Frondo

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by Frondo 6y ago
So, so far I haven't seen anyone on here take the strong free speech absolutist position -- that nothing should be censored ever, including calls to violence. I've seen several comments that basically say "don't censor i
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by Frondo 6y ago
I remember that! it was on rec.games.programmer, wasn't it?
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by Frondo 6y ago
There aren't really that many coal jobs, big-picture-wise, about 60,000. Arby's employs more people than that.
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by Frondo 6y ago
What built the US into what it is today was its incredible amount of untapped resources, followed by military dominance and tapping into other countries' resources. Keeping people impoverished was (and is) not necessary for that.
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by Frondo 6y ago
I think this is the crux of what drives me mad with these personal anecdotes of struggle. Is this the best we can do as a society, that a few poor people, through work and luck, can become less poor? What's the point of these stories,
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by Frondo 6y ago
That is unfortunate. All business has risk; becoming a property owner is no different. I anecdotally know a few people who bought second homes to rent out, and they're facing a crunch too. I don't see why, though, small-time landl
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by Frondo 6y ago
Only one remark: "tell the guy ... that I'm ignorant" You can have a wealth of first-hand experience but that doesn't mean it translates to opportunities or behaviors of groups. So yes, you can be ignorant. As someone el
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by Frondo 6y ago
It has not. Oregon has had vote by mail exclusively for over twenty years and, in the 2016, with over two million votes cast, 54 problematic votes (according to an audit done by the then-republican secretary of state.)
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by Frondo 6y ago
Well, I'm not afraid of non-scientific ideas, but I am afraid of the harms they cause. Anecdotally, I've lost a couple of family members due to secret-style law-of-attraction attempts at fixing curable (by medical science) illness
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by Frondo 6y ago
Purely anecdotally, as a pet owner this doesn't surprise me at all. I have two rescue cats that, from the descriptions from the fosters, had very stressful lives before I got them (attacks from dogs, being attacked by other cats in a f
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by Frondo 6y ago
It's more than that, we in the US are actively subsidizing sugar, making it cheaper and more available for use everywhere. How many processed foods would contain sugar if it raised the price by a few cents per unit cost? If we're
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by Frondo 6y ago
I think the unsatisfying reason why one should implement it is because it's a standard API now, and it is always better to implement standards.
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by Frondo 6y ago
If that agency is disbanded, it will also be good for payday lenders.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Like Scotty in that iconic scene..."Hello, computer...........Hello, computer......" someone hands him the mouse, which he holds like a microphone "Hello, computer...."
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by Frondo 7y ago
When I got an iPhone 8, it came with that adapter in the box. I do keep a spare we had lying around in my cross-body bag too, for times like using someone's aux cord in a car. Yes, it's another thing you can lose, but in practice
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by Frondo 7y ago
Not a comment on the ventilator made from a wiper motor, but I have had one fail, and had to have it replaced for something like $255. All mechanical parts will fail (the antikythera device isn't still operational, but that's a pr
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by Frondo 7y ago
People do not need liquidity to survive. They need air, water, food, medicine, shelter, in decreasing order of importance. No one has ever died for lack of liquidity. We've done a middling job at making sure people have air and water,
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't find this unclear at all. I'm not sure what you would do to make it clearer. Thoughts? https://www.qt.io/download-open-source?hsCtaTracking=9f6a217...
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's never a bad thing to use more accurate terminology, or to update language as society and culture develop. If my grandmother can learn a better word for "brazil nuts," you can learn a better name for the 1918 flu that sta
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by Frondo 7y ago
Specifically, "the fed is a private bank" is a common refrain among goldbugs and currency conspiracy theorists, and it's not true, no matter how often it's repeated. Not saying the OP is a goldbug or currency conspiracy
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by Frondo 7y ago
The Fed does not set the budget, and is independent of the three branches of government, that's true, but... > The Federal Reserve System is an independent government institution that has private aspects. The System is not a private
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by Frondo 7y ago
What group and month? in case someone out there might have their own copy...
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by Frondo 7y ago
Your parents consented on your behalf, as guardians are legally capable of doing for those in their care, when you were born. You affirmed that by remaining here, enjoying the privileges of citizenship, when you reached the age of majority.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Taxes are not theft, they are an agreed-upon payment for being a member of a society. Your parents, as guardians of a newborn, made your initial decision for you to bring you into the society. You maintained your consent by retaining your c
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by Frondo 7y ago
The companies can call it whatever they want, but it reflects the power imbalance between worker and employer that unions exist solely to re-balance. Some managers in a board room somewhere made a decision that depressed the wages for how m
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by Frondo 7y ago
Leave money negotiations off the table, and you could have a union establish a single consistent process for firing practices that'd protect someone like James Damore from being arbitrarily fired. I don't agree with what Damore ha
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by Frondo 7y ago
I can't get too worked up that there are some bad electricians (and I'm imagining that this is true for any field) who are also union members. My brother in law's a solo residential electrician who occasionally does a little
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by Frondo 7y ago
And if they want to negotiate collectively to change how the organization treats them, it's absolutely their right to do so. Unionization is also specifically enshrined in law. I hope they pursue a path toward codetermination: getting
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'd like to know how the down voter would argue against this. I'd like to know how this position is somehow wrong.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I agree they're corrupt, I was trying to explain that you can be a good family man, a nice volunteer in your local soup kitchen, whatever, and still be a Bad Person for supporting a that's bad for society.

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