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by speff 11mo ago
That's 4% of corporate employees going by Reuter's 350k corp employee count[0]. Sounds well within the trimming-the-fat numbers. The rest of your comment alludes to an obligation towards improving the domestic economy. That can be
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by speff 11mo ago
I'm not sure I understand this viewpoint. Just because a company made a big profit doesn't mean it has to keep positions it decides is unneeded. This isn't the first time I've seen this type of attitude and I'm genu
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by speff 1y ago
I found two, but it looks like the topic was deleted. Kagi had it partially cached as a search result[0]. The first thread in that list seems a bit more ...pushy than the second thread. Though I think you're still right - was probably
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by speff 1y ago
If you're amenable to feedback, the impression I got from your initial comment was "a hostile comment pointing out another hostile comment". It assumed a negative motivation on OOP based on vibes and you ran with it. Even thi
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by speff 1y ago
I said Nazi/Hitler comparisons. Fascist fits the bill as much as socialist does for Democrats. Gore (retired) said it and apologized afterwards. Pritzker made the comparison yes. So...that's one? A literally-who to most lay people
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by speff 1y ago
I saw an interesting fact the other day. Not one democratic politician has apparently ever called the GOP Nazis or Trump Hitler. Can't find any examples of "trash" either. There was the infamous "deplorables" exampl
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by speff 1y ago
Food presentation has an effect on taste. This is why the dyes are used. Frankly, I wouldn't want to live in a world where the only food we're allowed to eat has to demonstrate that it's only made of ingredients necessary to
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by speff 1y ago
Manufacturing: > The United States is the world's second-largest manufacturer after the People's Republic of China with a record high real output in 2024 of $2.913 trillion [0] I believe the US' manufacturing capability is
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by speff 1y ago
That's a fair point. I try to stick to name brands on Amazon to try to minimize the chance of fakes (Generals, Casio, Zebra for my examples previously) - and the packaging does look like the one I get directly from the manufacturer. I
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by speff 1y ago
I tried making a serious effort of avoiding amazon lately. What I found was _generally_ prices are much higher everywhere else. Charcoal pencils - 30% cheaper on Amazon compared to other sites. More than 2 times cheaper compared to local ar
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by speff 1y ago
I've been hearing that H1B holders are currently trying to stay within the US in fear of not being let back in or because of shenanigans like this[0]. Wonder how many people are currently looking for a flight. [0]: Oh, it looks like th
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by speff 1y ago
The comments that really get me are the ones putting the onus onto Youtube to refactor their view approach to "just" count it from the backend. Rhymes with consumers asking gamedevs to add multiplayer to games.
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by speff 1y ago
I'm not sure that'll be enough to save them. I've known various people who've worked there in different departments - dev, accounting, UX - and none of them had anything good to say about the company or its culture. My i
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by speff 1y ago
Elden Ring is currently $15 cheaper on GameBillet compared to Steam[0] - it even comes with a Steam activation key. If Valve did the same thing, sites like isthereanydeal.com wouldn't really have as much of a purpose. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by speff 1y ago
Mouthwashing was delisted for reasons unrelated to the Visa/MC kerfuffle [0] > This game hasn’t been indexed since October 2024 since it doesn’t meet our indexing criteria: https://itch.io/docs/creators/get
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by speff 1y ago
If everyone in the world is able to check if my door is locked and enter if not, yes I will give a bounty to someone who politely tells me that it's unlocked. Cybersecurity vulns are in a different class of exploitability from physical
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by speff 1y ago
I don't really follow how your statement relates to o11c's. The theft they are referring to is of other American companies - not other countries' IP.
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by speff 1y ago
That would be a valid solution, yes. But it sounds a bit too simple? My concern here is - wouldn't someone have already tested the slurry and made the determination that's it's suitable/unsuitable? This article doesn&#x2
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by speff 1y ago
I'm pretty sure everyone would take that position so I'm confused why you're implying I wouldn't. "authorities currently favor one explanation for the pollution" Tells me that they don't have proof this is
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by speff 1y ago
"Industrial waste" can cover a lot of different types of materials - not all of which are worthless. It would be worse if waste products from one industry are sent to a dump when they can be re-used for other productive purposes.
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by speff 1y ago
I generally agree with your point, but would like to mention in my opinion Amazon (not AWS) makes billions because they've captured the market and prevent any meaningful competition from arising due to their "Fair Pricing" po
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by speff 1y ago
If I recall correctly, the accent marks only started to get dropped when people began using keyboards. Resumé and fiancée still got an accent when it was handwritten
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by speff 1y ago
Is this system not preferable over just trashing anything not perfectly made? Sure it would be nice if everyone can have perfectly manufactured medicine, but that's not reality. I would think something that's still likely good is
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by speff 1y ago
I feel like you can make the same argument in favor of being allowed to DDOS. Yes it's public, but I don't think that gives you a moral out for viewing the content in a way the publisher doesn't want.
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by speff 1y ago
Ah yea, it looks like that's true. I didn't calculate the actual percentages, but it was very low. Thanks for the heads up - > Demand for housing also remains heavy because Soviet rents, heavily subsidized by the Government, ar
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by speff 1y ago
Has rent ever been 10% of take-home pay of a lower-class laborer anywhere in history? Asking because this goal doesn't seem very achievable, but I could be wrong
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by speff 1y ago
Caveman math indeed. Thanks for the correction - that's a pretty big error. Though then I'm not sure what to make of the discrepancy between the numbers. They still don't square up w/ the Wikipedia article any way you lo
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by speff 1y ago
I skimmed the article - any significant concrete numbers were all sourced to the EPI site linked by the GP. There's an unsourced FBI chart that says >19B in 2012, but I couldn't find the actual numbers when I looked. Frankly -
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by speff 1y ago
That seems like a really small number? To compare - total US retail shrink in those years combined was a little over $300B[0] - averaging about 1.5% of sales. $1.5B seems like a rounding error when talking in those terms. [0]: https:/
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by speff 1y ago
Aligns with my experience as well. Way back when I got my MSEE, there was a guy in the group that did literally no work towards the final project. Tried asking the prof for help, but crickets. Turn-in time comes around for the report and we

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