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by crusso 11y ago
It's not "tax dodging", it's "tax avoidance", since what they've done is not only legal, but it's the expected and allowed behavior under tax law adjudication in the USA. You misunderstand how tax law
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by crusso 11y ago
That's a poor analogy since murder is illegal. What Google is doing is within the law and a part of the framework created by the government.
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by crusso 11y ago
You're missing the point. The wide latitude that the IRS has in its interpretation of tax law is part of the design that was bought.
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by crusso 11y ago
Blaming lobbyists for lobbying is like blaming ants for finding piles of sugar that are carelessly left around. The government is supposed to consist of our better angels that act in a more ethical manner to a higher standard than the cogs
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by crusso 11y ago
But you've lost the thread of the discussion. >> I was suffering every second, >Do you realize you are probably suffering every minute even >when you don't have to sit quietly? This wasn't about enjoying "lif
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by crusso 11y ago
I have a stationary exercise bike in my basement. I ride it for 20-30 minutes almost every day. While I'm riding, I close my eyes and meditate, mostly just focusing on my breathing. I get my cardio and my meditation handled in one s
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by crusso 11y ago
It's impossible to worry without interpretation. The method of interpretation can determine needless worrying about externalities vs handling them in stride.
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by crusso 11y ago
Sam Harris' Waking Up presents a non-woo-woo look at meditation. His background as a neuroscientist really gave the subject the scientific perspective that I appreciate. https://www.samharris.org/waking-up
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by crusso 11y ago
I had a Sony touch screen LCD remote, maybe 15 years ago. I used it for a couple of months and eventually broke out the original remotes - just so I could have actual buttons to push. Looking down at the screen all the time to find the bu
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by crusso 11y ago
That's extremely cynical and unwarranted.
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by crusso 11y ago
I didn't think that I should use flag as a simple downvote.
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by crusso 11y ago
On HN several times (that I've observed), this issue has come up and the starting point of the discussion acknowledges the fact that "mosquito" is not just a single species. And we're mostly all just lay people on the s
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by crusso 11y ago
While there is some truth in that, the thought that we should allow natural culling processes to continue to thrive so that the rest of the surviving genetic population can improve the species goes against many core principles built into ou
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by crusso 11y ago
No, cost is not a reason. The infertile male mosquito method isn't the best one we have. Geneticists have discovered ways to drive terminal genes into entire populations. A mosquito species could be wiped out in no time with a gene d
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by crusso 11y ago
but I'd guess Eastern-ish Europe would be worse You don't have to go to Eastern-ish Europe for that. I've spent some time in offices around London over the last couple of years and I've found that it's much more
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by crusso 11y ago
Since Sanders still doesn't seem to have much of a chance of beating Clinton on the Democratic side, I'll confine my comments to Trump: Trump hasn't said a single thing that would lead me to believe that he will disrupt the e
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by crusso 11y ago
The noise level was a pretty obviously non-negotiable flaw in the mule from early on. You'd think that someone would have pointed that out before dumping $42M into it. I wonder if there were plans to reduce the noise in the unit that
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by crusso 11y ago
The comparisons specifically criticized Torch's requirement of Lua.
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by crusso 11y ago
Read the last 3 paragraphs again. She's saying that performing the experiment created a space for intimacy but that she and her partner ultimately chose to be in love. She's acknowledging some of the effect, but trying to give
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by crusso 11y ago
Well, preventing Cancer has been a priority for evolution since the first multicellular organisms arose It's only a "priority for evolution" to prevent cancer before the better years for breeding have passed - and evolution
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by crusso 11y ago
The author tries to reproduce the falling-in-love experiment of psychologist Arthur Aron, involving a series of intimate questions and staring into each others' eyes. The end result? They fell in love. Despite that, her conclusion was
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by crusso 11y ago
The article was upvoted to the front page of HN by more than 1.
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by crusso 11y ago
The fact that the author is 34 and the notion that future relationships with children weren't even mentioned is a fairly telling comment on the evolution of society.
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by crusso 11y ago
This is nonsensical. From the time that a person looks at your identification to the time that you go through the scanners, there is no tracking of individuals to associate the body type and DNA information with the ID provided. Depending
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by crusso 11y ago
The Freedom Caucus killed Kevin McCarthy's bid McCarthy killed his bid with one interview on Hannity where he implied that he had helped orchestrate the Benghazi committee as a means to take down Hillary. That was the slip-up that g
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by crusso 11y ago
We have too many middle-men in US healthcare. They obscure costs and prices while preventing individuals from getting more involved with their own healthcare decisions. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare through single
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by crusso 11y ago
True, but I've yet to see the decision-based situation in the universe that couldn't be viewed differently by someone. Compared to Internet second guessing, the lack of indictments is a pretty strong data point.
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by crusso 11y ago
There's not much difference to the person being stifled, at least, not initially. There's a huge difference between a government being able to send the police in broad daylight to do its bidding and beat you up or jail you for b
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by crusso 11y ago
It's pretty universally accepted that he was murdered by cops Do you have some polling data on that? That's not at all the impression I get from the wide variety of news sites that I peruse. Regarding South Park, yeah, I know a
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by crusso 11y ago
I partly agree with you and I definitely concur with your post above on this whole issue. I'm regretting mentioning Garner in my own post since it's a rathole of preconceptions. But I will point out that reasonable is not the sam

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