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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 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

Is there any way around having to click a bookmarklet on the bookmarks toolbar?

I do not keep a bookmarks toolbar active, and also prefer to do things on the keyboard whenever possible.

It would be interesiting to see this "cost side" of police reform. How was police rendered toothless? What did happen as a result?

Most of the time I spent solving problems on my linux was creating personalized solutions that I could not enjoy if I was using windows

Each performer currently gets copyright over their own performance

This is AMAZING. Thanks so much!

(fyi, for others: you need not use ctrl-r, just type and press up and down)

The useful content of his(her?) reply is that the so called "price gouging laws" can not only have good effects, but also bad ones.

This flour could be selling higher, and creating more incentive to produce.

But I agree, that publicity stunt bit is needlessly agressive

The reason I write this is fuzzies, btw. I want to help other people find moral fulfillment, and hopefully some will be grateful and return with some other insight

My personal solution is to not buy utilions at all.

Fuzzies are good. They are useful. They connect me to people around me, and bring gratitude. Fuzzies are the reason I have a moral feeling at all. And utilions are just a virus, that infects my moral system, trying to highjack it, so that it becomes useless to me. So that I do charity without getting gratitude and potencial help in the future.

Purchase "moral usefulness" and "moral useless abstraction" separately, and try to purchase of the latter as little as possible :)

Sorry, but is this a good example?

There are people that cannot afford insulin. THAT is a problem. But the fact that he took a risk, for fun, and suffered the consequences, rather than having everyone paying for it? That sounds a bit reasonable...

Note: important that the risk is voluntary, optional and recreational rather than professional. Why would the collective bear the costs, in those circumstances? Why is that fair?

Do you mean monthly or annual?

If monthly, the answer is still no, but only because testing for covid is a significant public good.

Otherwise, yes, sure?

It is an unpredictable, low probability event, with not so big an impact (the payment, I mean, not covid)

I'd wager that is by design, and one of the ways they keep people from avoiding insurance when young and healthy, and then getting it when old

Afaik, the speed with which a cold (or hot) body converges to room temperature is exponential. Maybe that limits the smart fridge idea?

Illegal in the vast majority of the United States, where 2+ parking spaces per home are required by law

What does that mean? Do people need to build homes with at least 2 parking spaces per home, inside the area of their property? Does it generalize to apartments?

(mostly) Everyone likes this flexibility.

The question is some people find the cost too much.

Maybe it is better to have a law that is explicitly dumb, in exchange for fast, cheap and predictable (kinda like computers, if you think about it)

a way that matches the "spirit" of the law or rules,

Rather, I'd say the spirit of some of the laws and rules.

Most laws and rules are worthy, in that if everyone respects them, everyone is better off. They are positive sum. Those need to be followed.

But arbitrary, explicitly defined games might be gamed at the same time.

When theory does not match experience, do we throw away theory or experience?

That is, when we see the local economy drying up again and again, and towns in permanent recession, disappearing, do we just keep doing what the theory says.

Besides, the theory does not say "open economy is good for everyone". It says, at most, with its caveats and conditions, "open economy is good to maximize global wealth", the sum of the wealth of all the participants.

Maybe that benefits smalltown (good), or maybe a chinese smalltown more than it hurts smalltown (still good, but a though time convincing smalltown to go along against their interests).

Maybe that benefit Jeff Besos more than it harms smalltown (in dollar terms, that are the issue the theory is about).

Saying that the economy produces good results is like saying evolution produces good results: true, as far as it goes, but your blind god optimize for things you care only incidentally, and often not at all (see also: covid-19 :P)

EDx's videos are served straight from youtube, I think