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Why do the "pollution" homeless simply not exist in so many other wealthy countries, to even a fraction of the degree that they exist in the United States?

correct. the process is called texture baking. however, displacement uses displacement maps, which are grayscale, essentially depth maps. displacement is not very useful for realtime rendering because then the displacement has to be calculated in realtime. displacement is mostly used in offline rendering. realtime rendering just uses normal maps.

I'm surprised more restaurants aren't suing DoorDash for damage to their reputation.

I'm not. They have every reason to expect DoorDash to throw the book at them if they did that. They'd likely end up bankrupt.

Americans are incredibly ignorant of how the world actually works because the American living memory only knows the peak of the empire from the inside.

and thinking they can get away with it

Can they not? I think that remains to be seen.

Very simple. Because those jobs were once available in mass without an extremely expensive risk of college debt, often unionized and provided good stable salaries that raised many millions of healthy families and provided pensions that have allowed for healthy retirement.

It is not the number of base stations that is important, it is the ability to use 5G to create new goods and services (or be more efficient in the use of existing goods and services) that is important, and this is best measured by the monetization of new 5G enabled services and products and their revenue.

In other words, profit is the only thing that matters.

This is a practical definition of insanity.

Enfranchisement for women and racial minorities in the United States took centuries to codify, and these citizens are still disproportionately excluded from participating in elections

No acknowledgement whatsoever of poor people. Clearly this is a trash article.

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Good luck convincing employers of that.

If they don't like it then they can let me WFH.

They can also fire you lol

And those of us with junior team members we care about are already solving for this in the way we think best.

Solve it in the way the juniors think best if you want to accomplish anything.

As a junior employee, I have no patience for your point.

Going into office is one thing juniors can do about the "problem with the culture" so my stance stays the same until the so-called culture changes.

In my experience, the number of seniors who complain sbout RTO and don't hoard knowledge is tiny.

What does "free speech" mean to you?

High "Economic output" is great for profiteers but says nothing meaningful about the experience of working people.

Low "Unemployment rate" sounds nice until you realize how many of these jobs are low wage and part-time (no benefits) although the workers need full-time employment.

Exploitation is at an all-time high, and it's no surprise to anyond that the media isn't reporting on that.

I don't necessarily disagree. I would say the problem is capitalism, which is not to be confused with "the market." They are distinctly different things.

The likelihood of being accepted into Harvard when being raised in a family with that total income is extremely low. The environment for studying, focus, discipline, mental health, etc. simply requires more material security.

What is kw/h?

Nonsense. Capitalism was a great success compared with feudalism. It is outright defeatist, senslessly conservative, and frankly anti-scientific to insist there is nothing more to be done merely because it has yet to be realized.

not an exponential growth machine

This is increasingly impossible under capitalism for fundamental reasons, which are illustrated most clearly in modern financialized capitalism by shareholder interests.

Your desires (and mine) will require a reorganization of society as we know it.

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

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

People only think of personal quick gains over long term generational games as has been shown time and time again

Nonsense. It has been shown for much longer and many more times that people have a capacity to act on the long-term. It might involve various social thought mechanisms like religion, moralism, and politics that prevent so-called progress, but evolution often favors societies who act on the long-term. This is a especially true in moments of sudden catastrophe. A classic example is Catholicism in the face of the plague.

Meaning is not value, economically speaking. I don't think Musk creates much value if any, but can sympathize with their point.

a capitalist is an owner of capital

Also, this is pretty much out of Marx - capitalism was better for workers than the preceding stage.

Marx also showed that workers didn't choose capitalism, and why it was not an option but a force of history.

I'm gonna need a wage to continue this conversation. It's too boring and unfruitful for my interest.

Capitalists (large business owners)

You don't know what a capitalist is and that's on you. Regardless, benefits and job security are abysmal at small businesses so even if you were right, the aggregate effect is the same. Productivity goes up and wages don't.

But also, wages generally go up

Just utter nonsense. Accounting for COL, wages more often remain stagnant in the US over the past 50 years.

You're forgetting the tremendous number of homeless who simply die.

Also, the US is incapable of even reproducing itself, which falls far short of my definition of "works."

The politicians are paid by the capitalists to keep minimum wages low.

If the first half of your statement is true, then why do the billions of people subsisting on a few dollars a day around the world do not have society-wide problems with drug abuse and mental illness?

They don't live in societies with extreme inequality and precarity. Under capitalism, inequality is the problem, not merely poverty.

Inequality isn't the correct term. It's poverty, drug abuse and mental illness.

Inequality is absolutely the correct term. The rich wield their means to exploit the poor. Without the rich, the poor are not exploited and poverty, drug abuse, and mental illness all decline. Every. Single. Time.

Scotland doesn't have the extreme levels of inequality that result in extreme levels of shoplifting, and therefore the shoplifting comparison doesn't hold up.

The title sounds like a pregnancy scare