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by yterdy 3y ago
We seem to be quite advanced wrt edge cases that the wealthy and influential are concerned with. In the interests of a good humbling, however, a short list of issues that we haven't eradicated: >Homelessness >Hunger >Slavery &
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by yterdy 3y ago
I'm not sure what this comment has to do with my previous one. It sounds like you have a bone to pick. However, I don't disagree with what may be a generous read of your point, which I gather is that right-sizing collectivist as
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by yterdy 3y ago
It's a bit of a trap, though, isn't it? To steer one's one ship, you need a ship. Ship's expensive. So, the general approach is to finance one's self-agency with debt... which makes one beholden to an entity that tr
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by yterdy 3y ago
My suspicion is that people who tend to want to live alone feel that way because of some experience with trauma. The baseline seems to be that people desire some measure of company, whether that be intimacy or conversation or just reassuran
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This is historically what a university has provided to the privileged, unremarkable children of remarkable people who developed their support systems and networks and found mentors and sponsors by whatever means they could. That's when
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by yterdy 3y ago
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention steno and Plover in a thread about typing speed. That's the holy grail once I manage to escape QWERTY prison.
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The idea of college being a way to connect remarkable people with resources has always seemed sort of suspect. Remarkable people seem to find their own way; it's the rest of us that need a structural on-ramp to the professional or inte
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The first style doesn't become dirtier, it just gets an ambient occlusion map applied to it.
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Why stop there? Institute Georgism while you're at it, so that people can actually afford houses again. Go "Full George".
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Unfortunately, in America, a history of race and class discrimination in employment has created a culture that requires there be some way to summarily dismiss undesirables. Background checks are part of the toolset for routing around ant
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Stunningly convincing argument. /s I don't think the answer is so clear. There is also the third option: neither are particularly good "world leaders", and however bad China would hypothetically be as one, the US' l
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And now I can't tell if YOU are being sarcastic or not.
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>I mean, you think "the world's most profitable progress-themed ad distributor" comes about becuase "coding wizards" are just intrinsically intersted in this, rather than because it's what makes people lots
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by yterdy 3y ago
There are many ways to get paid, and many basic technologies that people work on because they're intrinsically interested in it or in what it could do for their community or the public. I don't think it's controversial to say
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by yterdy 3y ago
>somehow people aren’t bothered at all that “messaging” programs don’t interoperate. I used Trillian for almost a decade; it was the second best solution to actually being able to message Yahoo and MSN users from my AIM handle. I think p
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by yterdy 3y ago
Radio, too. NPR Marketplace and NYTimes' The Daily have been insufferable for months.
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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For whom?
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The problem is that nothing will change until professionals stop seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed entrepreneurs and throw in with the burger-flippers, register-jockeys, warehouse minders, and gig runners. Not just on pay and job
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In that case, the person legally liable for publishing the material is sued for infringement of the work. You don't send someone to jail because they're simply capable of infringing; they have to actually do it, and you have to ac
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by yterdy 3y ago
>It's not when wages climb too high, it's when the cost differential between wages and automation climb too high. It's possible to have stagnant or declining wages and still be taken over by automation, if the cost of auto
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by yterdy 3y ago
That's because rents temporarily cratered when people couldn't move due to lockdowns. But that was monthly, during the latter half of 2020 and the early half of 2021. Moving season is early summer, so people were locked into lease
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If the only way for people to keep apace of rising costs is to get a new job, that's got to be massively disruptive to businesses.
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I'm upvoting you because your satire is biting. British, Vonnegut-level. (To be clear, obviously that's not the case. Which leaves the alternative, that corporate food suppliers are screwing everyone.)
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Housing is an auction Between the recent (nationwide) realtor fee debacle and RealPage et al.'s (multi-state) price-fixing, it's probably more accurate to say that housing is a (national) grift.
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by yterdy 3y ago
>I am 50 years old, and live a reasonably opulent, upper-middle class, big city life. This indicates to me that you don't actually know the price of anything, particularly post-pandemic. E.g., a middle-of-the-road mattress costs $80
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by yterdy 3y ago
You have to wait a moment after a post is made before the reply link will appear.
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Some considerations: 1) We prioritize the lives and minds that are here over potential lives. Letting a child die so he can have more classmates to mourn him seems perverse. 2) As with many relaxed regulations, I suspect that it will result
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by yterdy 3y ago
Boondocks. Huey's speech on the origins of American corporate/"customer" dynamics in the Triangle Trade and exploitation of slaves and coal miners should have gotten them another Peabody.
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I question the wisdom of belief in the existence of the devil - at least in a form that can be beaten to death. "Ultimate evil" and "susceptibility to haymakers" seem mutually exclusive. This sounds more like the conflue

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