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> Speak for yourself.
Aren't you advocating confiscatory policies where you take value one person has worked for and give it to someone who hasn't? That, and the infrastructure to maintain it, sounds pretty oppressive.
But why does it matter anyway? Is it bad to like pierogis without having an in-depth understanding of the holodomor? Should we stop listening to foreign music until we ensure we have a "proper" understanding of the political issues the artists grew up under?
> But the fact that people disproportionately watch Asian porn while not caring about Asian people is pretty weird and racist to me.
Actually, incest porn appears to be the most watched. What does that say about the exploitation of the incestuous?
"Concerned citizens" who demand endless studies about things we already have a good understanding of.
People who ignore the 10,000 deaths per week worldwide because of coal power but focus on the ~2 deaths from Fukushima.
Right, smear. Sabotaging the process.
Being aware of the effects of automation seems wise. My problem with Ludditism as a philosophy is that it seems to focus anger on the businesses that created the jobs in the first place rather than focusing energy on the government (ie, the people) making more jobs.
Why does offering someone something become a promise to keep doing so?
Why is this a problem? The premise was hate, but now the goalposts have moved to indifference.
Have you studied Romanian history or are they beneath you racially? Or, do you disagree with the premise of the question?
> address issues of anti-Asian hate [...] Seems weird to me to make fun of people who are trying to do that.
So demonstrate some harm and present a coherent argument about how to reduce it.
But if you're the same party displaying the ads, or working for them, then yes - you're intentionally defrauding the ad company.
It's reasonable to build a product for a rare audience, even of just hundreds worldwide, but you can't expect a mass-market solution like the app store to find those people for you.
If I build a roguelike I'm going to advertise to 7drl people, not to the app store in general. The same with his thing, surely there's a forum or something where he hangs out with similar people who like insanely hard clickers? Approach them.
"Hoes in this house" for example.
Sex is natural, calling women whores is not. One is a fine thing for a kid to see, the other is problematic and requires you to explain that their language shouldn't be repeated, that it's probably indicative of depression or systematic oppression of women, etc.
Nothing in the song appears to be feminine empowerment as they defend it by saying - it's just soft-core porn masquerading as music. Porn is porn and when made without harm is a lifestyle choice, it's the masquerade that makes it icky.
> Surely in most venues the people responsible for back stage hospitality are not the same people
They all get paid from the same pool. It's the boss they're testing, not the stage hand.
Does the boss treat every requirement like a requirement and have it done seriously or do they pick and choose based on what they think is important and surprise the artist?
That said, I don't think yellowapple is trolling, I this he's saying "that article isn't accessible at my level".
Well, I've never used a centralized blockchain service. But then again, I've also transacted for foreign cash while in a bar. Obviously for you though, the value is based on those services. As it's a network effect, you not using it does hurt me a tiny bit multiplied by the number of people like you.
But it's not like it has to be the currency to be almost as useful. Euros aren't taken everywhere yet nobody trades them at a discount in those areas. As long as cryptocurrency works for what I want it to, I don't much care that it's a bit harder to use at the grocery store.
And of course, what's the consequence of the law? Do they shoot you, or do they just treat it as foreign cash or something and tax you at the least favorable rate? A totally ineffective ban could actually help. If you drove it underground enough that nobody declared it (or paid taxes on it) the increased value might help a burgeoning underground economy and help create money-laundering opportunities. And the ban has to be relevant to the use. If the USA banned bitcoin it might actually help other countries more than the diminished value of bitcoin hurt them and that disproportionate benefit could be the catalyst to make the system more useful overall.
Already the USA has effectively banned most cryptocurrency by limiting what Americans can invest in and who they can invest through, but because of the halo effect Americans can buy BTC and ride the general wave despite not participating in some of the other opportunities directly. The limited ban did almost nothing despite your logic being fairly sound.
All value is dependent on the use. Food is useful for sustenance, but less useful for shelter. Currency is worthless to eat, but useful to facilitate trade for shelter, etc. There's no objective intrinsic value to anything.
