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by 3gg 5y ago
Well, for all those hundreds of millions it will indeed be existential (and I have read that a 4C Earth could only be able to host ~1 billion people, so the deaths could be a lot more than "millions to hundreds of millions".) In a
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by 3gg 5y ago
If by "existential threat" you mean a threat to existence, there are already many species going extinct today, which is why it is said we are in a 6th mass extinction: https://earth.org/data_visualization/the-
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by 3gg 5y ago
Right. For most people that are on a payroll and maybe have a 401k and what not, tax preparation should be easily automated. In some EU countries, the government will send you a draft that you basically just have to sign and send back. For
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by 3gg 5y ago
I can only assume you're being sarcastic, but this kind of attitude only benefits these corporations. It is a common tactic by the rich oligarchies to defund and delegitimize government institutions so that they are scorned by the popu
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by 3gg 5y ago
The real problem here is that Intuit and other companies lobby millions to maintain their status quo. The right thing to do would be to put every single dollar spent on these corporations into a government program that develops this kind of
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by 3gg 5y ago
Youtube forcing a subscription on everybody would be self-sabotage. Their existence and ability to make profits rests entirely on ads. And while the ads could be more ethical, they choose instead to track people in every possible way, explo
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by 3gg 5y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Looks like the videos are shared using WebRTC, which I have disabled in my browser.
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by 3gg 5y ago
What exactly is your point? That it's inferior technology because it's unpopular?
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by 3gg 5y ago
The points made in the video are valid regardless of how many viewers their channel has.
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by 3gg 5y ago
I am actually in a very similar position to yours and agree with most of your points. I also assume you are in tech. I don't know what the immigration situation as a whole is, but I'm not sure tech is a good example of immigrants
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by 3gg 5y ago
Wait, Google Reader was the summum of the "Good Internet"?
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by 3gg 5y ago
Two of us at school kind of earned the "hacker" badge. Far from being expelled, the teachers expressed admiration for our work and ability to dig into a completely unrelated area to schoolwork. We never did anything stupid or caus
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by 3gg 5y ago
One could argue that the mere existence of a concept or an idea in someone's mind makes it real, especially so if that concept or idea has real, observable side effects for others in the "real" world. Heck, isn't this wh
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by 3gg 5y ago
Why all the anger? I may read on different philosophies and religions that I do not fully or partially agree with, practice or believe in, yet I may find useful life lessons in each, or drive pleasure just from the act of reading. I do not
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by 3gg 5y ago
In America, you'd use it as collateral.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Well, it was their religion that was in large part used to wipe out every pagan religion and culture that existed prior to it -- and then some more -- and submit the heathens to the true god. So, obviously, this must be the one :)
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by 3gg 5y ago
Guys are digressing from the relevant part of your comment. It looks very much obvious to me that academics should state where their funding comes from, just like non-profits have to do.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Wait, the EFF is subsidized by Google? For what it's worth, it looks like most of their funding comes from individuals: https://www.eff.org/files/annual-report/2019/index.html
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by 3gg 5y ago
I imagine this has gotten worse with covid, people ordering food for take-away or shopping online. For what it's worth, I tried the idea of ordering from the restaurant online but then bringing my own (re-usable, washable) tupperware t
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by 3gg 5y ago
That is indeed a more accurate statement.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Fantastic, thank you for the links.
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by 3gg 5y ago
For what it's worth, I had the luck of working in an actual office, with walls and doors that close (it honestly sounds quite absurd to describe it this way; how low have we sunk?) and I prefer it very much that way for the same reason
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by 3gg 5y ago
I see, thank you for explaining, that should guide my future reading. Looks like I hadn't gone dark enough yet.
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by 3gg 5y ago
I am with you 200%. Just giving the original poster the benefit of doubt. I think the post makes the mistake of assuming that we are one equal footing with corporate execs and that this is, somehow, a conversation. But let's just give
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by 3gg 5y ago
Thanks for the link, but I'm not sure about the conclusion. Why do you think the company would reimburse you for $3500/mo for freeing up office space or using less of it? A company basically pays you for your cost of living. That&
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by 3gg 5y ago
They are ready to rumble.
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by 3gg 5y ago
I see what you mean, but I think there is a bit of a hidden fallacy here. Work is work for many people and not a fun place to socialize, despite this common and widespread idea that for some reason we should be doing the latter. Also, most
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by 3gg 5y ago
> How do we make our execs feel more comfortable to let those who want to work home do so? How do we make it so easy that no exec has to worry about losing their job because they agreed to something that didn’t use to be normal? Looks li
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by 3gg 5y ago
I guess this must be the premise of capitalism.
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by 3gg 5y ago
We're not "innocently" dabbling with it, we're all experts here on HN.

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