I don't believe I have asked anyone to answer for wanting claims to be backed by evidence.
Then what you wrote was very poorly constructed because that's exactly how I read it...
Readit NewsDropInIn commented on The Pentagon’s UFO Shop, the Hitchhiker Effect, and Models of Contagion [pdf] theblackvault.com/casefil... · Posted by u/keepamovin
It also doesn't take much to see how a strain of smugly hostile and contemptuous skepticism plays the same game from the other side. The "New Atheists", so called, have a good deal to answer for in this.
Defaulting to "prove it" is not anything anyone needs to "answer for"....
Otherwise you're demanding that we accept every ridiculous idea that comes up... literally demanding people take suggestions of "Jewish space lasers causing fires in BC" and "the earth isnt real its just a TV show stage for aliens and the catholic church are thier partners" as legitimate possibilities rather than the highlt improbable, if not impossible, insanity they are....
There's another side to that coin. If every restaurant that wants to offer delivery has to have their own driver, that means there are tons of drivers sitting around doing nothing while waiting for orders to come in. By outsourcing delivery to Uber, all restaurants in a city can be served by one pool of drivers, leveraging economies of scale. This opened the door to many more restaurants offering delivery because they didn't need to pay drivers to sit around.
And?
That argument is essentially: Workers should suffer so those who already were of means can profit more.
You can't open a restaurant unless you're already doing well, with large amounts of capital etc.
Drivers are generally living oatcheck to paycheck with zero available capital.
You do see why I feel zero sympathy, right?
And that's ignoring you're actually arguing for drivers to do more work for the same or even less pay....
DropInIn commented on WeWork Warns of Possible Bankruptcy cnbc.com/2023/08/08/wewor... · Posted by u/JonoBB
HN is my favourite site by far (I lost my login details to my old acc but have been here for quite a few years), but, HN users tend to be very vocal on areas they don't really "know". My wife is an MRI researcher and I share most threads on that topic, normally saying some comment seems really cool, where she quickly shoots it down as flawed. If it isn't directly related to programming I have a large salt shaker nearby :)
To be fair I know I do the same no matter how much I try not to!
Oh it wasn't a comment on HN users but people in general.
So often someone will spout off on a topic as though they know a great deal but when I start actually trying to have discourse on it I discover they actually know very little.
Dunning-Krueger type thi g I'm sure, but it's just so common as to be mentionable.
> If the best the current system can offer is "either debase yourself like a peasant into multiple gig jobs that regularly screw you, or, be homeless, and sorry there's just nothing we can do about that"
It's not. Gig work is one of many options.
You can be a full-time employee. You can be a part-time employee. You can start your own business. You can work for local, state, or federal government in innumerable roles.
Or, if it suits you, you can be a gig worker.
Focus on specific cases of companies treating workers unfairly, as this legislation appears to do. There's no point railing against "the system" because there is no "system".
Show me the full yime jobs as food delivery driver that would meet the demand for such jobs and I'll give you $100
Prottip: they don't exist
Delivery drivers always got paid jack and made the majority of thier income from tips. It was always a bad industry and Uber etc just make it worse by taking an additional cut and causing businesses to outsource to fewer total workers across the industry than would be employed/were employed under the traditional model where any business that wanted to do delivery had to do so by directly employing someone.
To be honest, I think Skip and Uber Eats are either struggling or in a seasonal down cycle right now. Very few orders coming in, and it’s not just my dad. He talks to the other drivers out there and they say the same thing.
I think on the one hand maybe a lot of people are away on summer vacation so not ordering food as often. On the other hand, interest rates in Canada have shot through the roof, so maybe a lot of people are cutting back on ordering in and choosing to cook more to save money.
Unfortunately, interest rates also affect my dad, so he’s getting squeezed pretty hard. I can’t blame the gig companies for that though, that’s the Bank of Canada’s doing.
Both cost so much more than dieect order and pickup that it's getting close to cheaper to take a cab to get it direct from the shop, right?
I know I have never ordered from either because I was immediately aghast at the massive markup over the regular price for the products...
DropInIn commented on WeWork Warns of Possible Bankruptcy cnbc.com/2023/08/08/wewor... · Posted by u/JonoBB
Fair point! It did win an Emmy and is distributed by Hulu though so it’s not super fringe.
I only watch a couple documentaries a year and I saw it the year it released....
Frankly I'm a little saddened so few who consider themselves "in the know" about these things didn't at least know of the doc...
DropInIn commented on Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy warfantasy.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/aldarion
So what you're saying is you have no objective measure of theft occurring.
You're basing your entire position on an opinion that is very, very clearly not shared by most of reality.
As I said, there are very clear instances of "appropriation", but most occurrences I've seen aren't, in my opinion.
Example: Paolini's elves are clearly appropriation. I also hated the elves in Inheritance because of that, for what it's worth. The elves in The Elvenborn, as another example, aren't. Both instances resemble Tolkien elves visually, but one copies a large amount of cultural overtones and racial "personality", and the other's written by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey.
If I write a book with a creature I call trolls and they are giant blue hairy with small shark like teeth, a "design" with nearly no association to extant trolls, and that is then appropriated by damn near everyone your position is that they didn't engage in theft, right?
You could see how any author would find such an assertion absurd, right?
Just because it's legal doesn't change what it is. We have plenty of types of "theft" in the _colloquial_ sense that are not theft under law.
Really....
Or mayhap Google et al could realize and understand that having old articles in archive shouldn't penalize your ranking.
You'd think that having a long history of content with traffic to said content over that time would be a key differentiator in ranking pages....
The issue here is very clearly with how Google et al are operating, effectively intentionally favoring blog spam over real content producers.
DropInIn commented on Wheat gluten spurs brain inflammation in mice neurosciencenews.com/glut... · Posted by u/gardenfelder
Can't speak much for the science, but anecdotally, my wife started cutting out wheat from her diet and noticed a significant decrease in feeling of a general sense of "bloat".
I suspect that many folks probably have some sort of wheat gluten intolerance/sensitivity with symptoms that probably go unattributed to wheat gluten.
Have you/she looked at FODMAP?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP
It's a thing that's been messing me up for ages and only just got suggested as the cause/trigger for some remaining allergy like symptoms after my allergies went away (lots of issues besides it, it's just a trigger).