turtledove

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   by turtledove 4y ago

   All of our fresh water comes from evaporation and precipitation. I'm curious if there have been attempts to increase evaporation as a means of producing water in areas with excess solar energy. I know industrial plants use reverse osmo
2. 122.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   How much water does that produce, and how much human labor must go into collecting it, and how well does it work in windy or cold conditions?
3. 123.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   This is about what I expected, thanks for the data. Many households share equally, a big chunk have the women doing more of the labor, and a small minority of household have men doing more.
4. 124.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   They let kids post on this site?
5. 125.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck all the way off with this take, my dude.
6. 126.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   For what it's worth, most of the devs I roll with these days have discovered therapy over the past couple years and are extremely thankful for it.
7. 127.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   See also The Glory Society, KO_OP, Lucid Tales, Triple Topping, Future Club, Soft Not Weak, Stray Bombay, Pixel Pushers Union 512, Hopoo, Chromatic Games, to name a few other coop games studios.
8. 128.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   A generalization implicitly does not include all cases. The existence of counter examples does not invalidate the general case. Saying a pattern exists in no way implies you, specifically, fit that pattern.
9. 129.▲
   by turtledove 4y ago

   Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) are two working on unionizing workplaces at the moment.
10. 130.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    Tech coops are great, and we need more of them.
11. 131.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    I'm sorry, where did anyone tell you that you didn't do enough (because you are a man)? I think you might be reading things that no one is saying. Saying, "this commonly happens" is not the same as saying, "you are
12. 132.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    Tech workers (and workers in general) can and should be forming unions to protect their time, their benefits, their IP, etc. I constantly see developers say they are paid well but treated poorly by their employers (unpaid overtime, oncall r
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    Women also pick up a huge amount of work in the form of chores, childcare, emotional labor, and general running of the house. This labor is typically unpaid and expected to be done on up of whatever other work the women do to pay the bills.
14. 134.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    You love to see it. Every one of these is a joy to behold.
15. 135.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    Rejecting the need for the technology at the design stage is ditching it. It was just ditched at design, not ditched at implementation.
16. 136.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    I'm shocked that Tesla has the fanbase it has. The slipshod nature of their manufacturing and their self driving is putting humans at risk - and not just the drivers. I own a Tesla, and it's been a moderately ok ownership experien
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    I do not believe it's subject to supply and demand. For several reasons. Labor is not fungible, even so called unskilled labor is actually quite skilled and requires significant training. (Put me in a strawberry field and I guarantee I
18. 138.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    Not he. Also, because tags are functionally the same as subreddits. I come to HN because I want to be surprised and because I know we're all experiencing the same content. If we let people subdivide into clades, HN changes its characte
19. 139.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    Because HN is not Reddit? It's meant to be a cross section of interesting ephemera.
20. 140.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    This is notably prevalent in octopus, who are incredible creatures with short lifespans post reproduction.
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    Only if we let it. A workers coop doesn't engage in a labor market, it pays everyone an equal portion of the company's profit. And I'm pretty sure we could absorb a lot more labor and have a stronger safety net for the folks
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    > Those illegal immigrants are here at the cost of the wages of legal citizens. No they aren't. This is xenophobic claptrap. Or at least it isn't self evident they are, and you've failed to provide any evidence they are.
23. 143.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    We could, or we could not deport humans and solve housing and probably be even better off...
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    In general, folks who are asking for a small government aren't actually asking for a small government. They are asking for the government to reallocate to the things they care about and away from the things they don't. "Small
25. 145.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    This is a false dichotomy, how we allocate housing is the wrong framing. The problem is that that housing is in any way a scarce resource. Solve that problem instead.
26. 146.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    Or repealed those laws.
27. 147.▲
    by turtledove 4y ago

    No? Have you seen his communication style? It's not one of a person acting "perfectly rational".
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    The dude did not, in fact, build those things. The dude was present for them in some capacity. And Tesla is hardly a juggernaut, their cars have horrible build quality (speaking as someone who owns a Tesla) and are likely to face stiff comp
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    I was going to say.... HN is full of politics. Not always the Red vs Blue kind, but there's political discussions constantly . At any given time several front page stories are explicitly political, and several more are implicitly poli
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    by turtledove 4y ago

    So wait, assuming I had a hundred k, and they were willing and able to pay out, I could buy 97k of tether and redeem it for 100k? Just an instant 3% return? This seems like there's no way they are opening themselves up to arbitrage lik