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by _jal 4y ago
Of course it is a solution. I end up with a car that doesn't have a touch screen.
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by _jal 4y ago
> we, the consumers, will continue to buy them. Who's this "we"? I'm in the pre-buy stage, it looks like my record of non-car-ownership will end at 23 years. (My last car was stolen from a SOMA lot in 1999.) It does l
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by _jal 4y ago
That's Ohio. But Youngstown (close to the Pennsylvania border) had a record high 79 days ago.
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by _jal 4y ago
This is the worst sort of hn pedantry, but I have to agree. The security premium paid by cartels down through street dealers is indeed real, but QC and regulatory compliance would eat a lot of that savings. And the executive tax at cartels
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by _jal 4y ago
Do you know of a good source of info? > recent data has shown an uptick of lifetime drug use and an increasing trend of drug deaths Depends on the numbers, of course. But I think that is what folks realistically should have expected. Mos
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by _jal 4y ago
Free as in freedom, not beer, as they say. But Sovereign Citizens are rugged individualists who don't need no handout, eh? > You also can't renounce without obtaining another citizenship That is false for US citizens. See: htt
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by _jal 4y ago
> Going straight from subsidized rental housing to home ownership doesn’t make sense Nice bald assertion. It doesn't make sense to trap people in dependency, but I take it you're more comfortable with these programs failing in
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by _jal 4y ago
What's this business with "should"? A big reason why we have these perverse rules in the first place is that people are absurdly concerned with controlling people who accept (certain types of) public money. If someone can fin
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by _jal 4y ago
> where they argue they never consented to be governed They also never consented to birth. They are free to renounce their citizenship, however. Nobody is forcing them to stay US citizens. > Maybe we can experiment with better society
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by _jal 4y ago
True. And in fact, extortion already is illegal. But if you want to actually address the problem, you do need to decriminalize prostitution.
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by _jal 4y ago
I suspect you have an unrealistic view of the country. Even very poor countries with hereditary dictators are very large places.
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by _jal 4y ago
Sounds like your Compute-By-Ebay solution should be able to undercut all those other idiots who buy new. Where can we sign up?
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by _jal 4y ago
> Male Patriarchs in Sub-Saharan Africa who father 6 children When international policy preferences (especially ones that will result in mass death) are justified with highly specific examples that appear to be described with careful wor
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by _jal 4y ago
Managing, securing and auditing them. The cost of those activities easily exceeds the purchase price over a 3 year lifetime. There are also sometimes nontechnical business considerations that matter enough that you make tradeoffs around th
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by _jal 4y ago
> I’ve tried explaining it to IT managers to no avail. I've had this experience myself. I usually find that I was overlooking important inputs to, constraints on or goals behind the decision. > Buy 100 now at full price and 50 se
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by _jal 4y ago
I have problems being associated with the rest of humanity, considering all the awful shit they get up to. I don't see a reason to call out tech as being worse than other industries I could name. It is uniquely awful in a number of way
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by _jal 4y ago
"Io, corner pocket."
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by _jal 4y ago
> Personally I think that's enough to justify a small market cap and a volatile price Perhaps for some currency, but why that one? There's no realistic function for an infinite number of them; there probably isn't a re
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by _jal 4y ago
That seems to be the norm with a lot of, um, creative criminal forensics. Bite mark identification was used forever until blown up by particularly shameless grifting, and has never been shown to work as practiced. [1] Tennessee still uses d
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by _jal 4y ago
He's obviously a finance guy.
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by _jal 4y ago
Am I the only one who sees "learning" features for things like this as nothing more than overcomplicated ways to engineer in unexpected, unwanted behavior? My heating/cooling desires are straightforward: unless I'm gone,
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by _jal 4y ago
A lot of authoritarian types are insecure jerks reacting to perceived slights. Seems to be a relatively common, if unfortunate, pattern. The important part is making sure they don't get power over others.
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by _jal 4y ago
A lot of people think "profit motive" when something they think should work doesn't. This is especially true with Apple. (I mean at a distant-enough remove, sure, everything any company does is for profit. But seeing a locked
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by _jal 4y ago
The point was to attempt to correct an apparent misunderstanding. What's the point of your weirdly aggressive hostility?
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by _jal 4y ago
You seem to be confusing descriptive for normative. They're stating a fact, not asserting the fact justifies some behavior.
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by _jal 4y ago
I wonder if it helps them detect when I leave and go search for something that works.
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by _jal 4y ago
I don't say this to pile on, but I've spent years telling head hunters from FB (among others) that my ethics are not for sale. I've made less money and operated at smaller scales as a result. Everyone makes their own choices.
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by _jal 4y ago
I can tell you that at least as of late last year, the OpenShift install docs omitted key details for setting it up. We were unable to do so until contacting RH and getting additional instructions - I forget the all the details, part of it
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by _jal 4y ago
Google can have my phone number when they give me Sundar's.
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by _jal 4y ago
The tailor who made my last two suits from will do it. I have not had reason to ask about pricing (yet). They aren't cheap and I really like their work, but I don't think they're the sort of place that people travel to buy fr

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