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by tchaffee 4y ago
Then try getting paid outside of civilized society. Unemployment will never be zero. An economy can't be 100% efficient. Taking care of those who cannot find work due to an imperfect system is a part of a civilized society.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> but do they recognize it? They don't need to for it to affect attendance. You stick around when you find something captivating and skip that which you find dull. And something that was captivating twenty years ago compared to the
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> If you don't pay your bills, people come and take your stuff. What gave you the idea that younger generations aren't aware of this? About 17 out of 10,000 people in the US are homeless. The vast majority of people in the US a
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> some generations actually are worse than their predecessors Sure. But the point is that the prior generation is too biased to correctly identify when this happens. And it's a solid point. The older generations are far more often w
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by tchaffee 4y ago
The author then goes on to blame students in 4 out 5 of the following points. To his credit he does suggest several changes he and faculty could make by the end of the article. But I think he's missing the most relevent point: with the
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Not a scam. I worked on AS/400s for years before I got into more popular operating systems. It's great hardware - very reliable. And although RPG is a pretty weird language, people are very productive on it. You'll still find
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by tchaffee 4y ago
AS/400 aka iSeries is not horrible. I prefer Unix type servers these days because they have pretty much won the server space. But the AS/400 has some pretty neat stuff like command prompting.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
I'm not a fanboy of cut throat capitalism but your take seems poorly thought out. Can you describe in detail how these harmful things would magically disappear if capitalism were no longer the driving force of society? My socialist nei
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by tchaffee 4y ago
The root of the problem is lack of market forces. When a union organizes against company owners for better salaries and benefits, they have to leave something on the table for the business owners who will otherwise just close their doors an
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by tchaffee 4y ago
With the absolute mess the UK is in thanks to Tories it would be wise the do the opposite of what she recommends.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Your announcement tells me nothing about what your product does except that it replaces another product.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
My point is that iMessages is not "better". It depends on the use case, and cost is sometimes a factor in deciding which solution is the "best".
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Not quite. He needs to communicate with everyone, even folks who don't have WhatsApp installed. Not many of them, but they do exist in Brazil. Either way, it's not going to be an expensive iPhone with iMessages is it?
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> Or on the other hand iMessages is far better I have a friend in Brazil is barely surviving as a farmer and has a tiny budget for a phone. He needs messaging. Which is better for him? iMessages or SMS?
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by tchaffee 4y ago
You keep repeating the same points so I'm moving on.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Read the law more carefully. Chargers, cables, and the specified devices must all be interoperable, and they cannot slow down the rate of charging. You seem to be wrongly assuming that the current state of the art will not change with the n
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by tchaffee 4y ago
I answered your question, and now you've moved the goalposts... but I'll answer some more. > How does that help reduce ewaste if you still don’t force standardization on the type of USB C cable being sold - ie a cable that supp
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> So they have to wait on a consensus. Wait for all vendors to agree. Yes, just like 5G. Interoperability is sometimes worth the tradeoffs so a nuanced view is needed instead of a reductive "standards bad, competition good".
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> How is the “current topic” only about power delivery. Because that's what the law covers. All phone *chargers* must be USB-C compatible. And they must all interoperate. You must be able to buy a phone without the charger, so you c
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> I saw no organised harassment, doxing, brigading Didn't see it so it must not exist? That's the kind of "research" everyone should ignore.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> for all time. That's a strawman. Standards evolve and new standards come along. 2G -> 3G -> 4G -> 5G. Well look at that. > If Apple wants to invent a better connector, they can’t Not true. If Apple is willing to shar
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Some things deserve to be standardized. Electrical plugs being a great example. Removing choice is a feature. WiFi standards are another example. It's tough to understand exactly where to draw the line, but making computer cables all s
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by tchaffee 4y ago
I don't find this such a big deal. Don't use the speech to text and just write messages to it instead. You still have way more control of your data using Leon compared to the commercial funded alternatives.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Calm down. No one shat in any pool. Glad you agree this change is progress towards equity. Worrisome that you got so triggered over the wording that the world is now a little more equitable.
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by tchaffee 4y ago
For the previous model the replacement was free whether or not you were under warranty. Because the battery was defective. They know this but tried to save money on the subsequent model. Which is fine. But I was a lifetime customer and will
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Dell isn't what it used to be. Strong avoid. My latest XPS had a swollen battery in less than a year and support said it's my problem. Then the keyboard started getting the pretty common sticky key problem with several different k
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Which is fine if they would replace it. But Dell no longer does so it's your cost if you get unlucky. Buyer beware. My keyboard also started sticking on my latest Dell. I won't even sell it to someone it's such a troublesome
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Dells used to be excellent and I have bought many over the years. My last XPS had several problems including a swollen battery in less than a year and a sticky keyboard which only got worse. Support was no help in either case. Their build q
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by tchaffee 4y ago
My last Dell XPS sucked and the support sucked. I bought a top of the line XPS and within less than a year the battery was swollen. Same exact battery model they were still replacing for free on the previous laptop model, but when I calle
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> Not everyone believes in your religion. I don't have a religion. I mostly asked questions. Please answer them. > Nothing about this has anything to do with equity or 'groups that are discriminated against'. The paywal

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