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by Riseed 11y ago
> What difference does it make that you drop a piece of paper into a box once every few years? The difference is that having choice of candidates can easily distract those voting from the larger picture. http://sadmoment.co
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by Riseed 11y ago
> You can't just ask some to pay for the road and the rest not to use it. I believe that's precisely how tolls work.
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by Riseed 11y ago
> You could just build a road and then ask people to pay for using it, much like you can build an iPhone and ask people to pay for one if they want it. Or much like toll existing roads/bridges [e.g. Golden Gate Bridge, Pennsylvani
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by Riseed 11y ago
There's also the possibility that those journalists had lunch with someone who convincingly claimed to be Frederick R. Ewig.
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by Riseed 11y ago
> It's dollars cheaper It's only dollars cheaper in the short term, and even then only if one takes a very narrow view of the issue(s). Helping people reintegrate into society can cut recidivism rates, as exemplified by Michiga
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by Riseed 11y ago
If you're innocent, by the time you get to pleading, the system has already proven to you that it doesn't work. Even assuming no misbehavior (e.g. planted evidence), the police found you guilty enough to investigate, a judge found
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by Riseed 11y ago
> It's not true that areas unsafe for swimming are not marked - they are; moreover, there's both infrastructure in place to increase safety (e.g. lifeguards) and a significant amount of effort put towards educating people abou
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by Riseed 11y ago
I am fully sighted, and occasionally use VoiceOver for accessibility testing. I found it a little difficult to use while learning because it wasn't how I was used to navigating, but after a few hours I was fine. When you first enable V
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by Riseed 11y ago
If you're using VoiceOver, you can also use keybindings to activate an AppleScript, by creating a VoiceOver commander[0]. "Open Mail" is a built-in commander, activated by pressing option-m. (Default is right option key, but
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by Riseed 11y ago
When my brain is functioning properly (according to third parties), this sounds like great advice, and I can even intend to head it next time I sink. However, once my brain was processing my every action as futile, I was often too depress
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by Riseed 11y ago
Why not a gallery of screenshots, with the individual screenshots being links to the example sites?
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by Riseed 11y ago
Perhaps we are lacking in specific laws about reopening such cases (I do not claim to know). However, I think the lack of specific laws (and/or the difficulty in creating them) is one reason there exists a general law about it: clemenc
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by Riseed 12y ago
The lack of understanding isn't necessarily a "misconception" -- it may just be incomplete knowledge of the entirety of the system. I think the question "How does a toilet work?" is much like the question "What
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by Riseed 12y ago
I actually used knowledge of their unpleasant side effects to help overcome my unhealthy diet. While I was still addicted to sugar and craving the taste of sweets, I switched to the "sugar free" sugar alcohol versions of treats. T
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by Riseed 12y ago
> Miners, who were paid based on how much coal they dug, were seen as expendable. If one died in a rock fall, another could easily replace him with no additional cost to the company. But if a mule died, the owner would have to buy anothe
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by Riseed 12y ago
I do not understand the sentiment that poor people shouldn't have cell phones. Please tell me, how does one get a job in the US without a phone? And when one's job means being called in on short notice, how does one keep said job
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by Riseed 12y ago
This should work: \*\*\*
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by Riseed 12y ago
I did this once, and was impressed with how intelligent, friendly, and helpful the collections agency was. Unfortunately, billing responded to the collections agency by yanking the debt back from that collections agency and referring it to
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by Riseed 12y ago
Similar things have happened with my cell a few times. Once, my sister called and left a "happy birthday" voice mail. She got a return call from a confused woman whose device showed a missed call from my sister, and who had receiv
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by Riseed 12y ago
I agree, but wanted to add: For many people, law enforcement doesn't even have to bother planting illegal material. They only have to twist the description of a target's behavior until it fits the requirements for violating a law
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by Riseed 12y ago
Yes, there are plenty of messages about "freedom" and "liberty", but that doesn't mean the concepts are truly in the minds of the posters. "Freedom" and "liberty" seem to be more like buzzwords u
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by Riseed 12y ago
I assumed the comparison was more directed to Asparagirl's "Yeah, I'm looking at you, Washington Post" example. Like this: Perhaps individual private websites, such as pekk's, should have the right to say "No,
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by Riseed 12y ago
I read the first paragraph, realized that the "SoundCloud Video Player" blocked by Ghostery was an essential part of the article, and reloaded the page. You make a good point--during that time, I suppose it's quite possible t
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by Riseed 12y ago
[SPOILER ALERT!] The first time through, I heard "[jibberish jibberish jibberish] is at the next stop." (Perhaps I've spent too much time on public transport.) What does that say about my brain? But yes, once I heard the whol
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by Riseed 12y ago
> I feel like people my age all ended up proficient at typing because of instant messenging (not just the "computer guys"). Same here. I drastically improved my typing speed thanks to internet chat rooms. My parents first got h
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What kind of work are you doing? (Asks Bruce Lee)(medium.com)
1 points by Riseed 12y ago|0 comments
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by Riseed 12y ago
About $500k-600k would mean I would not need to work for pay for the rest of my life. Doing whatever I please doesn't cost much money. If I'm only taking one year off, I'd want $20-50k so I could travel, but ~$12k would be
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NerdWallet Health Finds Medical Bills Are Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies(nerdwallet.com)
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by Riseed 12y ago
Perhaps I was reading too much into pmorici's comment. I understood it to say not only that "FreeMarket" would be a convenient name because it sounds like "free market", but also to say that such a place/site&#
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by Riseed 13y ago
Unfortunately, it's too late for OP, but I hear Undercover works well for recovering stolen Macs: http://orbicule.com/undercover/mac/

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