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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think it's yet another situation where everyone is escalating hard from "hey, there are some stereotypes in this particular media that are problematic when presented uncritically". That initial idea somehow turns into, &quo
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I'm incredibly curious which political group has a sense of humor in your mind. Because I'm going to guess most folks would say, "my political group".
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The elites, in this case, being the people who own the rights and publish the books? Are you suggesting that libraries should increase the space they devote work going out of print? Books stop being published all the time. And beyond that
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
No one is saying, "Stop all Seuss books from entering libraries". The publisher stopped printing a small subset of books. Oh the places you go will still have plenty of shelf space and be given to every graduating senior for qui
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What hyperbole. The publisher decided to stop publishing a book. Ebay decided to enforce their TOS that has been in place all over. It's hardly book burning. Edit: Also, you know there are Americans out there actually burning books lik
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You realize that libraries are not infinite in space or capacity, right? Every book in a library necessarily pushes out some other book that could have been in there but didn't make the cut. Given that, libraries shouldn't be re
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Like, you aren't allowed to use the neopronouns for yourself? Or is your work telling you that you should respect other people's pronouns?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Are all food items necessities? I don't know, maybe? Are ice cream, trans fats, soda, candy, filet mignon, alcohol, etc. not luxuries? I empathize with the position that any tax on a food item will disproportionally impact the poor.
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A lot of farmland is dedicated to growing feed for livestock, however. If you can grow corn on a section of land, you can probably grow other crops.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Red meat is a luxury item, isn't it? What the parent poster is suggesting is similar to a soda tax or cigarette tax.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
HN is not reddit. Comments should meaningfully add to the conversation. In this case your comment is just adding noise for people to scroll past.
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What quotes lead you to that conclusion? How much of the overall article is dedicated to them? His article felt quite objective in tone.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Do you think the average user, whose passwords are things like "password", used an email address that couldn't be tied to then to sign up? Because my guess is that a whole bunch of people do very much care that the stuff they
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Yes, they did fly a rocket up to 3km and land it. That's not nothing, but it's also a totally different accomplishment to Starship.
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RSUs and bonuses, but yes, for the past decade for me about half of my compensation has been stock grants.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
IMO, it's not useful to look solely at salaries. My salary and my compensation are radically different numbers. My salary is approximately $200k/year, but my compensation is closer to $650k this year. Most of the engineers I know
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Unsure why you are getting downvoted. You've provided the factual answer to the parent who was asking, "Didn't he say some bad stuff?"
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My allergies are seasonal and pet related, and they provide me some nuisance every year but aren't generally debilitating. That said, itchy eyes and a nasal drip are annoying and there's probably some amount I'd pay to just n
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I haven't written about mine, but I built one using an aquarium pump, a couple of food grade bus tubs (the kind wait staff use to clear restaurant tables), a couple LED panels, and some basic plastic cups. I grow basil, lettuce, bok ch
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> On Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I'm
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm considering a cabin deep in the mountains. What should I be aware of when it comes to limitations of Starlink? For a cabin that is likely to be off grid, where I'd like to have relatively stable, relatively usable internet, wh
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's not what this is. The former Prime Minister recently said that allowing women to talk in meetings made them last too long. The women invited to these meetings are allowed to have opinions about the discussion, just not share tho
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Were the losses worse? Yes, workout a doubt? People died. Pets died. Homes and water mains were destroyed. People have to boil their water. Having power wouldn't have prevented all that but it definitely would have prevented some.
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I suspect that it wasn't the mitigation was too challenging, just costly. Someone looked at the map and said, "Texas? You'll never need to be handling subzero temperatures over a long time period." I don't even nece
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Editorial board's audience is "my tribe", and I don't believe that "my tribe" ever really has much of a factual requirement. I know I unconsciously support the positions of my tribe more those of not my tribe.
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Do it incrementally: Ban parking minimums, so developers stop putting parking lots in their buildings. Tax lots based on their assessed land value and give them credits for providing housing units. Developers will build more units and less
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It's charming you think that we people to try and achieve a fair outcome. The incentives are way, way out of line for that. Tribalism rules the day, even in the face of more or less objective facts. Collectively bargaining to ensure yo
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Workers in the public sector are still workers, and can be mistreated by management. They can be underpaid, be forced into dangerous workplace conditions, etc.
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Public sector unions are fine. Police unions are a problem.
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Cauliflower and broccoli, at least, have leaves that are absolutely harvestable and produce quite a bit depending on their cultivar. Yes, they also produce a delicious flower, but the leaves and stems are also a foodstuff. Edit: In fact, br

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