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US federal spending bill exempts livestock emissions from regulation, reporting(bloomberg.com)
15 points by floor2 5y ago|2 comments
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by floor2 5y ago
If you re-read your own post, but this time think about the Jan 6th violence at the Capital or the 2014 Bundy standoff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff ) do you feel the same? The "voice of the unheard
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by floor2 5y ago
This is weird trolling. You bring up a completely uninvolved, unrelated person and attack them for doing nothing. Maybe Dang will kill off this whole thread for being against HN guidelines. He's already a martyr. He's living the r
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by floor2 5y ago
Women in Afghanistan got 20 years of rights and freedoms before the Taliban regained control. Residents of Hong Kong have numerous opportunities for expedited visas/immigration to Western countries. Things aren't perfect. Things a
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I know people here are mostly focused on the robots themselves, but as someone who was penniless through college, the more shocking thing to me is how affluent and luxurious the lifestyles of average college students are today. A minority i
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by floor2 5y ago
This is just a completely imaginary attack on people you oppose. A textbook example of a "strawman argument". The problems of pollution, climate change, etc are real. The science is clear. Please don't make up an imaginary ba
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Twitter as well. Try to make a new account in an incognito window without providing your phone number and you'll either be stopped from completing initially or find the account blocked before you've interacted in any way. And if w
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It's funny how we pretend we want "equal pay for equal work" and compensation to be tied only to merit and productivity, but in practice do the opposite. While the visible salary number might be the same, the benefits structu
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by floor2 5y ago
Genuine question, can you explain what's upsetting to you about it? To "throw the baby out with the bathwater" is a common idiom in America, meaning roughly to discard something valuable along with other things that are iness
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by floor2 5y ago
All of my experience would be the complete opposite. Obesity is so normalized in contemporary American society that we have skewed, unhealthy concepts of what is "skinny", "normal" and "fat". Go watch the 1985
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Everything you've said here is racist hate speech. I'm sure you wouldn't make statements like this about any other group. It's a good thing that we as a society don't treat all Muslims or Arabs as being responsible
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by floor2 5y ago
Have you ever actually visited the midwest or are all your negative stereotypes based completely on the casually accepted discriminatory comments you've read online? To answer your question- people of color would be treated identically
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And the cycle repeats. It starts with the obvious malware or hollywood movie takedown, but the actual policy is anything which goes against an opaque and subjective acceptable use policy, which means the entire world's files now need t
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by floor2 5y ago
Ironically, abortion is in fact a continuation of civil rights, society is just still in the dark ages on it. Society has been dehumanizing people to deny them basic rights forever, the civil rights movement has been the fight against that,
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by floor2 5y ago
Your stance on this is intriguing to me. I'm treating this thread as a neat little obscure, pedantic fact that I learned today- that historically the word "video" had a distinct meaning from "film". Because never on
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And people fly on jets to attend climate conferences where they eat steak and tweet about income inequality from their new phone made by people earning pennies and on and on. Humans are selfish hypocrites. Maybe your family members don&#x27
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by floor2 5y ago
I'm confused by this response. Are you trying to argue against me here? It seems like you are, but you're talking about a bunch of unrelated things to my statement (which I agree with you on). The initial fraud happened at the lev
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by floor2 5y ago
The car title is analogous to owning the copyright or trademark on an image - something that actually confers meaningful legal power over it. The NFT is more like a car enthusiast club issuing stickers or badges to its members.
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by floor2 5y ago
People lied on their mortgage applications, claiming to have incomes and assets they didn't have, so that they could take out massive loans they could never repay. The loans were structured to have low payments initially and then large
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by floor2 5y ago
Have you ever seen the movie "The Big Short", where they go to Florida and meet a stripper who owns 4 McMansions and a minimum-wage lawnmower who is buying a giant, expensive house? Those were realistic depictions of the fraud hap
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Ethically, that would have been even worse. People rage against the banks, but it's important to remember the actual fraud was happening at the homebuyer level. Millions of people were buying houses by lying on their mortgage applicati
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I don't think that "common misconception" actually exists at all, that's just a rhetorical defense used by people who are trying to stifle free speech in practice. Many people want free speech, as a concept, ideal and as
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This seems like it would get abused instantly. It's like the ultimate DDOS opportunity- tell everyone to go follow <account you don't like> to drive up their costs to bankrupt them or force them off the platform. Create bot
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by floor2 5y ago
Assuming you are actually asking the question in good faith about why people would defend speech you dislike, here's a possible explanation. Your personal values, sensitivities and comfort zone are not universal. You placing a label li
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by floor2 5y ago
FWIW as someone who is both a native English speaker and who grew up in a community where 90% of residents went to church every Sunday, the only usage of "ecumenical" that I'm familiar with would be "open to all religion
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This headline is somewhat misleading. The Trump tax cuts were structured to the benefit of his base at the expense of his strongest opposition. This was done by severely limiting deductions for taxes paid to city, county or state, in effect
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by floor2 5y ago
Seconding this. This description sounds like severe dyslexia to me, and the good news is there are a lot of resources and therapies out there which might be able to greatly improve your quality of life if you choose to seek them out. Defini
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Because banks are heavily regulated, professionally managed and back-stopped by the most powerful entities in the world (the governments of the countries of their operations). Tether by contrast is a pretty much an obvious ponzi scheme that
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From the HN guidelines: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." and "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle" You seem to be commenting a lot of unrelated, ta
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Hi, I'm a real person who probably is a rough approximate of the imaginary strawman you're talking about in this post. I'm not going off to become a subsistence farmer today... because that has literally nothing to do with be

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