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by buellerbueller 2mo ago
Unlikely, because of your priors; you already think we are odious so it isn't like you are looking for the best in (or of) us, and second why would they want to meet you if you assume the worst of them? I don't support this Admin
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by buellerbueller 2mo ago
Generally, within 100 miles of a border (which includes international airports) there is not a warrant required for a search.
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by buellerbueller 2mo ago
The American poors (10th percentile income in America) are 67th percentile income globally, when calculated via Purchasing Power Parity. [1] Your description of it as a "developing country" is completely inaccurate. [1] https:&#x
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by buellerbueller 2mo ago
>[Some] Americans have asked for, or tacitly accepted this treatment of their visitors. You forgot a word.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
in my opinion, your version of what HN "is really about" is corrosive to the planet and should be called to account by those who are within it.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
brevity is the soul of wit, brah, but you seem allergic to both. my point, if you insist on me being long-winded about it, was to make an allusion to the fact that you have a positively Randian take on employee-employer relations, where CE
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>1.) The c-suite is like 6 people, reducing their salary isn't going to make much of a dent. It makes much more than a dent to the ~20 people not laid off, and a likely morale boost to everyone remaining. Edit: who are the sociopath
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>In many ways it is a triumph of modern society how ordinary the people are who head these large and complicated world-spanning corporate entities. But I was told that CEOs were descended from Mount Olympus itself! Billionaires too!
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
It worked for the bolsheviks
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>All else being equal, would you rather eat a hot dog from a cart with a nice sign, or from a guy sitting on the sidewalk who sharpied "Hotdog $3" on a piece of cardboard? You keep introducing these silly confounding variables.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>If you need medical treatment, will you go to a doctor operating out of an office, or a doctor operating out of their own garage? Theoretically, either one could be good or bad at medicine, but in practice, professionalism is a useful s
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
Jevon's Paradox ("As efficiency of resource use increases, usage of the resource increases") says otherwise. One things become more efficient, we can use them in lots of ways that would not have been viable before, driving u
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>Even if every single one of my assumptions is unfair, they're still being made by me and others. stomps feet in anger "Daddy, I want a squirrel! Get me one of those squirrels! I want a trained squirrel!"
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>If you're really passionate about serving the best quality coffee, you'll be passionate about the experience around that The degree to which the menu is part of "the experience around that" is exactly the debate here
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>if you’re careless about one thing like that you’re probably careless about other things ah the inverse of the "i'm good at coding, therefore i am good at everything." I want my restaurants to have delicious food; I don&#
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
I am sorry that you live in so much fear and anger. You have already been beaten.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
Requiring someone to have more than 20 characters, when 20 or fewer will do perfectly ? Yes.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
It wasnt until 1891 that America extended copyright protection to foreign authors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Copyright_Act_of... IP "theft" has been a longstanding part of any developing nat
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
Altman lies.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>The only reasonable thing to do is simply not bring your phone. Actually, not bringing your phone is eminently unreasonable, particularly to an airport. Sure, you could wait in a line for a paper boarding pass, but if everyone were &qu
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>The state of the US is much more dire than most people are letting on. This is unfalsifiable, so not a great claim. You can continue to claim this forever without having to prove it. >All I know is I can't take my phone into th
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>US corporations have some autonomy from the government This is correct...because they just buy the government when they need to.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
They should not; however, why should others who did not vote for Republicans suffer their fate? Merely because they live in the same political boundary? Get real.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
Go ahead and ban me if you like, but if someone says I deserve a consequence by virtue of the political stance of unrelated people within the same political boundaries as I, then I am going to tell them to go fuck themselves. It is in the s
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
I don't "vote blue." I vote for whichever candidate offers the most realistic solutions to the problem at hand. At times this may be "blue" but not necessarily. I have also voted 3rd party and skipped voting for
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
Yes, sadly, several decades ago, one of the parties started running on the platform of "the government is broken" and to help the electability of said platform, they kept breaking the government.
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
>> -Your medical data is private, whereas this is a discussion about data from >the public sphere, where there is no legal expectation of privacy. > >Maybe there should be? There is in other parts of the world. I strenuously
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
-Meta can already track your every move; that ship has sailed. Not sure why it is relevant to this discussion. -Randos can already observe your every movement, They just have to do it physically. A stalker can already follow a woman&
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by buellerbueller 3mo ago
Ok, thats simple: no commercial use licensing. This already exists, via various copyleft mechanisms.

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