Accujack

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by Accujack 7y ago
>there are other compelling arguments why a host of "reproductive tech" should be considered ...and also why it should be heavily regulated or restricted. Right now, the primary means of ensuring that no one person (political
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by Accujack 7y ago
This is an excellent illustration of why everyone should remember that employment is a business arrangement, not a family connection or social one. As long as corporations in the US are legally obligated to put shareholders or owners before
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's not so much an "advantage over smaller employers" as it is a "subsidy for large employers" or a "way to spend less money to offer the same benefits so profits are higher".
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by Accujack 7y ago
>There is no way the CCP is going to legislate that into reality. Not the CCP, the US government. That's why I mentioned the corruption of it being a problem. E-waste from the US should be kept in the US where we can ensure it&#x27
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by Accujack 7y ago
Have you ever heard of deposits on soda bottles? It's quite doable.
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>Original post referred to the marketplace in general I was obviously talking about the major marketplace associated with Amazon, IE online ordering as opposed to the entire retail market.
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> there is the reasonable expectation that that data is not and was never safe This is key, and not everyone has this expectation when they use these services. Most people do not, and they're not entirely wrong. If you examine the
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> it is insane how advanced the whole manufacturing is in China I think what you describe is flexibility, not advancement. The distinction is important. Advanced manufacturing implies that (assuming the batteries were manufactured from
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by Accujack 7y ago
>not unexpected in today's data-hungry market. It's worth noting that this sort of data collection shouldn't be simply driven by the market and what it can get away with. There's a big gap in US law where collecting d
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by Accujack 7y ago
Name another online retailer that's bigger/better known. You can't compare them to the entire retail market. If anything, their competition is Wal-Mart's online service, or Ebay.
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So no difference, then?
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That's like saying what if the charity for the homeless to whom people donated money suddenly was found to be a front for a global human trafficking (slave) organization. People would be rightly outraged and angry, but that doesn'
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by Accujack 7y ago
This is what happens when regulators don't promote a fair marketplace. With no competition, companies like Amazon stop caring and start to optimize to get the last few pennies out of each sale... which results in a drop in quality of
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by Accujack 7y ago
FYI, our sun is also going to go out. Just so you can plan ahead.
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There's no for-profit motive to justify recycling of much, that's true. However, recycling can still work well if there's money built in to the price of items for recycling what they're made of. In other words, a surcha
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by Accujack 7y ago
>until the antibiotic washes out. This is part of the problem. If animals are given the antibiotics, then their waste products contain them, and piles of manure or water runoff/storm drains/wastewater ponds form a giant evolut
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by Accujack 7y ago
If anyone is interested in a nice long video talking about what you can use/need for setting up an electronics lab, take a look at the EEVblog video for doing this. Dave keeps everything under a certain dollar limit and explains his c
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by Accujack 7y ago
>I feel like if any one person can seriously subvert something, you've already lost. This is technically correct, but most companies (at least in the US) take the easy way out, just like they do for hiring. No college degree means
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by Accujack 7y ago
My questions would be what oversight is there of the coroners' decisions and what ensures their qualifications? A scientific discovery might have no gold or silver but be much more valuable at sale than shiny metals. A coroner who dec
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by Accujack 7y ago
I was also going to note that this article is in the Irish Times, so a lot of the author's perspective is based on that country. In Ireland, there's far less commuting than in the US simply due to the size of the country, and the
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's worth noting that it gets used for different things in different countries. In Ireland, it's actually a dating app more than a hookup app, for example. I do think the author expected too much, and that Tindr is no substitute
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by Accujack 7y ago
Many forms of what you call "tax evasion" are in fact legal in the US. Lots of very, very wealthy people have no "income" at all, which means they don't pay taxes. The problem is that "income" is narrowly
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by Accujack 7y ago
Yup, this is just spam.
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> It's interesting that this list closely mirrors the precarious stages and situations in life that can often lead to homelessness. When you realize that many of the items on this list also decrease tax revenue over single family ho
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by Accujack 7y ago
Many cities in my state (MN) still have laws on the books that will fine lawn owners for failing to maintain a green, healthy appearance. Never mind if it's in a desert or forest terrain... they only allow paved spaces, green grass and
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by Accujack 7y ago
Have you looked into Detroit's problems at all? Even though a large fraction of the city is abandoned, getting the city government to approve things like experimental urban farm plots and green spaces made up of combined vacant lots is
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by Accujack 7y ago
Welcome to the internet, sir! More seriously... I see what you did here, and I applaud his polite response. Discuss.
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The thing is, though, that many modern startups don't make a distinction between doing an integration and writing software. It sounds like OP did the former, which means there's not likely an original product to sell, just a custo
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It's a subtle difference, but I would say a change in phrasing is what's needed. Rather than "you are a complete idiot" it should be "You are acting like a complete idiot" or better "In this instance you&#
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by Accujack 7y ago
I had the same thought. OP talks about authored code, but then lists all the pieces that are glued together into a solution. That takes some customization, but he's not talking about a software product, he's talking about what am

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