readyman

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by readyman 2y ago
Why do the "pollution" homeless simply not exist in so many other wealthy countries, to even a fraction of the degree that they exist in the United States?
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by readyman 2y ago
correct. the process is called texture baking. however, displacement uses displacement maps, which are grayscale, essentially depth maps. displacement is not very useful for realtime rendering because then the displacement has to be calcula
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by readyman 2y ago
> I'm surprised more restaurants aren't suing DoorDash for damage to their reputation. I'm not. They have every reason to expect DoorDash to throw the book at them if they did that. They'd likely end up bankrupt.
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by readyman 2y ago
Americans are incredibly ignorant of how the world actually works because the American living memory only knows the peak of the empire from the inside.
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by readyman 2y ago
> and thinking they can get away with it Can they not? I think that remains to be seen.
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by readyman 2y ago
Very simple. Because those jobs were once available in mass without an extremely expensive risk of college debt, often unionized and provided good stable salaries that raised many millions of healthy families and provided pensions that have
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by readyman 2y ago
> It is not the number of base stations that is important, it is the ability to use 5G to create new goods and services (or be more efficient in the use of existing goods and services) that is important, and this is best measured by the
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by readyman 2y ago
> Enfranchisement for women and racial minorities in the United States took centuries to codify, and these citizens are still disproportionately excluded from participating in elections No acknowledgement whatsoever of poor people. Clea
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by readyman 2y ago
Uvalde
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by readyman 2y ago
Good luck convincing employers of that.
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by readyman 2y ago
> If they don't like it then they can let me WFH. They can also fire you lol
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by readyman 2y ago
> And those of us with junior team members we care about are already solving for this in the way we think best. Solve it in the way the juniors think best if you want to accomplish anything.
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by readyman 2y ago
As a junior employee, I have no patience for your point. Going into office is one thing juniors can do about the "problem with the culture" so my stance stays the same until the so-called culture changes. In my experience, the num
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by readyman 2y ago
What does "free speech" mean to you?
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by readyman 2y ago
High "Economic output" is great for profiteers but says nothing meaningful about the experience of working people. Low "Unemployment rate" sounds nice until you realize how many of these jobs are low wage and part-time (
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by readyman 2y ago
I don't necessarily disagree. I would say the problem is capitalism , which is not to be confused with "the market." They are distinctly different things.
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by readyman 2y ago
The likelihood of being accepted into Harvard when being raised in a family with that total income is extremely low. The environment for studying, focus, discipline, mental health, etc. simply requires more material security.
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by readyman 2y ago
What is kw/h?
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by readyman 2y ago
Nonsense. Capitalism was a great success compared with feudalism. It is outright defeatist, senslessly conservative, and frankly anti-scientific to insist there is nothing more to be done merely because it has yet to be realized.
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by readyman 2y ago
> not an exponential growth machine This is increasingly impossible under capitalism for fundamental reasons, which are illustrated most clearly in modern financialized capitalism by shareholder interests. Your desires (and mine) will r
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by readyman 2y ago
> People only think of personal quick gains over long term generational games as has been shown time and time again Nonsense. It has been shown for much longer and many more times that people have a capacity to act on the long-term. It
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by readyman 2y ago
Meaning is not value, economically speaking. I don't think Musk creates much value if any, but can sympathize with their point.
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by readyman 2y ago
a capitalist is an owner of capital > Also, this is pretty much out of Marx - capitalism was better for workers than the preceding stage. Marx also showed that workers didn't choose capitalism, and why it was not an option but a fo
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by readyman 2y ago
> Capitalists (large business owners) You don't know what a capitalist is and that's on you. Regardless, benefits and job security are abysmal at small businesses so even if you were right, the aggregate effect is the same. Pr
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by readyman 2y ago
You're forgetting the tremendous number of homeless who simply die. Also, the US is incapable of even reproducing itself, which falls far short of my definition of "works."
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by readyman 2y ago
The politicians are paid by the capitalists to keep minimum wages low.
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by readyman 2y ago
> If the first half of your statement is true, then why do the billions of people subsisting on a few dollars a day around the world do not have society-wide problems with drug abuse and mental illness? They don't live in societies
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by readyman 2y ago
> Inequality isn't the correct term. It's poverty, drug abuse and mental illness. Inequality is absolutely the correct term. The rich wield their means to exploit the poor. Without the rich, the poor are not exploited and pove
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by readyman 2y ago
Scotland doesn't have the extreme levels of inequality that result in extreme levels of shoplifting, and therefore the shoplifting comparison doesn't hold up.
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by readyman 2y ago
The title sounds like a pregnancy scare

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