Frondo

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by Frondo 5y ago
I don't mean this to be snarky, but this sounds like someone who has no family, no kids, never been in a serious relationship. Once you're committed to one or more other people, you're pretty much putting their interests ahea
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by Frondo 5y ago
In a 2016 audit by the then-Republican Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, 54 potential cases of voter fraud were found, out of more than 2 million votes cast. > Richardson said the suspicious ballots broke down into several categories
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by Frondo 5y ago
This is also why, until the Roberts court gutted the VRA, the courts looked at outcomes of policies and not just intent -- anyone can say the intent was to stop fraud, but if the outcomes are suppression, that used to matter . No more, a
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by Frondo 5y ago
I would have said that public universities in the US are accountable to their boards of regents far moreso than the sinister "bureaucrats in the federal government." I didn't think much about this until the recent news that t
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by Frondo 5y ago
The very article you cited disagrees! You said they have "an obligation to maximize shareholder profits" while the linked article says they have to "operate in the interests of the shareholders." Those are two very diffe
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by Frondo 5y ago
This model is not good for society as a whole.
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by Frondo 5y ago
"Fair" is whatever they can negotiate. Who are you or I to say what's "fair" for someone else haggling over prices?
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by Frondo 5y ago
Good. I applaud all workers who successfully negotiate for as high a salary as possible. After all, I'm not in the room with them when they negotiate their pay, just like they're not in the room with me when it's my turn --
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by Frondo 5y ago
Not the OP but guessing the difference is that he wasn't driving a loaded tractor trailer at freeway speeds to get home from work.
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by Frondo 5y ago
> clearly it has an agenda. So does suggesting that a poor person could join the moneyed elite by foregoing their $13.99/mo Netflix to purchase assets -- if that isn't an agenda, I don't know what is. Why, by saving that $
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by Frondo 5y ago
No one is getting rich by diverting that $13.99/mo Netflix subscription -- that's $168 a year -- into asset purchases. As a nearby comment said better than I could (thanks whakim! for https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by Frondo 5y ago
Nearly everyone in the US lives in a state with a sales tax (only five do not have a state-level sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.) And, of course, nearly everyone buys something regularly, whether food or clo
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by Frondo 5y ago
It is without vitriol that I can note that Colin Powell had a long and respected career that started with covering up a US military massacre of civilians and ended acting as the mouthpiece for an unjust war in which many more civilians died
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by Frondo 5y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th... -- "Pinkertons and militia at Homestead, 1892 - One of the first union busting agencies was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which came
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by Frondo 5y ago
The top performer is not necessarily (and, in my experience, is seldom) the best negotiator.
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by Frondo 5y ago
There is a financial incentive, maybe not for the manufacturer but certainly for the people involved in schemes like these: https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/covid-telehealth-hydroxy...
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by Frondo 5y ago
Not trying to nitpick, and not arguing with the sense of sadness you feel -- I sympathize -- but I wouldn't call "passively keeping in touch" with thousands of people "relationships." It's something, but I&#x27
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by Frondo 5y ago
I was never aware that the purpose of anti-trust legislation was to hurt people (e.g. Rockefeller) or prevent them from making money. I thought it was to promote competition, which it apparently did.
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by Frondo 5y ago
It's worth remembering that the slippery slope is maybe best known in the context of the slippery slope fallacy , i.e. you probably aren't gonna get there (iron-clad rule by technocrats) from here (Twitter not allowing likes&#x2F
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by Frondo 5y ago
Well, a few days ago we had this article on HN... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682582 (Tesla suing people for defamation over social media posts)
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by Frondo 5y ago
On a basic level, you don't know what someone's material circumstance is when they A) decided to have kids vs B) any future time when they might need childcare. Life situations change and it's very much in society's best
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by Frondo 5y ago
> Like it does hearing people from the US on HN talking about guns. It just sounds crazy. I read on HN someone from the US saying Australians wouldn't be under lockdown if only we had guns etc. It just sounds insane, disturbing even
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by Frondo 5y ago
In Southern Oregon, people with cancer or who are at risk of heart attack or stroke are being made to wait for care, because the hospitals are filled with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronaviru
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by Frondo 5y ago
You know the phrase, "you can't take it with you"? Turns out that's literally true -- when you're dead, there is literally no use for possessions anymore. We all end up in the cold, cold ground with exactly the same
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by Frondo 5y ago
I've been in some really, really poor parts of the world, and nearly everyone's home I ever visited, they had a tv set. What they didn't have was round-the-clock electricity (sometimes it was scheduled, sometimes it was just
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by Frondo 5y ago
What language is that? The only abbreviation I've ever seen is USD (the three non-romance languages I speak a little of use a variation on "dollar" which, by context, is always clearly USD.)
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by Frondo 5y ago
Speaking as someone who just upgraded from an early 2014 MBA 11" to a Air with the M1 chip, while the old machine always felt adequate to my uses, having used the M1 for a while now, I could never ever go back. Programs start much fa
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by Frondo 5y ago
Correct, because you live in a society and the society imposes some obligations and constraints on you, as all societies have done since the dawn of humanity.
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by Frondo 5y ago
I cannot tell you how much "the labor unions are using environmental groups as muscle to shut down the good work the energy industry is doing" sounds like propaganda.
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by Frondo 5y ago
I have noticed, more and more, energy concerns (like NS Energy seems to be) attempting to discredit environmental groups with this exact accusation: "We, the energy industry, came up with a Green Solution but environmental groups stopp

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