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adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatment of warehouse workers

Is your argument that since you don't want to do this job you don't think other people should be able to either? It certainly isn't unethical. Amazon offered people money to do this job and people agreed to take those jobs.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Possible dinosaur DNA has been found

That is what was thought but if the finding in the article turns out to be true then that might need to be reevaluated.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

It ~12% more compact than the OnePlus 8 Pro.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

> This is assuming that "what Apple thinks its customers want" === "what Apples customers want"

Considering the financial success of Apple I would say that is probably true.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

And in the past year, there were precisely 2 Android phones with <= 4.7" screens. Lava Z40 and BLU Advance L5. There were zero that were as narrow as the original SE.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

I haven't tested it but people have had success with adding an "alternative appearance" in the FaceID settings and having it scan your face with half of it covered by a mask. Here is an article with pictures describing the process:

https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/08/iphone-how-to-use-face-id-wit...

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

I can see people not liking phones like > 6" screens because they are too hard to hold but it seems like 4" screens are too far in the opposite direction.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’

Given how quickly forecasts were cut from 200,000 to 60,000 it is likely those estimates of millions of deaths were never correct. However, for the sake of argument lets assume that it was accurate and 2 million would have died. We can estimate the value of those lives saved using the value of statistical life that the EPA has for evaluating the effect of regulations[1]. Adjusting for inflation gives a value of $9.5 million today. Saving 2 million lives at 9.5 million per life gives a value of $19 trillion. The 2008 Great Recession cost Americans $22 trillion[2]. Many expect the recession now to be worse than the 2008 financial crisis[3][4].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...

[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/financial-crisis-cost-gao_n_2...

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus-economic-cr...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=v_-ZY1QAr2g

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’

When you enact a bad policy, you can always claim it would have been worse if you hadn't acted. It's not like we can go back in time and see what would happen if the policy wasn't enacted.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

I dob't know if it is the same content but China Daily, a daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, has purchased full page ads in American news papers that look like news articles.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-flouts-fed-la...

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

A major Australian publisher was pressured to delay publishing a book about CCP influence in Australia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china/australia...

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Apache Druid vs. Time-Series Databases

It is an article published on a blog of a company talking about what said company does.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

Note that WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos.

edit: This is mentioned half way through the article.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet

Do you propose adopting the shavian alphabet or just modifying spelling with the latin alphabet?

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: IMF Says Great Lockdown Recession Likely Worst Since Depression

What regulations are you referring to? I didn't look to deeply into it but I interpreted it as companies wanting to hold cash more instead of lending because they expected a crash.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights

A related post is EFF's blog post about contract tracing apps[1]. They talk about many of the same issues as CCC but specifically targeted to contract tracing.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/challenge-proximity-ap...

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: IMF Says Great Lockdown Recession Likely Worst Since Depression

The lockdown isn't the only reason for the current economic crisis. Look at what was happening in the repo market a few months back before Coronavirus was even a thing.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: 'Oumuamua could be a shard from a dead planet

Did you try reader mode?

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance

HTTP/3 is using QUIC which is UDP based.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting

It makes sense. I imagine a lot of companies are reducing ad spend right now which means the bids on ad spots will be lower. If there is more content being made on YouTube right now then that increases the supply of videos that ads can be placed on.