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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> voting for a bad person because you like their policies. These days, you're lucky if you get to pick from "Bad", "Very Bad", and "Worst". (BTW, does Mr. Bad look like he'll competently implement
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Not sure how your comment relates to my prior comments. I did not argue for wage increases. And "increase productivity" does nothing to address ever-higher costs of living which arise from https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Would the same be true for many burrowing insects, and other arthropods?
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
True. But for 99% of Americans, "affordability crisis" is the ratio between the wages they receive and the prices they have to pay. So if you could (say) roll back rents to pre-RealPage levels - from the PoV of the ~25M rent-burde
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
It's quick, catchy, and convenient to call out a few corp's which pay their workers squat while the bosses rake it in. BUT - what about the ever-inflating costs of basic daily living - housing, food, medical care, transportation,
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Using "secret" in that sense instantly reminds me of hyped-up headlines for time-waster news stories. Most people don't know what 2^8 is, either.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Portrait or landscape - if your use is dominated by looking at the screen and/or situations where it can't set it down (to use the KB), then the iPad is better. Assuming the software you need supports iPad, etc.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Maybe I'm oblivious to recent trends in this space - but might there be some applicable laws, if the authors cared to hire lawyers?
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> “There is disagreement between NASA and SpaceX on whether the provider’s current proposed approach for landing meets the intent of the Agency’s manual control requirement,” [...] > The report notes that during every one of the Apoll
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
"Hoare House" would trigger millions of idiots, from rude little children to pontifying alpha ideologues. In perpetuity. The University was correct in saying "nope" to the endless distractions, misery, and overhead of h
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Theory: If you want to fire up a bunch of hotheads to "go forth and conquer", then a superficially monotheistic religion is a hot meme. (Actually having a Trinity, 13 different orders of angels, thousands of saints, hosts of demo
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> ... some random person with an extra phone line ... True. I was thinking of Ashton-Tate's IT operating an "official" BBS system. OTOH, A-T might have gotten an extremely good deal from CompuServ, due to the cred they&#x
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
"BSD is dying" has been a popular (at least with kids and trolls and Linux fans) jeer for the past three-ish decades. The reality of it is kinda like "Buffalo Bills will win the Superbowl this year".
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> ... celebrating Iceland's decision to not ... Okay, but you're celebrating make-believe virtues. Iceland is also not destroying its tropical coral reefs. That sounds nice...but it has none. Nor any sort of tradition or inc
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> No downloads in those days. For the 1% with the required hardware, was there a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system ?
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Before getting too excited - note that it's just a County Court Judge. So the ruling only applies in one of Florida's 67 counties.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Iceland's situation - tiny population, geothermal paradise - may be difficult for 99% of the world's countries to replicate.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
There are lots of "how to" web sites for Community Organizing. I'd just skim through a few of those - assuming your unfamiliar - then try to find real, involved local people who are already involved: - If you have a good loc
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
That's a nice daydream - but v1.0 gave them exclusive rights to update the ToS or pick arbiters. Along with lots of other "heads we win, tails you lose" stuff. :(
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> ... if I were on the jury. ... Too bad that v1.0 of the ToS their victims "sign" forced all disputes into their lap-dog arbitration system.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
If you have any interest in local activism - stores are subject to local gov't. And transit systems are part of it. It might be relatively easy to assemble a local coalition, and get the local gov't to ban "de-humanizing&
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
For those unfamiliar - the U.S. gov't has a centuries-long history of callous disregard for the lives and welfare of Americans who were faithfully serving their country. Not saying they are much different from other org's that wa
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Not mentioned - not unlike Finland's home emergency supply kits, having a cash-based backup payment system is an important part of national resilience.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
"It is a Rembrandt " carries heavy cache when rich men are trying to one-up each other.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
It be nice if the result was solid. But digging down a bit - the de-facto lead author of the study is CSO of two biotech firms working on autism. Apply extra salt according to your tastes.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
In a word, yes. But reading through all the great comments on HN - why should I care?
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Make that 1003+ times. At least in my part of the US, even a pretty modest-size city will have multiple zip codes. And zip codes can have zero geographical footprint (meaning street address) - for example, some zip's are just for P
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Gut reaction: Judge needs to upload Meta's lawyers to jail cells, explaining "that's simply how the technology works".
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> do I say ... ? YES. Private, verbally. Intro with your long-ago medical experience in the area. Disclaimer with "obviously that experience is strongly biased toward illnesses, since they were in the hospital". Dunno wheth
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Very impressive efficiency and scale...so long as the salt caverns they're using for storage don't fail under the repeated compress/release load cycles. Any geologists here, to comment on that aspect?

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