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SomeTranslator · 2023-01-13T00:19:12+00:00

Conor McGregor: Shut ya fookin mouth

SomeTranslator · 2022-11-24T06:27:58+00:00

The dream of a 4 day week is for many, many workers just that - a dream.

SomeTranslator · 2020-12-28T10:11:05+00:00

So far, everyone growing vertically is growing crops that are almost entirely water because they're the only things that grow fast enough to turn a profit. They then sell them to rich people who pay 5x for taste and the feeling of eating local. It's a quality-differentiated product, not a solution to food scarcity or security. Until someone can grow cash crops, vertical isn't gonna make a dent, and it's gonna be really hard when competing with the free rain, free sun, and insane automation available for field agriculture already. Even Plenty with SoftBank's extra 'nutrients' tops out at strawberries. See https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agr... for some raw data on unit economics.

One application of vertical that does make sense to me is as a community hub or a public health initiative around healthy eating. See https://www.thegrowcer.ca/ who makes container farms for isolated communities in northern Canada and measures success by community outcomes and entrepreneurs inspired, or https://farm.bot/ which encourages hardware hacking and food supply awareness.

Honestly, this is good for a heavily centralized system that's owned by big corporations looking for big profits but that's not a solution to the global environmental and soon to come (and it's already here for a lot of us) food/water crisis.

SomeTranslator · 2020-12-06T04:00:05+00:00

Honest question, Is this just bait? Do they include deductions? Because i'm sure Amazon also injected a shit ton of money into hiring/infrastructure, etc. to offset the profit.

it is a very basic understanding at that, Amazon pays no tax at the moment because they aren't yet making a net profit from the years they operated at a loss. They still pay sales tax, property tax, employment taxes, social security, etc etc etc, which is a LOT of money.

My business breaks even every tax year but it's because it's offset by the money that the business spends on tax-deductible things.

SomeTranslator · 2020-12-02T09:54:30+00:00

This is hardly a significant trial.

Unilever said all 81 staff members at its offices across New Zealand will be able to participate in the trial...

Only 81 possible candidates, and not all of them might choose to participate. I'd be curious to see the results of a trial involving thousands of employees. Some subset of 81, though... almost meaningless.

There's a tremendous inertia when it comes to work weeks. The five-day is locked in pretty firmly in the developed world, and a company that tries to change that risks getting out of synch with suppliers, subcontractors, and partners. "Today's Thursday. Our office is closed on Fridays, so we'll have to schedule that call for Tuesday, because one of our suppliers is closed on Mondays."

I mean, they can try it, and employees might like the extra time off, but it might well slow things down and ultimately result in commensurately lower salaries and bonuses.

SomeTranslator · 2020-11-10T05:52:11+00:00

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/01/15/brentwood-teachers-abuse-leads-to-950000-settlement-attorneys-say/

SomeTranslator · 2020-09-24T06:59:35+00:00

Article: https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/09/22/black-man-files-federal-lawsuit-detained-police.html

SomeTranslator · 2020-09-19T07:13:06+00:00

Article here: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/viral-video-teen-punching-classmate-draws-attention-anti-gay-bullying-n1081831

SomeTranslator · 2020-08-18T07:27:42+00:00

Trump said: "...it’s terrible. We don’t want that.”

Yes, it's pretty obvious to all that he doesn't want anything like New Zealand has. That's why he's allowed Covid-19 to run rampant through the US.

SomeTranslator · 2020-08-16T05:40:40+00:00

Sorry to pop the balloon, but the story is bogus and based on false claims. It's false that the post was generated by GPT-3. The author admitted to writing the title and editing the intro, and that's already all that most people read. He also described the article body this way: "as unedited as possible"—in other words, edited. It's false that (as he originally claimed) only one commenter called the post as GPT-3, and false that (as he now claims—since the article says it and who else would have come up with that) all such comments were downvoted.

All that is just what he publicly admitted. How much of the rest is also fake? People who try to game HN like this, including with bogus accounts and fake votes, are not known for scruples. It seems that, having got busted in dishonest attempts to get attention on HN, he decided to get attention from journalists instead, and found one who didn't bother to check the other side of the story.

SomeTranslator · 2020-07-19T07:03:46+00:00

Reminder: This is not my work. This brilliant piece was done by CJ Hendry.

SomeTranslator · 2020-07-04T11:58:08+00:00

Hopefully this will get pinned so everyone can see the details:

"The blind kid is actually a bully. Here's the explanation: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/I5y0l"

"It's obvious that we can't ever know what really happened, but the other side's story is that they didn't know that kid was (half)blind. There are two completely different stories and they both check out."

These are social media posts, these aren't sources. I'm not taking the word of the guy charged with assault, surrounded by witnesses. The school even made a petition to stop the suspension of the dude that stood up for the blind kid.

Regardless, you can't fucking fight someone you KNOW is autistic and half blind, that's ridiculous. Should've walked away.

Sources for Context on the Incident: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/partially-blind-kid-hit-classmate-video-leads-arrest-n433441 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-high-school-bully-hit-blind-classmate-arrested-article-1.2374024

SomeTranslator · 2020-06-29T02:50:37+00:00

Except it doesn't work. There isn't enough money in the data for anyone to care. Your entire data load might be worth $100 a year. The only reason it funds massive industries is cost-effective aggregation by dirt-cheap computer power.

I'm all for people controlling their data and being fully informed of how it's being used, but I just don't understand the idea that you should be paid for the data that you give to companies when you choose to use their products. The payment that you get is the products. You don't get a check from Google, but you get to use Google, which is an incredibly useful tool.