If the Genie was to offer two intangible things, useless in isolation, such as a cryptocurrency (not a unit of that currency, but the system itself) or a new human language, neither would interest me. Both only have network value. But if I was allowed to use them as intended I would feel happy to have either.
Suitable work definitions can never require you to lose money by working. And that's without the peeing-in-a-bottle type tricks to be more profitable. You're also allowed to include all of your costs (gas, depreciation, etc) in the calculation. If you had a Hummer you'd be paying more for gas than if you had a smart car so the value of the contract changes.
> UBI and national healthcare like we've got up here in Canada would seriously improve lives for folks that find themselves unable to cover expenses without working themselves to the bone
National healthcare is helpful because it covers 'acts of god'. UBI seems like it would be harmful to the economy by inflating itself into irrelevance while destroying wages.
> I think that everyone should have a right to a pleasant life
I think that everyone has the right to pursue that, and must not have unreasonable obstacles placed in their way.
But saying that someone deserves a thing implies that someone else is required to provide it. Your rights can't place a burden on me so that can't be a right.
But contractor vs employee is a useful distinction for everyone and trying to fix all the other issues by neutering what contractor means goes the wrong way.
Contractors, INO or otherwise, have freedom to pick their shift and their employer on almost a daily basis, if not more frequently. Drivers have Uber and Lyft apps open, etc. Amazon drivers can give Bezos the finger and drive for a courier firm with no notice and no black-mark on their employment history.
> in every meaningful manner these drivers are employees - they aren't independent courier services that happen to work part-time for Amazon, they're drivers that only run Amazon deliveries but are forced to operate as an independent company for Amazon's benefit
There's no force involved. Even economic. The drivers drive for them despite having the same job options that non-drivers do, and they choose this.
Right, just become an IT organization. That's the simple answer nobody talks about.
This is a non-answer because even most companies that want to can't do this, and as a taxpayer I don't want my government developing IT excellency, I want bureaucrats doing their core task not writing specs. (When they leave the agency they could go to the business process consultancy I mention, where they monitor and advise the developers in tax questions and departmental process issues.)
Sure. But then they went on the attack against someone who was obviously not guilty and that's where they became a criminal conspiracy covering for their company's failures.
> If you aren't familiar with info sec standard practice it seems a little odd
People don't have to be familiar with something before they calm down and think. If they freak out it's because they chose to as part of a demonstration they think will win them points.
Have you ever seen a child look around for a parent before crying? Similarly, if there wasn't a community or a court to play their redirection game at, they'd have just buckled down and gotten to work.
Nobody runs through a thread downvoting all your posts because they think you're wrong, they do it because they're mad which means they know you're right.
> If you redefine "intrinsic value" to include "trade value", you have just made the word "intrinsic" meaningless. Is there any type of asset that does not have intrinsic value, using this new definition?
The value of cryptocurrency in the abstract over regular currency is that it's provably tied to a transaction which is a program, and that transactions cannot be reversed - any revocation mechanisms like escrow, timeouts, etc, need to be part of the contract and thus transparent. This has a ton of value if you want your software to be able to do things that involve real value, from topping-up your API limits on a website to trading Pounds against a falling Euro.
That can't be recreated by any centralized entity, such as the USA with dollars, or Ethereum and Eth, because of their ability to blacklist or roll back anything they don't approve of.
Also, what kind of joke would it be if we could only train AIs on text we were allowed to use? That much bias would make the result worthless at predicting the real world.
And no, causation seems to run the other way, apparently being a unionist makes you dishonest.
Thankfully we're talking about contractors and none of that is the case.
> I think the percentages need work since if 20% of the tens of thousands of drivers you employ/contract do a thing then clearly your hiring policies are pretty terrible.
Not employees, they weren't hired. And the contractors aren't promised anything, they're given a chance to prove themselves.
No, you have no right to demand that so it does not.
In all reasonable jurisdictions I have the right to server logs and to share those as I feel reasonable. Protect your own privacy, don't intrude on my right to journal.