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by zeroname 8y ago
"An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all
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by zeroname 8y ago
It's not profitable to give bad customer service, it's highly unprofitable to give good customer service while keeping product/service prices down. Remember, the upside is low prices. If you're only worth a couple of d
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by zeroname 8y ago
Basically, you got: - overpriced health-care, because the government thinks everyone should be able to buy health-care no matter what state their health is, but also everybody should be able to not buy healthcare when they feel like they
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by zeroname 8y ago
> unafraid of failure, hard work & dedication, true passion about what you're creating I would say those are in equal measure things that make people unsuccessful . You better be afraid to fail or you will follow too many stupi
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by zeroname 8y ago
You mean it is pronounced like [ˈevia] in an alphabet that I don't understand and will not learn? See, that's why the name is bad . Why make people jump through pointless extra hoops? That's not UNIX-like at all!
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The name is just spelled like [ˈevia]. I don't understand what that means. > You know, we don't choose names ourselves. Who is this "we" people? What makes you so sure you belong to them, bound by their arcane ru
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by zeroname 8y ago
Tax breaks for corporations are actually really important, those high rates make real businesses in the U.S. unattractive. By "real businesses" I don't mean the likes of Amazon who rarely if ever make a profit. They're n
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Immigrants are not invading in hordes. Subjectively, they are. > Men at work are not harassing every female employee. Subjectively, sexual harassment is extremely widespread. > People are not trying to kick out elderly widows to
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by zeroname 8y ago
You're just not in the market for every single emotional appeal (nobody is) and you probably have somewhat of an "outsider" or "underdog" preference. Different emotional appeals still work on you and are being explo
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by zeroname 8y ago
I'm not complaining , your name choices aren't grievances of mine. I couldn't care less about the name of a stranger on the internet. I'm informing you that they're objectively going to lower your chance of success
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by zeroname 8y ago
> You suggested to someone that they hide their heritage so you don’t think less of them. That's actually not true, that's your warped perception of what I'm saying. Your brain happens to portray me as a caricature of ever
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by zeroname 8y ago
> ...the goal of the policy would be the same - to make all data about the person subject to the state's control. That's one-sided thinking. The goal may well be to make the data not subject to the (lack of) control of a for
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by zeroname 8y ago
The question is, by pulling out of China as some sort of business virtue signal, is the outcome an improvement? China doesn't need Apple and not complying with China without pulling out isn't an option. Let's say some major C
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by zeroname 8y ago
Replace the word "China" with "Sweden" and it starts sounding like reasonable policy.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> You don’t need to cite the prevalence of racist bigotry. Most people are aware. If you think discriminating based on difficult names is "racist bigotry", okay. It doesn't change the facts. If you want free discrimination
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by zeroname 8y ago
> What astonishing presumption There's tons of evidence: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/why-your... If it's "presumptious" of me to point that out, I don't care. On
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I'm from Poland, so such name is natural for us. I'm aware, but your global audience is generally not. That's why I advise on name changes. You own your name, you can do anything to it. There are people from India with n
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by zeroname 8y ago
Quick Review (WARNING: contains controversial opinions!) Good: - "minimal usable set of keywords and control structures" - "simple cooperation with C" - "no access to files on physical drive" - reasonably terse
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Yes, that's the reason we're doing things this way, but that's not a moral reasoning. It is moral to allocate resources more efficiently, as it increases well-being and reduces waste. > If it were, that would mean bei
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by zeroname 8y ago
1) No one treats everyone else's property as well as their own (tragedy of the commons). 2) The fact that you are paid more ensures that society's demand of your kind of labor is met, resulting in a more efficient allocation of
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by zeroname 8y ago
If you look at the results of welfare programs, it would be hard to argue that they reduce crime. Crime isn't just about subsistence money. For a certain segment of the population, it's the only way to make significant amounts o
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by zeroname 8y ago
Seems like the people were offered a mixed bag: Have some direly needed reforms now in exchange for cementing the power of the party, which was already solid to begin with. Honestly, let us just keep Cuba a toy socialist country as it is an
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Warmonger. Murderer. Gobshite.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Wages have been "decoupled" from productivity because they weren't be coupled in the first place. They were correlated because productivity and economic growth are correlated and economic growth and demand for labor are cor
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Why am I entitled to a larger share of profits than other people? You aren't entitled to profits at all. Profits come after cost. You're cost. You cost more because the demand for your labor versus the supply of your labor
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by zeroname 8y ago
Can't you just have team made up of only "toxic" people? Do "toxic" people negatively affect the productivity of other "toxic" people? I personally wouldn't want want to give up entirely on all the
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by zeroname 8y ago
The specific values are irrelevant, for the hypothesis to be true, it has to be true for all cases. Let's take another example: A planet somewhere in the milky way galaxy is populated equally by Red, Blue and Green Octopodes. They are
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by zeroname 8y ago
More bluntly, ALA supplementation doesn't work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19269799?dopt=Abstract
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by zeroname 8y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, it's a valid concern. Going by this review, I would say that supplementation does work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176556/
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by zeroname 8y ago
Fair enough, let's forget the word "perfectly". Let's have a "practical" example. A society is made up of 99% "ethnic Germans" and 1% Jews. The year is 1933. A faculty is made up of 90% "ethnic G

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