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by yterdy 3y ago
Is it typical? How do you know?
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by yterdy 3y ago
I'm saying that I'm not convinced that consultants are appropriately representative of supercommuting as a practice.
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by yterdy 3y ago
West Virginia is an odd case with the same chewy nougat center as racism: the exploitation of labor and resources, and the extreme punishment of anyone who fights back, or who even simply truth-tells (hence GP being flagged), up to and incl
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by yterdy 3y ago
Stop all the superdownloadin'.
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by yterdy 3y ago
I don't see how you've come to the conclusion that what you've described is normal and not an outlier (though perhaps common in a particular elite field).
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Always has been since humanity's ~200k year history. The unpriviledged masses having free time for leisure and entertainment between work and sleep that isn't a Sunday, is a relatively new development of about ~100 years or l
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by yterdy 3y ago
Carpe verpa
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by yterdy 3y ago
Not even that will do it; big-enough businesses will just financially-engineer themselves out of trouble.
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by yterdy 3y ago
NFTs were the new music and art, once you cared to look past your given Bored Apes. I also don't think that it's a coincidence that XR and AI hit their strides during that period. There are more examples. And, note that the moment
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by yterdy 3y ago
There are many basic social needs that aren't being met for a majority of the population because so much time and energy has to go towards merely surviving. I think people who have a vested interest in this paradigm overestimate how mu
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by yterdy 3y ago
Before flagging this submission, I would ask you to consider the following (in terms of why it would be of interest to HN users): 1) It is one in a long line of contemporary and credible allegations of discrimination in mortgage lending, in
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Navy Federal CU faces allegations of discrimination in mortgage lending(cnn.com)
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by yterdy 3y ago
This is fake dogma that was invented 50 years ago by neoliberal economists and has never actually been a legal or even contractual truth. A company exists to do Company Things. Often, that is, "Make money," but it can also (should
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by yterdy 3y ago
There are also probably ethical concerns wrt devices that can run a human lifetime without intervention. You gonna put weapons on any of those? (Someone wants to.)
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by yterdy 3y ago
[A wild Government Bailout appears!] (Maybe not of the firm that originally took the loan - but someone, eventually, because the alternative is economic collapse.)
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by yterdy 3y ago
Power has been consolidated. The things that could be done - protest (OWS), mild insurrection (Floyd protests), actual insurrection (Jan 6th), primary (AOC) - have been tried. It turns out that it's difficult to get anything done when
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by yterdy 3y ago
Clearly not. This is wishful-thinking.
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by yterdy 3y ago
Characterizing it as him having negotiated poorly conjures a vision of That One Scene in The Social Network ("You're gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own c
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by yterdy 3y ago
>There is nothing wrong with buying and liquidating a company. Beyond the perversity of using a company's own full faith and credit to eat it dead from the inside out (essentially admitting that the PE firms themselves are not respe
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by yterdy 3y ago
It's almost as if the coming-together-to-complete-a-mission that is a business has a raison d'etre other than profit (and, particularly, returning profit to investors), or something.
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by yterdy 3y ago
And they hate it. Patreon, too (particularly the ones with more risqué work). A dedicated platform would be a major boon in terms of community, reliability, and possibly remuneration.
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by yterdy 3y ago
I have no direct experience with the situation in Japan, so take with a grain of salt: my understanding was that, as with much of Asia, the issue is not so much layoffs as burnout and the difficulty of getting one's foot in the door. &
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by yterdy 3y ago
Maybe. More opportunities for job-seekers to get a Good Job might make any given selection process less cutthroat, though.
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by yterdy 3y ago
In America, there is a history of using "cultural fit" as an excuse to discriminate against socially marginalized groups (both those that have and haven't escaped economic marginalization in the intervening years). So that&#x
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by yterdy 3y ago
>What would you do instead? Encourage a competitive market environment where there aren't just a handful of polarized "make it" companies that everyone is applying to regardless of fit or career objective because landing a
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by yterdy 3y ago
We reduced poverty. This has: >reduced hunger, but not eliminated it >potentially exacerbated homelessness, as the income/wealth floor for maintaining a household is now higher, globally Additionally: >there are more slaves in
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by yterdy 3y ago
A parent who pushes their child to carry out their own unfulfilled ambitions. The archetypical college athlete who "coulda gone pro" dumping tons of time, energy, and money into their kid's travel team, or the tiger parent fo
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by yterdy 3y ago
>when we reproduce, do we make copies of ourselves? You have been blessed not to grow up with a narcissist or vicarious striver as a parent. Technically, cars are a means of transportation for people. However, an honest assessment of the
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by yterdy 3y ago
What happens to a civilization that resolves not to be?
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by yterdy 3y ago
We have made targeted and limited progress, dragged kicking and screaming by the people for whom that progress was a matter of life/death and dignity/destitution.

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