cheph

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Apple suppliers in China have links to forced labor programs(businessinsider.com)
3 points by cheph 5y ago|0 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
> Impact factor means less these days when we see how citation manipulation and stuffing skew things. Academic publishing is a racket. So I don't much care. Lancet played politics to run cover for China who conducted US funded gain
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by cheph 5y ago
Not sure who you represent (i.e. who "we" refers to in your message) but what you all do with your money is your choice, and I don't have any objections to whatever basis you all decide who you give your money to. But thanks
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by cheph 5y ago
Just to be clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Psycho... > According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.538, ranking it 4th out of 12 journals in the
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by cheph 5y ago
> Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. ... > There is not yet a permanent cure. Not clear if the author has tried
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by cheph 5y ago
> If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. Personally I would ask them to stop glad-handing with china and using their slave labour. But that is
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by cheph 5y ago
Pretty offensive to me.
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by cheph 5y ago
What is a category mistake?
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by cheph 5y ago
By that logic the Fed's low rates is what buried the middle class in debt by a much larger degree than corporate savings.
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by cheph 5y ago
> I do think Go was far too adamant for far too long about not needing generics (also known as parametric polymorphism); seems sober minds clearly disagree about where to put the boundaries. Adamant is rather generous. Golang maintainers
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by cheph 5y ago
Come now, you are just bargaining. Just move on and get to the final stage of acceptance and hope.
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by cheph 5y ago
32,510.30 USD/BTC
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by cheph 5y ago
> The bottom earners probably have zero excess earnings but somehow pay similar tax per dollar earned as the top 1% earners who have pretty much only excess earnings, even when not accounting for inflated lifestyle inefficiencies. Again,
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by cheph 5y ago
Spoiler: was a lab leak. > Usually caused by contact with animals, the outbreak in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, was due to a leak at a vaccine plant, according to Lanzhou’s health commission. People are still being treated at
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Thousands in China got infected by brucellosis in one single outbreak (2020)(reuters.com)
3 points by cheph 5y ago|1 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
> I expect a few prominent politicians to be soon either arrested or "convinced" to step down. Won't happen because the media and FANG runs cover for politicians in the west as opposed to reporting on them. They keep burri
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by cheph 5y ago
> These figures are meaningless without also stating what % of income the top x% earned. No they are not. But those numbers are also in the link, and it is more or less the same, top 1% earned 20.9% of all income.
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by cheph 5y ago
Correct. The thing is though, so was all the "news" that asserted that the lab leak theory is a conspiracy theory, or that the only possibility is a natural origin, or that we should ban everyone from the internet who suggests lab
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by cheph 5y ago
https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2020/ When summing up top earners: - Top 1% of earners paid 24.3% of total income tax. - Top 5% of earners paid 40.6% of total income tax. - Top 20% of earners paid 66.4% o
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by cheph 5y ago
Well not always. For example not if you are a Uyghur muslim in china. Then you don't get anything while also getting sodomized with broom sticks. But hey you know, what shall we do, I guess lets just look the other way. Besides it&#x27
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by cheph 5y ago
Keep giving money to a company that uses slave labour. What is the worst that can happen?
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by cheph 5y ago
So a "scientist", Peter Palese, signs a propaganda[1] letter[2] condemning the lab leak theory as a conspiracy theory. Media uses this to silence dissent. Now Peter Palese goes back on his original claims[3] and it's "ju
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Prominent NYC scientist backtracks on Covid origin over ‘disturbing information’(nypost.com)
2 points by cheph 5y ago|0 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
Software can be shitty garbage in many ways. It can be shitty garbage by having lots of bugs, and it can be shitty garbage by having a maintainer which cares more about bottlenecking all changes than about the future of a project. But every
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by cheph 5y ago
> They either need to pay more to secure labor or fail. Yes. Those are the options. The .001% is really cleaning house while smaller businesses are dying. And no way Amazon is going to absorb the cost, so all of this will just end wiping
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by cheph 5y ago
When summing up top earners: - Top 1% of earners paid 24.3% of total income tax. - Top 5% of earners paid 40.6% of total income tax. - Top 20% of earners paid 66.4% of total income tax.
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Who Pays Taxes in America in 2020?(itep.org)
2 points by cheph 5y ago|1 comments
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by cheph 5y ago
> It seems like the market rate for labor is going up, but the businesses are failing to deal with that reality. How do you figure this? If businesses were not paying more the market rate would not be going up.
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by cheph 5y ago
> I’d argue it’s the philosophy of owners of low-wage businesses. I fail to understand why any business should pay more than market rate for anything. I get that you want the market rate to be higher, but I have yet to ever have encounte
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by cheph 5y ago
> I've had a few people offer help over the course of the years, but unfortunately they don't always have all the skills needed, so they can only help with a part of the project. So whats wrong with allowing them to help with t

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