povertyworld

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by povertyworld 7y ago
Actually there is a reason, at least in NYC, why artists were the advanced guard of gentrification. There was a zoning ordinance passed that made it legal to use former industrial buildings as residences if the tenant was an artist. So, in
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The most annoying thing in my rapidly gentrifying neighborhood is getting yelled at for biking on the sidewalk. If there is no bike lane, and there are not commercial properties on the street, it is legal to bike on the sidewalk. Gentrifier
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by povertyworld 7y ago
How come the NY Times doesn't push for unions for Wall St? Surely these guys slaving away over spreadsheets for Silicon Valley level pay should be unionized too, right?
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Pretty sure the panopticon predates Foucault by at least a century.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Since you like to read books, try this one: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/95xxn2fm978025...
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Apparently this isn't the first time people have attempted to destroy these murals. The first time was in 1966. https://archive.org/details/communitymuralsp00barnrich/page/...
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Yeah, I was going to say, they should go to where ever the local Amazon fulfillment center is. Those places are always hiring and start at $15 an hour.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
According to the article, demand for the Mac Pro tapered off years ago, and they were down to "a skeleton crew". The original plant opening had some kind of tax deal for "up to 500 jobs", so even at peak it was not makin
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The article reveals that the people working the Mac Pro assembly line in Texas where paid the minimum wage which in Texas is currently $7.25 an hour. When the plant closes, those guys can apply to any fast food place in Austin, and make the
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Politicians need wedge issues that won't upset corporate donors.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Everyone is talking about the keyboards, but I want to know about the Mac Pros. I'm assuming Ive is responsible for the cylinder, but is he involved in the return to the cheese grater, or did that happen while he was off designing glas
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by povertyworld 7y ago
You do realize horseless carriages were also expensive toys for rich people when they were first introduced?
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by povertyworld 7y ago
While it's true the AI hype is getting a bit overboard, couldn't one make the argument that humans, and to a lesser extent other animals, are just a collection responses to pattern recognition like when I see a thing that looks li
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by povertyworld 7y ago
You post on a forum of rich techbros and you don't have any stocks that pay dividends? I make 20k a year, and I have dividend income, oh, and I paid off my student loans. Why bother being responsible if the government is just going to
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by povertyworld 7y ago
He's going to wipe out grad school debt too? So instead of working and being cheap to pay off my undergrad you mean I could have been racking up fat debts doing master's degree this whole time? Wow, can I get the last decade back?
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Exactly. You can just swipe the corner of it like you're brushing off dust or something, and it will register as a click. It's probably less effort than having to mash down a button that far to the edge of the keyboard.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Is the whole escape key thing a joke that I'm not in on? Why don't you just use the part of the touchbar that is exactly the same as an escape key all the way down to saying "esc"? I don't get it man.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The surrounding narrative bit also worked wonders for another Da Vinci hit "The Mona Lisa". Had it not been stolen it would still be relatively obscure.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Owning a bike isn't really that good for commuting. I use Citibike to go to work and pretty much anywhere else they have Citibike docks. People always ask why I don't just buy a bike. I had a bike. It got stolen. If a Citibike get
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The thing is I didn't have to go into an AR community online to find opinions. Some guy at my work who isn't even a tech was giving me unsolicited snarky AR opinions.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
But this is my point. Geeky people have a strong opinion about how much this or that implementation sucks or doesn't suck. No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones, or any other next big thing, so
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by povertyworld 7y ago
When Apple announced ARKit, this culturally geeky (not a tech) coworker of mine scoffed, saying Nintendo had something like that for the DS ages ago. That's exactly how geeks responded to the iPod with the infamous CmdrTaco post (&quot
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Well, I just remember I didn't see another person besides me with an MP3 player on public transportation for quite some time in the NYC area.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The current crappiness of AR reminds me of the early days of MP3 players. Only a few geeks had them, and it took forever to load an album over the printer port if it didn't crash half way. Then 5 years later, everyone had an iPod.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
There's also the issue that money isn't worth much until you transmute it into class privilege by way of elite education.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
If that's the case why not do a degree you actually enjoy instead of a vocational degree? If you're a millionaire plumber, then paying tuition for an art history degree or whatever should be easy.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I think the people who live their life as a series of income maximizing transactions aren't really the humanities type anyways.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
This is why I gave up on ever having a "real job". This thread inspired me to take a look at a job board and the first thing I saw was a mobile developer job listed as "entry level". Scrolling down, the requirements are
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Why is cheap school unacceptable to commenters here? Well, just look around... see anybody from community college at YC, other than the guy who sweeps the floor after demo day?
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by povertyworld 7y ago
How could someone still be paying student loans from 1994? Do people realize how cheap college was in 1994? Not to mention that she's had 25 years to pay it off? Higher ed surely is overpriced these days, but some of these student debt

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