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by underlipton 3mo ago
Appropriate name for the participants.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
If you want people to read, you have to be willing to accept a population that does not feel harassed and hurried. You have to give them a raise when they say they can't afford shelter and food. You have to stop gatekeeping education a
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by underlipton 3mo ago
There was a great essay I read a few years ago that I can't locate, about how much of Western society is driven by the threat or actualization of humiliation. The Black Freedom Struggle (all incarnations) was won (inasmuch as it was wo
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by underlipton 3mo ago
You are correct, and the problem is an embarrassing lack of understanding and imagination on the part of the people criticizing you. An entire car dedicated to delivering one meal at a time, directly to the recipient, should be exorbitantly
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by underlipton 3mo ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=grocery cart
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by underlipton 3mo ago
It should be, "One delivery truck drives to several manned neighborhood drop-off points a couple of times a week, and 100 people walk to those points and walk home with their packages." Central distribution points that you have to
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Only in Kenya.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Individually. A village municipal link is probably within reach, though. Village sees increased productivity, raises the wealth of the region, suddenly surrounding villages can afford it. Or, individuals get their own. I don't like giv
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by underlipton 3mo ago
You cannot convince me that something ridiculous wasn't covered up wrt Deepwater Horizon.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Being interested in popular culture is being interested in how the world works. It's an interest in how influence and power and money make things move in the rooms that aren't factories, and how to navigate your way into and out
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Gonna be a bit of a downer and say, "The kids who need to hear what this guy was saying aren't in school with the kids whose parents are engineers." (Well, not all of them.)
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by underlipton 3mo ago
You also kill the people who would have become highly-productive in the future. Their early career is defined by trauma that they learn is the norm, and they spend the rest of it reacting to real and imagined threats based on that norm. Thi
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Unless they're disclosing exactly how the location data is being used to measure driver risk, my assumption is that it's a form of redlining. Filing my racial discrimination lawsuit nnnnnnow.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
And the thing is that you don't even necessarily need to make a new slot machine to compete with the old slot machine. A lot of people hate the slot machine-ness of the old slot machine. They hit a button on their Chrome extension&#x2F
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by underlipton 3mo ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764717 You say that you're genuinely interested, but chances are that any given maintainer is not. Willingness to actually listen to UI/UX critique is what separates the
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Many games re-release as "complete" editions with updates and sometimes DLC. I don't know if those always find their way on to the disc proper, but unless they're relabeling and re-boxing dead stock, I have to imagine &q
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Hyperstrategic origami.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
>so its now up to the victims who have been wronged to bring the violation to the attention of the courts/regulatory bodies responsible for enforcement. lol Have you tried finding a lawyer recently? For anything? >The legal syste
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by underlipton 4mo ago
Of course. They meet in Davos every year.
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by underlipton 4mo ago
The modern fashion industry as we know it has always had black workers and designers, but it was essentially unheard of for a black man to be named the artistic director of a major legacy fashion house. Particularly for businesses that touc
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by underlipton 4mo ago
Eh. Allow me to play devil's advocate, for funsies. Yes, as the blog post states, Virgil Abloh "stole" (or "steals"). But he did not steal, he "stole" ("steals"). That is, his entire modus operan
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by underlipton 4mo ago
If it is, I'm sure that you can easily produce that documentation.
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by underlipton 4mo ago
>I finally got it solved by buying drinks for a buddy of mine that works for LinkedIn I'd like people to understand that this is a form of corruption. We've normalized many like it. LI knows that the only way to force them to f
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by underlipton 4mo ago
Americans have exerted control over their society before, of course. It's usually through embarrassment of the people in power, with an implied capacity for violence waiting in the wings. "So, why not now?" I dunno. Something
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by underlipton 4mo ago
The earnest answer is that it's more predictable than random violence, and its predictability makes it somewhat more preventable. That said, there is a tendency for a system to drift away from this predictability as it's subjected
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by underlipton 4mo ago
Not that I disagree, but it should be asked: Retribution for what? The answers are, generally: >COVID restrictions >The state of the economy >The state of culture, broadly-speaking >Letting a black man become president, and the
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by underlipton 5mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ktgvoH4Mc has a good overview.
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by underlipton 5mo ago
That is the gist of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ktgvoH4Mc's take-away (though with great pains taken to convey that he doesn't condone it). Extralegal solutions become more and more attractive the less and l
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by underlipton 5mo ago
The idea is that the houses are being bought by the government because they were erroneously valued by the owner under market rate. That presumably gives them room to come down from "market rate" to actual market rate (the rat
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by underlipton 5mo ago
2008 happened. You could also just look for examples of officials trying to explain why they won't bring charges against banking officials. https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx... https:&#

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