randmeerkat

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by randmeerkat 6y ago
I often wonder about the impact of a private healthcare system on economic activity too. The truth is, we’ll never really know until there’s some sort of public option.
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
$1000 - $1200 per person per month? I know some consultants who can’t find health insurance that cheap. Are those high deductible plans?
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
Telling someone they don’t need health insurance is irresponsible, there’s plenty of things that can go wrong in your 20s, like a car accident. If they decided not to have that while running a startup not only would they potentially lose th
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
I’m still salty about Google Reader. I’ve been avoiding Google products ever since.
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
This is a reasonable summary that roughly answers your question. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielshaoolian/2017/02/07/log... tldr; when your designers tell you it’s out of date with current desi
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
“There’s always been one major problem with Apple’s privacy claim that ‘What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone‘: it isn’t true of iCloud backups. Although Apple uses end-to-end encryption for both iMessage and FaceTime, it doesn’
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
End to end encryption. If you’re using iCloud with iMessage Apple has access to your messages. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
These zero sum arguments are pointless and needlessly inflammatory.
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
So they have to give up control of their company and they still have billions in profits..? How is that a punishment? Meanwhile the person that robbed a gas station is rotting in jail... If only they were billionaires, if they robbed millio
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
A 17 year old drives across state lines, goes to a city meets up with a militia that has ties to white supremacy and neo-Nazis, then kills two people and injures a third. If you don’t see the issues there, you’re part of the problem.
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenos...
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
“If you compare whites and Asian Americans with the same amount of schooling, Asian Americans actually make less money.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/the-a...
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
2020, when being against white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and state sponsored violence against minorities makes one a “leftists extremists”.
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
Or the person could work to change the mission. Look at what Satya Nadella did for Microsoft. If an employee doesn’t believe in a company’s direction they are totally within their right to try to effect change to shift the direction of the
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
Yes, anyone can see the violence that happened in Charlottesville and the white supremacist that ran a car into people killing a woman. Anyone can see the 17 year old white supremacist in Kenosha that killed two and injured one. Anyone can
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
It doesn’t matter how you vote. Money in politics will win every time. Blaming the voters is victim blaming. This is just late stage capitalism at its finest. https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
An argument could be made that this mission is politicising freedom of speech, in that a tech company is now determining what is misinformation and what is not. This very topic was a point of contention in the congressional antitrust hearin
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
So what about Twitter flagging Trump’s tweets? Do you think that happened without a politicised workplace discussion? With the amount of power that tech wields over society these discussions _have_ to happen.
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
Millions of Americans are unemployed, hundreds of thousands are dying from a pandemic, tens of thousands are in lines at food banks, there are children in cages, women being given forced hysterectomies, and there are literally neo-Nazis tha
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by randmeerkat 6y ago
I’ll take a shot at responding: I would argue that the board wouldn’t exist without the people that make up the company. I would also argue that with monied interests and lobbyists in Washington, one of the last places that people can reall
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Riemann Hypothesis(sciencealert.com)
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