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by Arainach 2y ago
This is not true. 2/3 of bankrupt filings in the US are due to medical costs - a number which does not capture the high levels of medical debt carried by people who do not declare bankruptcy. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu&#x2F
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by Arainach 2y ago
Speaking is fundamentally slower than typing or using a mouse, and it is a catastrophically bad choice if you are not alone in a room.
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by Arainach 2y ago
Salaries in the rest of the world look great when you realize that in Europe you're not one medical incident while unemployed from utter bankruptcy
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by Arainach 2y ago
Working for yourself is totally different. It's like demands from tech executives for long hours: "I worked long hours to make myself rich; why won't all of you work long hours to make me richer?"
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by Arainach 2y ago
>So why is the verse there? You're the one who cited it, it's up to you to demonstrate that it's relevant in this context. >There is nothing in this verse which says that property is to be expropriated for the purposes
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by Arainach 2y ago
Other humans are not "dogs" or "pigs". Jesus was unambiguous. "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this:
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by Arainach 2y ago
The New Testament is unambiguous. Jesus expels the money lenders from the temple and says it is harder for a rich man to go to heaven than a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Christians are, first, and foremost, followings of Chr
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by Arainach 2y ago
There is no relevant contradiction. The entire New Testament is Jesus preaching love and forgiveness, Jesus practicing love and forgiveness - and not just to his followers - and explicit condemnation of wealth and instructing his followers
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by Arainach 2y ago
HN is such a weird place. "Free speech" libertarianism when it comes to companies restricting hate speech on their platforms while simultaneously advocating for companies to ban sponsored content.
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by Arainach 2y ago
You could replace that year with any year since the start of the GIMP project and it would still be true. It's the epitome of an open source project run by people who care about technical features, not real world users.
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by Arainach 2y ago
This is a weird take. What is an "ad", and how would you expect any company to remove in-video "ads" without rampant accusations of censorship? If a channel posts a review of a piece of hardware that was sent to them for
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by Arainach 2y ago
You can pay for YouTube Premium and get no ads.
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by Arainach 2y ago
I agree that understanding what work is considered essential at your company and getting assigned to it can accelerate your career, but I struggle to connect with most of the other points. In particular, the idea that you can tank your repu
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by Arainach 2y ago
That's a lot of words but still no source.
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by Arainach 2y ago
That article doesn't mention the executive branch at any point.
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by Arainach 2y ago
"X was the last version with any features" is among the laziest of internet tropes. It's fine to say that you don't like the subscription model, or the pricing, or telemetry, or "AI" thrown in everywhere, but s
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by Arainach 2y ago
You don't need to use every capability of a device to make it beneficial for you. Let's stick with photography. Can someone who knows what they're doing get great results with cheap equipment? Yes, in many situations. Is i
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by Arainach 2y ago
"get it out" where "it" is the Waymo vehicle - that is, the passenger could have (if safe) left the vehicle at any point but they encountered a situation where the software was unable to proceed and needed a human to con
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by Arainach 2y ago
>High signal: 0.88 watts for the iPhone 16, 0.67 watts for the iPhone 16e >Low signal: 0.81 watts for the iPhone 16, 0.67 watts for the iPhone 16e For the legacy modem, why is power consumption lower in lower signal areas? I naively
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by Arainach 2y ago
None of these things will ever be 100% safe, so a steady stream of one per minute as described in the article poses an actual safety risk. I'm also not a fan of corporations having what amounts to realtime surveillance video of me any
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by Arainach 2y ago
With the exception of a few days (which don't really count because of a sick Senator Kennedy and spineless moderate conservativeJoe Lieberman), the Democrats haven't had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate in many, many deca
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by Arainach 2y ago
Unlike Universal Paperclips, I actually have a desire to play Balatro more than once. It also requires more thought and strategy at every point rather than "wait for line to go up and click buy on anything available" The biggest d
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by Arainach 2y ago
So just to recap, at the moment we have bookmarks which are free, paper thin (because they're made of whatever piece of paper, ticket stub, etc. I have around) barely stick out from book but can stay with it, and feather light. When I
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by Arainach 2y ago
What does this have to do with the article?
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by Arainach 2y ago
In the last 4 years the Democrats expanded overtime eligibility, ramped up antitrust enforcement, got inflation under control, cracked down on junk fees, forgave billions in student loan debt, invested in domestic manufacturing, invested in
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by Arainach 2y ago
Any such cameras would have to be operating in a full range of weather, temperature, and lighting conditions, and would need to have power/data infrastructure run out to it around/under runways. Plus you'd need dozens of the
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by Arainach 2y ago
Why do you assume no footage exists? Why do you assume that any footage the tower has should be released to the public immediately?
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by Arainach 2y ago
People don't buy Kindles for the hardware. They buy Kindles because they work with a store that has the books they want to buy (and the hardware is good enough and cheap enough). Without data I believe that more than 99% of ereader use
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by Arainach 2y ago
Safari gets far more respect than it deserves. Its refusal to implement standards and features (while being installed on sufficient devices) holds the web ecosystem back in the same way IE6 did. Safari is a painful nuisance, and we'd

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