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by pwinnski 4y ago
I guess there's been a long weekend, keeping us both away, but since you brought up ancient Rome, I keep remembering fun things from reading about this a couple of years back, inspired by Mike Duncan's excellent podcast on the his
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Yes, the slave society of Rome had a police force within the city, which was mostly made up of slaves under supervision. The two main functions of this police force? Fighting fires and catching runaway slaves. So the gap between "polic
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There's so much evidence from research on unhoused populations and housing-first programs in the US and around the world, but you've got "why wouldn't they" on your side, so all of that evidence should probably be i
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Okay, they didn't invent racist policies that persist to this day, they just furthered their racist goals by using existing policies that persist to this day. Better?
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Yes, it is absolutely ridiculous that slave patrols existed and formed the basis for later police departments in the south. It is also ridiculous that labor-busting squads existed in the north, which formed the basis for later police depart
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The entire point is to leverage one's leading position in one market to try to dominate another market. It's one of the primary plays in the anti-competitive playbook, a key that anti-trust enforcers should be watching for. If n
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In their opinion, the barrier to entry has had a good result. In your opinion, it's akin to BMW's heated seats subscription. On the face of it, whether I agree or disagree, the first opinion at least makes more sense. Since both a
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I don't need to spend too much money on a consultancy to tell me that, it was obvious the first time I encountered a consultancy.
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This is a ridiculous and unproductive line of reasoning and argumentation. Be serious.
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Good news, the current US administration is aware, and has committed many billions of dollars to make resources available, and presumably will continue to do so.
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Not all EVs are Teslas, and as sibling comments say, even current ICE vehicle seem to be loaded with connectivity options.
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There are many cars on the road today that are 15 to 20 years old. There are some cars on the road older than that. Things do get more complicated with recent cars, which have more specialized computing, but you'll be able to burn
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The point, which seems pretty clear to me, is that if you are going to dramatically disrupt the lives of 7000 people while reporting profits in the tens of billions of dollars, 19% higher than the previous year[0], you are cruelly exploitin
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This seems to run counter to how humans work, or at least how Americans work. Already many people would benefit financially from using public transport or ride-sharing, or even carpooling, but they don't. Because they want their car! M
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If you are part of a strike, then yes, actually, you are legally protected against some forms of retaliation, including possibly this form. We'll see how it plays out in court, but it is by no means as simple as you're laying out.
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In the US, we pay more than any other developed nation for health care, and get worse results than most other developed nations in return. Individual healthcare plans are grossly inefficient.
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Which is a problem for the company choosing to pay us different amounts, right? Keeping employees in the dark is what companies want, so they can underpay as often as possible.
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Similarly, I think it's usually a good idea to share this information with coworkers, as ignorance only benefits the employer in negotiations. But friends? That's different. My coworkers are all in roughly the same socio-economi
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This would make more sense if any quarter stood completely in isolation, but some of these companies have been making sounds about "economic headwinds" since before the last quarter started, setting expectations low, and then stil
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Your friend has bought into the hype, as a lot of people have. There are very few people making "big tech money" who are not also putting in very long hours. They exist, but are often/usually in the (long) process of being &q
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That Apple doesn't agree with you on development priorities for Safari does not mean the Safari dev team is severely underfunded. They could be, or not. They seem to issue a preview release every two weeks or so[0], so they are clearly
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> Interest rates matter if a company financed expansion using debt. I haven't personally seen companies taking out operating loans using adjustable rates. Have you? If rates are fixed, then a company's expansion plans may need
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It got negative feedback if the model gave wrong-sounding answers, which is not the same as wrong answers. I have seen no indication that they had anybody verify the factual content of answers in the training process, and many indications t
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If the point isn't how an LLM replace a search engine, then why is Bing using an LLM to replace their search engine? When you ask whether speaking English and using logic can improve the search experience, I wonder what you consider th
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The only economic conditions that matter to any company is whether they will be able to continue earning money the way they have been. Since most of the companies doing 6-8% layoffs are concurrently reporting revenue growth, it isn't c
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It isn't every big company. Apple hasn't, and they're the biggest of all. I think that is the point: it does not feel accurate to say that "macroeconomic conditions are tough" or that you expect slowdowns while re
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To be pedantic, you're proposing that practice studying should result in improved exam scores , which doesn't seem to follow as well as you're proposing. Practice shooting basketballs leads to better results at shooting ba
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That's the point, I think. Most metro areas are made up of a collection of many incorporated areas which collectively make up what people think of as the city. Some of those incorporated areas are large, some are small, and you might n
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This is an incredibly misleading statistic. When you describe "a town of less than 50,000 people," what comes to mind most easily is some sort of rural town. But at your link, I recognize several of the places on that "fastes
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They're underpaying artists relative to every other streaming service, so it's no wonder they're able to draw the most users. Spotify doesn't fit my conceptual model for streaming music, but my daughter loves it and has

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