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by taurath 5y ago
By good rate like $60/mo? Canada is also bad. Data rates are 6x more expensive in US/Canada than Italy. 2x that if the UK or Germany.
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by taurath 5y ago
Blame mobile carriers in the US for this. Data rates were very high for a long time and eventually texts went from $.10/each (receiving and sending) to “free” w a phone plan before most people had a phone that could install an app. We
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by taurath 5y ago
We should just enshrine into law that we won’t bail them out this time
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by taurath 5y ago
Covid has opened a lot of eyes. When mortality is on the line in a job people start to think hey what does this really mean. Hoping the current and upcoming generations will make choices towards a better future.
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by taurath 5y ago
Perfect encapsulation of the critique to the point that this feels like a parody itself.
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by taurath 5y ago
Letting the fields go fallow to allow for rejuvenation rings like a very apt allegory to me. Breaking routines, finding out who you are outside of work is actually one of the most luxurious things one can do. It’s a great time for healing.
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by taurath 5y ago
It tells people to not bother inventing anything, everything “legally” has already been invented by people with more money and lawyers than you.
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by taurath 5y ago
When management starts arbitrarily firing people without the perception that it’s a fair process, absolutely nobody sticks around. The process is for the benefit of retention because of employees perceive they can be dropped on a whim they
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by taurath 5y ago
It is the full force of the company saying “we don’t perceive you as being performant anymore”. Even on the individual level changing someone’s perceptions takes double or triple the effort to establish them in the first place.
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by taurath 5y ago
This is what they always say but they never say which orgs are good or bad. When you’re a candidate you are rolling the dice
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by taurath 5y ago
I had to scroll through a whole lot to get to the part that mentions wirecutter - the only one they really mentioned was webcams, with anecdotes about how that particular webcam they recommend isn't very good. Not much talk about why t
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by taurath 5y ago
For now I've been using the NYT wirecutter folks. They do a good job posting their methodology and you can usually dig much further for what problems they found.
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by taurath 5y ago
I think if you take the strictest possible quarantine and test paradigms and even those are failing, its certainly fair to call them ineffective.
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by taurath 5y ago
You could also pay for housing healthcare and college with a part time job. This is like saying Rockefeller wasn’t rich because he didn’t have an iPhone. Individual economics for recent generations in the US is much more dire than you make
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by taurath 5y ago
Social workers require a /lot/ of training and education - please don’t assume that they’re by and large laypeople on these situations.
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by taurath 5y ago
Calling the satanic panic rational is quite a statement. Nor a blip - it was a formative part of large amounts of the millennial generation, along with DARE, purity rings and the Christian Right legislating lessons into cartoons.
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by taurath 5y ago
To me it’s funny when people loudly shout the progress a generation made themselves while at the same time saying “and no further!”. The truth is most of the older generations right now not only don’t want to understand what the struggles a
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by taurath 5y ago
It’s a bit disheartening when you look at how many people deal with the numbness ever present in their lives by playing games that mete out little rewards in easily quantifiable bits. This is not what humans need, or, if we’re honest, want.
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by taurath 5y ago
> The presence of e-bikes popularizes biking infrastructure in cities I don’t know if I believe this - places that were increasing bike infrastructure were already doing so before ebikes became a thing. Any evidence of ebikes in particul
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by taurath 5y ago
Stigma is the biggest problem with conservative managers and business owners deciding people working in the most productive and less stressful way to them makes them a "snowflake", or not management material, or less-than.
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by taurath 5y ago
> art is really just about status and signaling I am convinced that crypto people know literally nothing about the world other than making numbers on a screen go up.
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by taurath 5y ago
Masks help slow it and keep it more manageable. If everyone in a country attended a giant “get covid” rally in their neighborhood many hundreds of thousand or maybe millions would die as the hospital system would be overwhelmed despite omic
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by taurath 5y ago
Know any comparisons vs delta??
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by taurath 5y ago
In the US American football only recently became available on streaming - it is currently $450 or $500 per season. You can go to a bar every week and have several drinks and a meal for that money. It’s a little crazy.
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by taurath 5y ago
I wonder myself whether the identification of this cluster of proteins could lead to other novel mechanisms we don’t know about, or whether the cluster is similar to others we know about? What’s the chances we find a lot more of them?
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by taurath 5y ago
Sports is the anchor by which unbundling won’t happen for a long time, especially with linear TV. This is partially because it benefits the conglomerates business models to have as many channels and content streams as possible to sell ad ti
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by taurath 5y ago
OTOH, sometimes “passion” industries like say education are not only politicized to the extreme (given outcomes matter to so many people) but also are fundamentally on a shoestring budget, wanting as much as possible for as little as possib
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by taurath 5y ago
Topic aside - why can’t cable companies write the spec of the cable on the cable? Like it’s all the same connector, I can’t tell the difference between 2.0 and 2.1. seems like it should be standard
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by taurath 5y ago
Note that there currently exists a line that prevents auditory distractions - the farm on the side of the road can put up signs but they can’t blast music or AM Radio from a loudspeaker. IMO it’s still about as distracting to the senses. I
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by taurath 5y ago
Yeah no kidding. Is there a ratio of how many people it has to be working for to be in yellow rather than red? Some internal person going “it works on my machine” while 99% of customers are down.

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