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by 18pfsmt 6y ago
In a free market, the government doesn't have the right to take the decision away from the individual about how much risk they can tolerate. Some politicians infringing on the rights of others doesn't justify further intrusions on
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by 18pfsmt 6y ago
Here is an aggregation of studies that come to various conclusions regarding masks. https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/ Here is an article from July about mask usage in Europe. https://www.economist.com/
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Ended-up at -2. How did you fare? I moved off the Navajo reservation in 80s. My cousin (he just got electricity to his house this year; he's had solar for 20 years) still lives there. I can give tours, if you have interest. I'm th
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
We are going to wreck FB within 5 years with something far less centrally controlled, and you want to waste government resources on this? The company is 15 years old. Math doesn't work that way or bitcoin would be toast.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
It seemed to me you had insider knowledge of FB and were adding value to the discussion. Fair point that I missed your key point that is based on knowing internal politics/ procedure. I look at the big picture of the U.S. Constitution,
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
They are unhinged. I've got worse things I've written than you because of my frustrations that I won't get into. We are in complete agreement, it seems, except on certain tactics. I will probably be more agreeable to your app
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
When I joined HN, people were advocating for the creation of organizations that get people to voluntarily support them with their attention or $. Now people openly advocate for government force to be used to achieve admirable outcomes (even
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I've got comments trashing FB and Zuckerberg on HN from 2009. These people have managed to make Zuckerberg a sympathetic character to me. I wish you would tone down your rhetoric, however. I've been guilty of it myself and underst
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Is less than 1% of an employee population expressing disagreement worthy of a discussion on HN? NYT has completely dropped their mask of objectivity. This is clearly agenda pushing by an extremist minority. WaPO called 'al big-daddy&
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Exactly. The answer to false speech or hate speech is not censorship. The answer is more speech deconstructing the facts and logic used to perpetrate such falsehoods. Relying on "benevolent authorities" to arbitrate reality is a d
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I think you are replying to someone that has worked for G for a long time, and is using their knowm alt-account (i.e. not hiding anything). He probably read that book when he was ~25 yrs. old.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
They didn't miss it, they saw it as a threat to be stomped. They almost succeeded, but Google would've canned their game eventually. Believe it or not, "free stuff" is popular.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>The next problem is that it can take a very long time for a toy to turn into the next big thing. And humans are very impatient and are driven toward immediate gratification.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Not only are we supposed to assume good faith comments on HN, reddit-type snark is looked down upon for a reason. Per HN guidelines, 'don't talk shit you wouldn't say in person.' There is so much ridiculous rhetoric on H
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I would advise using your browser's developer tools to find the irritating web page js, css, or domain/sub-domain responsible, and then using uMatrix/privoxy/hostfile to block that garbage. Many sites are usable by preve
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>which is pretty much the gold standard of modern forum site design Wait, what? >open-source link aggregator with no ads or tracking (currently in invite-only alpha) HN is over 12 years old and much larger. Suggesting an alpha-level s
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
> It should use 5-50 megabytes of data per page load. Mandatory min of 5MB vs. current 10KB? I'm pretty sure I'm missing the logic here. I sometimes rely on a satellite connection in my access, and I don't hold HN responsi
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Care to address the substance? HN rules say to respond to the strongest possible argument. You are failing to comply.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
We do not have a federal sales tax (i.e. VAT). Europe hasn't had yearly GDP growth over 1% in 25 years, and Europe is issuing bonds at negative % rates. The U.S. subsidizes the European military defenses and pharmaceutical prices to bo
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Very civil. I love reading HN so I can read "Bullshit." More intolerant authoritarianism is not the answer to your issues.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
You banned so much stuff, you created the most powerful black market in the world: The Russian Mob. I'm sorry to report that I feel your government is at war with my country.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Is cable TV programming political campaigning? How about youtube videos funded by the Kochs or Soros? "Election security," as in mandate, at the federal level, what the states do? Centralizing power (maximizing the possibility of
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Eventually you create a black market like drug cartels and the Russian mob. Perhaps we should legalize narcotics and sell them in Walgreens and CVS instead of "subsidizing" SPECTRE. "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, th
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Smith wasn't some prophet. He got some things right, and some things wrong. He was trying to imagine a world he couldln't possibly imagine from a point in time when slavery was rampant across the world, there were nobles and monar
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
In the U.S., the bottom 47% pays zero income taxes. The tax rates on the middle class are far lower than in Europe. Look at the actual tax brackets (i.e. the data). As for the idea that the latest tax reform only helped the wealthy: "
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
If one looks up the etymology of the word appropriate: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/appropriate "From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one&#x2
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Juice tastes good, but it removes the fiber from the ingestion of that fructose that tells our body how to digest it. It is not healthful. Juice is basically a refined food, and I prefer raw food.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
One cannot coercively distort the market with government power and expect that life will not, "uh, uh, find a way." Great intentions do not always lead to great outcomes (often the opposite).
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Polyethylene is rather inert, but our ability to further utilize it beyond a single use is imperative. I grew up with paper grocery bags and glass bottled soda, and plastic was seen as the "green" solution at that time.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I had no idea they were doing this stuff to material I've benefited from accessing. Thanks for taking the time to give us the benefit of your research. Control freaks always want your personally identifying data, and people are too ope

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