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whitemary··on Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy
I'm genuinely curious.
whitemary··on The 10th European Tramdriver Championship [video]
Wow. I'm marking my calendar. This is incredible.
whitemary··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
>Some people don’t want to work

All we can be certain of is that they don't want to spend most of their lives under a dictatorship, and that's fair imo.

whitemary··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
>Quit the bad ones, join the good ones.

It's literally a recession. IT just experienced historically massive layoffs over the last 6 months. Could you be any more out of touch?

whitemary··on It could cost $21B to clean up California’s oil sites, study finds
>I know exactly why we don’t have such an amendment.

Why?

whitemary··on Ask HN: How much of unlimited PTO do you use?
If you live in the US, it's absolutely legal, and even if it's not then it doesn't matter because you live in the US under a dictator (your boss).
whitemary··on The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
According to a Marxist definition of communism (classless society) neither Cuba or the Soviet Union are or were communist.
whitemary··on The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
"Communist" Cuba has 64 physicians per 10K population, which is 2nd in the entire world for physicians per capita.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...

During the pandemic, they were sending droves of doctors to Europe. They offered to assist in NYC but Trump turned them away as our population dwindled. Famously, when a British cruise ship with ill passengers aboard was denied by ports in Florida, Cuba took them in and saved many lives.

whitemary··on The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
And you can trace the origins and overwhelming priorities of the Federal Government to bare brutal bourgeoise capitalism.
whitemary··on The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
Socialism or Barbarism.
whitemary··on The explosive legacy of the hand sanitizer boom
Quality masks require actual capital investments, so longer term commitments. Toxic hand sanitizer can turn a profit with practically zero capital investment. This is precisely how capitalism works. Socialism or barbarism.
whitemary··on Netflix Shareholders Vote to Reject Executive Pay Packages
That's a disgustingly low bar. Have some self-respect.
whitemary··on Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person
Because Visa and Mastercard lobbied congress and the current administration.

"Americans are survivors and Americans will survive this because America is the greatest country in the world!"

whitemary··on Globalization is evolving, but does not seem to be reversing
Stupid article, but funny that the title gives a nod to Karl Marx's "history moves in a straight line" analysis. Liberals have been furiously criticizing this idea for 150 years.
whitemary··on Could America’s Adderall shortage have harmed its productivity?
https://archive.is/iGya2
whitemary··on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
> People working in healthcare generally do care about improving health outcomes.

If you knew the first thing about capitalism, you would know that what one "cares about" has only the most contingent relation to the end product of their labor. In other words, what the workers care about is effectively meaningless because the workers are not in charge; the profit is.

whitemary··on Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
No, it does not. I have read the full text and it was garbage to my mind; another nonsense apology for liberal society's degeneracy.
whitemary··on Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
Liars (humans) are often unconcerned with facts or truth either. More often these days, they are only concerned with profit. Are unconfirmed lies in the pursuit of mere profit somehow not lies?
whitemary··on Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
> It was given a sequence of words and tasked with producing a subsequent sequence of words that satisfy with high probability the constraints of the model.

This is exactly the sort of behavior that produces many of the lies that humans tell everyday. The "constraints of the model" are synonymous with the constraints of a person's knowledge of the world (which is their model).

whitemary··on Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists
Maybe if the media wasn't effectively an appendage of the state and transparently lying on a regular basis, citizens would be a lot less vulnerable to bullshit.
whitemary··on UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”
> people already cannot tell whether code has backdoors

I was feeling crazy after reading that.

whitemary··on PyPI Was Subpoenaed
> Where and how is the democratic oversight implemented?

What democratic oversight? This is the United States we're talking about lol.

whitemary··on Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy
The question was not about unionization, but the accomplishments of said unions, which remain to be seen. Unions that lack the strength to strike are a net negative.

The mayor elect didn't even support Bernie Sanders lol.

DSA membership has been nosediving for the past 2 years because DSA is effectively an appendage of the Democratic Party.

whitemary··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
>If its immoral to have more or different privileges than someone else, thats literally communism

This is not quite the Marxist definition of communism, but it is a lot closer than I would expect to find on HN. I am surprised.

whitemary··on Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy
> Teacher strikes and unionization efforts have been winning

Citations needed

whitemary··on Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot
In the aggregate, it is in fact replacing programmers; just not all of them.
whitemary··on Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street
Absolutely. It's such a load of bullshit.
whitemary··on SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised
This issue was with the ASRock WRX80 Creator R2.0, so I got the R1.0 version instead. Now I'm wondering if it resets the bios on wake.
whitemary··on Growing Up Alyssa
It distracts from the economy. Simple as that.
whitemary··on Cultured meat might not be that environmentap friendly
I think we just have increasingly lower standards. It's not a word.
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