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by Frondo 8y ago
Hey that's great. You know what? With the wireless earbuds, I never have to think about that again. I can throw my phone in my pocket, any pocket, and leave it there while I get crammed into a metro car. So, I guess there are tradeo
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by Frondo 8y ago
This is a myth. Companies can seek to maximize whatever they do, whatever their bylaws say.
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by Frondo 8y ago
While I'm not the most careful person in the world, I'm also not the most incautious; I think it's probably not an uncommon experience for people who do regularly ride trains--e.g. those of us living in big cities where you c
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by Frondo 8y ago
I do like wireless, for a different kind of reliability: never ever having to worry that I'm going to snap off the plug in my phone, pull the jack off the circuit board from sitting on it wrong, whatever. When I sit down on the tra
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by Frondo 8y ago
Best anecdote I heard on the practice: a distant cousin of mine told me about the time he was driving down I-80 and saw them harvesting something off in a field, and there were two bins, one labeled "ORGANIC" and one labeled &quo
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by Frondo 8y ago
You don't need bitcoin to operate an escrow service.
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by Frondo 8y ago
If reputation were worth more than money, why is fraud still so prevalent after millennia of money-based transactions?
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by Frondo 8y ago
I'm still waiting for the hyperinflation Ron Paul and his adherents have been promising for....decades now. If the best they can do is point to Zimbabwe or one or two other developing nations, then I think the concerns about government
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by Frondo 8y ago
The Confederate Constitution also explicitly preserved slavery: > Article I Section 9(4) > No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed. And, unsurprisingly
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by Frondo 8y ago
Rebutting Donald's lie implicit in using the word "invasion" doesn't make what Jim Acosta asked a political opinion. It's not an invasion, and that's not a matter of politics, that's a statement of fact. A
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by Frondo 8y ago
Oregon has had mail-in ballots only for decades and voter fraud is as close to a non-issue as statistically possible, easily on par with in-person voter fraud -- which is also extremely rare. It also boosts turnout and saves money, and
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by Frondo 8y ago
I wonder if I'm the only person who thinks an interviewer should assess whether the person can do the job, and that an interviewer pushing someone to their limits seems like an inappropriate activity for the employer-employee assessmen
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by Frondo 8y ago
What's absolutely amazing to me is that one of the biggest complaints about unions you see is how pay is tied to seniority; the worker who's there the longest gets the most pay, not the one who "deserves" the most pay. A
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by Frondo 8y ago
Not outraged, not mad, not kicking and screaming, I think your attitude is damaged. "Completely and utterly stupid to fight for equality." "I'm glad people need to fight for a better job." Retrograde and sad, and a
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by Frondo 8y ago
We're all building a future together here, and "life isn't equal and never will be" is a dire, shitty attitude to take. You said I have fluffy unicorn ideology in another thread here, and I think that's bullshit, es
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by Frondo 8y ago
Businesses exist at our leisure -- not the other way around. As we build and refine our society, it's entirely up to us to determine how best we want to put businesses to work, to improve society. Anyone who wants the benefits of ownin
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by Frondo 8y ago
Surgeons can and do take a year off from their practice, and return to work. I would absolutely be patient #1 after some surgeon's sabbatical. I also find it deeply depressing that "a person should be able to take a year off work
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by Frondo 8y ago
I'm coming from the same place, except I don't think it's privilege, I think it's wanting to build a world where anyone can take a year off for anything and not have that held against them if they later want to go work
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by Frondo 8y ago
It's a problem if you care about any of the measurable real-world consequence of wealth inequality. It's also a problem if you view it as a symptom of a system that isn't functioning well at giving everyone a fair shake in li
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by Frondo 8y ago
"I wasn't racist until you made me racist by calling me a racist," says every trump supporter, and also it's total fiction.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Well, conservatives in the US have thrown in with a party that typically demonizes people of color, is actively working to disenfranchise them, and has a growing white nationalist element to it. Are there some conservatives who really just
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by Frondo 8y ago
"Let people choose their own words to describe themselves." How is that PC? How is that not common courtesy??
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by Frondo 8y ago
I meant that deferring to "it's bad grammar" or "we have other words to choose for them" is a rationalization. The real answer is, "we don't want to fully acknowledge their humanity, so we'll retain
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by Frondo 8y ago
Given how widespread and acknowledged ageism is, from such a wide variety of sources, I'm struggling to understand why anyone should listen to your belief. Everyone gets the story wrong, and your belief is the right one, based on...yo
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by Frondo 8y ago
One should be able to live and thrive in a society without staying "relevant". If relevance is the measure for "we give you enough resources to live and enjoy life" then it is not the right society.
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by Frondo 8y ago
What it comes down to, as with all things like this, is control; we'll acknowledge you non-binary folks, but we'll choose the language we use to describe you. letting them pic their own preferred pronoun is too uncomfortable, it
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by Frondo 8y ago
Just one nitpick: the anti-democratic nature of the Senate (and the Electoral college, while we're at it) is very much seen as a problem by a lot of people living outside the sparsely populated rural states; For those of us living in
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by Frondo 8y ago
Interestingly, andun is a new account and seems to be a holocaust denier, based on at least one of their other comments ("purported holocaust death camps"). Engage accordingly.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Being in the country without authorization is a civil infraction, not a criminal one, and people aren't sent to prison for civil infractions. You're also allowed to be here if you're seeking asylum. But, at the end of the day
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by Frondo 8y ago
You are free to hold that view, but nowhere did I see that anyone says their ideas are not valid because they're white. What I did see was that the claim that cryptocurrency is unlocking power and wealth to impoverished people doesn&#x

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