Mirioron

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by Mirioron 3y ago
> Third, the employers chose laborers located “predominantly … in East Africa, Venezuela, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines” for this work because that’s where they can pay the least in labor costs while still extracting value. But t
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by Mirioron 4y ago
To add: there are over 4 million nurses in the US.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
But then you're talking to people who got caught. Of course PayPal makes it easier to handle money, but it also leaves a big paper trail.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
But the rest of the (developed) world largely reacted in the same way to covid. You'd expect the impacts to be largely similar too.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
Of course there are ditch diggers. You can't dig everything with a machine.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
And the ditch digger requires the engineer to tell him where to dig. Digging a hole for no reason isn't very beneficial. Even if you take away this public infrastructure you would get private infrastructure in its stead.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
I see this being downvoted, but images are copyrighted. Using an image for illustrative purposes is not fair use, is it? Therefore the articles can't just share the same images.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
> For the same reason they were thinking about the "iPad" and then "iPhone" (tablet consideration actually came first internally even though in 2004 it was redirected toward the phone first) long, long before it &quot
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by Mirioron 4y ago
This is how you get more nukes in the world. If NATO wouldn't help protect the Baltics, Poland etc then it's pretty clear their only option for long-term sovereignty would be banding together to create their own nuclear deterrence
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by Mirioron 4y ago
It makes no difference. Apple's past behavior has alienated enough people from their brand that they must provide such a large 'eco-system' themselves. For Windows, Linux and Android it's the users that provide those too
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by Mirioron 4y ago
> Something to think about before banning the pill. Regardless whether the strategies are bad or not, banning contraceptives should never be on the table. > As a parent I find the environment extremely child-hostile. It might be chi
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by Mirioron 4y ago
As a species on the planet? No, there's nothing bad about it. But it's going to be bad politically. It will shake up the power of countries when population numbers change and no country wants to give to power.
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by Mirioron 4y ago
I have a difficult time understanding this. I was a kid that was rebellious, but in a way that didn't get me in trouble. When I read stories like this I get an intense feeling of fighting back, or at the very least, hold everyone that
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by Mirioron 4y ago
The other strategies are clearly not working though. Birth rates have at best stayed steady or declined.
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by Mirioron 5y ago
This is a good effect for the economy though. The customers are benefiting from it. Not so great for Uber though.
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by Mirioron 5y ago
> Ofc this doesn't excuse their illegal practices. In some ways it does though. Some industries corner the market through regulation. Ie it's impossible for a new competitor to start up that follows all the rules and it's
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by Mirioron 5y ago
On that note we should ban everything recreational, inefficient, and made for comfort, except the things I like. People would benefit from living in smaller houses when it comes to heating too. Should we legally mandate small rooms with cla
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by Mirioron 5y ago
You're not wrong there. The US is definitely on the list of countries that I don't want to visit. Albeit for other reasons.
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by Mirioron 5y ago
That's true. I guess it would be difficult to avoid places where this obligation exists without knowing about it beforehand.
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by Mirioron 5y ago
I genuinely rather avoid any establishment that expects tips than feel obligated to pay tips. It does mean that I will never go to a restaurant or similar establishment, but the feeling of being obligated to pay some unsaid price just disgu
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by Mirioron 5y ago
Putin isn't the one pressing the button to shoot a missile that hits a kindergarten. He's not the one that's threatening you with a rifle. It's an average Russian guy that does it. It has been an average Russian guy that
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by Mirioron 5y ago
If Russia manages to occupy Ukraine through repressions then wouldn't this invite Chechnya 2.0, but with 30x the people? Can the Russian state even survive something like that?
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by Mirioron 5y ago
But over the last decade journalists, as a group, have taught me not to trust them.
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by Mirioron 5y ago
Is this why the US has focused so much on the ability to shoot down ICBMs? Because if they can shoot down even just a few tit-for-tat doesn't really work against them anymore.
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by Mirioron 5y ago
I think even if Ukraine had done nothing they still would've been targeted by Russia. Look at Estonia[0] and Georgia[1]. You could think of them as preludes to what happened in Crimea. It's the same excuse - "we are here to p
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by Mirioron 5y ago
One of the scenarios I keep thinking about is what if either side uses just one nuke. They let the other side know that they're going to use just one and do it. Do you respond to that with your full arsenal? Do you go tit-for-tat? Do y
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by Mirioron 5y ago
I'm surprised by how little small (civilian) drones are used in general. Simply having the ability to see much further than your troops are at seems like it would be very useful. Perhaps batteries are a problem?
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by Mirioron 5y ago
You mean "historical Russian territory" that the Russian Empire took with conquest? Maybe France should retake historical French territory from the Napoleonic era too?
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by Mirioron 5y ago
It's also possible that in a creative industry like that you can't be as controlling when it comes to employee behavior. The people coming up with crazy new ideas are probably more eccentric than average. It might not be as easy t
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by Mirioron 5y ago
You might not trust them, but the quote is taken out of context by the media and whenever it gets regurgitated on the internet. It's used as some kind of a "See, I knew I was correct in disliking them!" idea.

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