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Vox are garbage, out for clicks An expert explains why Burberry, H&M, Nike, and Urban Outfitters destroy unsold merch — and what it says about consumer culture. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17852294/fashion-bra... If you're totally freaked out about wheat products on a second hand product (Yes, it was bought as new and looks gross) your great grand parents would be ashamed of you, that's privilege. Just return it if you must. This one story is not worth the millions of views it's getting. A working product should be destroyed because it had old food on it? That's fine, but don't pretend next week you are an amazing human who recycles. Humans still work at Amazon and they make mistakes do we really need blood on this? reply
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power botton posted:proven and efficient hyperloops in every major city. well there's your problem joking aside, "take all the coal money" really is something we need to do The US coal industry (and UK and a lot of other countries) literally can't sustain itself without government subsidy. Since everyone wants capitalism, that should be removed and the coal industry be allowed to fail, right? Regardless of your philosophy, if that were removed, the assets of those industries seized, and the resources put towards putting sustainable research into practice, rolling out carbon scrubbers, etc. etc. Things would immediately be better on that front. It feels like Freddie Kruger is walking up the driveway, the phone lines are cut, etc. etc. and everyone's fussing about what to do, but ignoring the girl in the corner that says, just take the occupant's gun from the box in the kitchen, load it, and shoot him. And nobody wants to do that because they don't want to take the home owner's property, or they don't want to kill someone, or a billion other excuses. Well one day Freddie Kruger's reaching that door, and people are going to die. Anyway, something on-topic: quote:A potential way to solve this is randomness. Instead of every customer paying $3 per month, every customer has a 10% chance of paying $30 per month. alexandriao fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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asdff 19 minutes ago [-] Any basic budget advice says to cut starbucks out of your life and make your $5 latte at home, but why stop there? Caffeine pills work out to $0.05/cup-equivalent, aren't going to make you take bathroom trips, aren't going to give you bad breath, and aren't going to stain your teeth. I usually keep a few in my pocket in case I get randomly drowsy in a meeting or if I'm driving far. I haven't looked back, and I used to pull my own espresso and roast my beans.
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If you're gonna start taking a go pill might as well just switch to amphetamines
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MononcQc posted:asdff 19 minutes ago [-] oof i did that in college and it taught me about mania
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sounds scary but exciting, jesse
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I like coffee but honestly the idea that drinking coffee for caffeine is good but taking caffeine pills is bad doesn't really make sense.
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it's really loving easy to od on caffeine pills compared to with coffee
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MononcQc posted:I usually keep a few in my pocket in case I get randomly drowsy in a meeting you won't believe how much more of the cause is fixing these side effects!
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works even better if you chop them up and snort them
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im a fan of the guy seemingly roasting his own coffee at home, but it was all a cost-saving measure undone by pills
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After the Tariff Act of 1883 taxed vegetables (but not fruits), produce seller John Nix — no relation to the package manager — sued to get tomatoes classified as a fruit.
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mystes posted:After the Tariff Act of 1883 taxed vegetables (but not fruits), produce seller John Nix — no relation to the package manager — sued to get tomatoes classified as a fruit.
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Jabor posted:If you're gonna start taking a go pill might as well just switch to amphetamines
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Jabor posted:If you're gonna start taking a go pill might as well just switch to amphetamines and you can make your insurance pay for it
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xvector 1 hour ago [-] I cannot wait until we cure aging so we can die on our own terms. The right to death should be as inalienable as the right to life, and nothing short of the heat death should be allowed to make this decision for a sentient being. FeepingCreature 3 minutes ago [-] Gonna be honest - once we have backups, I'm totally intending to go into seriously risky behaviors. So this is 100% the opposite of how I intend to live my life. xvector 7 minutes ago [-] I do not see this as a bad thing. I would rather live happily ever after than take life-ending risks. That said, I disagree with the premise. Any true form of immortality would virtualize us. As individuals we would be able to take risks as never before. Paragliding through dangerous canyons? Why not? Worst case scenario your fleshy avatar dies, and you wait a few weeks in a virtual utopia as a new one is printed. And even that is only if we choose to continue to confine ourselves to human qualia. Being virtualized would enable us to experience the universe in whole new ways - who would want to constrict themselves to mere human experiences ever again? I think this short story explains these concept really well. Don’t worry about the cliche romance backstory - it was written in 1989: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html Whole lotta JavaScript monkeys who think magical computer immortality is just around the corner like their fsd robotaxi Teslas. I mean I don't really.know anything about biology but I am willing to start the wiki!
