smt88

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With the context that "payment" is a way to make labor fungible and labor is expenditure of calories, every creature has to pay to live. Humans probably spend fewer calories on survival (with better results) and more calories on p
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I first read about industrial use of spider silk literally 25 years ago in Discover Magazine. I'm going to assume it's just never going to make economic sense.
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Go ahead and look it up yourself. The US still does worse. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/17/u-s-lifespans-trail-tha...
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Life expectancy in the US is lower than other developed countries, so people here are living both shorter and worse lives.
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They've done it before at the request of a corporation. What has changed that they wouldn't do it now? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
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A 26yo dying is not "one of dozens," it's ~1/10,000 in the US (and likely much lower if we consider this guy's background and socioeconomic status).
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Not identical, but fairly close. Much closer than the examples in the first image would suggest based on the numbers presented.
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Apparently a publicity stunt by the company that has worked spectacularly well.
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They do not generally support it because it means they'd have to give up something they fought hard to get at the bargaining table: https://archive.thinkprogress.org/what-unions-think-about-me... Some definitely suppor
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> Do you have any references on that? - https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-23/why-some-u... - https://jacobin.com/2018/06/medicare-for-all-health-care-uni... - htt
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by smt88 2y ago
Unfortunately, organized labor in this country opposes the separation of employment and health insurance, so we will never be rid of it.
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Some of the most common jobs in the US are driving trucks and working in warehouses. Those people are not some kind of random sample of healthy and unhealthy people. They tend to have chronic pain and metabolic disease at young ages. If you
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This is because Republicans are beholden to the companies profiting from the existing system, and Democrats are beholden to unions[1]. Our unions are a reason we have no actual labor movement in this country. They're socially conservat
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> makes it almost impossible to pass anything except the most uncontroversial bills It's actually worse than this. Popular bills, like the Dreamers Act, become political footballs. Neither party wants to pass it while the other
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It takes a lot to go beyond the corporate veil and hold individuals criminally liable. I think prosecutors rarely try unless it's a slam dunk.
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by smt88 2y ago
You say they "get away with it," but it makes more sense to conclude that UI design has a lot lower ROI than we assume it does as users.
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Sell them to someone for $95k and take some time to figure it out.
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He doesn't see it as wasteful. He sees it as a threat to the wealthy screwing over consumers. He has the same hostility toward all regulators, including the NHTSA, which does an incredible job of keeping cars as safe as they are.
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by smt88 2y ago
Your description of a VC's value is describing them as an index fund of startups, and I suppose you could say YC has moved in that direction. But most VCs are paid to make bets on which companies are most likely to succeed. I never sai
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There's an enormous amount of evidence that almost no VC knows what they're doing (almost none beat index funds in the long run). YC seems to have a spray-and-pray approach, and it used to be run by Sam Altman who has repeatedly f
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by smt88 2y ago
My guess is the margins were really bad for a PaaS. It's expensive to build on top of other people's clouds.
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Docker was a spinoff of an internal tool used to build exactly the type of PaaS you're describing. It was like a better Heroku and I loved it, but they shut it down when they focused on commercializing Docker itself.
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PHP ORMs and ORMs in general are notoriously hard to maintain. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP, I'm speaking from experience.
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This was weirdly condescending and content-free. I've been programming for 30 years, and getters/setters are both pointless and anti-productive. They hide (potentially a lot of) code from people reading the program, which leads to
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> equally distributed politically, which is reflective and a microcosm of the actual demographics of the country But it's not, for the reason you and I both gave: almost half the country identifies as independent, and party affili
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CNN is reporting on X's empty PR because CNN itself is desperate to talk about controversial topics.
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The claim is that the people who use X for news are half Democrats and half Republicans. That's so deeply wrong and out of touch that I don't know where to begin. First, a large portion of Americans (and growing) don't identi
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You're making an enormous leap from "follow the science" to health policy and then again to legal consequences of violating local laws. No one said, "'The Science' told us to arrest people for going to church!&
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Major news orgs publish op-eds they disagree with all the time. They label them as opinion. It's actually unfortunate if publications decide only to publish things they agree with because that fails to acknowledge they could be wrong.
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People saying that didn't mean it as "obey the science," they meant, "follow the science to the conclusions it leads you to." For example, people would ask public health officials what they thought about things, and

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