buzzkillington

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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 company in question is literally cutting pay to its worker
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
How does increasing the pool of labor not decrease the price of labor? This is economics 101.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>At this time, we think it’s important we put our money where our mouth is, and direct some of our discretionary funds — such as those typically used to fund a spot bonus program (which is separate and distinct of our annual bonus progra
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>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 who are in growth mode and not worrying about their o
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 all of the US economy, with the rest being a problem of gat
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>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.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>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 reporter who has been hounding her. The reporter tries t
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>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 Muslims. Something no Western government has done,
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 means try. Somehow I don't think you'd be suc
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Because two people cooperating can kill one person who isn't and end up with 1/3rd more resources each.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 steady states. Pretending that immigration is always good is l
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
"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 make words mean so many d
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Success is not a meaningful metric. Gopher is a success when you browse wikipedia on it.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 in the world running actual concentration camps for mino
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 been in some way even worse.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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 essence when something is made by a machine, it is that mas
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
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.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/774/
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>For the same reasons that you need to go to an artisinal bakery to get handmade bread today, you cannot get anything with significant ornament in it without paying enormously. The 'bread' you get in the Anglosphere is a crime
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>The recent rebuild of a section of the Bay Bridge took 11 years and went 2,500% over budget. Whereas the original entire bridge was built in 5 years, ahead of schedule and under budget. To use an analogy from heart surgery: Fixing a car
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>What does that software look like? Since we're dealing with fiction, from a Deepness in the Sky: >The Qeng Ho's computer and timekeeping systems feature the advent of "programmer archaeologists":[1] the Qeng Ho ar
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Since we're doing science fiction: put it on the dark side of the moon under the secret Nazi base.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Even the guy who started this site had something to say about shitting on orthodoxy: >What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more d
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
But they tend to burn down whatever they are around before moving on.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
It's rather depressing. I think it feels like living in the 60s, everyone knows that nuclear war will be a disaster and everyone expects it to happen tomorrow. At least I have a first class ticket on the Titanic.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Or we've been around long enough to hear the same bullshit (a technical term) enough times that we are allergic to how different it is this time. I've still to hear why Rust is better than Ada and I caught the tail end of that mad
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_Wager
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
No. Delivery is free right? (But yes because it isn't.)
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>The real price of delivery of software over the Internet is zero. Let me know the name of the apt mirror you're running. I'll be sure to point the couple hundred machines I admin for their hourly updates.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
The real price of software includes the price of delivery. Users would rather not pay that, so we are stuck with craptastic spyware that is selling their data to google, facebook, the NSA, the Chinese communist party and that organ harves

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