buck4roo

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by buck4roo 3y ago
> Habitat destruction is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction
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by buck4roo 3y ago
Investors? LEGO Group A/S remains privately held by the family that started it in Denmark.
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by buck4roo 3y ago
There are multiple indicators that the currently available vaccines probably are three dose vaccines. But time and trials will tell.
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by buck4roo 3y ago
You speak as if you've never read about the US opioid epidemic and how we got here. Do realize, this makes you sound like a religious prohibitionist extremist.. Your proposal is bunk. Someone who became addicted to prescription opiat
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by buck4roo 3y ago
https://archive.ph/86CMF
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by buck4roo 3y ago
That sound you hear from aircraft overhead -- yeah, that's wasted energy. Do you want waste? Because that's how you get waste!
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by buck4roo 3y ago
Vote parent up. Accurately describes the public costs of private for-profit businesses' whipsawing the labor force, and foisting all the consequential costs of periodic waves of unemployment onto the public.
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by buck4roo 3y ago
Re: shorter benefits Every corporate downsizing is an example of a "private decision" with clearly visible public costs, unemployment insurance payouts among them. Social and emotional distress have a cost, not just to the emplo
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Yes on the current facts, but good luck to any district that thinks it'll be attracting new qualified teachers in that scenario. Current Los Angeles teachers' wage penalty is 25% vs neighbors with same college degrees. [1] One onl
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by buck4roo 4y ago
ISOs may have a 10 year limit, but that's only for their ISO tax treatment status... they don't (necessarily) need to expire. They can convert to NSO by way of an extension. https://www.esofund.com/blog/nso
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Yes. They are the largest source of extraterrestrial mass. https://www.sciencealert.com/5-200-tons-of-micrometeorites-a...
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Why do you love it? It looks like you've described a tool with 1) a terrible UI, and 2) trains users to use commands that will eventually cause them to lose unsaved work.
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by buck4roo 4y ago
When it comes to tools you use every day, everyone should be critical. Does this tool decrease my workload? or do I need to expend extra work just to operate it? I'm a user of mercurial. I've learned enough git to know it&#x2
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DEA: Cartels making rainbow fentanyl “for kids” – Cartels claim opposite is true(businessinsider.com)
3 points by buck4roo 4y ago|0 comments
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by buck4roo 4y ago
> Drug consumption is at least as much a demand side problem as a supply side one. Perhaps you meant "drug importation is at least..." The importation of fentanyl is not due to demand. The importation of fentanyl is due to it&#
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by buck4roo 4y ago
The US government and drug cartels can't even agree on what constitutes harm reduction. https://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-cartel-operatives-di...
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States [1] It would really help all of us if all media used the phrase " accidental overdose" because that's what they are. When media uses the word &quo
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Being prepared, at the capitalist-society level, for a future possible pandemic wasn't profitable, so it wasn't done. It will continue to be like this until laws change.
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32362363 Good insight into the merchant side of customer return fraud.
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Thumbs up. Very fun to solve.
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by buck4roo 4y ago
My solution: use mercurial. Works with git repos (w/hg-git extension). Designed for humans. Sanity provoking. Gets out of your way, as a good SCM tool should.
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by buck4roo 4y ago
> we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage >> because that's how they prefer to exist << while the rest of us work... Citation required. Show evidence a population exists, anything close to as large
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Add the required enzymes at the point of manufacture... https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/19/intropic-plastic-decomposi...
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Close. It's not about pay equity, it's about a small minority (employers/directors/shareholders) currently deciding what happens with the profits made from the labor of all the WORKERS. (And about that same small minorit
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by buck4roo 4y ago
Society is a heat engine. Full stop.
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by buck4roo 4y ago
> In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. [0] Perhaps it is the largest industrial category with the largest % of its output turned directly into CO2 and methane? (food waste placed into
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by buck4roo 4y ago
±required maintenance, materials and sensors reaching their end-of-planned-service-life dates. I'm not so sure it's "clearly cheaper" to extend the lifespan of a vehicle that's approaching the end of it's plann
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by buck4roo 4y ago
No moral claim required. When price increases exceed the increases in costs/raw-goods... then it's "greedflation", not "price gouging". Increasing profit margins are also a good signal of it. Inflation and Pri
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by buck4roo 4y ago
> If you're going to force employers to give more, a lot of them will just close shop and you'll end up with massive unemployment. Strawman argument. See: countries that already have said 30+days of paid vacation -- without &q
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by buck4roo 4y ago
A company (read: the employer class) != what employees would choose if they designed an equitable workplace for themselves

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