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How dare any worker demand a living wage. Look at minorities. They are poor and you need to be just as poor to not be a nazi. This isn't even a strawman in this case, since the com…

Maybe read the article? Because they are and we are.

So like bombing a Yemeni wedding. You want to kill one person there, but the other 50 are acceptable collateral damage. A very American solution.

How does increasing the pool of labor not decrease the price of labor? This is economics 101.

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>I actually kind of agree with this: Patreon is indeed a good way to earn enough money to buy dinner once a week or whatever. I guess it's also good for big time influencer types w…

His critique was that you would need astronomical amount of data, like a gigabyte, to model the US economy. Computer systems have gotten fast enough that a 00s Pentium 4 can handle…

>Don’t think western governments are any better. You are welcome to move to China if you think they are better. After all I moved to the West because I thought it was better.

>For no fault of her own, Katharina’s life is in shambles: her career is over, and her friends distance themselves for self-preservation. In desperation, she tries to meet with the…

>B) If the "western world" is the bar, the bar is low. And yet China manages to fail this low bar stunningly. To the point that they are running actual concentration camps for Musl…

If you're going to be the one that explains to shareholders why their dividend is dropping each year but will only asymptotically approach zero so they should not fire you, by all …

Because two people cooperating can kill one person who isn't and end up with 1/3rd more resources each.

Belief in infinite growth stems from an inability to understand how the exponential function works. There is no such thing as indefinite growth, there is logistic growth between st…

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can …

Not really. The yellow press has been creating violent controversies ever since the printing press was invented. That they have moved on from urging the burning of heretics and inf…

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>Also, it seems like with user sovereignty and decentralization, that there will be various objectionable or even vile communities is inevitable, right? [...] I imagine responding …

Success is not a meaningful metric. Gopher is a success when you browse wikipedia on it.

Kind of funny you're not banning any of the spam CPC accounts here promoting nationalistic, ideological, and political flames the second you point out the CPC is the only country i…

Are you suggesting that the CPC is ingrained in the DNA of all Chinese? I fail to see how criticizing a political system is racist otherwise.

I love unix for what it was. But it made a lot of concessions for 70s hardware that we're stuck with. It is rather unfortunate for us that everything that's come afterwards has bee…

The former Eastern Block has factory bread that tastes better than most artisanal bread in the West. Same for all other foods. The problem is not that there is some magical loss of…

The difference is the screen refresh rate. On 60Hz my wired and wireless mouse feel exactly the same. On 240Hz, yeah, there is a lot of difference.

https://xkcd.com/774/

You've just made any female engineers even more self conscious that they are not 'like us' by pointing this out. But you did make yourself feel better so that's nice.