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by xracy 2y ago
Yeah, and how much money does he make vs how many hours he works? Like, he's punching down with all of these comments, and because he's still punching up from where 99% of workers are at, people buy the line from the billionaire w
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by xracy 2y ago
Hi, please finish this thought. Google engineers are paid well so they should have to work twice as hard? Google engineers are paid well, so they shouldn't complain about the contract under which they get paid changing to expect them
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The concrete reason that I've stated here and in other places, is that the way conspiracy theories grow they eventually consume all of the topics you can discuss with a person. I'm guessing this hasn't been going on long. My
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Communicating is hard, this is intended to be helpful and informative and I genuinely hope you take it that way. I'm being a little barbed with some of my feedback below, because you're engaging defensively, and I'm just tryi
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by xracy 2y ago
Okay, but like, Will Japan be more Japanese when the last fully Japanese person dies, or will it be more Japanese if people move and live there and melt into the culture. Yes, there will necessarily be parts of your culture that get lost (i
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Population is such a weird thing to worry about. When it goes up, people worry about there not being enough resources. When it goes down, people worry about there not being enough people. I'm sure there continue to be real problems to
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by xracy 2y ago
Just want to call out, totally fine to not want to share the details of your relationship online, but if that's the case, you can't really make the appeal to "being in a similar situation" if you can't back that up
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exactly, there is nothing else. And worse, everything becomes a part of the 'enlightenment' or 'the truth'
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> I don't see why you'd ever server a relationship over something like this. I don't know more about your situation, so I can't help you with what you're missing. What I can say is that I have been in the same
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by xracy 2y ago
The sad part here is that the 4-year degree vs high-school also feels like it's probably more of a class divide than anything else.
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by xracy 2y ago
I think the current valuation of twitter is around $9B? Which answers the age-old question "How do you make $9B?" You start with $40B But I don't know what metrics you're judging by other than general ~vibes~ but 75+% l
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It's hard for me to imagine that the software built around this isn't just going to start crashing with enough of these changes. You've given a handful of (generously) junior engineers access to decade+ old software and they&
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Well, at least the answer to the question "what weapons WW3 will be fought with" is "asteroids" that's a fun surprise. I guess we'll see if Sticks are still a thing we can fight with for WW4, but stones was def
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It's easy to add reliability to a system if you scale the interested userbase down. Which is exactly what Xitter is doing by pushing content far to the right, and making it a more hostile environment for discourse. Like, yes, I can run
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by xracy 2y ago
Elon's 'Strategy' looks a lot more like consolidating the power of government in the executive branch than actually reducing the size of government. That actually makes government bigger and scarier in my view. I would now co
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If your actual policies are unpopular, then you have to spread lies to make them popular.
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I don't see a strategy here other than just blowing things up... And that's concerning me. Why are they doing so much self-destructive shit.
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I mean, this might've made sense if he was killing it fast... but He's killing it with enough time for it to come back as bluesky.
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I will mark this as reason number 521 that Cryptocurrencies are 'bad', and we shouldn't be using them for anything real.
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I am glad we got to your real answer. Which appears to be "we can't do that, we need the ultra-wealthy to spend money on us." One of the lessons of the pandemic is your economy is actually better serviced by many people spend
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by xracy 2y ago
Is this a real question? You can't imagine any population that can make this determination for itself? If only there were organizations responsible for populations that could determine this locally for places in the world. Guess we j
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There's an old joke where a man asks a woman M: "Would you sleep with me for $1M" W: "for $1M dollars? Yeah, I guess I could be convinced for $1M." M: "What about for $10" W: "No, what do you take me
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by xracy 2y ago
We can't criticize corporations because we don't have morals as a society. And we can't criticize "the system that creates the lack of morals" because "that's a whole 'nother discussion"? This is
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This is the comment I was looking for. Entirely because the trailer makes it super unclear to me if they fixed the "port on the bottom" issue. There's definitely one on the bottom. It looked to me like there might be 2. B
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by xracy 2y ago
Gosh, Okay, we can only criticize corporations in the very limited avenues where we discuss specifically how they're meant to make money. Not in any of the other ways those goals lead to questionable decisions.
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5% of your new hires, doesn't necessarily mean 5% of your company. https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo... ^But let's say you messed up hiring 20% of your company, and then you co
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by xracy 2y ago
What is the source of this take? I swear I heard it from like... acollierastro? Good take.
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/s because surely half a country couldn't make a bad economic decision. Every cloud has a silver lining.
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Gosh, I'd love to find my old Computer Architecture Professor's slides on the like 3 axes on which you can improve Computer instructions or mflops. But in general my recollection is you can do the following (please except 1 salt r
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Their fact-checker is on record as saying that he has to present equal amounts of fact-checking for democrats and republicans. That is quintessential "both sides". Fact-checking should be pretty agnostic to political party, you sh

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