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they thought the Culture novels were prognostication and not fantasy
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mrmcd posted:Whole lotta JavaScript monkeys who think magical computer immortality is just around the corner like their fsd robotaxi Teslas. Upload your brain to the blockchain. gently caress starting a wiki, let's get an Indiegogo Flexible funding going asap!
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:they thought the Culture novels were prognostication and not fantasy if morphing into other species and genders isn't on the long term game plan for humanity then what's even the point of science
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without a sharp uptick in computer security and a substantial curtailment of capitalism, brain uploads and custom-grown replacement bodies would be dystopian as gently caress injured? buy a new body resembling your old one for 1.8 million dollars, or purchase one of our ad-supported standard models in exchange for wanna exist in cyberspace? that'll be $20,000 a month for premium real-time mode, or save money by running at slower rates. sell parts of your memory or entire copies of your corpus to research projects for quick and easy cash! if you can't afford brain-hosting we'll keep you in cold storage for 1 year, during which time you become the legal property of anyone who pays your back-fees. rent any virtual environment you can afford, or use one of our subsidized worlds in which literally every object, texture, printed word, taste or smell is an advertisement the amazon brain cloud regretfully announces that 80% of our customers have been hacked and illegally copied; we will strive to do better in the future
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fit2rule 21 hours ago [-] Medieval Italian artisans had their free market: the wealthy lords and the church. Competition among themselves for these resources produced innovation. reply
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Internet Janitor posted:without a sharp uptick in computer security and a substantial curtailment of capitalism, brain uploads and custom-grown replacement bodies would be dystopian as gently caress Pretty fuckin much
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imagine what you could do with this technology! *lists a bunch of stupid frivolities that would only benefit the rich*
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fritz posted:fit2rule 21 hours ago [-] this incorrecting nuclear take just flew past DC and hit Indianapolis
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lancemantis posted:this incorrecting nuclear take just flew past DC and hit Indianapolis
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correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the demands and limitations of said elite literally stifle artistic expression
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The Turkish education ministry announced a bold new initiative: They will be buying licenses and course material for 1 million trade school students for Delphi, a OO also ran from the 1990s. The hackers are split into two tribes: Turkish expats laughing and wondering what government administrator got bribed this time, and Eurohackers just ripping the mask off and praising the move, because now those poor backward Turks will now be able to learn a bit of computer touching but not actually have marketable skills to compete with them for sweet figgie jobs in the EU.
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epicgiga 5 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired... A lot of companies are actively factoring this into their HR model. Their model is to hire fresh people and burn them out. Increasingly this is the direction western corporations are moving. Their ideal model is: place performance quotas above long term sustainability, people then burn themselves out, you then fire them for performance reasons, and you have them on an aggressive noncompete and threaten them with it when they try to work elsewhere after. Totally consume them. Basically institutionalised "f--k you", gleefully chewing up other human beings. In some ways we're moving to something worse than slavery. At least with slaves they were seen as "assets" rather than "temporary rentals". They had to take care of them out of necessity, so their evil had that limit on it.
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woah this is the thread for bad takes thank you
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no that post is entirely appropriate itt the idea that slaves were well taken care of is revisionist lost-cause mythology / bullshit
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also the people on hn are mostly white dudes making around six figures while complaining that they have it worse than slaves
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Jose Valasquez posted:also the people on hn are mostly white dudes making around six figures while complaining that they have it worse than slaves yospos is it u??
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the six figgie fucktards in the pos, the ones who admit to it anyway, generally admit they have it really good. such as me. I’m a fucktard but get a comfortable life anyway. everyone should have it this good. equality of outcome, not opportunity
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all those slaves throughout history that lived long and healthy lives lmao
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it's because hn posters have so deeply entangled their identities with the capitalist mode of production that the only way they can describe alienation from their work is analogy to slavery there is no other rhetoric left in their empty, newspeak-ridden brains
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Nomnom Cookie posted:the six figgie fucktards in the pos, the ones who admit to it anyway, generally admit they have it really good. such as me. I’m a fucktard but get a comfortable life anyway. everyone should have it this good. equality of outcome, not opportunity this term is deprecated, find a new one
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my bosses arent terribly interested in my long term health and well being, which is in a lot of ways worse than being raped and beaten and having my child taken from me and sold away
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Xik posted:all those slaves throughout history that lived long and healthy lives lmao
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