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by sershe 3y ago
Poverty is the default state of humanity. There's no unspeakable violence in it. Not to mention that "poverty" in the US is a luxurious lifestyle by worldwide standards (source: I'm an immigrant, and not even from the po
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What is speeding related? Speed limits are completely arbitrary. 395 in Eastern CA, a straight line for miles thru the desert (i.e. perfect conditions most of the time; there are stretches near Bishop and south where you could take a nap as
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There's always an alternative of trying to make society more meritocratic and letting the cream rise to the top. But if it wasn't, recent history shows that someone with bad ideas that starts out with a heart of gold is far more d
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> creating a sentient species to showcase genetic options for sale to parents", That is barely wrong at all (is it even worse than animal experimentation) > creation of a designer drug for those outside the wall with a secret sid
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"most people who can afford to pay will pay." That is basically irrelevant; example - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arre... It's by far not the most people who dr
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> privileged elite living in corporate, walled compounds that insulated them Given that elite was shown as hyper-meritocratic (even in the dynamic between two main characters), I think that's the utopia-like part. > compliance t
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Am I the only one who thought the core of the society described in the book was more of an utopia than a dystopia? Then, she added perverted(early on)/misanthropic deviant genius to destroy it, a character that lacked even basic verisi
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My OD (I have an anti-hippy bias, so I checked and the online sources claim MD and OD are really not different; not sure if my bias is actually correct, maybe MDs are better?) literally googles symptoms. Thanks, I could do that myself witho
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The main issue really is that there are no rules for pronunciation. It's not as bad as reading Chinese (as far as I understand - I tried to learn for a month and gave up :)), but in the same direction going from a language like Turkish
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I wonder how they chose a time period both for the initial display and for the total. What's special about last 800k years? Full context: https://u4d2z7k9.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Co2.
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Price to income ratios are lower than / on par with most developed countries, and were not much higher than historic values until 2020, when the US executive tried to out-Europe Europe. Healthcare, maybe. Although, breaking down US liv
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1) Since blocking social media for one's children is trivial, does it mean all the parents affected are guilty of neglect? Is there a reverse class action lawsuit? Oh wait, that's bad for election prospects, better go after evil b
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Ok, so you should be able to sue schools where regular bullying happens, or ads that supposedly promote unrealistic beauty standards for eating disorders, right? Or why ads, sue the media companies that publish them. Or maybe vendors that s
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How does the concept of the 3rd place combine with walkability? I actually am not a particular fan of most 3rd places, but ok, I used to love to pop out to play soccer outside of my flat, or walk to a local bar for board games, but on the o
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Does that cover full implementation of the program? Medicare and medicaid (that, to be clear, I'd abolish in a heartbeat with only a transition period for readjustment) could simply be legislated into an unusable state. E.g. slash prov
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I mean, then they bring out the 2-month deals. I used to live in a luxury 25+ story apartment tower in Seattle area in 2010, with a big pool, full size gym and everything. It was... less than full, so I paid like $1.1k for a large 1br with
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Ok, then I can write anything here with the same amount of effort... You choose a really roundabout way to admit that your pro-union position has zero justification! Reminds me of arguing with young earth creationists when I was a teenager
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You are missing my point, or rather confirming it. Multiple times actually. 1) The reason corporations can do these things is because there's competition for jobs. If there wasn't, they wouldn't be able to get away with it -
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I strive to make my responses ALMOST incoherently delusional, as opposed to the ones such as yours that has literally zero value.
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People are really not liking this joke. I think it's because it strikes (see what I did here?) too close to home. Or is it because it's not realistic? Ok, actually there are two digger guys, one to dig the hole and one to fill it
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Points 1-2 make sense, although I don't believe (see no reason why, given the rest) unions would "come to the table", other than again when their demands are seen as unreasonable. >I was attempting to provide context to yo
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by sershe 3y ago
Responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691256 For corporations, it's incidental. For unions, it's inherent.
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For corporations, even their bad behavior is incidental to their goals. Corporation in a vacuum is a form of capital organization, typically used to provide some service for profit. Sure, if a corporation can e.g. buy a government (like Uni
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Well, what do you think the reasons are that these workers took non-union jobs with Tesla, vs union jobs with Ford/GM/etc.? > To prevent wage reduction as a result of an influx of cheap labor It's not just against cheap la
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So a guy is walking down the street and he sees a worker along the road; the worker digs a hole in the ground, then waits a little bit and fills it back in. After that, he walks 10 feet and repeats the process. The guy asks the worker what
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For most organizations, this behavior is incidental to their incentives. For unions, it's a primary motivation. Throughout their history, unions would always be maximally exclusionary to the degree it wouldn't backfire in terms of
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In the Russian case, ISP itself would host the share :)
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Semi-unrelated, on bundling: about 20-25 years ago, there were a bunch of these tiny hyper-local ISPs in Russia that would wire up several adjacent flat blocks with a LAN, get an internet uplink and start signing customers within those flat
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Do you have a reference for this? This was a weak hunch for me before but I always assumed I was wrong based on e.g. insurance rates. If insurance prices it higher, it must be more expensive to cover?
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One of my few non-libertarian opinions of "how things should be" is that somebody should find an ADA angle to make sites requiring scripting completely illegal, with very narrow exceptions like games. Equivalent functionality in H

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