Frondo

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by Frondo 4y ago
It depends, of course, but yes, I have had noise complaints addressed by some kind of code enforcement officer (i.e. unarmed, but able to write citations.)
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by Frondo 4y ago
Why (and I realize this is one of those questions that sounds snide, but I do not mean it so) should a creator's kids gain from a piece of art or work of music after a creator's death? Editing to clarify: I fully accept that copyr
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by Frondo 4y ago
My one experience with Booking.com was a mixed bag. I paid for a room for a few nights in a city on the Black Sea, and when I got there (pretty late at night, after several hours of driving through the lovely and beautiful mountains), they
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by Frondo 4y ago
My take on smart people in the crypto space comes down to the Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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by Frondo 5y ago
The "essential services" are kind of the big thing in dispute -- you say "common defense, a legal system to enforce contracts" and that's a typical libertarian perspective, but certainly not the only set of essentia
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by Frondo 5y ago
Indeed, even in our beloved tech industry, the biggest employers have absolutely colluded to keep workers' wages down: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo... And still peopl
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by Frondo 5y ago
Since you're asserting that you don't believe the results of this research because it's "woo" -- can you explain what type of evidence, or what degree of impact, or how deep or impeccable the link must be establishe
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by Frondo 5y ago
America's poor can't travel (it costs! even if you bus it, you need time off work, a place to stay, etc), they can't have gourmet food delivered (it costs!), they can't fetch a driver (it costs!), they often can't
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by Frondo 5y ago
I'm in my late 40s now, and have been using computers for nearly 40 years (yeah, one of those kids.) Installed Linux on my 386 from floppies, and now in my day-to-day I write C# and maintain the linux servers where the .NET Core busine
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by Frondo 5y ago
Sure, it could be a fun thing to do (I'd have done a little treasure hunt for $50, too), but the professor's syllabus doesn't say it's $50 at all. "Free to the first who claims" -- claims what? free what? It is
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by Frondo 5y ago
It's not just that it's embedded in some of the university boilerplate that the students probably have on all their syllabuses, it's that it doesn't read like anything, certainly not a promise of a free $50. Is it a typo
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by Frondo 5y ago
Heh, and where was this interpretation when the Black Panthers were arming themselves in California? Even the NRA supported gun control back then. > In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organiz
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by Frondo 5y ago
Why is liability -- which can only kick in after some damage has been done, possibly displacing someone from their home -- a better solution than a process by which dying/dead trees can be compelled to be removed? This sounds like the
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by Frondo 5y ago
While true, this ignores how widespread wage theft is, especially among lower-paid workers. Here's one example of unpaid overtime wages, nearly a million dollars worth, being stolen from workers: > After receiving a wage complaint f
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by Frondo 5y ago
In the US, you are never forced to join a union. The Taft-Hartley act of 1947 banned so-called "closed shops" at the federal level. > The Taft–Hartley Act outlawed the closed shop in the United States in 1947. The union shop
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by Frondo 5y ago
Not saying I ever buy illegal drugs, but my venmo history is full of people buying $80 of pizza or $150 of sushi -- this seems to be seller's preference, as far as I can tell. No one in my rather wide extended circle has ever tried t
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by Frondo 5y ago
> allows your immune system to adapt and become more stronger This is precisely what vaccines do, without the "falling sick" part first.
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by Frondo 5y ago
There were never great fears of a new ice age in the 60s/70s. > This distinction can be made because a serious review of the literature shows that there was no such “scientific verity”. There are anecdotes that can be plucked from t
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by Frondo 5y ago
Literally has been used as a term of hyperbole since at least 1769. That one's hard for me to get too worked up about. :-) https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
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by Frondo 5y ago
If you have convinced people to change their minds by dint of your ideas, how is that a dictatorship? No one's sending people with guns into lobster boil festivals or grocery stores.
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by Frondo 5y ago
Parent said "don't cook them alive," not "don't cook them." It's not hard to kill a lobster before you drop it in the pot - slip a knife into its neck above its carapace. This was a test on one of those Go
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by Frondo 5y ago
Horse and beef really taste pretty different (I've had both, in a number of different preparations), but I suspect that mixing the two together would render the final result close enough to beef that the psychological effect of expecti
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by Frondo 5y ago
Just as an aside, "NASA, but for your climate" is the coolest idea for a government agency. Big climate moonshots, stuff to inspire people. I love it! I wish it could be so.
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by Frondo 5y ago
I would defer to no less than a luminary like Thomas Jefferson in my attitudes toward the would-be inheritors of all those million-dollar ranch-style SDUs, who said something along the lines of.. > I set out on this ground, which I suppo
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by Frondo 5y ago
Having been one of the "people" who lived in "affordable" housing, yes, I would have myself and people like me as neighbors. What a disgusting comment.
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by Frondo 5y ago
Not the original poster, but I don't want to spend my limited time on earth trying to minimize the money I'm leaving on the table -- thinking about credit cards, points, money systems and wheeling and dealing in order to eke out a
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by Frondo 5y ago
Could this be a hardware issue with your M1 Air? I've had one for about 8 months, run it pretty hard (memory pressure is usually in the yellow, lot of applications and server-like processes running for both web dev and media production
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by Frondo 5y ago
I've spent much of my money-making programming time doing CRUD web apps in PHP. Several years ago, when .NET Core was in its infancy, I had the chance to try a different language for a new/different CRUD web app. The .NET Core eco
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by Frondo 5y ago
Boy, if paying to keep people imprisoned upsets you, wait til you see how much we law abiding citizens have to pay when the state fucks up and locks up the wrong person. Philly just paid nearly $10 million to some guy they'd wrongfully
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by Frondo 5y ago
I would ask the opposite question -- why is that an important number to conceal? (Please no "it's none of your business" replies, that doesn't really answer the question and it's not an interesting direction to go.)

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