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by slantedview 3y ago
Yes, I am reducing unions to economic concerns, but I should mention that most people's "moral" objection to unions is conditioned by parties whose interest is solely economic. When the Koch foundation buys airtime on news pr
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by slantedview 3y ago
Have you seen political facebook? It's a trainwreck of content meant to incite violence, and is perfectly allowed so long as it only targets some people (ex: minorities, certain foreigners) and not others. The idea that Facebook is pla
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by slantedview 3y ago
Opt-in by default. Not all unions are great, but the median unionized worker earns more than a non-unionized worker in the same field. So the main reason people wouldn't want to join a union is because they've been conditioned to
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by slantedview 3y ago
This sounds like most big corp acquisitions, but nevertheless, sorry that happened.
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by slantedview 3y ago
If Tesla is anything like Twitter, Elon told marketing what he wanted and nobody said no.
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by slantedview 3y ago
There's a video of Cybertruck struggling to go up a dirt hill, with tires losing traction: https://www.threads.net/@ben_woodward/post/Czeo1X-BLAd
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by slantedview 3y ago
Does jailbreaking somehow cause Apple ad tracking to run as a daemon? Maybe you can explain how these things are possibly related.
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by slantedview 3y ago
This is a joke right?
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by slantedview 3y ago
Would love to see a chart of average car payments to income ratio.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Is there any good data comparing cloud provider uptimes? I know GCP had an outage recently that impacted me.
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by slantedview 3y ago
> Somehow, Go manages to optimize for accidentally swallowing errors How so?
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by slantedview 3y ago
> exceptions are often (ab)used to create invisible control flows through the program that are extremely difficult to follow And yet, Golang supports Goto.
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by slantedview 3y ago
I agree, especially if you can _choose_ when you want to be a bit more verbose and add more detail, or not.
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by slantedview 3y ago
That's not the code that a user would write to use this pattern, that's code that a library that implements this pattern might use.
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by slantedview 3y ago
I love these kind of experiments. Before Java had lambda expressions, there were a few creative libraries that introduced them. It wasn't perfect, but it helped drive towards good use cases for that language feature before it made it i
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by slantedview 3y ago
I'd say there are many reasons, but I agree this is one of them.
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by slantedview 3y ago
I agree. This is a really gross and wreckless way of dealing with the situation.
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by slantedview 3y ago
The argument you make is that @SeymourHersh is no more authoritative a source of news and information than @FreedomLover837474, so why can't they both have blue checks. While true in theory, in practice, it turns out professional journ
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by slantedview 3y ago
Turns out that democratizing blue checkmarks solved one problem, but created another, in that it became much harder to vet reliable information on twitter, and intentionally misleading tweets would be boosted above those from professional j
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by slantedview 3y ago
It's becoming less so. During the start of the war in Gaza, many journalists lamented how terrible Twitter has become for the thing it was best at: breaking news. There are many problems, but one of them is that intentionally misleadin
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by slantedview 3y ago
Of course. Even a tertiary google search will get you details, if you care to find and read them.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Leveraging aid packages for UN votes and political concessions is standard geopolitics. For example, just a few weeks ago, it was discovered that the US leveraged an IMF deal to get Pakistan to back the war in Ukraine: https://th
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by slantedview 3y ago
In case you don't see the comment above, a few books that I know cover this topic include "Superimperialism" (Hudson), "Silent Coup" (Kennard), and "The Divide" (Hickel).
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by slantedview 3y ago
Sure: two somewhat recent books that cover this are "Silent Coup" by Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, and "The Divide" by Jason Hickel. Another that covers this topic is "Superimperialism" by Michael Hudson. Th
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by slantedview 3y ago
It's worth pointing out that debt trap diplomacy was pioneered by the US backed IMF. While China has been exploitative, it goes without saying, that the US has been even moreso.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Some of the reports of overheating are coming from very experienced tech reviewers, and it's happening at times when the phone is being used for basic stuff, like music streaming, without any heavy work.
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by slantedview 3y ago
The Google meet executives must have more internal clout than the Jamboard executive(s). And so it goes.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Best of luck! I hope it all works out for you and everyone there, but it might be prudent to be prepared either way.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Is nothing sacred at Google? Podcasts is a great simple app that does one thing well. I suppose that means Google had to kill it.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Indeed - that they accomplish this without the benefit of being the world's reserve currency means that in some ways they're in a more stable position than we are.

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