coffeevradar

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by coffeevradar 5y ago
Hi there, if it's ok with you I'm going to address subsequent commenters for a moment. Anyone smarter than me, let's focus on this comment. Isn't this the type of social media post that would be immediately dismissed as
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by coffeevradar 6y ago
With the important distinction that most investment vehicles represent tangible ownership (of equity in a company, of a debt obligation, of real estate, etc.) Bitcoin exists primarily as something people buy in order to hopefully sell to so
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by coffeevradar 6y ago
Copyright is fairly applied to Disney. There were many beneficiaries to its extension, large and small. In any case, it is a matter of law, just like earlier, shorter copyright protections were. It's totally legitimate to favor shorter
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by coffeevradar 6y ago
>The unemployment benefit extension and hack (unemployment + $600) was the real critical mistake that we'll spend a long time fixing. What was the alternative? Existing unemployment benefits are insufficient for households to pay bi
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
I was responding to a comment that conflated the worst excesses of admittedly terrible communities on Reddit with the whole of the 'modern right.' My goal was to explain the thinking of those who are accusing Reddit of systemic bi
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
You'll note that I said that there was an 'apparent' double standard. If may not be apparent to you, but it certainly is to some. You seem like you spend more time on the political parts of Reddit than I, so I'm sure you
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
There are plenty of left-wing subreddits with equal measures of vitriol. Somehow they avoid earning the same opprobrium that the right-wing ones do. This apparent double standard creates the appearance of bias.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
People that do any kind of data entry or work in finance learn to use it too. The number pad is not just for cashiers.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Without the Bill of Rights having already been drafted and clearly having enough support for success, the Constitution would not have had enough support to have been ratified because of opponents that were concerned about the very rights th
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Except that they charge $1.50 for everything. Which is only annoying because similar stores in Japan (which for me are a highlight of any trip to Japan) only charge ¥100. I don't know if it's because of proximity to China or becau
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
I think they've solved it in Singapore. Not that I'm in favor of the methods used.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Is that when you store it in bottles for later?
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
But vapor isn't smoke.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
There's already the WC test. Which as one gets older one is less likely to pass.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
To be clear, the hot coffee warning is there because a particular McDonald's franchisee elected to keep their coffee at boiling levels and then serve it to unsuspecting customers at the drive-thru. This practice resulted in extremely s
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Reasonably sure their buying all three automakers would attract the attention of antitrust regulators.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
If you're suggesting that Hitler also placed all of the blame on immigrants, you must mistakenly believe that the Jewish people were immigrants to Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. This was not the case. The Jewish victims of the Holoc
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Life, uh, finds a way.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Some AirAsia pilots are religious!? My word!
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
What's wrong with doing that"
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Yeah, it's more like people have been waiting for decades for a day of reckoning for Japan in the sense that the country is still very productive in many senses but has yet to escape its extremely long-term recession. Japan has been pu
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
According to Wikipedia, for Generation X "demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s and ending birth years ranging from the late 1970s to early 1980s." So any members of Ge
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
I think to the extent there's a bigger game it's that Amazon wants to present to its customers a minimally curated selection of products (and sellers) that includes the full gamut of what is available in the wider world. If they a
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
Since Venmo is a subsidiary of PayPal, it's not surprising that the two have similarly anti-consumer policies.
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by coffeevradar 9y ago
I also noticed a minor mistake on the automatic email acknowledging a signup to the waiting list. Instead of saying 'merrier', as in more merry, it says 'marrier'.
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
The Uber Pool service doesn't require you to actually be matched. If there doesn't happen to be another rider going in the same direction, you still get the cheaper fare and it's counted as an Uber Pool ride.
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
It's interesting to me that he uses an iPhone instead of an Android phone. Apple must be fairly far ahead when it comes to accessibility.
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
You do make some convincing arguments. I think, though, that you may be overlooking that it's not just ancillary participants that spend man hours on intellectual property matters. In a broad sense, artists of all kinds (that is, the a
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
Rationalizing your own behavior of downloading content you like and enjoying consuming it as being a "benefit to society" is quite a stretch. Thinking that everything you do, even selfishly, is somehow ethically laudable is not a
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
The most important difference is the presence of encryption in the case of chip cards. Magnetic strips offer their data in plain text form when swiped through any card reader.

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