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by bmelton 4y ago
I think if you looked deeper, you'd find that the restrictions for where you could and could not drive tanks are more restrictions on the _roads_ than the _tanks_ The government owns the roads, ergo can sidestep a lot of the what might
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by bmelton 4y ago
> And it's in the court now because this is the first time in 50 years that we've had a court regressive enough to vote it down. This is silly. It's basically always in the courts. This particular case has been ongoing sin
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by bmelton 4y ago
It also by itself does not restrict anyone from the help that they need. It is not the job of the Supreme Court to care for the reproductive health of the American people. Of the federal government, that would either be the job of the execu
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by bmelton 4y ago
tbf, that's only how it had been read from 1934 to 2008, and only by some -- it was not read that way prior to 1934, and 1934's decision in US v Miller likely wouldn't have arrived at that reading but for an extremely peculia
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by bmelton 4y ago
> compared to after it’s been codified in the legislature The legitimate reason it is reversed _now_ is that it is _now_ when the matter is before them in the court of law that conflicts with Roe in a way that is hard to reconcile agains
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by bmelton 4y ago
Abortion is not now "illegal in half the country" -- it may become so, but it isn't that today and this decision didn't make it that today Moreover, guns may have outpaced automotive deaths, but they have not outpaced &q
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by bmelton 4y ago
The idea that a flavor like bubble gum is ~only~ attractive to minors seems wildly off-the-mark to me. Adults enjoy bubble gum, and also enjoy flavors that are not tobacco-like. I've never paid attention to Juul marketing, so perhaps t
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by bmelton 4y ago
I appreciate the clarity on my clumsy post. I knew of the added detail on the foie gras case but didn't bother making the more direct point I was trying to make is more that they _can get away with_ moreso than _they are clearly allowe
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by bmelton 4y ago
Nit to pick: States can and do regulate interstate commerce all the time. California once banned the import of foie gras into the state, and IIRC are planning a law banning the import of foreign oil. Some states ban the import of firearms t
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by bmelton 4y ago
They're a deal site, basically You need <drug> in <area> They search pharmacy prices in <area> for <drug> + <generic versions of drug> You get back a list of where it is cheapest to have <drug> fulfi
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by bmelton 4y ago
The easy way to get around exploiting free labor is to pay for the labor. Give the project a cost and time budget (e.g., "You've got six hours to try to resolve this issue that our [already trained and familiar with the codebase]
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by bmelton 4y ago
Honestly, the worst among us are the ones that most need defense against the erosion of their civil rights because not defending them signals that those aren't rights that we care about and won't so much mind if they're taken
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by bmelton 4y ago
Unless I'm reading my invoice incorrectly, your formula is off The business plan is not (99/m * 12), it is (99 + (99/m * 12)), so more like $10,700 than $9500
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by bmelton 4y ago
I'm a netlify customer, and I disagree. Before this pricing change, I paid them $99 a month + bandwidth + build minute overages, with the sort of tacit understanding that until and unless my users need to log in to the site, they aren&
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by bmelton 4y ago
A very good point that embarrassingly highlights my lack of knowledge about it. Thank you for the correction. I suppose a decent, easy system for evading its tracking would just be for rich people to swap keys to their private jets. Or char
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by bmelton 4y ago
It's an interesting conundrum. As someone who believes in rights, the problem here seems to be neither with elon's expectation of privacy nor with elonsjet's expectation of free speech, but in the requirement of having to rep
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by bmelton 4y ago
Not at all just you. With the flexible content controls that Twitter already has in place, you can make Twitter to be just about as nice as you want it to be. If you mark your profile private, selectively follow, and either mute or block th
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by bmelton 5y ago
Bias is learned behavior, so it seems that "learning models" is precisely the right name for it despite whether we considered the ramifications of learning
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by bmelton 5y ago
Oh, thanks! I've pushed that to the top of the queue (but which I'm woefully behind on now without a commute)
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by bmelton 5y ago
> people not distinguishing between objective and subjective matters like you will cause the US to collapse Caution: Admitting ignorance on the topic and then levying an accusation that failure to discern is responsible for nation-state
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by bmelton 5y ago
There's an interesting concept with user reviews, in that they're inherently OF the people, whereas critical reviews are FOR the people. In a way, critical reviews are like celebrity chef cookbooks in that they should be considere
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by bmelton 5y ago
Plugging my site, but only because it addresses some of your core complaints, and may be helpful. Dwellsy.com has the largest inventory of any rental property site out there, is aiming for zero fraud (and has quite a few features implemente
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by bmelton 5y ago
Agreed completely, and many times the contracting owner is a figurehead with zero job responsibilities who just takes down a grand salary so that the contractor employing him is eligible for more contract opportunities.
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by bmelton 5y ago
The accurate familiarity of that is exactly why I ~no longer~ work with the government
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by bmelton 5y ago
Red tape galore -- related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30959520
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by bmelton 5y ago
> I just wish more firms were honest rather than milking the government. Generally speaking, they aren't. I remember commenting (years ago) on here on an article about the government paying a million dollars for what amounted to bas
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by bmelton 5y ago
It's also not necessarily guaranteed that it is in fact TeamViewer running the ad for TeamViewer. It's a pretty common marketing practice to arbitrage referral benefits so that you might sign up for a product that offers cash refe
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by bmelton 5y ago
Well there you have it. Mine is about what it's doing in practice, which is I believe the point of the article. That said, I believe your original comment was just `Is switching to gender neutral pronouns bad?`
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by bmelton 5y ago
Please note that the context you seem missing is the original submission, which I am guessing you hadn't looked at before your edit. So my point was that "irrespective of the inherent goodness of gender neutral language, this bot
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by bmelton 5y ago
I began my answer before your edit, so "what I'm going on about" is the topic at hand

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