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And, anyway, this would only argue for giving them an option, not for giving nobody the option of working full time. 25% is not a small number

> Making people employees with minimum hourly wages ruins this dynamic

This is the most important question!

Is there a way, inside the brazilian legislation, to give them full workers rights but keeping the pricing per km rather than hour?

There really should be...

When people build their own platforms, the censorship minded mobs go after their upstream providers, like aws and visa. So this "you can always build your own" is not 100% true.

Also, mobs do go after you for your online speech, so the possibility of a platform that keeps your speech up does not preclude the possibility (and fact) of censorship

What do you work in?

Indeed. And if stores make their accounting and realize that cash handling costs more than credit card handling, they should be able to add a cash surcharge as well.

It just happens that they dont want to do that, because dealing with cash is cheaper

Well, there is a cost when you use your card.

If there is no price differentiation, this just means everyone has to share the cost, rather than the people who choose to use it

Maybe it is like police and tasers?

In theory, tasers are good because they can substitute shooting.

In practice, you had 5 shootings, and now you have 4 shootings and 200 taser uses

The easy answer? Make some regulations depend on scale. We already do for much of legislation.

Does it?

Only one side is forbidding people to look at things for themselves. It seems better epistemological practice to suspect this side more

> Perhaps the people who fled were the ones guilty of crimes mentioned in the article?

Yup. Lets trust the red terror system of justice

(do note: I have a quote from Russia, so, there is an important caveat there. Still...)

Martin Latsis, chief of the Ukrainian Cheka, stated in the newspaper Red Terror:

    We are not fighting against single individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. Do not look in the file of incriminating evidence to see whether or not the accused rose up against the Soviets with arms or words. Ask him instead to which class he belongs, what is his background, his education, his profession. These are the questions that will determine the fate of the accused. That is the meaning and essence of the Red Terror.

The jump from "they have a horrible history" to "they should all be abolished" is a but much, I think

The history of the state is also nasty. The history of engineering is also not that glorious, given that it was mostly for war. You can even go to the history of writing...

The question is: what each religion is doing, of harm and good, today. And what we expect they can do tomorrow. On those grounds, you might even be right. But the question is more complex.

(but I agree: the bible does not fit with our values today at all)

I have, apparently.

Can you substantiate that claim? I never saw the death count per population of each religion and to know that one is higher than the other. Or the slave count per population.

Was Christianity worse, or just larger?

I think this is backwards... This is a corpus to train speech to text, not text to speech, right?

IDK about the tech, but I would not worry about it right now. You dont need to play with the tech unless the bad unlikely outcome comes to pass.

The only tip I have is from a bit of amateur sound editing I did: collect many samples, and beware of big phrases: Like, ask her to say the same thing many times. And ... sometimes ... to ... stop ... at ... each ... word. And ... so ... me ... ti ... mes at each syllable.

Otherwise, if you ever need to create a sample that contains a single word/syllable, you cant. It is weird how much sound that contains clearly distinguishable syllables for the human ears still is not separable when you go to edit it.

Also, you might want to check wordlists by frequency to get a menu of common words, and ipa notation, to ensure you cover a good range of sounds