PostOnce

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by PostOnce 9y ago
Nothing says justice like private equity . Remember the cash for kids scandal?
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by PostOnce 9y ago
They didn't invent parole, they just want to profit from it.
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by PostOnce 9y ago
tl;dr: "We want to privatize parole so we can siphon some sweet government cheese and have near zero accountability". Where will the perverse incentives land this company in 10 years? Will we see them lobbying to keep xyz illegal
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by PostOnce 9y ago
"I am friends with a Nazi" != "I am a Nazi" I'm not sure what more to say, this seems axiomatic. If I'm friends with a vegan it doesn't mean I'm a vegan or support veganism. We don't all excommun
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by PostOnce 9y ago
they do it so employees don't quit beforehand, so that they can keep using them to make money until the last second, while not giving them any opportunity to find a new job so they don't miss rent the week after they're fired
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by PostOnce 9y ago
I think 3131s's theory is that the amount of pain from a needle is much less than say scraping your knee, hardly traumatic, and is guaranteed to work better, faster, and more reliably than a spoon. Why risk the spoon not working (and t
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by PostOnce 9y ago
It'd be nice if: 1] Google (or at least someone who can store the URL index from commoncrawl.org ) provided a "random page" function; maybe this exists, but I'm not aware of it. 2] We could get a random page of a random
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Can he not say "stupid" either because it's derogatory to stupid people? How about "bad", is that derogatory to bad people e.g. criminals? If it's not direct _at someone or some group_ and is not intended to be
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by PostOnce 9y ago
My credit union was charging me between $10-20 (cant remember) per day for a 30 cent overdraft ... for a month, and never contacted me or emailed or anything to let me know my account was being perpetually driven further into debt. Not too
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Irrelevant. If candy crush isn't selling VR headsets or expensive systems capable of playing VR games, it doesn't matter if 100% of women are playing it 24 hours a day. It's irrelevant. The only relevant thing is how do women
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Plenty of wildly successful mass market products from videogames to deodorant are marketed specifically to men, some always have been -- there are a few billion men after all. There's no reason women necessarily have to buy a product f
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by PostOnce 9y ago
What if Steam had to, by law, share your game library with other services? i.e., just like you can take your phone number to any other phone company, or how banks in europe have to share info, you were able to take your game library with yo
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Excellent service should be the default, and you only lose it by being an asshole; in other words, I'm not paying for the privilege of having to work extra hard just to get decent service. Literally the only thing you are paying for is
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by PostOnce 9y ago
I think it's mammalian, not just human. We've felt a loss that's hard to describe all throughout history. Just because it was common doesn't mean it hurt any less. Here's the description of a man losing his son, fro
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by PostOnce 9y ago
most Chinese people are too poor to leave. Masks I imagine would be outlawed as soon as they became a common method of subverting the state. that, and sesame credit, and the great firewall blocking whole wide avenues of thought, the abuses
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by PostOnce 9y ago
That's true, but limiting someone else's freedom to save yourself some money seems to me to be pretty evil. -- I guess what you said doesn't conflict with that idea.
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by PostOnce 9y ago
I can choose to leave my phone, or buy a wifi only device, or take the cell modem out. I can't choose not to be tracked by computers and cameras I don't own, generally. Therefore, the Chinese system is greatly more nefarious since
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Tax at some point is so burdensome as to be an effective ban. If a can of Coke is $250 then you're not really free to drink it. It's been done with cigarettes.
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by PostOnce 9y ago
A good argument, and a reasonable one, but we do have game, TV, and social media companies doing whatever they can to ensure a sedentary life of staring at screens, since the more you sit and stare (and develop mental and physical health pr
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by PostOnce 9y ago
The outcomes of going outside without a hat and sunscreen are a drain too; in Australia, skin cancer kills thousands of people per year and requires hundreds of thousands of people per year to be treated. Should going outside without a hat
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Everyone who just switched to a new thing, vegetarianism, p90x, atkins, paleo, crossfit, standing desk, node.js, whatever, will tell you it's the greatest thing ever. You "switched in 2017", it's 2017 now. It would be mo
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Tangential, but what other fascinating things can I do with an SDR dongle? I've had one for years and have not heard of this. * Listen to various radio stations * Track airplane positions * Receive weather images from a satellite what
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by PostOnce 9y ago
She also did over an hour on econtalk http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht...
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by PostOnce 9y ago
sounds like banner saga didn't need a ps vita port so much as it needed a vita re-implementation
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by PostOnce 9y ago
which game? An exclusive? Star Control II was on other platforms, but was great on 3DO, http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ is free now and a deep game. Like 2D Mass Effect I thought. (Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters) I also e
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by PostOnce 9y ago
It wasn't merely bad luck, nor was it the will of the people. Rather than the DNC machine working to find which candidate the Democratic party voters at large preferred, they actively worked against Sanders; it was a machine to elect C
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by PostOnce 9y ago
"our crimes in the new world" Considering an entire race / skin color "guilty" is dangerous thinking even if you consider the son guilty of the fathers sins, it doesn't take into account the enormous number of
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by PostOnce 9y ago
The article is mostly about global warming and contains a wealth of citations / references / relevant links. They provided their evidence as to why it's not a jump to link it to global warming -- where is your evidence that i
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by PostOnce 9y ago
We're going to get to a point where no one is willing to invest any time or money (as a consumer) into products sold by a startup, because they all vanish quickly and with short or no notice. I'm already at that point. It'd s
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by PostOnce 9y ago
aerospace (airliners, hardened electronics for space, etc) / robotics (all those problems with the fukushima robots, precision medical and industrial bots) / medical devices of all kinds Of course, you can work on whatever you wan

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