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by throwaway2245 6y ago
There's no objective measure of value and the amount the workers are paid is more a function of their (very little) power: if those types of workers vanished, Amazon would not have any value.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> The government subsidizing their pay is a good thing The government is really subsidising the money into Jeff Bezos's accounts. The skills aren't considered worth $25/h because they are not paid according to the value th
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Or you could add a 'salt' to the location, before adding randomness, so there is an unknown offset.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
It's worse even than that. As long as one company controls the One Rendering Engine, all websites are tested against that One Rendering Engine (i.e. not the truth of the spec). It becomes impossible to create a new rendering engine wit
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I think our perspectives are different because I'm thinking about what the board of Wikimedia might look like later: when it controls a bunch of money but is essentially dying as a service. I imagine a political mess, of people trying
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
So, your suggested alternative to avoid data monopolization is to use a FAANG (with a worse product)? I accept that those are alternatives, but no thanks. Pandora has been geo-blocked and IIRC only serves the USA since 2007, and SoundCloud
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
If Wikipedia becomes unfashionable to the extent it is highly dependent on its savings, it will no be longer valued for being Wikipedia (by definition). It might be valued as an institution with modest economic power, which doesn't see
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Why should Wikimedia need a significant nest egg? What do you do with the money, when people have stopped valuing Wikimedia enough that they are no longer paying for it to exist?
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
As best as I can tell, the timeline of these data is lagging and inconsistent... I believe it's (now) listing UK up to 2020 Week 51, and Bulgaria to 2021 Week 3. That's a 5 week difference in which Bulgaria was hit pretty hard. We
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Humans are systemically dependent on nitrogen in the air, in that it is required for nitrogen fixation.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
In my opinion, the second is just not true. If a reliable feature is evolutionary advantageous, then new systems will come about to take advantage of that (and may out-compete old systems, indeed, to the point of extinction), I agree. But,
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
It also means that the business model is still an advertising-funded model - just indirectly advertising-funded, via Google. All the pressure to protect the advertising industry and disseminate advertising will still be present.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Nobody is asking for 10000 Mozillas? Doing the work researching a cure for cancer is much more practical with 1 Mozilla.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> The knowledge base should be primarily in your head. Making it easier to store and recall useful information, without using your brain, is a good thing that has fuelled progress in recent decades. The impermanence of the internet requi
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it I would rather not do my own content discovery and content curation: I see those as literal chores that have to be done before I can consume content. Like all ch
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
"Le bon ton" likely had a very direct hand in shaping colonialism, given that they were aristocrats and landed gentry, and given the "season" spent in London was shaped around political networking. However, I also meant
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I was surprised this article didn't mention British colonialism at all.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Also uncontrolled spread allowing the opportunity for significant mutations to evolve. It's hard to understand how you can mess up worse than that.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> You need BSL3 facilities if you want to have a hundred people have it. But the alternative is 27 million people getting it in planes, boats, and buses - none of which are BSL3. Those things are not true alternatives. I said "it&#x
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> This is quite simply nowhere near as hard as you're making it out to be. I'm going to quote a (sarcastic) reply to another of your comments: "This is easy. Just find a job that pays you $350,000 a year." If you have
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
A randomly controlled challenge trial would involve deliberately infecting scores of unvaccinated people, putting them at risk, along with anyone involved in the procedure and anyone they come into contact. It would mean handling live virus
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
"Better" is doing a lot of work here. The UK (in particular, England) is currently reporting the second highest new death rate per capita in the world, still higher than it was at any point in 2020. It continues to report 1000+ un
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> The only reason that it isn't apparent to you It is apparent to me that no other species (ever) has been implicated in a mass extinction event. I notice both commenters referenced cats - a domesticated and invasive species. > H
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> Also, "if it would save just one life" is where you're going with the last sentence. Please read again. If a virus is transmitted even once via a surface, it is then free to transmit onwards by whatever method is most ef
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
This quote might be stale, e.g. New Zealand suggests that it has identified cases of infection via lift button and bin: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/427446/rubbish-bin-the-l... Obviously this is disput
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
My impression is that other animal species generally are in harmony with nature: Non-human animals seem not to be inclined not to, in general, exhaust existing resources. They seem to have no interest in this, even where it would give the
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Is it not right that 2019 was the highest spend ever for TV advertising? And a 5% drop would be less than the drop in broader TV production, via coronavirus? Major events that are associated with large advertising budgets haven't happe
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> It turns out most non-targeted ads aren't actually that effective Non-personalised television advertising is still doing great.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
You are quite literally the consumer - you consume the service. You're just not the one paying for what the service is.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
This helps, but not that much. (Assuming your risk assessment is correct) Suppose a shock happened right before I planned to shift into a safer portfolio. What do I do then? The only really correct answer is: "well, I didn't need

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