rev_bird

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by rev_bird 9y ago
>I believe McDonald's and its kin are a form of social welfare. If anything, I'd argue the current state of affairs is a form of corporate welfare. McDonald's profits by paying its workers as little as possible; because
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>between the loss of net neutrality and the automation of driving jobs we're looking at the loss of 95% of male work within the next 10 years I'm pessimistic about the same legislative issues you are, but what on earth does thi
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>It's might force people to stay together in unhappy marriages, etc. I see that as a problem. How many people are held captive in marriages because their spouse is the breadwinner? How many people stay for health insurance, or becau
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>I suspect if you want the rich to pay for this you're going to have to be prepared to go full French revolution. The real challenge is decoupling capital from political power. Otherwise, yeah, why would the rich just sit and watch
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by rev_bird 9y ago
So the company approves vacation time for its employees, then wants to take it away because they don't know how to use a calendar, and you're blaming the union for the entire thing?
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>Consumers are workers. This is circular logic, isn't it? It's like saying McDonald's should only pay workers $3 an hour because I, some uninvolved person who happens to be a worker elsewhere, would like a cheaper hamburge
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by rev_bird 9y ago
A brewpub in Minneapolis crowdfunded about $250k, though the actual financial arrangement seems a little funky, as you'd imagine: http://www.startribune.com/beer-for-life-brewpub-for-all/171... If you invested $1,
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by rev_bird 9y ago
The first I ran into it, it was basically a key server where you could associate your public key with social media "proof" -- someone who had access to the private key proved it by posting from this Twitter account, this Github us
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I can't tell what you're trying to say -- is it that you're against the commercial success of Stevens because of the fatwa? What does it matter that your dad has no opinion of him, or that you have Muslim friends?
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Wait, but using the non-AMP version is a decision too. Why do you get to make that one instead? Shouldn't the person posting the link get some discretion?
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Will do, thanks for the recommendations.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
The murder thing gets brought up a lot, and it seems nonsensical to me for two reasons: First off, Russian communism gets blamed for millions of deaths, while American capitalism has never killed anyone. How many thousands of Americans die
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I'm not sure I see the connection. The United States lucked into natural resources more plentiful than lots of other places in the world, that's true, but is it meaningful that a country be able to "feed itself"? Obvious
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by rev_bird 9y ago
First off, I wanted to thank you for such a well thought-out post. There's a lot of room for condescension in discussions about stuff as fuzzy as economics, especially as it relates to overtly political debates, and it was refreshing t
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>if things turn so badly to shit you need a year of food, food is going to be the least of your worries. I don't see why this is the case -- saying "doing X is going to be the least of your worries" seems to imply that the
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I'd be willing to bet that the user-agent field isn't the problem; it's patterns that everything looks for now, right? People have been lying in the request headers for decades.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>There are some barriers, implicit and explicit, that are perfectly appropriate. Some of them serve a higher purpose, like reinforcing gender archetypes and standards of behavior that are productive in the long run in their own ways. Thi
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>down-voting isn't to ignore. That's a good point, hadn't really thought of it that way. My apologies for being so confrontational.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
OK, I'll bite: I upvoted your original comment, then downvoted this one: It doesn't contribute to the discussion at hand, and I don't have much interest in promoting the viewpoint of someone so entitled that they think it mak
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Starting to sound an awful lot like the U.S. health care system...
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Ran into a similar problem with my modem -- the website clearly said it was supported, but three different phone service reps said it wasn't. I went out, spent $100 on a new surfboard modem, didn't help. When they finally sent a t
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by rev_bird 10y ago
So do I, but the ones on Spotify sound a lot better. Unfortunately, I'd bet most people favor listening to the music they want over supporting the digital freedoms they endorse.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm way late to your response, but just wanted to thank you for taking the time to write this out. It's probably the most convincing argument against "BS status signaling" I can remember reading.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I appreciate the sentiment here, but for a lot of people I suspect it wouldn't actually be ok to stop learning outside of work. I know there's a lot of pushback on this idea for very good reasons, but if you have a job and want
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Oh, I'd readily admit mentioning a cartoon character is fair use, but it seems like using the actual image of a cartoon character is infringement—what else IS a cartoon character? Where's the line? If one person can put Tinker
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>How to not get sued by overzealous copyrights holders? I might be misunderstanding, but why is it unreasonable for the holder of a copyright to object to an author using their work without licensing it? This in particular seems like a p
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by rev_bird 10y ago
First off, thanks for the response. I got interested in this, and did some digging around to see what kind of context I could find. To be honest, this 96-percent drop seems like cherry-picking to support a narrative. Granted, I'm proba
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Yeah, I had trouble parsing that sentence, but I agree. Recruiting systems usually encourage false negatives.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Yeah I'd request maybe a citation or two
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>natively integrates with the entire AWS stack I'm not sure I see the utility in this, as Amazon resources and group chat don't really have a lot of overlap, at least for me. What would you need "integrated" into the

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