Frondo

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811.
by Frondo 9y ago
If no one can predict what will happen 10, 20, 30+ years in to the future, why is it okay when we're subjecting individuals' retirements to that same inability to predict the future?
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by Frondo 9y ago
Taxing the rich is fine, we just need politicians to show a bit of spine and do it. Most rich folks aren't going to pick up and move because they make their money tied to the place they are now. There's a handful of high-profile
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by Frondo 9y ago
Look man, you don't need to care. That's the nice thing about politics, you don't need to care about anything. Lots of us do, because the fact that the three richest people in America own as much as the poorest half combined
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by Frondo 9y ago
You blame women and immigrants, but a much more likely explanation is the decline of union participation in the private American workforce. They've been on the decline since the 1970s, and the more they've declined, the more that
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by Frondo 9y ago
Heh heh, struck a nerve with some CCW holders ;)
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by Frondo 9y ago
I have never seen a secular description of a fetus as "a life," though that is popular among certain religions these days. Abortion is a safe, legal medical procedure, and does not involve killing or children.
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by Frondo 9y ago
If some gun owner's response to a private corporation changing their rules for a free service they offer is to start shooting people, that's a really strong case for much tighter gun control. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Frondo 9y ago
Oh, man. Having known a bunch of CCW holders who also carry their guns with them at all times, I would be far more scared of those guys in this situation, full stop. They talk tough, but I have zero confidence in their ability to add the
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by Frondo 9y ago
As a proponent of a universal basic income, I would agree that yes, you should also be paid for sleep.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Twice that we know of, twice that people have come forward for. If the other situations involving abusive men of the last year or so are any guide, there are others who haven't come forward, for whatever reason.
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by Frondo 9y ago
This is a good read: hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100
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by Frondo 9y ago
You're free not to care about inequality, so go for it. I haven't seen any convincing evidence-based argument that a high degree of inequality is either neutral or good for society as a whole, nor do I have any philosophical leani
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by Frondo 9y ago
That doesn't really happen. Certainly it is a scare tactic that the rich have successfully employed to fool people with, but rich folks tend to stay put even more than poor people. Here's one article of many, many you can find:
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by Frondo 9y ago
You're saying that when I was a kid, some 30 or 40 years ago, public sector employees were paid better than private sector employees?
825.
by Frondo 9y ago
Raise taxes on the rich. Raise taxes on the big businesses in Illinois--or, if they're anything like Oregon and Washington, stop giving them so many tax breaks. That's one solution.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Back when I was a kid, public sector jobs were known to pay less than private sector jobs, but offer stability and a pension. They're also one of the few sectors of our working economy readily represented by unions. My take on this is
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by Frondo 9y ago
Undeserved? All parties agreed to a contract. They "deserved" it because that's what the contract said. It's crummy that the state made promises it's now reneging on, but that in no way makes any sort of pension of
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by Frondo 9y ago
No one's talking about hating the rich here but you. We can all care about societal inequality, and how it probably suggests that the levers of civilization need to be jiggered a bit, without hating anyone. I think housing in the PNW i
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by Frondo 9y ago
Of course it can. Someone might want to have sex with you, and consent, and then they might want you to stop, and remove consent for you to continue. Continuing sex with someone after they tell you to stop, no matter what they said before,
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by Frondo 9y ago
This is certainly the position of the NRA, but it is not a position that has been leading to good results for society here, up to now.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Well, people who get caught driving drunk a few times can have their license taken away or a blood alcohol interlock put on their car. What if gun owners who didn't keep their guns locked in gun safes had their bullets replaced with ru
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by Frondo 9y ago
Emotion is as much a part of the human decision-making process as logic, and it's sociopathic to act as though logic is the only part that matters. My favorite for-example: one of those old great libertarian thinkers applied libertari
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by Frondo 9y ago
It isn't clear who you're threatening to shoot. All you've said is "There is an organized group of citizens ready to carry out extrajudicial killings if gun laws change." To the rest of us, that sounds like the vio
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by Frondo 9y ago
Yes, absolutely, let's ostracize people who react to this situation (a machine killing some random person in a fatal beta test) with anything other than compassion and humility. Those are not people I want in my engineering community;
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by Frondo 9y ago
If I, an investor, give you money because you tell me you have automated technology, but really it's people in a room, that's a lie and there is absolutely something wrong with it!! If you can make the automated technology before
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by Frondo 9y ago
"Self-interested value creation has generated the vast majority of great achievements in the world." The hell it has. Polio vaccine? Symphonies? Cathedrals? The Sistine Chapel? Representative democracy? The works of the grea
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by Frondo 9y ago
Yeah, it is an argument you've lost, because it's a bad argument. Even places like dreamhost give you a letsencrypt cert for free on any domain. There is no case to be made for not securing your site, on principle or based on what
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by Frondo 9y ago
Yep, exactly so. I exactly want your tax dollars to subsidize behaviors you don't approve of. (Not relevant, but mine sure do, in the form of subsidies, funding the military, paying for the militarization of police, etc.) I want all
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by Frondo 9y ago
I feel like I'm being trolled, but the answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes, because I, a progressive, don't give a shit what people do with their lives. I, a progressive, value personal freedom and want society to support that. What
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by Frondo 9y ago
The best souped-up beater I've ever seen is the White Zombie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apoeGMWF17c (And he's in Oregon! go Oregon! haha) Acceleration to 60mph in 1.8 seconds. 1250 ft lbs of torque. This

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