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This is the correct policy. I upgraded my mac because I couldn't install a certain application on the version I was running and now it runs crazy hot and the fans run on full blast whenever I watch a video on the internet.

Wow, I live in Minneapolis and love this paper, but did not know it was dead. Sad.

They are both middlemen. If Alipay is more profitable than Visa, they are extracting even more rent and thus "taxing the economy" even more heavily.

No offense but I have a hard time believing this. Isn't pumping heat from the center of the earth to the atmosphere more or less the same as having a larger amount of incoming solar energy? And certainly it would be hard to argue that more energy from the sun wouldn't heat the planet. Wouldn't the equilibrium temperature be both a function of energy in and radiation rate (which is also a function of temperature?)

At some point are we better at healthcare for mice than for humans?

Slack also makes no sense. I need a different login for different channels?

This, I keep saying this. It's not a question of truth, it was never really a question of truth. It's about who is saying what.

That's not even true. If the CEO is running the company into the ground how are they being paid based upon the value they are bringing to the company?

We had a 2 trillion stimulus. 3 bil/month seems absolutely fine to me

It all just ties together. Going to the grocery store every day is a big yikes because you can't walk around the block to pick up fresh produce for dinner

Our government threatens their credibility just fine by themselves.

Yes it will be a sad day when there is nowhere on the globe you can go to be truly dark.

For many years now I've been a proponent of "never update unless you absolutely need to". I just updated my old Macbook Pro to Catalina and now it gets ridiculously hot watching even simple YT videos.

Is GPT-3 the biggest thing since Bitcoin?

Past few years, actually.

It's not implausible. How many modern "ailments" are simply the result of not doing what our bodies were adapted to.

Chapo Trap House is left leaning

"micro fiancé"

Sorry, hate to be reddit-esque here, but this auto correct was too funny.

Same with reddit. I don't want to use your damn app!! Guess I won't use it at all. Reddit just infuriated me anyway so that was just the nail in the coffin

I guess I was always under the impression that vertical and urban farming would be done for "specialty" crops like herbs or kale or something, never for high volume cash crops like potatoes or corn. I can see a benefit for these "specialty" crops because they aren't done to the same scale (maybe I'm wrong about that)

People are too busy arguing about spanish speaking people and how vaginas should be allowed to be used to give a shit about the corporate surveillance state taking over the entire world. This is why identity politics is a wedge issue, call me privileged.

Is it really though?

"I don't know everything, I just know what I know."

Not sure if this is a reference, but this is a catch phrase of a character from the monogatari anime series. [1]

That being said it's an interesting post. I mostly feel the same way but kind of dropped out of tech altogether after 2 bad experiences at $BIGCO companies. Maybe a startup would be a better experience for me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hstREyXBqpw

I mean, any non-dividend paying stock is essentially worthless since it can only be redeemed in the case of a sale or liquidation

A child in an ICE internment camp doesn't have to worry about local property tax rates though. As GP said, there are very few pieces of politics that affect them personally, that doesn't mean none. Just as it also means that no bit of politics affects every single person meaningfully.

Correlation or causation? Do people that get up earlier have to work more? Possibly live in more difficult conditions? Maybe are more addicted to caffeine? Just kinda spitballing here.

"Except that no one says white people that hire friends--most of which are white friends from their childhood and school background--are racially motivated and yet the impact is white people hire more white people. This implicit bias might not be intended to be harmful, but it is racially informed."

Except they do. In fact, you're saying it right now.

"The problem is with the large subreddits, they will always devolve into memefests or the same old rehearsed jokes in the comments where if you've been on reddit for 10 years you learned to just... Skip through."

But why? I mean who posts this garbage and furthermore who upvotes it?

Yes the discourse and content quality is quite poor, so much so that I quit using the site completely in the last few months. To be honest I don't miss it at all, so...

Duh?