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by seneca 3y ago
It's not cheating anyone when both parties knowingly agree to the terms. This is just heavy handed regulation that destroys options for workers and consumers.
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by seneca 3y ago
> I thought it was WW2 and the lack of men to do the jobs they usually would. That doesn't track the reality of the timeline of women in the workforce. Women temporarily worked during WW2, and after the war things returned to the pr
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by seneca 3y ago
> Feminism arose in the US during the 1950s in the first place because a significant amount of women were not satisfied with being stay-at-home mothers and wives. Even if the world were suddenly taken back to the 1950s, the same thing wo
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by seneca 3y ago
As I understand it, in that case it is by dating the age of the materials the wood in question was buried in. The minerals are dated using luminescence dating. That tells you when those particles were last exposed to sunlight.
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by seneca 3y ago
> Does it say "no motorized vehicles"? That does not include ebikes in my area (Southern US). Yeah, exactly. I think that varies area to area. In my area the county manages the trails, and they've made statements saying th
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by seneca 3y ago
> Unfortunately we don't have the infrastructure or dedicated, separated bike lanes that make them safe. How much risk does an ebike going 25mph+ pose to a cyclists on a regular bike, or a pedestrian? I know all of the bike paths ne
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by seneca 3y ago
Thank you for the link. A bit unfortunate for the aesthetics but likely necessary.
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by seneca 3y ago
Yes, exactly this. It's a form of a Keynesian beauty contest. That essentially means to make your comment based not on what you think, but on what you think will be popular with others. It's the heart of modern social media. It ab
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by seneca 3y ago
Is anyone aware of major civil engineering effort being undertaken in NYC to deal with this? They've had several major flooding events in the last handful of years. Seems almost as if they need levees.
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by seneca 3y ago
Weird how that timeline for the inevitable communist revolt in the west has been a few decades out for 100 years.
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by seneca 3y ago
Sure, that's entirely fair. I was trying to delineate tool usage from social usage with my first sentence, but maybe I failed to do that. I appreciate the feedback.
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by seneca 3y ago
I think you're essentially dead on. The concern is the transitional phase. If population collapse leads to collapsing economies and mass civil unrest, there's a very real chance the still-reproductively-healthy cultures are dragge
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by seneca 3y ago
The lack of sub-replacement rate fertility is happening almost everywhere. It's just hidden in many western countries by mass immigration, but even that is a temporary solution as the source countries face population decline themselves
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by seneca 3y ago
I think you're largely right, but there is also the fact the expectations for childrearing have significantly increased. Several generations ago children had jobs. One or two generations ago children were allowed to roam the streets un
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by seneca 3y ago
The social side of Goodreads isn't for readers. It's for people who want to be seen to be reading. It's the kind of people who badly want to be seen as intelligent, and well-read. Read the reviews of books. They're terri
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by seneca 3y ago
The idea that having children is a joyless burden is very modern, and very specific to certain subcultures. "Great joy" is the default position.
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by seneca 3y ago
Longterm, it probably is. The problem is the transitional period. The reality of having a population with more elders and fewer working age adults will be absolutely brutal.
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by seneca 3y ago
It's called "lysenkoism". > In time, the term has come to be identified as any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically or socially desirable.
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by seneca 3y ago
What do you mean by "higher stack" here? SREs being highest paid is true for my anecdotal knowledge and what I've seen in salary surveys. I'd be interested in updating my understanding though.
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by seneca 3y ago
$250k is about right for a Principal "DevOps Enginner" for a company in a major city. Principal engineers are well paid, and SREs (what people often mean when they say DevOps eng) are often the highest paid engineers at a company.
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by seneca 3y ago
How is working from home able to replace daycare? That's a new one to me.
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by seneca 3y ago
Because the things an organization talks about gives you an idea of their priorities and their values. If a technical org you otherwise supported suddenly started posting blog entries about how Hitler wasn't such a bad guy, and maybe t
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by seneca 3y ago
This is what these companies want you to believe, that it's a fait accompli and you just have to accept it. That's not actually reality, and giving up words and communities to people who want to corrupt them is not the right react
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by seneca 3y ago
> Why not simply not comment? Please don't post attacks like this here.
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by seneca 3y ago
> What often happens is that corporation in high tax country has subsidiary in low tax country that they find a way to funnel profits too. That has nothing to do with individual taxes.
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by seneca 3y ago
> The government already has the power to do this — just ask any trans person in the South Any citations on every trans person in the South being singled out for denial of services by the government? Because that sounds like inflammatory
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by seneca 3y ago
It's a supply/demand issue. There are piles of ambitious engineers who want to be staff+, and not that many instances where it's needed. Contrary to popular narratives, management outside the c-suite is a mostly a thankless g
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by seneca 3y ago
> Are building murals not associated with ghettos outside the US? It's two things in the US. It's ghettos, as you say. But more and more it's whites who want to signal that they're "cool" with minority cultu
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by seneca 3y ago
Accusing people of using hidden messages, intentionally interpreting their post as negatively as possible, is very against the community standards here. Please don't do that. > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretatio
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> This is not true. If I, a taxpayer, want my taxes raised for the sake of extending equality to a historically and currently oppressed group, then I am not harmed. If you want your money used to pay for reparations you can donate to a c

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