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by scarab92 4y ago
It's a town of 8000 people, of which 4000 are college students and staff. When you gather that many social justice warriors together in a location where there is no actual injustice to prosecute, they will creatively invent some so tha
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by scarab92 4y ago
At a guess, "with careful financial planning" means after negotiation our insurers, we agreed to pay increased premiums sufficient to reimburse the insurer for damages paid, allowing us to announce that the endowment is untouched
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by scarab92 4y ago
Be mindful of confirmation bias when searching reviews. Finding 10 reviews mentioning noise might be because it's noisy, or it might be that they have thousands of reviews and a small percentage experienced noise
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by scarab92 4y ago
Amazon's margins are astronomical. Hetzner doesn't need to give up any where near as much consumer surplus as they do in order to compete on price, but having a solid offering at very low price point is how they have chosen to dif
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by scarab92 4y ago
Juries awarding excessive punitive damages was enough of a problem that many states capped it. Seems more likely to me that, in the long run, this will also occur in the remaining states.
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by scarab92 4y ago
Agree, hours have very little to do with burnout, unless your talking about the colloquial burnout which seems to be used as a synonym for fatigued or exhausted. I've been a workaholic all my life, often working 80 - 100 hours a week f
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by scarab92 4y ago
This is fine for hacking a POC together, but for anything in production I'd want to go the immutable infra route deployed from a CD server, so the visual studio integration doesnt really help. At a high level I'd say, Azure is mor
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by scarab92 4y ago
Tom Scott is perhaps a better example of how hollow monetised content can be. His formula is taking topics that have been covered by other creators, dumbing the content down a bit, adding a sponsor block and a clickbait title. There's
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by scarab92 4y ago
That's not even close to being considered protected activity. Given you've spammed this misinformation all over this thread, despite being corrected on this point repeatedly, I'm not sure you're acting in good faith.
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by scarab92 4y ago
Not sure about the stealth layoff take. It's too unfocused, you'll lose people you want to keep and keep people you want to lose. Severance isn't that expensive and gives a lot more control. Agree with your second point thoug
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by scarab92 4y ago
No facility can produce 30 GW. The new Vogtle reactors are 1.1 GW each, which is pretty typical for nuclear or fossil fuel plant. Steam turbines over 2 GW don't exist afaik. Also, the median new wind turbine in the US is over 3 MW now.
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by scarab92 4y ago
Paying severance to staff you decide you don't want is much cheaper overall than losing staff randomly, which will include your higher performers. It's not a plausible explanation for Musk's actions. I would be inclined to ta
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by scarab92 4y ago
Its offerings arent as broad as AWS, but Hetzner cloud is frictionless, fast to deploy and very low cost. We use it a lot for compute intensive jobs.
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by scarab92 4y ago
I'm not convinced this is a case of "soft layoffs". You'll save on severence costs, but those costs are so small compared to the cost of having no control over who decides to leave.
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by scarab92 4y ago
Perhaps, but this line is more often used to pretend that obvious inventions are more novel than they really are.
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by scarab92 4y ago
That's only true if investors think the 10% rates are permanent. Future interest rates are a time series not a single value, and I suspect most will use a lower rate in later years reflecting some mean reversion.
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by scarab92 4y ago
Are the niche subreddits still a safe haven from the superficial glib comments that dominate the default subs? They used to be, but there's so much cross pollination that I no longer find them tolerable either.
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by scarab92 5y ago
Yes, but they forecast growth of 2.5m and analysts were expecting 2.7m - 3.0m, so 200k is still a big miss, albeit only a single data point at this stage.
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by scarab92 5y ago
Local municipalities typically do not have the jurisidiction to regulate last mile delivery, let alone the desire to do so, and Amazon can always use USPS / FedEx / UPS which local municipalities won't be able to restrict.
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by scarab92 5y ago
What you are referring to is monopsony power, and Amazon isn't even close to having a monospony on warehouse labor. Warehousing is massive industry and even at their size Amazon is less than 10% of it. The most realistic solution is fo
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by scarab92 5y ago
I sympathise with the employees, however unions have pratically zero chance of gaining concessions from Amazon. Amazon can give more shifts to non striking workers, train new employees in a matter of hours, leverage labour hire companies, b
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by scarab92 5y ago
Australia trades with China, particularly in minerals, but the countries are not on good terms. Australia has multiple WTO cases running against China, and the Australian government frequently calls out CCP misbehaviour. In turn, China has
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by scarab92 5y ago
To be clear, the transfer of EU citizen's data to the US was deemed against the GDPR. This decision does not mean that Google Analytics itself is illegal.
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by scarab92 5y ago
Often carriers aren't responsible for lost goods. It's the shippers responsibility to purchase insurance for the items they send. It's a massive conflict if interest because the carrier has little incentive to improve securit
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by scarab92 5y ago
The current editor in chief's career as a journalist was largely writing clickbait style opinion pieces on identity politics for Slate etc.. I have no idea how they were deemed a suitable candidate to work for Scientific American, and
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by scarab92 5y ago
Starlink dishes don't have a dedicated heater inside to melt snow. I don't know where the author of the article got that idea from. They are just power hungry and produce enough waste heat that it's not a problem.
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by scarab92 5y ago
Politics aside, the entry requirements for Australia explicitly require full vaccination with a WHO approved vaccine or a valid medical exemption. Prior infection is explicitly not sufficient for an exemption. Djokovic did not meet the entr
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by scarab92 5y ago
Reddit's right to moderate what content they host isn't under challenge here. The problematic behaviour is advocating for a ban on the discussing these ideas.
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by scarab92 5y ago
The solution to authoritarianism isn't more authoritarianism. If Reddit overstepped in the past, we shouldn't treat that as a watermark for what should be banned in future.
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by scarab92 5y ago
Trying to control what ideas are allowed to be discussed seems shockingly authoritarian. It's not like this community is inciting violence.

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