Pfhreak

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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This question is asked in incredibly bad faith. No one anywhere has suggested storing waste (nuclear, coal ash, solar manufacturing, or any other kind of waste) in anyone's home. Or even their neighborhood.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Reactor's aren't boolean. If a reactor has no heat sink and attempts to shut down, there's still going to be a catastrophic amount of heat to disperse. That said, rapidly losing the UHS should be incredibly rare/difficul
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Square the software company that makes games? Or Square the software company that makes payment processing?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's a shame there are no more people putting up fun websites anywhere. /s
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Most health insurance comes with a % copayment. Paying 10-20% of the bill is not uncommon, and generally considered pretty good health insurance. Add to that a high deductible -- some families have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
In another thread, I was told that $19k was enough for an American, and that someone making $60k was just interested in making money. That if the median income wasn't enough, then we "have bigger problems as a country". And y
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
If you review the history of police in America, this is definitely incorrect. Police evolved out of night watches, slave patrols, and a variety of other loose organizations meant to guard capital. In the mid 1800s, the first patrolling poli
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Thanks. I'm not familiar. I know that Twitch, for instance, has a separate concepts for subscriber (pays money) and follower (wants updates on the person).
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
66k doesn't typically include all the costs of operating a business, safety from people with parasocial relationships, etc. which this person has to carry. But yes, I'd also argue that it is a much broader problem in the US.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Your numbers seem reasonable, but that 66k has to support N people, covering rent, food, childcare or tuition, all the equipment and clothing costs for the business, etc. Is it enough to save for retirement? To deal with a medical emergency
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's presumably a huge amount of work. There's the work of setting up the shoot and the performance itself, then the photo editing, managing and interacting with your community constantly, marketing, dealing with the finances&#x2F
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Does a 'fan' imply a subscriber? That could be the difference between a follower and a subscriber.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There's presumably quite a bit of work. Just like twitch or YouTube, to be successful is a huge amount of labor beyond what happens on the set.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
8k a month, but that is pre-tax, pre-healthcare, etc. Supporting a family and paying for health insurance for them is going to knock that number down real fast. Depending on where this person lives, yes that absolutely could be scraping by.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Retail jobs introduce a higher risk of catching corona, pay terribly (likely close to minimum wage, which isn't enough), are terrible banal working environments, require travel to and from each day, have schedules that might not work f
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
My hypotheses: Some people want to pay creators, support specific individuals, or feel like they have a connection to someone in particular. If this is what someone's discretionary budget is allocated to, more power to them.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Is that an enby (or rather, en-bee) I see in the trailer?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What if they are a well educated, critical scientist who loses their life to the untested vaccine? The world may be missing out on decades of their future work. If they have a family who has to mourn their passing? Not saying that makes it
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Queer, in particular, is a tough one. Obviously, smear the queer is an awful name for a game. And while queer has a century of being use pejoratively, it's also been adopted as a label by some lgbtq+ folks like myself (often as a way t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I've been really trying to cut out lame, crazy, and mad from my lexicon as of late. It's challenging to break those patterns you learn as a kid.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Thank you for this. I expect you'll get down voted or flagged, but my experience as a queer person on hn had absolutely been full of exactly what you describe.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Queer was used to denote (pejoratively) a gay person starting in the late 19th century, and increasingly was used that way into the fifties and sixties. The term was later reclaimed by the queer community in the 80s, 90s, and aughts. The te
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I haven't found it that bad, I started with most assists on, then figured out one thing at a time by googling or YouTube or watching a stream. Like, flaps, what are they? Oh, generate lift, used in takeoff and landing. Oh, the cabin is
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Is that what happened at the end of prohibition? (Genuine question, I'm not well informed in this area.)
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'd have thought algaculture might have made the list, but maybe it's not great for fuel production?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It sure is if you are talking about workers rights to unionize, specifically, and how you plan to undercut the existing union.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is the most grim thing I've read in a while. Get your free test, the price is only a pound of blood and an hour of your time. In Seattle, at least, you can just go get a free test in a drive thru with almost 0 hassle and no cost.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think there's a reasonable case for nationalizing Boeing to remove the profit motive. I'm not saying it's the only play, but Boeing is a strategic interest to the nation (both economically and strategically), it's alre
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
A few things have changed Boeing's culture, but none more so than the McDonnell Douglas merger in 1997. MD brought with it a culture that put safety second, emphasized defense contracts, and gutted programs in favor of profits. (IMO) T
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I was at Boeing when that plant opened up. I recall it specifically being talked about in hushed tones as a place where there would be no unions, and thus they could hire cheaper labor. Don't get me wrong, the Everett plant certainly h

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