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by Fins 9y ago
Oh, sure, there was more than bountiful in the US and Europe. Saying that it was (or is) bountiful in, say, Africa seems to be a stretch. One could think that GMOs appear to be a US-centered because many developing countries, whose export m
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by Fins 9y ago
There was a reason we moved to CFC, wasn't there? Switching back and forth woulds be pretty expensive.
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by Fins 9y ago
I could point you at pretty much every Mexican construction worker in SV (or Chicago) who bunk 10 to a room, doing hard physical work for less money.
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by Fins 9y ago
Cynic in me asks what NCMEC would do, if there were no great epidemic of trafficking. And a nice easy target to pin it on. Interestingly, all the examples below talk about grown up Asian women. Not to say that trafficking never happens, or
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by Fins 9y ago
So we should kill even more people, who had never signed up to be guinea pigs, so that maybe there will be a self-driving car at some point? Which most of those dying in those crashes will not be able to afford anytime soon anyway...
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by Fins 9y ago
I am not really sure if development of SDVs is really that important, but even if it were, your proposal would only be acceptable if it were you and Mr. Musk racing your Teslas on Tesla's private proving grounds. Somewhere in the Kal
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by Fins 9y ago
And also, I doubt that you will find people these days who are not aware of tobacco dangers. That tobacco companies still make a good profit just shows that if you have a legal (although Mr. Escobar might argue that legality isn't requ
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by Fins 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how would the prohibition of CFCs work before there were a replacement? Or would that be something like the anti-GMO crowd that feasts on their organic free-range heritage breed quinoa salad while telling people in develop
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by Fins 9y ago
That's sort of their job, to regulate things. I was gong to say trying to elect people who at least know what they don't know might be a better approach.
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by Fins 9y ago
Having lived there, I'll take hagiographies of Tom Dart with as many grains of salt as stories of a bright and promising young politician Rod Blagojevich. After all, he had been going against anything sex-related long before he had tho
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by Fins 9y ago
Exactly. And they are the ones who write laws for us. Some even far more important than ISP regulations or what to do with Facebook.
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by Fins 9y ago
I have seen quite a few of the same in Chicago as well. It is always hand-wringing over there being internet forums where johns review services, and a lot of assumptions that anyone engaged in prostitution obviously must be trafficked, or
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by Fins 9y ago
Eh, are you equating, ahem, "sexual services providers" with trafficking victims? For some reason, every major prostitution bust catches quite a few working girls and johns, but actual trafficking victims are few and far between.
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by Fins 9y ago
Interestingly, it is also apparently quite difficult to find actual trafficking victims, at least in the US.
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by Fins 9y ago
Aren't they also the same people you (generic you, in case you're not American) voted in?
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Senators have no idea how Facebook works, want to regulate it anyway(reason.com)
3 points by Fins 9y ago|8 comments
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Backpage Founder's 93 Charges Lack Actual Sex-Trafficking Claims(reason.com)
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by Fins 9y ago
As I recall, eventually cigarette companies had to pay out quite a bit of money, in the US at least, and now have significant limitations on their advertising activities. Last I checked, smoking rates are dropping pretty much everywhere. An
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by Fins 9y ago
How would this be different from a purpose of any other company on the face of the Earth? They all exist to make money. And killing off your customers (or poisoning them) is not necessarily a winning long-term strategy.
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by Fins 9y ago
Funny... It took me about 2 weeks and multiple emails back and forth to close my account, and then it took Amazon almost a year to completely forget about me (I hope). Apparently if you don't want your account closed they can nuke it m
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by Fins 9y ago
When the next Hitler comes (and knowing human nature it is quite likely), it will be a bit late to start designing weapons to fight him.
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What Motivated the YouTube Shooter?(theatlantic.com)
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A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google(npr.org)
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by Fins 9y ago
Sorry.
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by Fins 9y ago
Let me guess... it is a 10 years old Elantra? Let's see... my wife's Hyundai does have adaptive cruise control that actually works and does not try to kill her, it has line assist that works as well, it does not get some buggy a
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by Fins 9y ago
If their margins are so high, why are they losing money hand over fist? People want to buy a Tesla for the same reason many want to buy an Apple or Bose product -- great marketing, not any kind of intrinsic value. And besides, "legacy&
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by Fins 9y ago
So... your model S has cooled seats? Tesla doesn't offer them now (and apparently they didn't work when they did). My wife's Sonata has them, and they work. Not even talking about stuff that is to be expected in a $70K+ car,
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by Fins 9y ago
So to put it another words, every large automotive conglomerate has multiple brands that are greatly more reliable than Tesla. Not sure about Kia, but their parents at Hyundai definitely do have better build quality than Tesla. I would im
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by Fins 9y ago
Tesla's are the largest, though, since they have largest batteries. Tesla builds EVs, that's the only thing they sort of can do (of course they can't actually build them at profit, but that's a problem for Tesla's s
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by Fins 9y ago
And how many EVs would Tesla be selling without heavy subsidies and a Musk effect? Besides, selling a car of Tesla's quality would be embarassing to every company on your list. Well, maybe not Suzuki, but probably to them, too.

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