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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Nobody is forcing you to use FB or Google, and I have all their domains null routed at my firewall. However, you do not get to use the government to force your preferred terms of doing business on them. That is the definition of authoritari
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
It was from a live stream of a conference/interview that happened at the end of Feb. or March. I did read something about it at the time, but it wasn't the headline, nor am I likely to have gotten the phrasing correct exactly. PEW
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>Denial doesn't help The problem is that people who do not want to enact federal policy that decimates the US economy (i.e. "Green New Deal"), are deemed "deniers." I'm not into extremism. The US emits 15% o
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>Republicans are strangely against giving voting IDs or state IDs for free to low income people. They also restrict early voting to make poor people choose between losing pay and voting, and are also against making election day a nationa
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Here is the link to the actual report: https://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aax35... People should try reading the actual science instead of some journalist's cherry-picked take on the
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
This is an off-topic comment that is distracting from the topic-at-hand. For a "hacker," one just disables scripts from running from that domain.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I believe Pelosi will relinquish her speakership in 2020 no matter the outcome of the election. Those are the conditions under which she was voted as Speaker in the first place. [Even though I do not necessarily agree with you exactly, I tr
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
America is based on an idea, not historical aristocracy or genealogy (i.e. blood and soil). We were founded on freedom. The US, as the first start-up country is simply not comparable to other countries. This is why an American conservativ
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Do you believe the ends justify the means? Ninja edit: If you do, we are not talking about anything other than straight civil war.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
While I believe in the innate nature of humans as good, there are evil people that had bad things happen to them. Obama's actions simply acknowledge there is evil (which is obvious).
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
The amount of illiberal ideas coming out of many people scares the shit out of me. Banning anything is not liberal, it's authoritarian.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Who is "pledging allegiance" and where are these pledges?
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
It is the regulations themselves, not the lack of them, that have allowed for these de facto monopolies to form. These have been at the local level, where practical considerations were relevant (my local company often has a cable mess going
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
As a 25+ year NPR junkie, I can say Gross brought on the trend of hosts thanking their guests "so much" for being there. This started somewhere around 2011. I used to believe Gross was the best interviewer until I heard some Stern
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Rogan is not "right-wing," and people saying that have not listened to his views thoroughly. He is open-minded (sometimes to a flawed degree), and had Jones on and it was the funniest thing I've heard. Jones is a lunatic, and
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Isn't it interesting where this is going? We all want to meet our accusers? I don't care for FB myself, but I appreciate what you all are doing in the larger sense. Cloudflare is my fave of your former employers (since you shared
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I think we 'bumped heads' at Middlebury in '94, and I think you are in store for an "ideological reckoning" w/in 3 years. Pinboard is a great product, so thanks for that. I am surpised you don't have your
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
There's also a %tage of sales where the 'build vs buy' argument makes sense in the other direction. Obviously, most sellers of physical goods have better reason to focus on growing revenue and promotional activity, not cuttin
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I noted the economic impact, but I was talking at-scale, not anecdotaly. There are many states that have over-regulated this market. It now costs $15/gal for raw milk. Most people are not able to have a garden was my point.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I drunkenly invited someone to Denver at my expense for a duel the other day (not literally, but figuratively). All this partisan, populist rhetoric is driving some of us a bit nuts, but you are usually a voice of reason. It's ok to sl
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
People are electing to buy the fuel with their own money. So, what is the implication of your comment? We should force people to stop doing what they want? I don't have kids, I walk to work, and I sit in the dark a whole lot (in the wi
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
My comments are limited to the US because these things are managed differently in different countries. Given how much the spectrum landscape is changing (i.e. 5G), I think we should rework how strictly we allocate spectrum, especially lower
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I think most reasonable people agree with the idea of pluralism, and benefit to diverse approaches to governance. However, I think your original take ignores the fact that China has stood on the shoulders of Western liberalism and the 20th
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Dang is trying to cool your jets. I think America is an idea where most countries are based on genetics and history. I get where you are on this, but it should be realized illiberal people will take advantage of liberal people. It's a
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
So, if a research project takes $3M in funding, and a private company takes that primary research and spends $300M to produce a derivative product and takes it to market they should not profit? The National Renewable Energy Lab has an enti
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Sorry, man. I was drinking beers. Anti-freedom people make me a bit crazy. It's difficult for me to see so much hate on HN.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
How is the National Diary Council paying for advertising, which is a lobbyist group made up of dairies, a subsidy? Their subsidies are in things like the farm bill where they are protected by tariffs and our weird obsession with pasteurizat
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
As a renter I gardened for years, but I finally bought a condo and no longer have a yard. Early attempts at establishing a community garden program have been failures. I will continue the quest. However, I think you are overselling the idea
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I buy mostly fresh food, so I go the store every other morning at 6am. They are still stocking shelves (a job I had in college), but there are no crowds. I live 2 blocks away from the store, so small takes are easier to carry home. The only
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
The negativity on this comment is amazing. These Euro ideas would die so fast. I will pay for your flights to Denver. please come to CO.

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