigsty 4y ago
If you were to believe them, Kim ate too much cheese and it forced him to disappear, and he died several times. Also he killed an uncle with an anti-aircraft gun, and he reappeared, so he fed him to dogs, then he reappeared again. (These ar
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by pigsty 4y ago
It’s weird how readily so many people will dismiss AI art as just being a product of its input, when that’s really all humans are as well. All artists (myself included) are just the ongoing product of various inspirations (inputs). Dali is