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TeaKingMac t1_je3824d wrote

Reply to comment by SlientlySmiling in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

We don't have a bunch of people who own things and collect rent off them instead of working?

Yeah, we don't have dukes or counts with hereditary titles, but we absolutely have people who fulfill the other characteristics of an aristocracy

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gurenkagurenda t1_je376xl wrote

Reply to comment by Dollar_Bills in U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022 by altmorty

To find a point where nominal electricity prices were half their current price, you have to go back to the year 2000. Adjusted for inflation, those year 2000 prices were about 14% lower than today's prices. If you want to go all the way back to 1980 and adjust for inflation, the price was almost exactly what it is today.

So no, they absolutely haven't.

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londons_explorer t1_je367bb wrote

Reply to Hobbyist builds ChatGPT client for MS-DOS by CrankyBear

HTTPS on tiny devices is do-able... Check out the HTTPS client for the esp8266 for example. 'BearSSL'.

I don't think it is actually secure because the platform can't generate truly random numbers, but that doesn't matter for usecases like this.

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Tearakan t1_je35xhs wrote

Reply to U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022 by altmorty

This is great but humanity literally had revord CO2 emissions in 2022 as well. Renewable energy being used in greater numbers only helps if CO2 emissions start to decrease.

Right now it looks like it's just adding more power on top of traditional carbon emitting sources.

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Lets_Go_Taco t1_je35f23 wrote

Reply to I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

I had a gun flashed at me by some maniac who apparently thought i was going to slow and in his way. This is why i like remote work. I dont like getting to the office wishing i had brought my pistol on my commute, and having my entire vibe and mood for the day ruined. I promise im not very productive nor helpful when im in my “everyones an asshole” mode

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547610831 t1_je34rg3 wrote

Reply to Deeply, truly, very sorry: How tech CEOs talk when they lay off workers by CrankyBear

The thing that always kills me about economics is how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy it is. A lot of companies are doing fine and are still laying off workers just based on the fear of an economic downturn that may or may not come. Of course if those layoffs spread enough then it creates the very downturn everyone was afraid of. It's all just a mind game.

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Shoddy_Bus4679 t1_je33wix wrote

Reply to comment by HighOnGoofballs in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

It’s shocking how many of these articles just assume that all these remote workers are for some reason still within commuting distance of the office.

I took the first opportunity I could to move to Hawaii.

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