josinalvo

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by josinalvo 6y ago
And, anyway, this would only argue for giving them an option, not for giving nobody the option of working full time. 25% is not a small number
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by josinalvo 6y ago
> Making people employees with minimum hourly wages ruins this dynamic This is the most important question! Is there a way, inside the brazilian legislation, to give them full workers rights but keeping the pricing per km rather than hou
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by josinalvo 6y ago
When people build their own platforms, the censorship minded mobs go after their upstream providers, like aws and visa. So this "you can always build your own" is not 100% true. Also, mobs do go after you for your online speech, s
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by josinalvo 6y ago
What do you work in?
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Indeed. And if stores make their accounting and realize that cash handling costs more than credit card handling, they should be able to add a cash surcharge as well. It just happens that they dont want to do that, because dealing with cash
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Well, there is a cost when you use your card. If there is no price differentiation, this just means everyone has to share the cost, rather than the people who choose to use it
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Maybe it is like police and tasers? In theory, tasers are good because they can substitute shooting. In practice, you had 5 shootings, and now you have 4 shootings and 200 taser uses
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by josinalvo 6y ago
The easy answer? Make some regulations depend on scale. We already do for much of legislation.
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Does it? Only one side is forbidding people to look at things for themselves. It seems better epistemological practice to suspect this side more
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by josinalvo 6y ago
> Perhaps the people who fled were the ones guilty of crimes mentioned in the article? Yup. Lets trust the red terror system of justice (do note: I have a quote from Russia, so, there is an important caveat there. Still...) Martin Latsis
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by josinalvo 6y ago
The jump from "they have a horrible history" to "they should all be abolished" is a but much, I think The history of the state is also nasty. The history of engineering is also not that glorious, given that it was mostly
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by josinalvo 6y ago
I have, apparently. Can you substantiate that claim? I never saw the death count per population of each religion and to know that one is higher than the other. Or the slave count per population. Was Christianity worse, or just larger?
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by josinalvo 6y ago
I think this is backwards... This is a corpus to train speech to text, not text to speech, right?
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by josinalvo 6y ago
IDK about the tech, but I would not worry about it right now. You dont need to play with the tech unless the bad unlikely outcome comes to pass. The only tip I have is from a bit of amateur sound editing I did: collect many samples, and bew
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Is there any way around having to click a bookmarklet on the bookmarks toolbar? I do not keep a bookmarks toolbar active, and also prefer to do things on the keyboard whenever possible.
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by josinalvo 6y ago
It would be interesiting to see this "cost side" of police reform. How was police rendered toothless? What did happen as a result?
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Most of the time I spent solving problems on my linux was creating personalized solutions that I could not enjoy if I was using windows
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Each performer currently gets copyright over their own performance
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by josinalvo 6y ago
This is AMAZING. Thanks so much! (fyi, for others: you need not use ctrl-r, just type and press up and down)
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by josinalvo 6y ago
The useful content of his(her?) reply is that the so called "price gouging laws" can not only have good effects, but also bad ones. This flour could be selling higher, and creating more incentive to produce. But I agree, that publ
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by josinalvo 6y ago
The reason I write this is fuzzies, btw. I want to help other people find moral fulfillment, and hopefully some will be grateful and return with some other insight
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by josinalvo 6y ago
My personal solution is to not buy utilions at all. Fuzzies are good. They are useful. They connect me to people around me, and bring gratitude. Fuzzies are the reason I have a moral feeling at all. And utilions are just a virus, that infec
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Sorry, but is this a good example? There are people that cannot afford insulin. THAT is a problem. But the fact that he took a risk, for fun, and suffered the consequences, rather than having everyone paying for it? That sounds a bit reason
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Do you mean monthly or annual? If monthly, the answer is still no, but only because testing for covid is a significant public good. Otherwise, yes, sure? It is an unpredictable, low probability event, with not so big an impact (the paym
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by josinalvo 6y ago
I'd wager that is by design, and one of the ways they keep people from avoiding insurance when young and healthy, and then getting it when old
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by josinalvo 6y ago
Afaik, the speed with which a cold (or hot) body converges to room temperature is exponential. Maybe that limits the smart fridge idea?
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by josinalvo 6y ago
> Illegal in the vast majority of the United States, where 2+ parking spaces per home are required by law What does that mean? Do people need to build homes with at least 2 parking spaces per home, inside the area of their property? Does
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by josinalvo 6y ago
(mostly) Everyone likes this flexibility. The question is some people find the cost too much. Maybe it is better to have a law that is explicitly dumb, in exchange for fast, cheap and predictable (kinda like computers, if you think about it
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by josinalvo 6y ago
> a way that matches the "spirit" of the law or rules, Rather, I'd say the spirit of some of the laws and rules. Most laws and rules are worthy, in that if everyone respects them, everyone is better off. They are positive
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by josinalvo 6y ago
When theory does not match experience, do we throw away theory or experience? That is, when we see the local economy drying up again and again, and towns in permanent recession, disappearing, do we just keep doing what the theory says. Besi

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