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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The problem is they'd actually have to say "Look we know you don't like it, but it's better for me personally as I have substantial personal investments in commercial real estate." Because it's not even ultimat
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
I'd bet good money this Vargas dude has investments in commercial real estate. That's all this push to get workers back to the office is ultimately, a bald-faced attempt by the wealthy powers that be to make everything worse for e
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The Verge has to have some of the worst reviews on the entire internet. All they ever talk about is subjective stuff like how the product "Looks" and "Feels" and are seemingly incapable of doing any actual work to provid
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
The "Economists" solution is always just that whatever rich people are already doing / getting away with, is obviously the optimal solution, so we should let them do as much of it as they want. Economics as a field was entire
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
In Vancouver every new unit that is built rents for more than the cities median rent, meaning for every new unit built, rents go up overall. How that is supposed to help with "Affordability" is beyond me.
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
"Your career does suffer, because we choose to penalize you for it."
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
For me it came down to a single, simple factor. Pricing. I bought a perpetual license for Resolve Studio for $295. Premiere Pro costs $21/mo., in perpetuity. So over even a relatively short time horizon of 2 years, my costs of ownershi
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by rfwhyte 3y ago
Funny how all the "Black and queer" artist who felt overlooked at the opening of the Berlin Techno Museum in Berlin, Germany, didn't have much to say when "Exhibit 3000" the Detroit Techno Museum in Detroit, USA ove
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
Xi's been in charge of the hyper-industrial scale grift / corruption machine that is the Chinese economy for over a decade now. I gotta reckon he's at or near the top of the true global rich list.
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Startup founder spouses, how can I be the most supportive partner possible?
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I applaud your effort to create something unique that you enjoy, but personally I think that computer is arguably the ugliest I've ever seen, and I used an emachine in the 90s...
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
I too would love a vehicle that is both energy efficient and not designed solely as a way to extract as much money from me as possible, but sadly the corporatists who run our world have decided that we can't have such things as it woul
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
This take is so wrong as it utterly discounts the affect of mass market brand advertising, a trillion dollar global industry. People's tastes haven't "Converged" they've been manipulated by corporations to be whatev
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
Headline should in fact read: "In supermarkets across Europe, corporate greed is leading to a surge in food theft." And that theft is entirely justifiable as these corporate grocery chains are effectively stealing from all of us w
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
They don't do anything about it because it's a feature not a bug. They know full well about all the fake reviews, fake products, product switches, counterfeit products, dangerous products, etc., and choose not to do anything abo
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
This nails it on the head pretty much for me. I'm personally hugely interested in the potential of LLMs to enable me, a non coder, to create programs that might only have marginal utility to others, so are likely not going to get built
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
If there's one thing police can't stand it's being held accountable for their own actions. If the cops break into your house based on completely fabricated charges, destroy a bunch of your property and traumatize your family,
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
“I used to be in the movie business where you made something really because you cared about it,” he told NPR. The very definition of movie, he went on, “is in such transition that it doesn’t mean anything right now.” Pretty rich stuff comin
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
Teenage Engineering is fast becoming the official brand of vain idiots with too much money and too little common sense. I mean $1600 USD for a few bits of aluminum and a piece of plywood?! This thing would be overpriced relative to manufact
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
What this pretty clearly demonstrates to me at least, is that executives and shareholders are stealing 90% of the value each employee creates, as both companies median per employee compensation is around $300k, yet they each produce 10X tha
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
The secret here is that for the majority of companies, the goal is not to support you as a customer effectively, but to rather minimize the amount of time spent organization wide supporting ALL customers. So to that end the automated system
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
The rich used their money and power to get their cronies and puppets elected to governments the world over so they could rewrite rules to their benefit. Just look at the increase in corporate money and lobbying in politics to see a pretty s
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
It's because the current entrenched rules and regulations surrounding the housing markets in pretty much every western nation were written by landlords and property developers and the current system, like pretty much every system in t
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
The only hypothesis I can come up with that lets me square the archaeological evidence (the numerous sites with pre-clovis dates) and the genetic evidence (almost all current North American indigenous population genetics derives from a sing
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
I shudder to think how poorly built all these new "Cheap" Chinese EVs must be. If my and the rest of the world's experiences with Chinese built e-bikes and e-scooters is anything to go by, we're soon going to be in the a
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
As a fellow Canadian I f*cking HATE it. Hereditary monarchies are pure unabashed evil. Monarchs only hold their positions because some ancestor of theirs was a better murderer than everyone else. They have massive wealth / land holding
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
Designed for the "Eco-conscious" consumer who's cool with dumping their waste directly into the ocean and massively increasing their carbon footprint by having literally every necessity of life delivered to them via dudes in
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
The US, along with the rest of the world has a capitalism crisis, the mental health issues are just a symptom of the root disease. People broadly speaking, need connection and meaning in their lives, and the capitalist systems most of us ar
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by rfwhyte 4y ago
This, so very much this. I flat out refuse to do business with any company or organization who hides who is profiting from the money I spend.

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