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by abduhl 5y ago
This story underscores how toothless our environmental regulations are. Rather than protect people from these kinds of developments (which shouldn’t even be allowed to happen), all they do is provide a never ending cycle of lawsuits for NIM
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by abduhl 5y ago
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what the technology can do. There is a system that currently exists, and that system will protect itself through regulation. Cryptocurrencies will come within the fold or they will be
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by abduhl 5y ago
The efficiency gains of these systems are irrelevant. Governments of the world want monetary control, and they cast that desire in the form of laws like "know your customer" or "anti-money laundering." These laws are a
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by abduhl 5y ago
Sigh, you just don't get it do you? There are other people in the world. Not one more death. Ever. If I could save an elderly grandparent by letting you die or your kids go uneducated or the environment get destroyed by plastic was
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by abduhl 5y ago
High debt loads are relatively easier to carry as inflation spikes. Inflationary pressures on interest rates will only hurt companies who need to roll over their debt. Most companies will realize that going to the market by issuing new stoc
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by abduhl 5y ago
Yes, great post. These are all good substantive comments on the article which are far superior in quality to your first post which, at its core, was a post saying “this guy is antivax don’t trust him!” Try to post more like this without hav
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by abduhl 5y ago
Interesting that your first post was attacking the source as being antivax and casting doubt about the substance of the article because there was no independent verification but the second half of your second post was able to credibly comme
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by abduhl 5y ago
Yes, we should ignore it until we have trusted independent verification. It would be impossible for us to assess the credibility or accuracy without a third party that I trust and hopefully agree with.
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by abduhl 5y ago
Most peoples’ goal at work is to do their job, not run Linux as their host OS.
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by abduhl 5y ago
You're right of course, it's the lazy lower class that is causing the supply chain issues. If only the truck driver would make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM so that he can work 14 hours (because, as
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by abduhl 5y ago
We didn’t do it when it was just a union why should we do it for the citizens of LA? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/how-onl...
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by abduhl 5y ago
This comment flies in the face of actual history. While your point about Microsoft may be right (who knows with how they’ve ruined their messaging platforms?) it certainly doesn’t hold true for iMessage which came out in roughly the same ti
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by abduhl 5y ago
This is exactly right except the one modification I would make is that your seatbelts and airbags have a 50% chance of not working during a crash if it happens after 2 miles of driving with an unknown decreasing chance of working for every
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by abduhl 5y ago
You’re being downvoted for pointing out an internal inconsistency that exists in the response we’ve had to COVID19, but I agree with you. If hospitalizations matter then we should track that, yet we track cases and dictate public policy bas
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by abduhl 5y ago
Unused PTO must be paid out in many states and in states where it is not legally required it is generally still required if the business has historically done it. Beyond that, Southwest pilots are unionized. No sizable union would allow sep
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by abduhl 5y ago
All of this sounds like disruption to the status quo, which is a cornerstone of the hacker ethos. I didn’t realize that regulatory capture had occurred in the hacker space. Should google also censor any ads denying security vulnerabilities?
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by abduhl 5y ago
No, it would be like reading a post that says “anyone who doesn’t have antilock brakes can fuck off and rot at home” and my post would be one asking “is there a line where someone can not use ABS and still not fuck off and rot at home?” Wha
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by abduhl 5y ago
The sentence you quote is followed by a sentence which adequately addresses your comment. Here, I’ll paste it for you: “Alternatively, you’ve determined that the vaccine is effective enough.”
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by abduhl 5y ago
I had to double check when I read this post to make sure that you were the same person that posted: > Frankly, fuck people who refuse to get vaccinated - they can rot in their own home for all I care (not talking about people with legiti
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by abduhl 5y ago
Does the median family own their house? If not, then property taxes are not a relevant issue and if your argument is “median income tax gains are offset/overshadowed by median property tax losses” then you’re just wrong.
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by abduhl 5y ago
I'd just point out that this five drinks in three hours is one drink more than the rule of thumb often given out of two drinks in the first hour then one drink per hour afterwards. It's the rare 200 lb person that has 5 beers dur
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by abduhl 5y ago
That’s interesting. I just looked at this chart and would be incredibly comfortable driving after drinking the maximum number of drinks on the chart (5) which would place me at 0.15 minus say .04 (over 3 hours, minus 0.01 per 45 minutes) or
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by abduhl 5y ago
You’ve missed the point of my post: the right you proposed has arbitrary limits which don’t seem to be justifiable under any logical framework and defending the position is untenable. Why are these limits here? If an authoritarian regime pr
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by abduhl 5y ago
This argument makes sense in the normal course of drug development, but drugs which are financed by the federal government like here (to what extent the tens of millions the government gave amounts to the full cost of R&D I don’t know)
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by abduhl 5y ago
Take the right you just proposed. Why is it limited to a “who”? Why is it linked to sex or gender? Is this a singular love or is polygamy a human right? Does love need to be reciprocated? What’s the fundamental human right? Shouldn’t we be
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by abduhl 5y ago
Was in person schooling shut down before or after the delta variant? Imputing a risk to behaviors/decisions that occurred before the risk manifested is a logical error.
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by abduhl 5y ago
Securities are defined under 15 USC 77b(a)(1) (1) The term “security” means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any pr
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by abduhl 5y ago
I understand the definitional argument that is being made, but it still makes no sense. This was the statement: “ Apple is an unregulated privately-owned quasi-government entity with none of the responsibilities or checks on authority that
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by abduhl 5y ago
Somehow acting like Not-X makes you X? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is organized under state laws explicitly as a duck, and sits on top of the water like a duck, it’s an eagle?
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by abduhl 5y ago
>> Apple is acting like a Government, Apple is ruling like a Government, but Apple has none of the oversight or accountability we'd demand from any reasonable Government. You just listed how Apple is not acting like a government:

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