monkeynotes

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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Let's not forget COVID is not done yet. We've had two years of restrictions and now it seems like folks are behaving as if it's over. Mutations are propagating and yet most people are out and about without masks and the dialo
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Yeah, cash out and leverage to bigger investments. Rinse and repeat.
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Even your source shows that ~17M homes have been built since 2008. I mean, it's a drop off from previous decades, but it's hyperbole to say no homes have been built.
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The general understanding of distinct things is not a fundamental truth, it's a language tool to describe what we experience. Things themselves do not exist outside of conceptual thinking. Unless we can get down to the true atomic sour
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Well I've always looked at the world as being interconnected, like ideas are never come from the ether, they are always inspired (linked) by something. Either way, why use "links" as the analogy, why not just call them relati
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
I was thinking along similar lines. I kept thinking this isn't about links, it's about relationships and links in this article is being used as a synonym for relationships. There is no revelation in seeing that everything in the e
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
This is the case in Canada, at least.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I don't understand this comment. A quick look up of the `Morgenthau plan` seems to indicate it was focussed on removing Germany's military power by crushing their industrial output and various other economic restrictions. Russia c
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Republic of China (Aka Taiwan) is not the same thing as The People's Republic of China (Aka China). And pardon me for talking about Taiwan as being sovereign, which it actually is, but I recognise it's a little more complex than t
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I count 3 or 4 Canadian Solar projects. Most of the projects they are involved with are in other countries: https://www.canadiansolar.com/successful-projects/ As for hindsight, governments are supposed to have foresigh
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Well, they do want Taiwan back.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
> Canadian solar is top notch Can you give examples, because from my limited view all Canada has in terms of renewables is hyrdo. All of our automotive industry is owned by foreign manufacturers and relationships with Detroit are straine
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Yeah, otherwise we may as well call all types of wealth collection "crowd sourcing". I think saying this is the same as crusades and liberty bonds is founding your observation on pedantry.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I see significant differences between now and a time before the whole world was wired together. Being able to sit at your desk and casually click fund a war that you are watching in real-time on Twitter and cheering on with memes on Reddit
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Crowd sourced wars; we are living in a world a previous generation would hold up as a dark dystopia.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Speaking of bots, I'd be interested to know the percentage of articles on major traffic content sites are authored or co-authored by AI. My suspicion is this is rife given how many articles read poorly and are almost entirely fluff. If
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I'm talking about a level playing field between sighted and blind QA, they are both subject to missing problems if the test is poorly designed. The fact that "most" tests are broken is related but tangential to my observation
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
If your test is broken if the test script leaves out the button. Sighted developers and QEs will miss testing elements if they aren't aware they should be there.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
You can have a parent company specifying budget, policy, and mandates whilst being entirely hands off on the day-to-day. > The BBC has an entirely separate board that should have no relationship to the current government in power The dir
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
> It’s unfair to criticise an organisation for failing to change something it has no legal ability to change The BBC is the government one way or another. So given the ministers are effectively the CEO then they are the ones who should b
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I am not sure what this comment is meant to convey, but it sounds to me that you are alluding to BoJo gutting the BBC for his own political gain. I think the reality is the license fee is overwhelmingly unpopular, has been for decades. The
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
No one uses a mag reader here in Canada. Europe ditto, and sounds like the antipodes too. I don't know anyone who doesn't have RFID cards, debit or credit. Swiping a card through a mag reader is the backup option alone here.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Square probably makes zilch on their hardware sales as it is, the real business is percentages on sales.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I am surprised Apple didn't make this a closed system and compete with Square for small businesses.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
> and the proceeds would be distributed uniformly to the population as a citizen's dividend. Sounds like a form of communism to me.
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Probably alluding to the Scandinavian countries. One or two of them tried out UI for a limited time. In France they have very generous unemployment benefits, but you pay for them with heavy taxation which has its own problems .
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
> may be taken negatively by the folks who put you in that situation From the author's account they seem to have extremely supportive managers. Not only that, the business spent a lot of time and care helping the hire figure out if
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
Communism has never worked because the people in power who decide exactly how to divide the wealth fairly are humans and humans are greedy, selfish assholes. Who evaluates your land value? Also, if we all do what we want to do who is gonna
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
I still think that Shopify is such a huge org you can find so much opportunity that does not feel like ecommerce. If the author is morally opposed to ecommerce then good for them sticking to principles, but other than that I don't feel
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by monkeynotes 5y ago
> We could already have this reality today if we just implemented a universal basic income This is at best naieve. How can you possibly reduce all of the complexities of a nation's multiple economic wants and needs to that conclusio

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