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blueline··on Uber, Postmates Sue California to Block Gig-Worker Law
i am genuinely curious what you mean by virtue signaling here.

do you think that anyone who posts a critique of worker-employer relations is just pretending? isn't a simpler explanation that they actually care about the issue?

blueline··on Uber, Postmates Sue California to Block Gig-Worker Law
when you put it that way, i'm not too sure it's specific to the gig economy..
blueline··on U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials
compared to the coups/assassinations in south/central america over the last few decades a cyber attack is pretty mild...
blueline··on Update from Chef
what if my answer is yes? this line of questioning where somehow "obama did it too" is supposed to be the ultimate own for anyone left of Reagan confuses me.

do i get extra argument points for not liking ICE no matter who's sitting in the white house?

blueline··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
>iPhones don't already support 4k video?

they do

blueline··on WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism
>I'm ok with that, obviously

why?

blueline··on Survival of the Richest (2018)
>If you think people wealthier than you are the enemy just wait until you hear about people less wealthy than you

what? one of these groups has the power/influence to systematically rig the law in their favor and the other... doesn't. how can you possibly compare the two?

blueline··on CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
>the solution is to make rich more poor. Nothing is said about making poor more rich.

uhh... im pretty sure the strawman you're attacking would advocate for better compensation for the poor

blueline··on The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws
someone's dog pulled out of their harness and attacked me because it didnt like the sound of my skateboard

it seems like people should be buying better harnesses

blueline··on The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws
nah, i choose to live in a city with 3 million people. sometimes there's noise. sometimes the noise is inconvenient to me personally.

that's life

blueline··on The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws
>Have you seriously considered what sort of problems that would have on you and your fellow workers who want to get to sleep at a reasonable hour so you can be productive at work, when Cletus wants to shoot off fireworks all night?

i cant tell if this is satire or if you actually agree with it

blueline··on The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass
>with the other 40% mooching off them, through welfare, family members supporting eachother

i'd implore you to compare regular people welfare spending to corporate welfare spending if this is the view you hold

blueline··on Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
framing climate change as something that can be feasibly solved by individual consumer behaviors is basically a psyop by the corporations that are actually responsible for climate change.

being vegan is cool, and i support anyone who does it, but calling it the "single best thing" is not honest IMO.

blueline··on Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'
do you believe that's the way the argument is positioned by the majority of "anti-vax" people?
blueline··on Buy Low-Tops, Sell High-Tops: StockX Sneaker Exchange Is Worth $1B
meh, i think the timescale doesn't work out for this to be the case for sneakers.

the only sorts of sneakers i can think of that are sought after where a huge portion of them have disintegrating soles are like 1985 original Jordan 1s and to a much lesser extent some of the original pairs of the next few models (2s, 3s, 4s)

there is definitely big importance placed on condition in the collector community, but for the vast majority of it comes down to whether the shoe was worn at all, not whether it's literally crumbling into pieces from age.

now that the market for this stuff is so huge, maybe another 10-15 years down the line you'll be spot on though.

blueline··on Buy Low-Tops, Sell High-Tops: StockX Sneaker Exchange Is Worth $1B
yeah id say the vast majority of sneakerheads are very aware.

ive seen hundreds of crumbled sole jordan pics over the years on forums, facebook groups, etc.

blueline··on Apple recalls older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro over fire risk
autoplaying videos in the 90s? on 56k connections? i think autoplaying videos on CNET is definitely more of a 00s thing
blueline··on Google – My Location History
>Unless you are planning criminal activity in the future

it's a good thing all laws are just, then, huh?

blueline··on Git rebase in depth
one of us owes the other a coke :-)
blueline··on Git rebase in depth
disable force pushes on master
blueline··on TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other why IoT is still insecure (2017)
just in case anyone cares, the article sort of implies (by not mentioning it) that TLS and MQTT are incompatible.

this is not the case, at my last job i used the EMQ broker with paho MQTT c++ on the devices using TLS.

blueline··on Anki Shutting Down
that's a good point, not an outright shutdown. i guess i'd wager that same company would have given 0 weeks if they were at the same point as anki
blueline··on When Henry Ford Doubled His Minimum Wage (2014)
wages have absolutely not risen proportional to worker productivity

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

blueline··on Anki Shutting Down
i was surprised too. i worked at an absolute clusterfuck of a startup that still had way more reasonable (8 weeks pay) severance package.
blueline··on Emoji, part 6c: to infinity and beyond?
>regression

how? it's just another way to communicate a thought/feeling/idea.

blueline··on The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity#Terminology

/shrug

blueline··on James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interpreter by a bankrupt company
>For example, Rust

every time like clockwork

blueline··on Why the Instagram founders really quit
since at least 2018 snapchat hasn't used the "screenshot the viewfinder" thing on most/all devices afaik
blueline··on Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
..why? i see comments with ':-)' all the time. are the people here so pretentious that they're fundamentally opposed to using an ideogram?

better hope there aren't any closeted road-signage-designers lurking on HN then

blueline··on Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google
terrible and baseless generalization
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