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by Frondo 7y ago
A nitpick on that solution (that no longer applies to me, because I no longer use an Android device): It isn't persistent. Signal always defaults to secure messaging, which caused me regular headaches when I used it. More than a few pe
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by Frondo 7y ago
I would like to expand on this, because I think it's a nice quip but the answer should be more nuanced. If Facebook is generally considered harmful (i.e. to society), and if they know that it's considered harmful, and they continu
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by Frondo 7y ago
Also, if you buy a Mac that's a few years old, you still get a great computer at a low, low price. I picked up an 11" air for under $400 off eBay and have used it to build a startup that supported me and my support person. Ran dev
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by Frondo 7y ago
> And if you're a male, you're subsidizing childbirth and other women specific costs. And to that I say: fine. I will happily subsidize, through my tax dollars, health care to pregnant women, addicts, the obese, down-and-outers
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by Frondo 7y ago
We do not live in a post-scarcity society, but the US is rich enough to guarantee every child a standard of living that includes adequate food, shelter, and education. When these discussions come up, I often think about this simple chart:
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by Frondo 7y ago
> How do you justify tapping the productivity of a Boeing working in Renton... Well, the direct answer is: these are all Americans, and all pay some kind of tax to their city, county, state, and ultimately the country, in theory so they
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by Frondo 7y ago
One simple truth in dispute is that vaccines save lives and do not cause autism.
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by Frondo 7y ago
They do detect it and have found 50-some cases in the 2016 election alone. It's not a problem.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Oregon has had vote by mail for at least 20 years and there is almost no irregularity in the process, either for voters or election officials. In the 2016 election, out of 2 million votes cast, they found something like 54 cases of voter fr
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by Frondo 7y ago
The parent poster was referring to election fraud, not voter fraud. They're different. Voter fraud is when someone casts a vote they should not have, e.g. because they moved or they've cast multiple votes. Election fraud is when e
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm confused. There are many taxes that only apply to a subset of people. Property taxes only apply to property owners, soda taxes only apply to people buying soda, gas taxes to people buying gas. Tax credits apply to certain people, t
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by Frondo 7y ago
I like the incentive that a maximum wage introduces: increase the pay of your staff and subcontractors hired by your company to raise your wage ceiling. I can't see a drawback, aside from someone at that ceiling simply wanting to rais
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by Frondo 7y ago
The game industry will do just fine with a union presence. It won't die. Solo game developers will feel no union pressure, nor will small teams. If there are triple-A studios that are so fragile that they'll go under with their em
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by Frondo 7y ago
There are corrupt unions everywhere, but the only thing more corrupt than unions is management.
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by Frondo 7y ago
What infuriates me about the GP post is: unionizing is literally one of the options they have. It's enshrined in law, has a long history, has been implemented to great benefit to scores of people worldwide -- why shouldn't that
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by Frondo 7y ago
Hey, are you a fossil dev? I haven't used nor looked at fossil in maybe 5 years, but had a couple of questions. Does fossil now have any kind of email support built in to the ticket manager? I remember when I tried to use fossil for ac
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by Frondo 7y ago
Because a lot of us have used tools besides git that enable the workflow we need without that complexity, and without the fragility that often necessitates going to stackoverflow or asking on a slack channel. I have a way of picking the los
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by Frondo 7y ago
And none of that would change under single payer (or, as someone else suggested, a German-style model). Absolutely no one anywhere is suggesting doctors and nurses should work for free. Single payer advocates are only suggesting that we cut
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by Frondo 7y ago
I do agree the Snoop Dogg lyrics case is a bad application of hate speech laws. One could, however, find cases of all laws being abused, from eminent domain to property crime laws, drug laws, libel, qualified immunity, you name it. That doe
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by Frondo 7y ago
Hate speech laws vary widely from country to country (from none to strict), but I thought the Wikipedia two-sentence summary sounded reasonable: "The laws of some countries describe hate speech as speech, gestures, conduct, writing, or
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by Frondo 7y ago
Rather amazingly, the $93 trillion dollar price tag seems to be a function of right-wing think tank groupthink. Some right-wing think tank came up with the number, and you can see it cited on mises.org, the Washington Examiner, Fox Business
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by Frondo 7y ago
Humoring your thought experiment: yes, I think society would accept the evidence. Lots and lots of people already dismiss the science, claim it's a hoax, or don't want to contend with the inconvenience climate change demands. But
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by Frondo 7y ago
Thank you. Yes. The "they said global cooling" myth needs to be retired. I did just a quick google search because it's 5am and I need to sleep soon, but this looks like a good history of the global cooling thing: http:/
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by Frondo 7y ago
Agreed. People with extreme viewpoints (in either direction, whether you want to abolish private property or create a white ethno-state) face a lot of social sanction -- and very often financial penalties -- from the vast majority of people
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by Frondo 7y ago
The impression I got from the Unitarians is that that's what they're trying to go for. I was never a "member" of a UU congregation but I got hauled to their services a couple of times and there was just a whiff of supern
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by Frondo 7y ago
So, this raises a question I've been wondering about. It seems like lifetime licenses, i.e. one-time payments for a lifetime of access to upgrades, it seems like there's been a number of cases where this backfires, either for the
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by Frondo 7y ago
One question, out of curiosity, is the chromatic button accordion at all popular in Latino music? I know they play a lot of button accordion (not counting the bandoneon, the popular free reed instrument in Argentinian tango), but from what
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by Frondo 7y ago
In the era of John Yoo and Dick Cheney, the Uzbeks felt like any US posturing on human rights was just that -- posturing. They were also resentful at the US treating their sovereignty as a new-millennium extension of the Great Game. As for
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by Frondo 7y ago
They were supposed to pay the Uzbeks for access to the base (an old Soviet base) for the Afghanistan war. In the mid-2000s, when it came time to pay the Uzbeks (about $500 million, if memory serves), the Americans decided the Uzbeks were te
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by Frondo 7y ago
I used to live in a city (Portland) with a pretty sizeable homeless population. Last time I went back there, I was astonished at how the homeless population has grown. Tent cities everywhere. It really is shocking. I want to remain compas

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