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by facetube 11y ago
A generous plea bargain: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/06/17/imminent-p... .
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by facetube 11y ago
I'm not in favor of any of the flat tax proposals... but this is the tax system where receiving a 1099 for from-home software development means you literally have to get out a tape measure and measure the room where you did the work .
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by facetube 11y ago
Welcome to Hacker News, where everyone on earth has $90k in the bank, and nobody ever needs money right-this-second so they can continue to barely-afford their food, housing, and medical care.
544.
by facetube 11y ago
...and potentially get thousands of dollars in employer-paid FICA and payroll tax back, assuming it sticks (which is a big if).
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by facetube 11y ago
Wait, just one computer? Because right now I have an entire freeway full of inattentive and occasionally drunk/angry humans trying to kill me. I can deal with just the car.
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by facetube 11y ago
I was referring to China's efforts to compromise systems in the US, not their (dismal) domestic human-rights record. The point: we shouldn't be collecting and concentrating the private communications of American citizens in a gian
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by facetube 11y ago
There definitely are remote W-2 employers out there that offer fully-paid health insurance, reimburse work-related expenses directly, and pay their FICA/payroll taxes.
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by facetube 11y ago
It is a problem, but the United States NSA is currently the biggest offender in that department. Let's start out by not doing it to ourselves.
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by facetube 11y ago
The first paragraph of the original article clearly implies that at least some of these were private student loans, originated by a for-profit bank. His mom co-signed, but ended up declaring bankruptcy independently. If they're private
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by facetube 11y ago
Do you have any (anonymized) stats for the largest key sizes you encountered? I ask as the owner of a comically-large key.
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by facetube 11y ago
If someone cloned me, I'm pretty sure one of us would murder the other one. Similar != compatible when it comes to humans.
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by facetube 11y ago
I looked it up, and it's a documentary arguing in favor of "intelligent design" and against evolution: "Embracing the concept of intelligent design and refuting the theory of evolution, this intriguing video posits that
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by facetube 12y ago
People with depression have choices. People with OCD have choices. People with diabetes have choices. People with schizophrenia have choices. Having choices doesn't disqualify something from being a medical condition.
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by facetube 12y ago
When you structure your health system as a marketplace full of competing for-profit health care providers, don't be surprised when consumers start shopping.
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by facetube 12y ago
I've had chronic pain in the past that's probably far more minor than yours, and it sucks. But for what it's worth, I've found that the mental effects of exercise are far more dramatic than the physical ones – paradoxi
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by facetube 12y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. Even beyond the acute condition itself, it's been shown that there are genetic factors that likely increase cravings for certain drugs, and may predict development of dependence. For alcoholism, OPRM1 A118G has so
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by facetube 12y ago
It's also almost certainly cheaper than imprisoning someone, even if the full cost of the program is borne by society at large.
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by facetube 12y ago
There are almost certainly some issues with the Rat Park experiment, but even exercise alone has been shown to reduce binding availability at the mu opioid receptor in humans, probably as a result of beta-endorphin being released: http:&#x
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by facetube 12y ago
That's definitely part of the problem – especially when it comes to the amount of a particular drug being prescribed. A lot of the addiction/dependence exposure involves diversion, i.e. the people using the prescription opioids
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by facetube 12y ago
Point taken with respect to to the original article, but it's definitely not just a well-off white people problem. Here's a different view from Crawford County, Ohio: "Nestled between major urban hubs, Columbus and Toledo, Cr
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by facetube 12y ago
In the US, Methadone also keeps people tethered to a daily drive to a Methadone clinic, followed by a relatively long wait in line. When someone is trying to hang on to a job and get their life back together, this can be a significant drag
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by facetube 12y ago
Yes, exactly one: getting all of your organization's non-technical users to use it.
563.
by facetube 12y ago
Because they're drugs. Someone just picked a different name for them so that daily use sounded more socially acceptable.
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by facetube 12y ago
Phenibut (beta-phenyl-GABA, mentioned in the article) is a GABA-B drug discovered in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. It's not approved for any health condition in the US, but is sold as a "dietary supplement". It acts on the s