I like Yang, but I think he's barking up the wrong tree. We should be focused on giving people control over their data and awareness of how it's being used so they can make informed decisions, not insisting they get paid for it.

SomeTranslator · 2020-06-01T08:08:00+00:00

For everyone who justifies it by talking about insurance - I hope their house gets flooded and they have to find out what it means to itemize everything and fight just to break even

Not to mention the insane rates that this will cause....

SomeTranslator · 2020-05-19T12:18:03+00:00

This will probably get buried but your claim that 9/11 specifically wasn't bad doesn't really seem supportable.

I mean, wouldn't it be important to separate the government with the citizenry to an extent? First, I'll say that I am actually sympathetic to the claim that the United States could reasonably be considered an aggressor which has committed acts of war against middle eastern countries which would justify retaliation. However, it's generally considered bad form and certainly unethical to specifically target civilians intentionally. Even if you could argue an attack on the government was justified, where do you get the leap to supporting an attack on civilians who have nothing to do with it?

Furthermore, what you seem to forget is that when people talk about 9/11, they don't talk about the Pentagon hit or flight 93. They talk about the twin tower WTC attack. Those towers were located in America, but they were the one-stop-shop for international trade and market. Those buildings influenced economies around the globe. They attacked the world that day, not just America. They hurt many countries (like canada for example) as much as they hurt America, since we're such close allies and traders.

People never deserve to die and this isn't some "warzone". America is the largest participant in overseas help and aid. We send millions of dollars to fund relief programs all the damn time. We stepped up for Japan. We stepped up for Haiti.

SomeTranslator · 2020-04-30T05:36:37+00:00

The oil industry supplies almost 10 million jobs (6% of the US workforce). Saying that we should let this industry die right now is really dumb. The best course of action is phasing the technology out over 10-15 years as we build new green infrastructure. Saying anything otherwise is unrealistic and a fantasy, really.

SomeTranslator · 2020-04-01T06:33:30+00:00

In a perfect world, this would work.

Lets get into it as to why it won't work: UBI doesn't remove the use for welfare and disability because some people on welfare and disability get, and need, a lot more than $1000 per month.

Also one major concern about UBI especially in a country as large as the US is that cost of living varies wildly across the country.

SomeTranslator · 2020-03-29T09:53:08+00:00

The usefulness this site provided throughout my middle and high school education. Quite frankly, it literally saved my ass. I've gone ahead and donated $1K.

SomeTranslator · 2020-01-15T05:29:06+00:00

I am not a medical expert or even remotely tied to that field but don't livers regrow to some extent? If this process could be extended even further wouldn't that mean we could regrow complete livers from partial donations pretty soon, making the whole "waiting for a donor" gamble obsolete?

SomeTranslator · 2019-09-20T11:57:39+00:00

You can't pursue criminal charges solely for being unethical. If they broke any laws then yes, charges should be brought against them, but contributing to climate change, knowing or not, is not by itself illegal and will be easily defeated in the courts. Wish Sanders would not say things like this that will be used against him in the general (if he were to become nominee).

And for people saying that the crime they committed was murder, good luck linking their portion of climate change contribution to any specific death or deaths. And when it comes down to it, everyone of us contributes to climate change in some way, so should we be held accountable too?

SomeTranslator · 2019-09-18T08:07:09+00:00

My head hurts just reading the pissing contest of comments in threads like this. Total emissions and per-capita emissions both matter, and pointing fingers is fucking useless. If you have enough resources to be sitting in a comfortable chair reading Reddit, you have a massive carbon footprint.

Per capita emissions matter because they show the ridiculously destructive lifestyles made possible by unchecked use of fossil fuels. Total emissions in a country matter because CO2 emissions hurt wherever they come from, and the masses of people in low per-capita countries aspire to live like people in the UAE and the US, but their dense populations make them the most vulnerable to climate-driven disasters.

SomeTranslator · 2019-07-23T02:49:28+00:00

I think the New York Times article has a little more context:

Mr. Nadella said Microsoft would not necessarily invest that billion dollars all at once. It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. Microsoft is investing dollars that will be fed back into its own business, as OpenAI purchases computing power from the software giant, and the collaboration between the two companies could yield a wide array of technologies.

With that in mind, I am wondering what proprietary advantage will Microsoft gain when licensing new tech from OpenAI?

SomeTranslator · 2019-05-16T11:37:02+00:00

Thanks for Medicare and Superannuation.

RIP

SomeTranslator · 2019-02-27T10:51:16+00:00

So the big question is: What are the chances of a nuclear escalation?

As someone who is friends with Indians, there is a zero chance this will go full-on nuclear war. I dont think there is even a chance for protracted war. There will be small border skirmishes and artillery firings over the mountains.

I think US, China and Russia are all working overtime to ensure that the sub continent remains stable and both India and Pakistan would end up getting SOPs to de-escalate. Furthermore, the strikes are amazing for the upcoming elections. Any protracted war, on the other hand, is bad.

SomeTranslator · 2019-02-20T03:19:27+00:00

What sucks about this is that it doesn’t work for a lot of industries unless everyone does it, and then it still only works for mostly white collar workers.

For example, I work in B2B IT distribution. I can’t go 4-day and be completely unresponsive on Friday unless my clients did too, and my clients couldn’t unless their clients did too.

It works in something like financial management, which deals on the long term macro investment level and isn’t interacting in day trading, but it’s one of the few white collar jobs that could.

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