6foot4_82iq

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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Giving American fast food restaurants two paths: 1. automate 2. become a charity
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
> aren't paying enough money Renumeration expectations are entirely malleable and subjective. When you've been riding the gravy train, even $15/h looks a pittance. > Executives and shareholders have had decades of amazi
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics are enough to explain the downfall of ACLU: 1. Everyone is conservative about what they know best 2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing 3. The simplest way t
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
How quickly things change. "In Soviet Russia, we too have freedom of speech. But in America, you have freedom after speech" -- Yakov Smirnoff
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Twitter naively overplayed their hand. These are the consequences.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
America extorts other nations by virtue of the $US being the world's dominant reserve currency. The federal reserve can print money unimpeded, with foreigners bearing the brunt of inflation. The math is simple.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
> The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Censorship. World leaders won't be gagged by Jack Dorsey. India is next.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Lukashenko profits by playing the EU off against Russia. Banning/sanctioning Belarus naturally drives the country further towards Russia. The EU attempts to offset this by simultaneously dangling a €3B carrot: https://ec.eur
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
It makes Putin a happy panda, Russia's buffer zone has now been set in concrete.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Three or four coordinated accounts is all it takes to have de facto editorial control over HN.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Yes. Ask your average Lebanese or Venezuelan citizen. Outside of privileged western states crypto has been a massive societal benefit. Crypto will jeopardise the monopoly of statists however, which explains the coordinated establishment pus
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Sure, there are very few (if any) 350lb vegans though. Vegetables (even processed and deep fried) are too light on calories. The most redeeming ingredient in a burger, fries, and soda combo is the meat patty.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
> Which is not remotely representative of any human diet. People don't come to weigh 350lbs eating vegetables daily.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Real meat to plant-based "meat" is one instance.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
The most intolerant wins. > It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to sub
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
Katie Hill herself posted them to /r/wifesharing
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Wikipedia co-founder: Still think Wikipedia is neutral?(twitter.com)
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
The "hangovers get worse when you are older" tripe is a miscorrelation. Any ageing alcoholic can attest to that. The majority drink hardest when they're in their 20s, start slowing down in their 30s, and all but teetotal as t
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
If you drink 4-5 medium beers everyday, you'd need to drink at least 10 to induce a hangover.
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by 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
In Australia, all alcohol (yes, even beer and wine) can only be bought at designated liquor stores. The vast majority of which are only open 10AM~10PM, with a handful in Sydney and Melbourne open after midnight. Further, public drinking is