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Seems to me like the platforms profiting off the delivery workers’ labor should foot some if not all of the bill for the worker hubs.

Good game, clever concept, appreciate the simplicity.

I just tried Firefox's 'Reader Mode' for my go to recipe site (food52) and it worked like a charm making everything less distracting.

I think the Buddha would encourage you to test his prescriptions and see if they lead to less or more suffering.

I'd like to see a list of games the Buddha would play, as I don't think it would contain anything unless the game somehow pertained to discernment of the nature of suffering or the extinction of the cycle of rebirth.

This sounds awesome.

Related: https://twitter.com/CocaineDecor/

Note that many of the positive reviews are from pre-covid times and the two that coincide with the pandemic note how ill suited it is to such conditions.

Ergodox EZ Likes: easy customization of layout, dead keys, etc with firmware, construction, choice of keyswitches. Dislikes: Thumb cluster small buttons which I never use.

There are some folks trying to build an alternative that is better for musicians. https://resonate.is/ Last time I checked it was still pretty niche but the idea (graduated pricing to stream to own) is solid.

Came here to say this. Big budget Hollywood movies have to be internationally viable nowadays and that means conforming to the least common denominator of the target audiences. The result is movies that are palatable to the US and China and are utterly vacuous garbage.

Rather ironic given that facebook has engaged in human subject research regarding emotional manipulation without informed consent in the past. I think they’ve waived their right to object.

Cooking cooking cooking. You’ll eat probably until the day you die. Might as well figure out how to feed yourself in a way that sustains you and brings some joy to you and possibly to others.

This is hilarious. Amazon: "How can you choose MICROSOFT?! We're the best" DoD: "Uh, sure, but we like Microsoft." Zon: "BUT WE'RE THE BEST. DONT YOU UNDERSTAND" DoD: "Uh, no" Zon: "BUT, BUT, BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR" DoD: "Tough."

“One can’t seriously believe that easy money will always be this way and abundant”. Idk man have you heard of the federal reserve? Money will be easy and abundant for those at the top, and dear and capricious for the disempowered.

The good ole “get a job” reply. You hate to see it.

This is one of the only times I’ve seen someone mention a debt jubilee and lay out the case seriously. Happy to see it!

Definitely morality, but also the stability of a society. The provision of the good life to the people, etc.

States like the US can just spend in advance without taxing, there’s no necessary relation. We’re not on the gold standard anymore. The point of a tax isn’t to pay for things, it’s to attempt to control inflation and the money supply, and to combat inequality. The idea that a state (read nation, for US states things are different) would become reliant on such a tax to pay for things doesn’t hold water. It may become ‘reliant’ on it as a means to reduce inequality but that’s another matter.

The avoidance issue is a big one and the mechanism of making sure people pay is at least as important as where one sets the floor. Cross border capital flows can be pernicious.

Piketty gets into how different rates of capital accumulation create huge rifts between people who own appreciating assets like land and equities and people who don’t who primarily earn wages. The idea behind the wealth tax is to try and narrow the rift.

Just came here to say more of this stuff on hn please.

Wherever you stand on Astrology, it’s ridiculous that Apple is able to just nix this app.

Don't break Amazon up. Nationalize Amazon. Use all the data they collect to make supply chains more effective/efficient, move us closer to a planned economy.

Appreciate it. Meant it mostly as a "Wow didn't know X company had 1000 to 1 CEO to median pay ratio". I'll see if I can get some more data / detail on what goes into the pay numbers.

Why don't you think it's fair? Legit ask, not a snipe.

The data is scraped from this (which is paywalled, apologies): https://www.wsj.com/graphics/ceo-pay-for-the-sp500/?mod=hp_l...

Edit: Seeing a lot of people complaining about the data quality. A lot of the more interesting breakdown on salary vs stock etc was only available by clicking on each row. Maybe a more advanced scrape could reveal that stuff.

Precisely.

It's from here: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/ceo-pay-for-the-sp500/?mod=hp_l...

"according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from MyLogIQ and Institutional Shareholder Services"

How many people did they foreclose upon during the mortgage crisis? How many people have they extracted usurious amounts of interest from? How many people have they lured into debt and deceitful loans?

This is a large corporation with as much a hand in perpetuating systemic inequality as any other large corporation. Moreso because it exists in the financial sector. Calling out inequality and donating funds generated from parasitic practices is not enough. Let's talk about debt forgiveness, defunding the carceral state and dismantling other structures of oppression.

Education is certainly one part, but we could also shift business models away from advertising. Ads are a cancer on content and attention, and the fact that so much of the economy is centered around them is mind boggling.

Am I the only one who thinks the price of this is absurd? 9k for an 8x8 box?!

Optimistic take: oh that's nice more educational materials

Cynical take: Damn they really want to pay Software Engineers less.