powowowow

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by powowowow 7y ago
A handshake is symbolic and can be easily replaced with a different symbol.
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by powowowow 7y ago
It really sucks that people are downvoting your cogent and fact-based response.
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by powowowow 7y ago
I didn't fact-check all of your links, but the first two that I randomly selected showed transit usage increasing over time.
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by powowowow 7y ago
Thanks. Sometimes I suck. I'll do better.
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by powowowow 7y ago
Americans used to spend 15% of household income on clothing, and they got fewer items of clothing in return. I understand that you think it best if the government force me to support my inefficient local textile manufacturer, my local cotto
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by powowowow 7y ago
The supply chains that you rail against have successfully delivered the greatest levels of prosperity to the largest number of humans in all of history. They were created not by some mysterious force, but by individuals making rational choi
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by powowowow 7y ago
An apology doesn't mean you took an action with bad intent; it indicates you recognize that some people were unhappy with the results of your action and that you care about those people.
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by powowowow 7y ago
I understand that you claim that it enhanced their bottom line, but that makes no sense. I (and many others) will _immediately replace_ a phone that routinely turns itself off under load. I will limp along, for quite a while, with a phone
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by powowowow 7y ago
The 'Battery Health' screen shows the device specific aspect of the implementation. There's a section titled 'Peak Performance Capability' which will say "This iPhone has experienced an unexpected shutdown beca
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by powowowow 7y ago
Yes and they have a near total monopoly with their [checks notes] 20% global handset marketshare. You can't just go to Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Nokia, or anybody else and get one!!
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by powowowow 7y ago
They made a decision to try to keep battery life closer to constant at the expense of performance, believing it was a better UX (slow phone > no phone). I think this was totally defensible, and I also think that the people who claim it&#
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by powowowow 7y ago
Exactly; but Missosoup has strongly internalized the idea that neither blacks nor queers deserve respect; as such he truly doesn’t understand why calling them derogatory terms is a bad thing. To him, it’s insane that a white person could ca
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by powowowow 7y ago
The notion that Apple should not be “allowed” to keep some software out of their App Store is nonsense. It saddens me that a person who claims to care about freedom also wants the government to forbid people from making editorial decisions
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by powowowow 7y ago
It's absolutely what he said. Political correctness is a right-wing term used when they want to call somebody X, but may face social consequences for doing so. It's not a wealthy western phenomena. It's global and it's
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by powowowow 7y ago
> pretty unique to the wealthier segments of the West and Europe. Thank you for letting me know that Asia has no complex rules about how to address people, and no social consequences for failure to obey those rules.
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by powowowow 7y ago
Your example was also fatally flawed because it buys into the notion that white collar work is not working class. White collar laborers are labor; they are not capital. I make a couple hundred thousand dollars per year. I have far more in
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by powowowow 7y ago
It would be more accurate to frame payment for order flow as: "We get private institutions to offer you better than public prices; so you'll routinely buy each share a few cents lower, and sell a few cents higher than you would at
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by powowowow 7y ago
> There is virtually no nuance in the reporting. If you want to read ad-supported news, then you will be stuck with news that is intended to have the lowest possible production costs, and garner the most possible eyeballs. This business
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by powowowow 7y ago
100 years or more would be a reasonable start if we're going to have perspective.
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by powowowow 7y ago
Go read some old newspapers. It's clear you haven't.
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by powowowow 7y ago
> We also need to accept the fact that sometimes we go down paths, make discoveries, and need to reverse course, All of which are made harder by people who share your preference for exceedingly inefficient but low-error processes. > o
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by powowowow 7y ago
We need to stop pretending that these missed estimates are a catastrophe. They're inventing new things, and there's uncertainty. We'd be a lot better served, as a nation and a society, if we accepted these realities in the sa
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by powowowow 7y ago
I think it's nostalgia for an age that never existed, multiplied by a US-based demagogue's campaign against facts. Journalism has always been deeply flawed and massively biased, yet still useful. The people of the past knew that.
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by powowowow 7y ago
That is a situation where humans routinely crash. The machines are better drivers, in that they admit defeat and stop.
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by powowowow 7y ago
I've found Pandas extremely easy to learn and to use; to the point where I find it confusing to see somebody say that it's not human-understandable. If you're reading this thread and wondering if it's easy to hard to use