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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Playing a lot of games doesn't make you better, unfortunately. Especially not in quicker time controls. It just cements your current habits unless you're explicitly reviewing, changing and working on aspects of your play. You have
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Kinda. The decay of communities is one thing, but the death spiral associated with municipal infrastructure projects and tax bases is another. A small town might invest in a bioreactor to reclaim solids for resale from their wastewater serv
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>Why should we sympathize with a minority of rent-seekers? I don't really think this is about sympathizing with rent-seekers. Cities invest in infrastructure to cover anticipated service delivery well before it's due, and the f
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>This completely changes the game on all kinds of fraud, not just ad fraud. As someone alt-tabbing in from real fraud investigation work, no, it doesn't. Banning burner phones and reducing banking privacy regulations would move the
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Ad fraud is a morally loaded term. What's considered ad fraud is not fraud, but labeling it as such lets advertisers point to individuals running bots and scripts as malicious internet abusers. If I used the term fraud like the ad indu
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This doesn't really accord with any of the research and literature on the topic that I've seen, from the initial studies of forum bbs community lifecycles to more modern online marketing community analysis. Do you have any quantit
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>I don’t think there’s an easy fix for this, and that makes me sad. I mean, the fix is really straightforward. You prevent the burbs from siphoning tax dollars off the host city they surround so that the high cost of sprawl is placed on
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
While video gaming has gone mainstream, plenty of marginalized individuals that are poorly socialized still rely on games as an escape. Some, at the very ends of the bell curve, are enraged and simultaneously not equipped with the tools to
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1. The premise that everyone is benefiting is false. A tremendous amount of people are in industries that are shuttered, communities that are withering, locations that are in decline, or otherwise not 'getting better'. 2. The prop
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>This is not what a dialogue looks like Yes it is. You just don't like it. The post you're replying to lays out, from their perspective, a list of actions that they believe are self-evidently unjustifiable. Do you agree with th
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>People on the left think that anyone on the right is a lunatic, and everyone on the right thinks the same thing about the left. I firmly disagree. Not all political climates and discourses are as poisoned as they are in the US. That sai
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It's more likely that you're sitting on the far end of a normal distribution, and what you see as an enforced echo chamber is just the vast majority of users sitting in the middle of that bell curve doing their thing. In other wor
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The corruption in Montreal is more visible than in many other metropolitan regions places, but the city and province do a lot more than other areas to bring it to light and fight it. My estimation is that if we had a similar level of effort
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Part of my practice is financial fraud investigation. >One has to wonder what legal frauds, asset grabs, and impersonations have transpired that were never discovered. A lot. More than you'd expect. And by people and organizations y
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No. I'm just not trying to write out half of a legal text. In the standard tort ones it's a requirement largely because of the historical requirements behind the remedies associated with the acts. Where the offenses aren't li
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A chef friend of mine treated me to a spread of different butters, salted and unsalted, sourced from various areas in Canada. There's top quality butters to be had, but the supermarket stuff isn't it. Maybe try a local farmer&#x27
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>Lying to your partner is not a crime. If you're intending to obtain some benefit or deprive them of something, but fail to clinch it and 'take their money' as you put it, the statement still triggers liability under most
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>It's not unchecked free speech. Instead, it's unchecked curation by media and social media companies with the goal of engagement. Unchecked free speech has always been an issue, which is why even in America, where free speech
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>But the new generation of people, even here on HN and the internet hacker personalities I used to align with have turned so pro-censorship that I don't believe I'm in a proper reality/timeline anymore. It turns out being
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> Large firms don't just exist because of power, but also because to manage an increasingly complex environment (scientifically, economically etc) large institutions are required to hold the necessary knowledge to function effective
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
The term 'legalism' probably isn't what you're looking for here. I think 'Law' would be better suited.
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There are plenty of laws that would give rise to remedies in this situation. Contrary to popular belief, tech companies aren't invincible to lawsuits. Neither is the guy operating the stolen account. The issue isn't whether or not
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No, it would let rich people just create confusing business documentation then bid 0 dollars and choke out every case at the discovery stage. No thanks.
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>This ignores the fact that if there were such obvious financial incentives, then restaurant owners would simply just buy said properties. They do when they have the capital. >"If a landlord is rendered insolvent, they aren'
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Which would make sense except there are plenty of metropolitan areas which are not physically constrained or suffering horrendous zoning issues which also have the issue. The world exists outside the particular clusterfuck that is the SF ba
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Over the course of a given rental, unless the property was purchased almost immediately before a real-estate crash or rental crisis, the amount of cashflow generated by a tenant will cover the majority of the volume required to generate equ
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No. Sophistry is ignoring 50 years of post-Nixon/Goldwater era Republican political strategy. It's tremendously difficult to believe someone could live in the states and not have any idea this was going on. Even former RNC chair M
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Sophistry laid bare for all to see. There are a number of highly concerning posts you've made attempting to normalize a flagrant attack on the rule of law across this thread, but this post in particular is extremely difficult to reconc
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Here's the line of thinking: The idea is that ineffectual discourse without actual efforts towards reform is a method of signalling that one wants change while benefiting from the status quo of oppression. Discussion is great, but the
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This is right, but misleading. Consideration isn't the big question in this thread. It's whether or not a verbal agreement can be binding. In some cases it can be, but a mere agreement to agree is not binding. The biggest takehome

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