Frondo

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by Frondo 7y ago
Letters to Penthouse, NRA Edition
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by Frondo 7y ago
What that could lead to is a build-up of social network information brokering services, like how PCI compliance forced people to stop storing CC numbers on their own. I'm okay with that. I worked on so many small e-commerce sites early
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by Frondo 7y ago
They're talking about Something Awful, which is widely regarded as having very successfully run its forums with a lot of fun, trollish behavior without losing the overall good vibe of the community, by doing exactly what he said.
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The Arctic will be ice free by 2026(twitter.com)
4 points by Frondo 7y ago|1 comments
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by Frondo 7y ago
I feel like someone else can do a better job with a comprehensive list, but I can give an anecdote from my experience. A few years ago I sat in on a tribal economic development forum in one of the western states. Not a tribal member, just a
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by Frondo 7y ago
The bird sanctuary takeover was Cliven Bundy's son and several of his friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...
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by Frondo 7y ago
I last used KDE about a year ago, so I'm not sure if this is still a problem, but even KDE doesn't let you slow down mouse cursor speed, only make it faster. Is that still the case? They didn't even have a slider for controll
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by Frondo 7y ago
Are the societal effects of a flat tax worth the simplicity? If you optimize for simplicity, but at some greater cost to having a society that functions for all its citizens and residents, is it worth focusing on simplicity?
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by Frondo 7y ago
I think a lot of people also don't make a distinction between punitive and rehabilitative justice. Do I want to punish people? No, the threat of punishment seldom deters people (there's even that saying, it's better to ask fo
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by Frondo 7y ago
At the state level, like North Carolina is doing now. A federal ruling would've been nice, but if it must happen in statehouses, then that is where voting rights activists must concentrate their efforts.
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by Frondo 7y ago
At least one state (Vermont) does allow people behind bars. For the rest of them, prison populations are another form of concentrating and diluting power: prisoners are counted toward district population, but have no voting power. I'm
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by Frondo 7y ago
It is entirely possible a blind person would buy a painting or a piece of artistic jewelry as a gift for a friend or family member; they may even buy one, sight unseen, to decorate their apartment or body for the enjoyment of their sighted
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by Frondo 7y ago
This could be addressed by having more labor-conscious journalists and headline writers. Framing it that way, of course people would respond negatively to price increases. "Amazon workers now paid for all the time they're clocked
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by Frondo 7y ago
The only reason I can think of is that Keychain only works with safari. Sometimes I prefer doing dev work in chrome, and then accessing the passwords in Keychain is kind of a pain. If there's a cross-browser way to access Keychain, I w
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by Frondo 7y ago
It sounds like he was trying to stop that company from doing business with South Africa during Apartheid, which is a morally praiseworthy stance.
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by Frondo 7y ago
His point is that if people grow up in a country with a strong safety net (and enjoy the benefits of that upbringing), then move away to start businesses or earn money away from that country to avoid paying into the cost of that safety net,
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't know if I've just lucked out with my Uniqlo purchases, but I could also recommend them for good-looking basics that last a long, long time. I've had a couple pairs of Uniqlo jeans for several years now, and they don&#
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by Frondo 7y ago
Libertarians don't oppose the state, they just want its function constrained far, far below what any modern government offers; contract law and intellectual property often fall under roles libertarians consider suitable for government.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Yes. Next question.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: stallman isn't a pedant. he just uses the tool of pedantry to evade, play defense, or dodge critique; his goal doesn't seem to be clarity, but moving the goalposts when some
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by Frondo 7y ago
Not fireable, for a rank-and-file worker in an organization? Sure, I can see that. Not fireable, for the public role of leader of an organization? They're held to higher standards of conduct, whether we like it or not; holding forth in
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't believe every highly-esteemed man (whether a professor or someone with another well-regarded position) is asking undergrads out. I believe most of the men in positions of some power and acclaim at MIT aren't asking undergr
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by Frondo 7y ago
If people's personal stories and experiences aren't "evidence," then indeed you should just look at his written words, which include such gems as taking a charitable stance toward pedophilia (recanted very recently, afte
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by Frondo 7y ago
Heh, I think you just uncovered a bit of hidden psychology I hadn't realized before. The part about "people put up with his childish insistence on doing things exactly his way" probably comes off as aspirational for a ton of
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by Frondo 7y ago
Not the OP, but I've ketoed for months at a time in the past, also for weight loss, and I can describe the lack of cravings like this: when I get hungry on keto, it doesn't demand my attention. It's something I know I can ta
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by Frondo 7y ago
I haven't heard this before, that it doesn't actually happen. Are those ketosis test strips you pee on not accurate? I've ketoed before for weight loss (and am starting again soon) and when I was quite strict with it I'd
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by Frondo 7y ago
There are some procedures where shopping around is conceivably an option. Once you're in desperate need (say, when it's bad enough that you're calling an ambulance), or unconscious, it's not realistic to suggest price-sh
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Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize(vice.com)
158 points by Frondo 7y ago|56 comments
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by Frondo 7y ago
The complaints about stallman aren't a matter of thoughtcrime, they're a matter of entirely inappropriate behavior, not just once but repeatedly, over the course of decades. This was the one that disturbed me the most: "Going
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by Frondo 7y ago
There are long waiting times to access American health care too, anyway, even with insurance. I feel like the people who make those sorts of claims must never do more than use the ER or walk-in clinics.

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