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> It's amazing how entitled some people are. How are they entitled? Employment is a business deal. Apple has something the employees want, money, and the employees have something Apple wants, their labor and know-how. These folks ha
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You have to be reasonably talented to work at Apple. turns out that talented people have other options and don't like being pushed around like a bunch of peasants. Who've a thunk it?
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He said he was a temp, so I very much doubt he got severance.
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> I think Americans over estimate how much investment in defense is needed. I don't think you understand the concept of risk, particularly as it pertains to things like war and armed conflict. Defense spending always looks excessive
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Articles and analyses like these are incredibly dumb, to the point of being worse than having nothing at all to say. The x-axis on the graph shown in the article goes to the year 2100, 78 years into the future. This would be like making pre
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> I cannot fathom being the person at Amazon who makes that call. Do they sleep well at night? Do they feel good about themselves? I'm sure they sleep fine. It's not the role of a retailer to promote a particular political agen
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Very well said
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> That silence is still among the top few of my regrets. Don't be too hard on yourself. The fact that you remember the incident and feel that regret shows a lot of emotional maturity and self awareness. I doubt many others that att
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I don't have any firm conclusions on the meaning to be gleaned from Universe 25, but man, that article may have been the most interesting thing I've read in a while.
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> So few people want to get rid of it because so few people are even aware of what it is, why it’s bad, and how it affects their community. So you're going to convince us to abandon zoning using the the argument that it's bad b
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That's fair.
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The birth rate in most developed countries is below replacement and only decreasing, so this argument doesn't really hold much weight. It may have in the 1980's but times have changed.
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> Suburban single-family homes are specifically an elitist policy. Prior to the widespread development of suburban single family homes post WWII, most Americans outside of those in rural areas could not afford to home their own home. Sub
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> Over the years I've noticed basically every zoning argument turns emotional like this That's because it is an emotional issue for most of us. We put our wealth, our time, and our energy into buying a house and finding/
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> 97% of zoning that has been horrible for land use in the US If it's so horrible, why do so few people want to get rid of it? The truth is that most Americans are pretty happy with their neighborhoods and communities. Sure, suburba
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> Also, IMO, phones aren't worse than what my parents' generation did to waste time which is watch TV. I'd argue phones are much worse. The TV stayed in one spot in your house and you had to share it with others. You didn&
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Fear not, the long tail is alive and well. It's just not where the author is looking for it. This has to do with the flippening that has taken place in recent history and has not been widely acknowledged. For decades practically everyt
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I've noticed that any time you need to use the word "still" to argue for something, you've usually already lost the debate or the larger point. I can't imagine anyone writing a post along the lines of, "Why I s
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I find the more a given employer cares about certifications and credentials, the less interesting and less pleasant the place is to work.
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> This is the cryptocurrency reality where the small man is overpowered by the bourgeoisie who own so much more capital that they only need to fear each other. How is this any different than the traditional financial system? Remember 200
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If done right, this is a good thing. Communism gets a weird pass on its sins, which are serious and many. I remember being at a social event an some grad student had a cheeky shirt with Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Castro, Mao, et al. wearing po
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> Are you ignoring the 'perpetual fallback license'? I'm not ignoring it, I'm just not a JetBrains user for reasons outside of cost. I happen to like emacs and donate to different parts of the emacs ecosystem. Most of
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> Do you work in tech? Like writing code? Yes and yes. Perhaps with the exception of showing the source code, these things we're discussing are things that used to be quite common place, i.e. you could buy and own a piece of softwar
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> I read the title and immediately agreed, but i had misinterpreted "short-sightedness" as the inability to consider the long-term effects of our choices and habits I had the exact same reaction, and was genuinely surprised whe
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> Most of your points also apply to open source software, and aren't strict requirements for proprietary software. Except I can still use discontinued open source software like Atom. Try installing an older version of an app on an
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> Lastly you say "None of these things are a big ask.", you just want the world on a silver platter for no cost, sorry but that is a big ask, Silver platter? Lol. Each of these things would require *less* effort on the part of
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> Imagine doctors deciding they won’t help an addict because they’ll just keep using. This happens all the time. If you're an alcoholic no doctor is going to give you a liver transplant. I personally know several dentists who will n
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> Nothing to do with freedom. People are naturally cheap. I don't think this is true. Look at bars. I can go to a liquor store and buy alcohol at a fraction of what it costs in a bar and invite my friends over to drink together. Ye
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> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn and how long it really takes to make software, are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows
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Or to a different time period for that matter

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