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by pm90 3y ago
I think its more than money and time. Getting supply chains right (both hardware and software) is really hard at scale. Additionally there’s network effects of their proprietary ecosystem that thousands of developers and millions of users h
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by pm90 3y ago
Arranged marriages lead to more stability but do they lead to more happiness? There’s an argument to be made that perhaps it does. But I don’t think its as clear cut. Western societies are generally more liberal and give more importance to
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by pm90 3y ago
The only evidence the author offers are her personal experiences. While Im no fan of advertising and question its efficacy as well, I don’t really think this is a convincing argument against them. Statistically, these advertising segments w
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by pm90 3y ago
From their perspective, the system probably worked . You're probably 95th percentile of persistence among their customer disputes. Most people would accept the 100 Euros and move on.
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by pm90 3y ago
Yes. As sentient beings its within our control to ensure that we don't engage in it even if its behavior that exists among non-sentient living things.
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by pm90 3y ago
I can’t go into too much detail but: IME the benefits are somewhat doubtful and it can run into weird issues that are hard to debug (because C) at scale. I wouldn’t use it unless I had a maintainer or a C expert on my team. The other OCI ru
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by pm90 3y ago
> many of which will be raped and subject to slave labor conditions. for far leas damaging crimes is the crucial part. To be clear: I don’t support those conditions for anyone. When society meets out punishment, it shouldn’t be used as
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by pm90 4y ago
I don’t believe its density as much as costs and impact on lifestyle. Make daycare, child health services and great schools universally available and cheap/free. Make it feasible and safe to get kids around dense cities quickly (excell
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by pm90 4y ago
> As a result, many men are struggling to fulfill their own outmoded expectations of what a man should be. “The problem with feminism, as a liberation movement, is not that it has ‘gone too far,’” Reeves writes. “It is that it has not go
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by pm90 4y ago
Or just ban/heavily restrict cars from cities right now.
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by pm90 4y ago
Agreed. Everyone wants a bogeyman. It’s great for Nationalism and Politicians who can blame someone else. Strong economic ties are the only way to align interests and prevent destructive wars.
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by pm90 4y ago
I’ve heard it described as “Americans think of themselves as temporary poor future billionaires”. Not all Americans, but this is why you see so many simping for the rich even when its not in their own interests.
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by pm90 4y ago
The owners don’t operate in isolation, they live in society with other people.
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by pm90 4y ago
Maybe? Or maybe you have lost perspective on what purpose money actually serves and whether a model that hyper prioritizes it over the well being of people might not be the best approach.
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by pm90 4y ago
> It's just not possible to get around modern American cities without cars. Well but it is. Restricting/Eliminating cars in city centers especially would do wonders to promote them as places that people want to live in.
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by pm90 4y ago
Skilled Workers
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by pm90 4y ago
India is a vast country with the soon to be largest population in the world. There are quite enough people to be doing both.
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by pm90 4y ago
https://archive.is/nUklO TLDR: * most of the workers being laid off are not engineers * the laid off engineers are either being hired by “old school” industries like John Deere or carmakers or are creating new startups, man
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by pm90 4y ago
> A bi-directional API layer between the Control Plane and the Data Plane defines the only integration point between the two planes. We decided to go with a REST API for the following reasons: > REST APIs are independent of technology
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by pm90 4y ago
> We are working to build a new Consul cluster with 10x the RAM. Oh boy. I wouldn’t wanna be the people doing this. Working with infrastructure is hard . Doing it under tight SLAs? Ugh. I really hope the people working on this are being
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by pm90 4y ago
The labor market numbers have been strong despite rising interest rates and inflation has been falling (albeit still somewhat high). The signs seem to indicate a soft landing is possible. However: widespread bank failures and panics can cha
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by pm90 4y ago
There is no certainty over the amount of dividend the FDIC will pay out. IMO this weekend is a critical time: if the FDIC/Government act quickly and provide hard numbers, it will both stabilize the depositors and prevent panic from
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by pm90 4y ago
It’s completely rational behavior albeit immoral.
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by pm90 4y ago
Almost certainly the play is going to be to invest more in instagram to steal features from other social media apps. Thats Meta’s strategy. The Metaverse is not gonna work.
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by pm90 4y ago
I can second this. I made the mistake of downloading it once big players started layoffs in hopes of getting in on the news before it hit. But that forum is toxic sludge for anyone’s mental health. I don’t use it anymore. The only time I do
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by pm90 4y ago
Software Engineers are being laid off for certain.
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by pm90 4y ago
What percentage of housing is built this way? Is the effects of foreign buyers enough to distort the market?
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by pm90 4y ago
The US Govt is currently suing Google to make them divest their ad exchanges. That would be a good start.
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by pm90 4y ago
welp, meant after lunch
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by pm90 4y ago
I mean yes rule by diktat if needed but at that point the kind of workers you need to thrive will start looking elsewhere. I guess that’s not an immediate consequence so nobody faces any penalty.

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