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by redisman 5y ago
This article seems to be mostly very mediocre social commentary. Reminds me of an angsty high schooler (who’s somehow rich and defending their position) describing their view of society
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by redisman 5y ago
Looking up the biggest(?) online player in the space: "We offer payments at a rate between 0–30% APR based on customers' credit." There it is. Barely hidden by more advanced financing.
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by redisman 5y ago
Considering long term impacts is hardly ludditism
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by redisman 5y ago
It’s also possible once it saturates the ocean enough, it’ll get ingested by plankton which won’t survive much of it and then it’s game over for most life
695.
by redisman 5y ago
Yes. Nature has evolved ways to dispose of those (unless it’s a synthetic glue that doesn’t decompose)
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by redisman 5y ago
Toxic on a long timescale. Plastic won’t stay inert forever and it “decomposes” to toxic to the ecosystem particles
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by redisman 5y ago
What’s the other half then? I agree that industrial fishing is a giant problem
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by redisman 5y ago
Polymers make up about 50% of textile fibers globally. They’re light, cheap, durable.
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by redisman 5y ago
Plastic is a magically useful and durable material with many orders of magnitude more uses than CFC. I hope you’re right but looking around the world, there are very few objects that aren’t at least partially made out of some polymer. Anoth
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by redisman 5y ago
Yes let’s fuck up nature even more, what could ever go wrong
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by redisman 5y ago
> Obviously examples like the guy who didn’t notice his paycheque bouncing are a sign people around you are wealthy though. That means you’re wealthy now. I grew up fairly poor but with 10+ years in the industry I probably wouldn’t notic
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by redisman 5y ago
I checked off the majority of the points the author mentioned but I never felt bad or alienated for it. Money can buy you things, most of them are a dumb waste. Why should I feel bad? They’re the idiots blowing their paychecks on trendy use
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by redisman 5y ago
Look at the full chart for 2021 though. Crypto went completely bonkers for no apparent reason this year so a correction isn't too surprising.
704.
by redisman 5y ago
You gotta add a little bit of entropy to the solar system every now and then to keep things interesting
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by redisman 5y ago
Why? Is BTC somehow bandwidth bound?
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by redisman 5y ago
I would definitely welcome Space race, take 2
707.
by redisman 5y ago
Seattle is already mostly above 60%, up to 87% https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...
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by redisman 5y ago
It’s not unreasonable to expect a CEO to delegate adding a new payments option to people who do their due diligence?
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by redisman 5y ago
He can tank BTC further by dumping all Tesla holdings and at the same time announce the new much better Teslacoin. Every news outlet will post a front page “BTC crashes, Teslacoin up infinite%”. Then the goal would be to capture the majorit
710.
by redisman 5y ago
Tesla coin? It’s not that hard to fork a GitHub repo and do a search and replace
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by redisman 5y ago
It’s still up 5x yoy
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by redisman 5y ago
What else could these companies realistically do? All I can think of is restore from backups or break the encryption. First sounds like a job for IT and second impossible unless it’s been done completely incompetently
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by redisman 5y ago
Ubuntu is pretty much there UI/UX wise for example. If Samsung provides top notch firmware then I don’t see any problems with a Linux laptop and would want one myself
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by redisman 5y ago
Reading about them only having workstations for every other people, I would have turned on my heels and walked out the first day!
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by redisman 5y ago
As an introvert with a family needing random breaks through the day, if this became the standard I would immediately leave the software industry.
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by redisman 5y ago
I worked for a small EU company from the US and what they did was that we all set up a "consulting" company (sole proprietor is fine for minimal paperwork) and sent invoices to them. Then just calculate the rate to cover the norma
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by redisman 5y ago
It’s self-help. Usually the half life of those is a few articles and then you kind of know that they’ll just repeat that until people stop paying attention to them
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by redisman 5y ago
So he agrees on the macro level but is trying to spin up some controversy about how we actually can’t accurately forecast every small detail of a complex system to sell a book
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by redisman 5y ago
Rock n roll died before Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Pink Floyd had release any albums?
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by redisman 5y ago
Jazz also had a long rein as the apex genre for something like 50 years but then fairly quickly succumbed to rock and disco in popularity. I would guess hip hop is past its peak already and it’s also splitting and merging with other genres

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