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by sershe 11mo ago
This is basically saying wage labor is theft, nothing to do with silicon valley as such Comically though, it's also self-refuting, since it leads with how voluntary exchange of something for money is ok, even if someone gets a bad deal
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by sershe 11mo ago
I mean there are many reasons, I really don't have time to reiterate all of them but I'll provide one serious and one funny example before summarizing. One kinda relevant to the present moment and the fact that dude still has a st
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by sershe 11mo ago
Well, what is your alternative definition of welfare state that implies it has been hollowed out versus the one before the 80ies despite massive increase in funding? You so far have provided zero data on either welfare state or living stand
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by sershe 11mo ago
I had a rule of thumb is that if software is telling me about a feature or an update (outside of a tutorial or something, and security) the feature is probably useless, someone is padding their yearly review and I need to turn it off. Peopl
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by sershe 11mo ago
You didn't originally claim above the inequality is increasing. The above posts make claims - about the post war welfare state versus the current system. I provided the data going back well before Reagan to show this is simply false. U
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by sershe 11mo ago
Why is that? Definition of working class can range from near everyone with a job to a lower stratum under the middle class to even more narrowly manufacturing and similar. Nice cope out though. At least I provided some data and not just fac
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by sershe 11mo ago
"Metrics like these are meaningless when the working class' living condition keeps deteriorating." 1) what is working class? 2) what proof do you have that its "living condition keeps deteriorating"? By all metrics
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by sershe 11mo ago
"in reality welfare state with its massive redistribution and limits on concentration of power that won" The welfare state increased 3x since post war time so that one is plain wrong. It was not clear if the 2nd part was "it
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by sershe 11mo ago
Social welfare spending only goes up as percentage of GDP. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long... . What data do you use to distinguish the "current economic system"? Notably of course
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by sershe 11mo ago
The very first example about water use is a well known red herring, data center water use is miniscule compared to the production of everyday goods. It's really amazing when reading this kind of stuff how many people don't appear
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by sershe 11mo ago
That argument applies to any charity. The difference in EA, even if one was to agree with your general framing, is that at least the money one uses on whitewashing should actually do some good and not be wasted.
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by sershe 11mo ago
Federalist papers were very explicitly against direct democracy, so... Not much?
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by sershe 11mo ago
Just like Canada, or Europe? (where fees are collected from airlines and the govt mostly just coordinates them instead of directly paying for ATC)
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by sershe 11mo ago
That has been tried in the US before. Public option sucks unless like in Singapore (or USSR where it sucked only moderately) you force almost everyone into a public option. Otherwise people most capable of moving out, move out; the public o
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by sershe 11mo ago
So if I build a building full of studios targeted at young people who would have no interest in owning one permanently, or poorer ppl who don't have money or stability to buy, how am I to be compensated/incentivised? I guess it&#x
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by sershe 11mo ago
Example: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-... In case of the cities you don't even need to move that far. I know multiple people in Seattle who just moved to nearby towns 105-15 min
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by sershe 11mo ago
Rent control in particular is an economic basket case policy, the fact that it's popular at election time should have about as much bearing on it making sense as the fact that another "experimental" candidate was considered b
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by sershe 11mo ago
It implies there's no nefarious intent to collect some training data. In my area at least the only user data I'm aware of is used for measurement of engagement in anonymized aggregated form. Engagement metrics still exist, because
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by sershe 11mo ago
Private corporation seem to be doing fine with pilots though, both for rich people, and for commercial aviation. Doesn't seem that different
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by sershe 11mo ago
I work in MSFT although not in office org. Based on my experience, the reason is far more trivial. Someone has a half year goal (KR) that says I/my team will increase engagement by N% from X to Y. Some people, whom I don't respect
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by sershe 11mo ago
Why are ATC paid by the federal government anyway? As far as I understand airports are separate private heavily regulated entities. Seems like thus should be trivial to solve by having airports/municipalities pay for their ATC. Might a
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by sershe 1y ago
Is this new? My grandparents spent a ton of time in front of the tv, most of the day probably. By the time some of them were near 90 they couldn't do much more anyway, but I think it started decades before that, especially in winter ti
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by sershe 1y ago
Most money being spent on Medicare and social security. Non means tested programs transferring the money from everyone else to the richest demographic in the US. Also the least productive use of it. Self-admittedly structured as a ponzi rac
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by sershe 1y ago
That is only as far as you or I are concerned. The environment where you first write the rules then someone can arbitrarily come and say nah that's not what we meant (with any consequences) is far worse than any low trust environment.
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by sershe 1y ago
Why is that person a problem? That is why rule of law exists, ideally, so that we don't run society on arbitrary outraged moral judgement. E.g. many people are morally outraged by presence of any illegal immigrants and others are outra
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by sershe 1y ago
"wielded by states and capitalists to monitor, control, and discipline populations. From passports to colonial passbooks, from welfare cards to border regimes, the apparatus of identification has always been tied to domination." U
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by sershe 1y ago
This whole thread is a much bigger indictment of humanity than the neon app. A system that gives the poor (who are already far richer than under more or less any alternative system/any time in history!) an additional opportunity to mak
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by sershe 1y ago
For me prime still works fine most of the time. And so much random crap is overnight nowadays! Nothing like ordering a vent cap, finding it doesn't quite fit due to peculiar siding, and immediately returning and overnighting a differen
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by sershe 1y ago
A much simple explanation is that each order is assigned a priority f(elapsed time, is prime) prime orders starting much higher so the processing of your order gets delayed behind all the incoming prime orders until its priority catches up
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by sershe 1y ago
As with alcohol (and I say it as someone with alcoholics in the family), there are the vast majority of users who are doing nothing wrong; sellers who are generally not doing anything wrong (ok, banning sharps is wrong, but that is not core

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