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prestigious··on The drought in the western U.S. is getting bad
I don’t understand this internet obsession with bottling water. Surely under the worst drought conditions bottling water has to be the very last thing to stop. Literally water for humans to drink has to be a top priority.
prestigious··on Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
A charlatan in what sense? He’s an actual professor
prestigious··on Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
Because they are breaking the market. Ideally we have continually improving life but if we keep bringing in people willing to work for less we will never progress
prestigious··on Why we should end the data economy
I would be curious to know my inferred IQ.
prestigious··on An Escalator Made of Cardboard
I’m curious why if they are that simple escalators are basically a monopoly (at least in Canada) with repairmen making huge dollars to fix them (which they seem to do on a weekly basis). I’m always wondering why somebody doesn’t disrupt it but it’s probably government corruption as per usual.
prestigious··on Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia
Not true.
prestigious··on Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
Card payments are usually debt also?
prestigious··on Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k
What do you think of something like Veefriends where there is a real world value attached to it (tickets to a conference)?
prestigious··on GameStop Is Creating a NFT Platform
I think about that A lot. You would need some sort of website that prevents you from creating OP items and also allows the different game makers to create NFTs without breaking other people’s games but allows them all to gain revenue through the creation.
prestigious··on Dave Ramsey sues former employees for making blog posts about leaving company
I don’t understand how paying off your smaller loans leaves you less able to pay off larger ones?
prestigious··on Dave Ramsey sues former employees for making blog posts about leaving company
Like most people he has good ideas and bad. I think the 7 baby steps are quite good advice for most people, his “snowball” technique may not be mathematically superior but it is likely psychologically superior. But he can also be old fashioned.
prestigious··on National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 preference for women on STEM tenure track (2015)
No kidding huh? Who could have predicted this except for anyone who worked in tech for the past decade or two. It’s obvious women have a huge advantage.
prestigious··on Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces
Imagine in 1998 trying to get distribution for your literal box of disks in dozens of stores and thinking it costs you less than 30% of retail
prestigious··on Fiscal-Driven Inflation
Borrow lots of money at low interest rates?
prestigious··on The True Size of Africa (2015)
It’s interesting as I always thought Africa is over populated but then if the whole of France was the Sahara it would be over populated as well.
prestigious··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
If you are 100% on any side you are 100% in the wrong.
prestigious··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
I mean lots of these posts are anti Semitic and pro terrorism. They perma banned trump for less.
prestigious··on Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
Well the even parts of Europe where USSR won those countries lost. Only Europe “won” by US/Britain can be considered free/independent. Those who were on the USSR side were hardly better off under USSR than Nazi Germany.
prestigious··on Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]
Canadian here can’t really comment on US taxes but our PM Justin Trudeau elected on demonizing the 1% but then promptly cut tax credits on children sports, public transit, child credits, etc while doing nothing to his billionaire buddies so certainly sounds familiar from up here.
prestigious··on Why People Feel Like Victims
Systemic racism no longer exists or at least I’m completely unaware of it. I find proponents of this theory like people who believe in big foot. Somehow he’s out there but they have zero evidence for it
prestigious··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
Open borders = unaffordable housing, no universal borders, less time for friends and family
prestigious··on Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
I mean tesla without Elon is not really tesla. I never really thought he FOUNDED PayPal, but rather part of the so-called PayPal mafia that was successful at starting other companies. I never heard that he didn’t pull his weight from Peter thiel or the others
prestigious··on Starship's Belly Flop Maneuver
Dumb question here... do spacex have to figure it all out again to land on Mars with different atmosphere and whatnot?
prestigious··on India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
It’s not puzzling it’s because the so called “double mutant” variant is common there. It affects younger people more. It is escaped into my city Vancouver and kept death rates high despite our old people being vaccinated. This variant is stronger and more spreadable.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/this-doub...

prestigious··on Public-ownership rental as a third option to renting or owning a house
This is the reason why First Nations reserves are universally terrible places to live.
prestigious··on CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming
How is crypto not useful? Is money useful?
prestigious··on Moore's Law for Everything
It doesn’t take long for government to own everything if they take 2.5% every year.
prestigious··on How a shadow army of ghost kitchens took over America’s restaurants
A big chunk of what chef Ramsey does on a show like kitchen nightmares is cut down the menu to fewer higher quality items.
prestigious··on Twitter acquires Revue
You would have to be a complete idiot to try and build your revenue on something owned by Twitter. They will shut you down at any time, for any reason, with no recourse.
prestigious··on How Homogeneous Is Japan?
There may be more diversity in Japan than given credit but there is more similarities between a Korean and a Japanese than there are between someone from Syria and a French person. Pretty naive to gloss over that fact.
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