frmersdog

Down to the Deep South, up to K Street and Wall Street, flying over the proverbial pork barrel to meet my Hollywood accountant. Imported? Maybe a century and a half ago. But methinks, no.

>Why do you expect me to be your distributed infrastructure provider?

...You realize that we're talking about banks, right? Institutions operating on a fractional reserve? Take your money, use it as collateral to print 10x their holdings in interest-bearing debt? Free to restrict your withdrawals and bail-in funds from your account to save their own hides? Those banks.

The Occupy Wall Street and Bitcoin dudes and dudettes had it right, which is why they were carefully marginalized and appropriated, respectively.

Boy, that sounds like a job for an investigative reporter with the public interest in mind.

I'm enthusiastic about the idea, but I think the approach is flawed. "Cities over 100k" misses the real regional keystones (some of which are really counties, not cities), so I'm seeing ones that I would expect to be there missing. And the ones I do know aren't the best represented.

Specifics: Alexandria is basically DC, and probably shouldn't be included without several places that are missing in Maryland. I have no idea what Baltimore's icon is supposed to be (edit: wait, is that supposed to be the Domino Sugar sign?), and while the Capitol dome is a decent choice, the Washington Monument would probably work better as a symbol of Washington.

This could really be a launching point for crowdsourcing a more handcrafted set, though.

I'm sure many do. Working hard is a privilege. Society has to put a lot of trust in you for you to get the opportunity to work quite hard. Society has to expect something out of you. And for you to be willing to put up with that, it's probably something you feel a deep connection to. So while I do believe that everyone should be working reasonable hours for a living wage, I'm not going to pretend that PhD candidates aren't still in a privileged position. There are people wasting away on disability or their parents' dime or flipping burgers who would love to get the support necessary to work very hard at an interesting problem.

A conscientious read of my post would have revealed that the contention was with the characterization of, I presume, 80 hours a week in an office as 80 hours working the way most people who make $35k/yr work.

Would be curious to read about an actual PhD student who was actually on their feet for 80 hours a week, average, across a whole year, though.

Respectfully, how am I supposed to feel and respond to a public call-out by a mod like this? (Over a -2, unflagged comment? Now I'm curious what nerve I hit.)

And to expound, in my defense: as a longtime Android device user, I recall often feeling stigmatized by the app developer community's treatment of things outside the Apple ecosystem as second-class. Arc's overly-enthusiastic media coverage, barely disclaiming or discounting that it was initially MacOS exclusive, reminded me of the worst of that from the mid-2010s. "Here is a product that is going to change the world, and give everyone superpowers, also you can't use it. :)"

I'd thought we'd left that behind.

So if this approach turned out to be a misstep that helped lead to the product's demise (alongside, bafflingly, and perhaps ultimately a bullet-dodge, the mere fact that a local browser can be sunset and locked at all), I'm not allowed to give my feelings on that? Is there really no productive conversation to be had about how a failed product rubbed potential users the wrong way?

I agree, but the "tough conversation about collective civic engagement and societal dysfunction" is actually a "tough conversation about taxing the sh*t out of everyone who makes more than $150k a year". Most of our problems are downstream of our extreme inequality and the way it incentivizes dysfunctional and antisocial behavior across the board. So it's going to be an even harder conversation to have than you think.

And if you don't believe me, consider what, "I'll just move, I'll just retain a lawyer, I'll just spend my precious time monitoring my data or hiring someone else to do it for me," as Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free cards says about the means of the people holding those views. (It's that they can, and intend to, buy their way out of a system stood up by people like them ostensibly to promote accountability and social order.)

I feel no small amount of satisfaction and schadenfreude, considering how hard this thing was shilled by the usual "Apple supremacist" suspects.

But he's right, though. We could have led the way, and instead we had the leader of the partly that ostensibly advocates for renewables dismissing the efforts as a "dream or whatever" and going claws-out at the young, upstart legislators who were championing it (likely because of her donors and personal corruption). Our very own Thatcher. Cold comfort that she'll be dead in a few years, because we will be, too.

Filter and separate the oil, dispose of it responsibly.

>But that would be incredibly difficult, and possibly so expensive as to bankrupt the companies responsible!

feigned gasp

Oh no.

Is the implication that dumping thousands of gallons of detergent into the ocean is a good or neutral thing?

Didn't they dump tons and tons of chemicals to break up the oil spill, rather than spending the time and money to actually clean it up?

>Imagine pulling 80 hour weeks while being paid 35k a year.

Not beating the "out-of-touch" allegations. And no PhD student genuinely works 80 hours a week. Certainly not 80 retail/food service hours.

Personally, I've been paid more than 35k/yr (before taxes) for only about 1/12th of my working life.