DashRattlesnake

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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
That may be so, but the GP was talking about the time it takes checks to clear. IIRC, uncashed checks aren't even valid after 180 days, let alone 7 years.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> customer is on the hook for 7 years 7 years? Are you sure it's not something like 7 days?
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> They are not clamoring for democracy. That's understandable, given that's against the law and would probably be a prison sentence.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Do you really think that China is capable of an easy and bloodless transition to a democratic system? I suppose that really depends on the Communist party...
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Your characterization of your proposal as a "fair system" is sophomoric. It's an immature, oversimplified idea that's ~ miraculously ~ aligned with what appear to be your own political desires. We might have something
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> urban voters are currently disenfranchised That's an odd way to complain about not being utterly dominant. > We have Trump because the system discriminates against urban voters, i.e. currently the majority is being damned. That
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Small communities aren't being trampled upon, they're the ones doing the trampling. lol. You have an hilariously parochial point of view.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
>> Facebook could easily send such messages only to people who support one particular party or candidate, and that doing so could easily flip a close election – with no one knowing that this has occurred. And because advertisements, l
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
FYI, "tyranny of the majority" means the majority gets what it wants, and damn the minorities. > tyranny of the minority If that's how you want to characterize having rights that are protected, go ahead, but it's emba
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> What rights are being trampled on here? That's really not that hard of a question to answer, if you're willing to have some empathy and look at things from someone else's point of view. I say that as someone who has alw
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I think every human being should be given equal weight. Do you disagree? If so, what is your standard for deciding that one person should be given more of a voice than another? Tyranny of the majority can manifest itself in a lot of di
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
They certainly are, but I think it's foolish to think that a regime change would play out the same in NK as it did in countries with very different cultures. I'm skeptical that NK's ideology would be able to sustain an insur
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya I think it's wrong to compare North Korea to those countries. For one, the post-regime change problems in those countries have been caused by Islamic insurgencies, which is not something I'd expec
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> "When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work." But, sometimes, that's exactly what you should do. It brings to mind
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> It's fascinating to me that 100-year-old fonts can still be so expensive I wonder if it would've been cheaper for them to commission a clean-room digital version of Gil Sans? From what I gather the font itself (published 192
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> They're topics the world doesn't do well. It's a feature of the site, not a bug. That's the standard justification, but it leaves a lot to be desired. For one, IIRC, even brand new topics have been moderated away
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
What kind may I ask? If you had a negative experience, my guess if you go back your experience will be that of anxiously trying to avoid another one.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
IIRC, wasn't he a Democrat and a labor lawyer? More of a centrist Democrat than a conservative?
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Kuro5hin It's finally dead! http://kuro5hin.org
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Metafilter has certainly alienated a lot of its community. You can see it whenever it comes up, in a forum outside of Metafilter . Some of its old users show up and often don't have nice things to say. I used to read it (more as a
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Metafilter is like the American suburbs of the internet. Nice and tidy, but boring. And full of anxiety and dysfunction masquerading as something else.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> They're modding out reposts. Repetitiveness. Copypasta. The same-old rehashes. Trolls. Vitriol. Attacks on other users. Rule violations. Pile-ons. Eh, I don't think that's really a fair characterization. Yeah, sure, th
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Cortex has been a member since 2001 and a mod since 2007. You mean it's been going downhill for a decade because cortex? C'mon, don't be silly now. That's a lot like trying to dispute the effect of Donald Trump&#x27
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
That may be so, but they're not often confused by bikes painted on the back of a van either.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I understand the argument, since car sensors are currently less robust than human eyes, so you need to use many different kinds of them to get near-human results. However, humans get by driving reasonable safely using just vision. I'm
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Bell System ended up being heavily regulated, and it's service was second to none. It was nearly a natural monopoly because of the cost of running phone lines. If Uber ever became that, we could resolve any problems with regulati
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Yeah, and I bet after Borders shuts down, you'll see Amazon raise book prices sky-high! There's some truth to that: whenever I bother to check I find that Amazon is no longer price-competitive with brick-and-mortar. > If U
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> If we go to war with China I don't think you or anyone else will care much about your company. Probably not in the immediate aftermath, but someone might decades later, if the company actually does something valuable.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> By that logic, all employees should be kept as happy as possible because they might commit arson. If that's the only logic that successfully gets through to the boss, it's good logic.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> the distinction is that there is a willful effort to exploit and to enslave on the part of someone (be it a person, corporation or market That's right, and it's a shame it's been downvoted.

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