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by fwungy 3y ago
Putting aside the cases of coercion and rape, is there something fundamentally degrading about sex to a woman that demands special legal protection? Providing good sex is a skill, whether it's paid or not. There is no reason to stop a
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by fwungy 3y ago
I say this as a lifelong Democrat: Kamala Harris is the worst sort of useless political moron.
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by fwungy 3y ago
I wonder what the break down is on over 50 doing dumb shit/not dumb shit? I remember how fun riding was after a few beers when I was young, and that's why I don't do that now, but biker gang culture, which is older doesn&#x27
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by fwungy 3y ago
Motorcyclist here. A lot of the danger of motorcycles is the rider. The level of danger to a 20 year old man on a sports bike is orders of magnitude higher than that of a 50 year old on touring bike. Same story with guns: the danger of guns
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by fwungy 3y ago
Given that "love is love" , why can't sex workers be deemed "money-sexuals", i.e. people who's sexual calling is to have sex for money because that's just what they're into - born that way. Then we ca
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by fwungy 3y ago
Every meaningful action carries some risk to ourselves and others. In and of itself it is not an excuse to curtail freedoms because nothing would get done. There needs to be an acceptable risk level for things. We need to talk about "u
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by fwungy 3y ago
A lot of car bloat is response to regulatory measures. Every time we add more safety features to a car, whether for drivers or those the car might collide with, they get bigger and more expensive.
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"leading"
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by fwungy 3y ago
The implications of this ruling are mind boggling. Simply doing business with someone who is committing a crime, even if you didn't know, is a crime by this logic. By extension any business using Salesforce is also now engaged with a c
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by fwungy 3y ago
The immune system, let alone the body, is a highly complex system. We really don't have any way to know what hacking the immune system with a vaccine does. It may help us avoid condition A but opens up to conditions B,C,D. The dilemma
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by fwungy 3y ago
My scientific methods professor taught that "correlation is not causation BUT when you find it you have to explain it, because correlation is a foundational indicator for science."
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Neonatal Vaccine Doses Routinely Given – Association with Mortality Rates(cureus.com)
4 points by fwungy 3y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: LK99 – Real Deal or Hype?
4 points by fwungy 3y ago|0 comments
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by fwungy 3y ago
You can't have an over class without an under class. Rich people need poor people to do the work.
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One problem is that resume reading software doesn't understand contracting usually so it lowers your scoring.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Take a long ride around Seattle, for one example.
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Ask HN: How do I get employee opportunities as a long term contractor?
15 points by fwungy 3y ago|10 comments
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Surprise surprise. I was going to DC a lot during 2008-2009, when the economy was not in good shape. The place felt untouched. Expensive restaurants everywhere full of people, and everyone bustling about with their little lapel pins that no
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by fwungy 3y ago
Are you a doctor or scientist? What is your credential to critique his view. Perhaps the questions about vaccine safety and efficacy have some basis in the empirical experiences of practitioners and recipients? The human immune system is va
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by fwungy 3y ago
FAANG is nice, but it doesn't guarantee anything.
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by fwungy 3y ago
"Plan" is a weak verb. E.g. - I _plan_ to marry Ariane Grande.
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by fwungy 3y ago
A Jackery 1000 is already 20+ lbs and over $1000, and it wouldn't get an EV far. Spare power packs would have to be large and very expensive. Better idea would be a mobile fast charging truck. Ironically that truck would have to be a d
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by fwungy 3y ago
In my area the top realtors are Chinese and specialize in investment properties for wealthy Chinese. The white/Hispanic locals who used to live here can't afford to compete in the market and so are leaving. Asians are the leading
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by fwungy 3y ago
Whites move in = gentrification Whites move out = white flight
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by fwungy 3y ago
A courageous woman. RIP.
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by fwungy 3y ago
In the big picture of the geologic time scale we are at risk for an ice age soon enough. The normal state of the Earth is cold and icy, but still habitable, perhaps barely. No one is sure why the ice ages happen, the most popular theory is
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by fwungy 3y ago
Protip: you can fit any set of n points with a polynomial of order n-1. This is why complex models are fraught with overfit concerns, and are poor predictors of future trends when any underlying assumptions change.
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by fwungy 3y ago
There has been so much money and time spent on battery research. We are in the incremental phase of battery evolution. There will not likely be any major leap in battery cost or performance. A battery is a box of minerals with electrochemic
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by fwungy 3y ago
He's got a compelling voice, but it's not an objectively good singer.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Private oil companies like Exxon are only about 10% of oil production. The biggies are the state oil companies, on which state wealth depends. They aren't going to give that up.

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