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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
The people passively or actively supporting this stuff because it suits their ideological aims are mentally more aligned with the guards over at China's Uyghur concentration camps than they are to the freedom orientated people who foun
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
> I prefer people NOT proliferating this madness freely. Just the madness you happen to agree with, right?
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>Repeat a lie often enough and it become true And "often enough" here is drastically less, or fewer, than people appreciate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>well "significantly better" starts to look downright fishy. Thankfully you're not owed an explanation of what someone deems to be a significantly better option to another.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>I have little idea why reaching a dead, likely lifeless, planet is more exciting than the ocean. I agree with your sentiment but as best I understand, the race to get to Mars is i) to provide redundancy for the species should things tur
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>maybe look at the pieces through some sharpened glass, like a bunch of chimpanzees smashing apart a thousand dollar wrist watch. Or worse yet, find a way to exploit that destruction for profit. >maybe a little bit sad Personally I fi
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
You're right and it would need collective action to rectify, and even then you'd encounter some not insignificant amount of those in the service industry who'd loathe a fair minimum wage in lieu of relying on tips as they&#x2
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Interesting. I'm not sure I agree and for one reason: the Western governments have essentially shown throughout the past couple of decades, and especially in the past year, that they will do almost anything to keep the rich getting r
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>If the bar tender only handed you a beer bottle... you should (tip), even if it's a single dollar Have you ever stepped back and had a look at some of these paradigms you've been conditioned to adhere to?
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>you are also screwing over the employees at those businesses Not to open this argument but it's not the patron's job to ensure the staff are paid appropriately. If servers don't want to run the risk of not being paid at l
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>Only fair they adjust accordingly. Er, not serve? Or a degraded service which entails what? Begrudging looks? Always a chuckle to behold America's fetish for tipping.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
And then compare that number with a lockdown that only targeted those at a higher risk of extremely poor or death outcomes from COVID.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>I feel like it would be better if we just tagged poverty as being off-topic to Hacker News. I understand where what's underlying this sentiment, but "you don't get to talk about this subject unless you've personally
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>When that party ends (likely in February/March timeframe), there will be a depression and civil unrest. Substantiate this, please.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
There's more to life, society and culture than the mere generation of dollars for your (company's) owners and local government.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Step 1. Don't be a man Step 2. Don't be poor. 97% of First Class women and 87% of female crew members survived the sinking of the Titanic. https://www.anesi.com/titanic.htm
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>I don’t know what a China embargo would look like, but I know that any first world government who tried it would find themselves promptly removed from power and a newer Chinese friendly government installed amongst rabid cries for new i
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Is it even going against the grain? The trope of the UN and their strongly worded letters has existed and been popularized for at least as long as I can remember. Is it really "against the grain" to simply make a call to their ine
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>The 27 with a brain would best ignore this UN committee entirely. And stop any funding to it too. Anyone with a brain realized it's best to ignore the UN as an entity quite some time ago. I guess this time around the strongly worde
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
To be fair, they said far from being usable. I would support a more tame comparison for dramatic effect, but this is verging on a literal claim which isn't supported by virtually anything.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Internet of shit is right.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>They're alternatives, but they are far from being usable alternatives. It has to be comments like this that drove someone to create n-gate. WebEx had 324,000,000 users running 73,000,000 meetings in March of this year [0]. As of Ap
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>Living and working near London I always assumed the increased ethnic diversity and global outlook in the capital led to less racism. From https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9477.... &g
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>I am blown away by my M1 Mac, but my x86 Mac feels about 5-10% snappier on Big Sur. For clarification, do you mean your x86 with Big Sur is faster 5-10% faster than you M1 with Big Sur, or is it compared with the same machine running wh
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>When in Europe I've found it pretty common to see a "tip" section in the bill I can't recall having ever seen this despite having travelled, and indeed continuing to travel, Europe extensively. A denoted service char
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Americans also use tipping as a status signal, despite it being socially grotesque. Even here on HN we'll regularly witness people proudly proclaiming that they've tipped 50% or more for "good" service. Not content with
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>why not just make that the price of the item? It just makes no sense to me! There's nothing stopping them from doing so but it benefits them by being deliberately opaque. Also, worth noting is that Americans consider 10% to be a st
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
I disagree. Law has significant barriers to entry and even after getting through qualification, your base credentials won't offer much mobility in terms of being able to move around to practice. There aren't, to my knowledge, 12 w
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Agreed. A couple of expansions: - Tech is seen as the easiest way to the middle class in many emerging economies, notably India and China. Tech orientated third level institutions are an industry of their own in India due to the sheer level

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