CocaKoala

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by CocaKoala 7y ago
If they had just not done anything when blitzchung made his statement in support of Hong Kong, it likely would have gotten essentially zero media play.
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Exercise their second amendment rights? Note the differences in the stories of Philando Castile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile ) and Brandon Vreeland ( https://www.clickondetroit.c
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
There was recently a controversy over how Doordash implemented its tipping policy. Drivers get paid a wage to deliver food to you, and you would expect that if you specify a tip through the application, that tip goes to the driver and their
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Allegation is the word you're looking for. > a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof.
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
This is basically my position; I buy lots of music on vinyl and I hold no illusions that it's "higher quality" or "better fidelity" or that I could tell the difference between a song played off one of my records and
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
> People who are volunteering (jury) are to assume that things that happen in a non-commercial setting happen for money. What? Jurors aren't volunteers. Jury duty is mandatory; if you get called, you have to show up or provide justi
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
And you'll note that I said the second scenario is awful! But paying a consultant to consult for you doesn't become a bad thing to do, even if you are a bad person. Like, consider the opposite question: Why should expert witnesses
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
I don't know what 'TFA' is, but you say that it says experts should be paid, so I don't understand what your argument is here. The second scenario you describe is clearly corrupt, but I don't see how paying a consul
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Blogging is a hobby for many people; being an expert witness is not. Does every expert witness donate their time out of the goodness of their heart? They're experts; they have a career doing something. They're taking time out of t
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
> I can pay 'experts' to testify in court without revealing I'm paying? I feel like it's generally understood that when expert witnesses get called to the stand, they're being compensated for their time by whoeve
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
> In one case, investigators at State Farm withheld several crucial reports contradicting their fraud allegations from the bundle of evidence they handed over the law enforcement. In another, a Farmers manager admitted under oath that th
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
I'm guessing the checks were drawn on an empty account? Banks will commonly front you the money before the check clears so that you have the money available before the longer process of the check clearing is completed. See also: The co
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Counterpoint: fighting games have zero direct interaction with the companies who control the IP for a tournament, and while they're certainly bigger now than they used to be, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue honestly that fi
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by CocaKoala 7y ago
Here's my YTMND story. My freshman year of college, 06/07, my roommate spent a boatload of time on his laptop at his desk; he'd sleep in, skip class, and stay up late, spending all his time on his laptop. I peeked over his sh
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Yeah, it occurs to me that a 9 year old could have the emotional intelligence of, say, a 15 or 16 year old and that would be "surprisingly high" but that doesn't mean that college is a good place for a fifteen year old, let a
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Delver of Secrets is a 1/1 that can transform during your upkeep, so it might turn into a 3/2 on your second turn, but it's definitely still conditional and not guaranteed. Wild Nacatl is a 1/1 for G that gets +1/+1
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
On the other hand, I just came back to Magic after ~15 years out, and some basic utility has gotten more expensive. R used to get you 3 damage back in the day (Lighting Bolt), now it gets you two (Shock); you've gotta go up to 1R if yo
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
There are variations on Tetris (e.g. the Tetris Grand Master franchise) where the game mode gets more challenging as you clear. One of the challenges is that the board is invisible, and pieces disappear as soon as you place them; in order t
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
I was really hoping this was going to be like, a discussion of how the Fed allocates and distributes new bills as it exercises monetary policy, and then it was just an article about blockchains.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
If you hit something every fifteen thousand miles, the cops will stop chalking it up to "mistake" pretty quick.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> The time to punish PG&E is when they fail to abide by regulations, not after big fires. Regulations like "Maintain your equipment to keep it in good working order" and "Follow policies in place to prevent disasters&q
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
I suspect it's so that people can contribute to the list through the pull request functionality that Github offers?
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Seems like the way he had before was pretty meaningful to the community, given how bummed people sound about the closure.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Ah, you're right! I got my traps confused. I hadn't tried throwing traps, although I know you can throw everything else; I've definitely done the "assault a room with six people and two weapons; shoot person A, throw wea
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
One time, I was playing Heat Signature and I was doing the final mission for a character (Characters have personal missions they can accomplish, which are much harder than normal missions and can give you special rewards). I had two useful
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Well, one position is concerned with truth (e.g. "I'm a man") and one position is concerned with belief (e.g. "I believe you're a woman"). Being more concerned with what you believe about people over facts abou
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
But here's the thing. I am not transgender, and if somebody misgendered me, it would both offensive and wrong. Somebody can believe that I'm a woman with their whole heart and being, but that doesn't make it so; my identity i
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Why do you believe I'm female, when I've explicitly told you that I'm not? And again, why does your opinion have anything to do with my gender? You can call me a female, and you'd be incorrect; whether or not you think I
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
>falsify their opinions How am I making them falsify their opinions? My identity is not an opinion-based phenomena; you can refer to me by female pronouns and be incorrect, or you can refer to me by male pronouns and be correct. Your opi
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Why am I not the ultimate authority on what pronoun best refers to me? Why do I need to try and _convince_ somebody that no, despite whatever you might think, the appropriate pronoun is "he"? Imagine a dialogue where Marcus introd

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