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by bmelton 4y ago
> They called it "rich criticism" coming from WaPo. That says nothing of the author. To AJ's point, it also says nothing of the article , which is I think the point he's working towards. If your comment speaks neithe
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I am sympathetic to those who wish for assisted suicide to prevent pain for diseases or illnesses they've succumbed to. I agree with your thesis that death may be preferential to suffering, and should be available to those who seek it.
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My home sits in a weird zone in Maryland that has a somewhat antiquated voluntary HOA. Because I'm well aware that joining an HOA is effectively signing over legal rights, I am not a member and refuse to join. Roughly a third of the ne
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Probably not. Even large, 40'+ boats designed to operate primarily by sail can get by with 10-20HP. Motorsailers -- racing sailboats designed to go faster by leveraging both the wind and a motor -- typically aren't much more than
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by bmelton 4y ago
I thought it was mostly an online phenomenon wherein medical professionals were entertaining the idea of refusing medical care to the unvaccinated, right up until I heard it repeated by a friend of mine who is a nurse admin.
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Incompetence is a defense against fraud, so if you reconsider his actions through the lens of an attempt to bolster an incompetence-based defense, would it look any different to what he's done?
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I don't know the answer to the questions you asked, but it's worth pointing out that "overpaid" can just as likely mean "I could have gotten it for cheaper" as it could "I paid more than it is worth."
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I don't know the full history of asset forfeiture, but of the two portable franchises I can remember that were being threatened with seizure under eminent domain, both of them easily sidestepped it by ... moving. The first was the Balt
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I say this with no animus whatsoever, but I would be shocked to learn that's the reason Musk bought Twitter. I have no private insight to his motives, but profitability / vanity / dozens of other motives seem a lot more likel
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I hate to be snarky, but I've almost considered Algolia for search on side projects a couple of times, and every time gone back to the HN search to see if it had improved. It hadn't, so I've yet to use it (and just always spi
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It's easier to attract customers with lower fees when you don't intend to return the principal?
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I was hesitant to put my daughter into a bad / violent public school system (ranked bottom 5% in the nation at the time) so we opted for Montessori. She's in college now on a blended CompSci/math major, but in (non-Montessori
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I agree. The F-150 Lightning is perhaps the polar opposite of the Mach-E. It's practical, and has literally dozens of smart choices made that leverage the utility of electric without them feeling remotely like tech demos. If you extend
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I don't know if this is right or wrong, but if I were running a news agency, I would think that glowing puff pieces would be one of the first things I'd eliminate in the event of a financial crunch. Is there a reason we think they
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> Where do investors see the growth? It's a really well designed piece of hardware, with actually innovative features that have done a great job separating itself from the existing stalwarts making boring, me-too cars that happen to
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This is probably good, and for no good reason other than it being posted here, I was expecting mycelium packaging to be mentioned. I'm quite excited for mycelium packaging, but I honestly struggle to find a perfect use case for it, whi
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I didn't see anything right-wing about Radley's fact check other than his assertion that it must be so. For those who haven't seen it, Radley tweeted[1] that of 760 million Subway riders, there were only 8 murders, so it is i
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Aside from the last sentence, I agree, and a fun reminder that raising prices is a good way to mitigate against high demand / low supply. That said, I was expecting to be countered on the inherent riskiness of my position, as I'
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Hypothetically, if I were your competitor and you adopted this policy, what would stop me stationing an employee with purchasing power at your door and just being the first one to buy every car as it comes into your lot, taking it home and
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Gladly. My email is in my profile.
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Zillow's data packaging is undoubtedly better than ours (analytics isn't yet very core to our business) but if you'd like to see rent values statically associated to MSAs and ZIP codes on a map, we publish that at https:&#x2
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That is not a correct use of ad hominem. Translated literally, it is "against the person," which is what an ad hominem attack is -- an argument against the bearer of the idea that does not argue against the idea itself. An argumen
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On your advice, I did my level best to figure out who they worked with. Marty Makary works at Johns Hopkins, which is in Maryland, so I am guessing that the genocidal republican governor you're referring to in that case is Larry Hogan?
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Sri Lanka is the second largest tea exporter in the world -- if you converted all of that to organic, then odds are good that the organic tea market just collapses. Beyond that, it's easy to get rid of modern fertilizers, but the trade
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I gave up absolute line numbers a few years ago in exchange for `:set rnu` and while my navigation capabilities (at least to anywhere I can see) have gotten a lot faster, the ability to `>>` a handful of lines without having to count
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It largely had been up until 1984, when Chevron v NRDC was decided in a way that yielded a _deference_ that previously didn't exist in determining the scope of executive branch delegation authority via statutory interpretation - e.g.,
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For more information on the topic, you can look towards previous decisions creating the modern statutory interpretations (that have been pretty much declining in favor since their inception) The two main cases that framed how much (or littl
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There was a map with pushpins and if you clicked them, it showed the names and addresses of all the registered gun owners. It was probably a _lot_ more involved than "SELECT *"
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Sometimes that's even a crime without the inability to legally purchase or avoid a paper trail - just lying about the recipient and engaging in a private sale can be criminal even if both parties are eligible for the firearm purchase
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That may be true and I'm not arguing that it isn't, but at least where I've come to learn about it more concretely happening, it's always been the result of things like Operation Choke Point[1] or Redlining[2] which were

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