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by xenocyon 6y ago
Counterpoint: the way people assess decisions after the fact is no more rational than the way people assess them beforehand. Some parents with n children wrestle with the decision of whether to have n+1 . You seldom hear regret from peop
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by xenocyon 6y ago
This is also true of academia: you can buy your way out of the stipulated teaching load. Some faculty members with large research grants or side businesses (and little interest in teaching) find this well worth it. Meanwhile adjunct faculty
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by xenocyon 6y ago
This is a strangely worded title: why not say "mosquitoes" instead of "tiny insects" since that is what is being referred to? Insects as a whole are of crucial planetary importance.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
You're getting downvoted because this is a capitalist forum and your comment goes against the grain.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Correct, and furthermore the environmental gap keeps decreasing with each step to the right: in terms of impact, recycling is much closer to landfilling than it is to reusing.
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Seattle-area software dev charged for attempting to defraud CARES Act of $1.5M(geekwire.com)
6 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
What hardware do you use it with?
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by xenocyon 6y ago
That's a strange equivalence, and a malevolent comment. Outing whistle-blowers (or supposed whistle-blowers) is bad for democracy. The government is supposed to be transparent to the people. This does not mean that the people should be
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The farms growing beneath our cities(bbc.com)
2 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
A bit of a digression, but the same was true of famines in India under British rule. India (i.e. Britain) was exporting rice and wheat to England at the same time that a third of Bengal died from starvation.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I addressed consumer choice in my first paragraph. Let me expand on that: There have in fact been successful consumer-led movements, but the most successful of these concern cases where the consumers also happened to be the same people bein
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> the only browser that allows mobile extensions and syncs bookmarks with my desktop That's not correct; the "regular" Firefox on Android also allows extensions and syncs bookmarks.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> prevalence indicates the customers appreciate their presence Focusing solely on consumers ignores negative externalities. There are many situations in which cost benefits from such externalities (slavery, pollution, human rights abuses
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A Perplexing Sculpture Constructed with Lego Appears to Defy Gravity(thisiscolossal.com)
3 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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> If they employer can pay $200k/yr for a remote employee It's interesting that folks envisioning a globally uniform payscale tend to posit SF salaries in Hanoi rather than Hanoi salaries in SF.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> if organizations like EFF would be included in this advocacy group Obviously not. The EFF is antithetical to Facebook's goals; it advocates for freedom from not only governmental but also corporate surveillance.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> Carmakers are also defined as a COVID19 critical industry Can someone enlarge on this a bit? I can see how auto repair can be a critical need, but I don't see why auto manufacture is critical during this phase of the pandemic.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I have noticed that this claim (that our current system is a net positive) is not frequently uttered by indigenous Americans, or for that matter indigenous people anywhere.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Protocols designed to avert industrial accidents don't automatically translate to protection from COVID. Specifically, the article mentions that 6 ft distancing is not being maintained.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> It feels like a laptop from the future I've been using Thinkpads for close to 20 years now, and it's more correct to say that their greatness comes from feeling like a laptop from the past : excellent ergonomics, upgradabili
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Five Workers at Amazon Warehouse in Kent Likely Infected with Coronavirus(southseattleemerald.com)
1 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
My personal snapping point as a consumer occurred several years ago, over something that's definitely not anecdotal: When Amazon employees are frisked at the end of their shift (which is a practice that applies to at least some warehou
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Your calculation assumes one never needs to replace brake pads, chain, tires; it also makes no allowance for lights, tools, incidentals, or the occasions one might need professional repair. Incidentally, WD40 is not a good substitute for lu
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I don't run lights myself, but I don't agree with the theory of perfect symmetry of moving violations. The risk one poses to others by breaking traffic laws is different for a pedestrian, a cyclist, a car, a semi-trailer, and a ju
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Your first paragraph makes a thesis that is not easily falsified by anecdote (both capitalist British Raj India and communist Stalinist Russia had large famines). However I agree that US food production is already highly centralized, at lea
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Some Colleges Have More Students from the Top 1% Than the Bottom 60%(nytimes.com)
3 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
These sound like platitudes. And in particular the claim of Amazon's tremendous autonomy for workers doesn't even ring true to me (though I could be wrong since I'm basing this on anecdotal conversations with Amazon engineers
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Carnegie-Mellon and U of Washington (UW) are both top 10 for CS programs, so that's not surprising. I imagine high schoolers who are CS applicants are well aware of this fact.
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The Dangerous Rise of Covid-19 Influencers and Armchair Epidemiologists(insidehook.com)
2 points by xenocyon 7y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 7y ago
The consequences for a young boy saddled with the long term consequences of fatherhood or child support are serious. Secondly, if parents were truly concerned about this they would provide condoms, support, and healthcare rather than stern

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