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by awillen 5y ago
I would think that some people accept the discount and wait until they're out of the time period during which they can request a refund before realizing the product won't ship.
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by awillen 5y ago
Only if you tell Amazon it's for certain support-related reasons. If you contact a customer for any reason that Amazon doesn't approve, you can have your account suspended.
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by awillen 5y ago
No, you're confusing correlation and causation. MDMA users have been known to commit terribly violent crimes. Besides, alcohol users have also been known to commit terribly violent crimes (and unlike MDMA, which is near impossible to s
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by awillen 5y ago
The point is it's clearly less dangerous than alcohol, so it should be legal or alcohol should be illegal.
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by awillen 5y ago
At the very minimum we should immediately legalize anything that's clearly less dangerous than alcohol (which is a lot of stuff given that alcohol is very dangerous/destructive). Marijuana, most hallucinogens, etc. Anyone who is a
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by awillen 5y ago
That's because it's not an argument about which interpretation is preferable. The parent comment said it is not the secretary's job to rewrite the law (which implies that the secretary is not making law), and my argument is t
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by awillen 5y ago
This actually reminds me of https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681877909/sailboat-from-u-s-t... I think that in situations like that, you ought to cover the cost of a potential rescue up front, either by pay
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by awillen 6y ago
Because our tax dollars pay for Medicare/Medicaid, so for those people who don't have private insurance, they're saddling society with the costs of their choices. In general I lean libertarian and agree that banning things is
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by awillen 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. If it were up to me, we'd get rid of the minimum wage, let employers pay whatever they want, and then provide UBI to make sure people have their basic needs fulfilled. We came up with this agreement as a socie
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by awillen 6y ago
I am also not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the system is not clear in the way that you are describing it. As to "Anyway, Congress delegates authority to executive agencies so that it can focus on other things and not have to
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by awillen 6y ago
You're putting a lot of weight on the word basically in your first sentence - the reality is that gig workers have characteristics that clearly fall under the classification of employees and others that clearly fall under the classific
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by awillen 6y ago
I don't understand why we can't just all agree that some people are more productive at home and others are not. It depends on personality, type of role and type of business. We're literally talking about hundreds of millions
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by awillen 6y ago
GMO crops allow us to grow more food with less space/nutrients/etc. They are a solution, not a problem, and when people fear monger about them it hurts everyone.
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by awillen 6y ago
It's not a useful warning, though - what would someone do with that? It's like saying "driving in a car is dangerous, and many people art hurt every year doing so." Okay, so what? Are you saying everyone should stop driv
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by awillen 6y ago
Wow, this is a really mean attack on people who can sell themselves... I think I can do so reasonably well, and I wouldn't say it has anything to do with what you're describing here. I don't have dignity or pride? That doesn&
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by awillen 6y ago
This is the one I always go with in terms of things my kids won't do, but I'm a couple of years away from having them, so I'm pretty confident. You'll probably be pretty close in any case... a decade is a lot of time.
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by awillen 6y ago
This feels like it ends with a supervillain plotting to kill everyone on Earth in order to save the planet.
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by awillen 6y ago
Really well written and so true... I think that far too often, people get intimidated by the size/scope/hairiness of a problem and try to reduce their intimidation by breaking it down. Particularly if it's a one-off problem,
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by awillen 6y ago
Like a $15 minimum wage? The one Amazon is paying?
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by awillen 6y ago
I think at this point we need to stop talking about free speech and start talking about "free speech that is not clearly false and does not harrass or attempt to incite violence." We've never had unfettered right to free spee
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by awillen 6y ago
So one might call them... ubiquitous? I'm so sorry. I'll go now.
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by awillen 6y ago
This kind of thing always reminds me of a rule I was taught in sixth grade English - you may never start a sentence with the word and. This is, of course, totally incorrect both from the usage and grammatical perspectives. Nonetheless, most
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by awillen 6y ago
Glad someone else said it... nothing like a bunch of software engineers assuming they're more qualified at major maritime salvage than actual experts.
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by awillen 6y ago
They've engaged some of the most qualified folks with regard to major ship salvage and are working on it. In the mean time, they're trying to do what they can with what's available. It's exceedingly obvious given the sca
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by awillen 6y ago
Sure, it's definitely doable without a ton of density. The problem is neighborhoods like the one I currently live in (suburbs of San Diego), where everyone has signs up in their yards declaring their total opposition to changing the zo
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by awillen 6y ago
I think it is normal in big cities - the problem is people want this in suburbs as well, which often lack the density to support the idea.
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by awillen 6y ago
The challenge is density - it's much easier to do this if you have more people in a relatively small area. More attractive for businesses, more people to share the costs of parks and other public facilities, etc. But then the type of p
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by awillen 6y ago
The biggest challenge comes with the fact that you're often dealing with rescue dogs that are so wildly different from one another that you'd need a huge population and extremely consistent methods to show a meaningful result. It&
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by awillen 6y ago
As the old saying goes, if you put ten dog trainers in a room, the only thing they'll agree on is that nine of them have no idea what they're doing.
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by awillen 6y ago
I love Grice's Maxims because they're something virtually all speakers intuitively understand and follow whether they've heard of them or not. Where they're really useful, though, is in identifying when people are being

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