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abdullahkhalids commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

rogerrogerr · a day ago

Curious, what is it that doesn’t make sense?

abdullahkhalids · 16 hours ago

I can't figure out how to set a shortcut that moves the current window to my other monitor. Always have to go into the toolbar to do it.

Edit: And oh! Why do I constantly have to (painfully manually) maximize windows. Preview is constantly choosing a different size, for example. Why is this not remembered.

I can't recall the last time an application in linux forgot its size after restarting.

abdullahkhalids commented on How Not to Buy a SSD andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx

PeterStuer · a day ago

At the start of the eCommerce business, people flocked to Amazon because they had trouble trusting smaller retailers.

These days it is the opposite. These brands went from trusted sellers to whitewashing marketplaces for the most dubious fraudulent drop-shippers by means of things like "sku-pooling" (you by design can not and never will know who shipped your specific item into the giant pool at Amazon).

So now I shop at dedicated local outlets, and avoid the "marketplaces" like the plague.

abdullahkhalids · a day ago

Any digital platform (like social media or a marketplace), which satisfies the following conditions

- decides which wares (social media posts or products) by sellers are shown to users by automated algorithms

- Makes money when users engage with said wares

- Is owned by a large number of investors

Will, if you believe standard optimization theory and that sellers are clever, devolve into crap.

abdullahkhalids commented on CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations ips-dc.org/report-executi... · Posted by u/hhs

bofadeez · 2 days ago

Wages are not set by a company, they're set by the supply and demand of the market. Adding a minimum wage just criminalizes hiring anyone who is not productive enough to economically justify the minimum. It hurts unskilled poor people the most.

abdullahkhalids · 2 days ago

Minimum wage is supposed to represent the minimum wage necessary for a worker to meet their basic human needs.

If you don't have a minimum wage, some people get paid below this level, and they somehow struggle along in poverty. But there is no real incentive for the state to help them.

Establish a minimum wage. Now these people are unemployed. Which contributes to the unemployment percentage. Causes the government to lose votes. The state has to pay out unemployment benefits to these people. The govt+state now have real incentives to change the structure of economy to ensure jobs are created for these people that are productive enough to justify the minimum wage.

abdullahkhalids commented on French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/pabs3

oulipo2 · 2 days ago

(Gouach co-founder here) Thanks for your question! You can see the exact specs on the Gouach website here https://gouach.com/products/infinite-battery-complete-kit?va...

The battery itself is 3.3kg, so quite comparable to other models, keep in mind it comes with a sturdy aluminum casing.

What we mean by "replacing" is that you can change the cells of the battery yourself (or by asking at your local bike shop), so you don't need to trade-in the whole battery! This makes you gain time and a lot of money!

abdullahkhalids · 2 days ago

Thanks for the answer. 3.3kg is quite light.

abdullahkhalids commented on French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/pabs3

abdullahkhalids · 3 days ago

An ebike is very weight sensitive. How much extra weight does this innovation lead to?

I would rather have the whole battery be replacable. And when you want to replace, you trade-in your old one for a discount on the new one.

abdullahkhalids commented on Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing apps.apple.com/us/app/lea... · Posted by u/brgross

abdullahkhalids · 3 days ago

Does this take into account the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere?

abdullahkhalids commented on Air Canada strike: Flight attendants reach tentative agreement thestar.com/business/air-... · Posted by u/ryandv

gucci-on-fleek · 4 days ago

> Isn't it already illegal to have a work contract which says you have to do these tasks but you won't be paid for them?

Labour code mostly doesn't apply if you're unionized:

https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-l-2/latest...

abdullahkhalids · 4 days ago

Thanks. Would be interesting to learn at some point under what conditions both unions and corporations agreed to this, presumably in the 1980s.

abdullahkhalids commented on Air Canada strike: Flight attendants reach tentative agreement thestar.com/business/air-... · Posted by u/ryandv

abdullahkhalids · 4 days ago

I am glad the flight attendants are getting some of their demands met.

Can someone explain why a strike is needed to specifically get flight attendants get paid for all the hours they work? Isn't it already illegal to have a work contract which says you have to do these tasks but you won't be paid for them?

Why couldn't the flight attendants approach the courts and resolve it there?

If not already illegal, any political party or other political entity (unions) demanding a law banning these practices?

abdullahkhalids commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn

david_draco · 5 days ago

The words "good" and "very bad" indicate that the world is less important to that person than themselves. I'd be okay with a bit of personal harm if it helps against climate change.

Ultra-processed food does not have an agreed-upon definition, and is the new "junk food" with the pretense of being more scientific. Is bread and pizza ultra-processed food? Studies do not agree on their definitions, sometimes including ingredient lists, sometimes not, sometimes it is required that the product is made in small shops with love and not in large factories. The mechanism of how ultra-processed food are supposed to cause harm remains undefined.

abdullahkhalids · 5 days ago

> Ultra-processed food does not have an agreed-upon definition

The United Nations Food and Agriculture authority have designed the NOVA classification of food[1, 2], which includes ultra-processed food as a category.

[1] https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/527...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

abdullahkhalids commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn

glenstein · 5 days ago

Characterizing meat alternatives as "ultra processed" has been a propaganda coup for the meat industry, allowing for an equivocation between categorically different nutritional profiles of products like Twinkies and Pringles on the one hand, and meat alternative products which have absolutely nothing to do with refined starches, sugars, or trans fats on the other and which in fact have better cardiovascular outcomes, cancer outcomes and environmental impacts than the meats they are replacing.

They're both ultra processed in the same way that a jellyfish and a California Redwood are both carbon based life forms.

abdullahkhalids · 5 days ago

> meat alternative products ... have better cardiovascular outcomes, cancer outcomes

Beyond meat type meat alternative products have simply not been around enough, and not consumed by enough people to enable any sort of studies that show they are better. It takes many years, sometimes decades of tracking tens of thousands of people through their lifetimes to establish any reasonable certainty that something is better than the other.

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