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by gwright 5y ago
Capitalism isn't exploiting anything. People make the laws, people operate businesses. It isn't clear to me that these concerns are absent under any other system -- in fact I would argue that capitalism paired with a liberal repr
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by gwright 5y ago
It doesn't make sense to just talk about insurance premiums if you are existing within a system also funded by tax dollars. Phrases like "you don't need to pay anything for the state hospitals" just means you are ignorin
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by gwright 5y ago
I can't speak for "western democracy", just my experience in the US.
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't think it is helpful to use language like "loitering". The police are present at high school football games, beaches during the summer, festivals, parades, large town meetings, etc. That isn't "loitering&qu
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by gwright 5y ago
Part of being a police officer (perhaps a huge part) is simply being present and visible. This "presence" generally coincides with any large gathering of people. It seems completely normal to me for a police officer to be ther
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by gwright 5y ago
> But if you are electing parties (like the US House) I'm not sure why you are phrasing it this way. Voters don't pick a party for their House representative, they pick a candidate. Each House district election is independent
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by gwright 5y ago
> It is not necessarily to create value going forward Not sure where you are going with that thought. A business that isn't creating value is going out of business or selling to someone who has an idea of how to use its assets to cr
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by gwright 5y ago
Due process is also important. A balance is needed.
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by gwright 5y ago
> if you're gay and the local LGBTQI support organizations are coming out in favor of a proposition, then it's fairly unlikely this is something you want to oppose. Let's agree to disagree on this. I think it is a bad assu
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by gwright 5y ago
$7/hour including tips?
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by gwright 5y ago
> Capacity Wiped Out Overly dramatic and inaccurate as far as I can tell. Something like a contagion introduced into the facility might warrant a "Wiped Out" description but "Production Paused" seems more accurate and
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by gwright 5y ago
And why do you have confidence that the judiciary is going to be better able to sort out the mess? I realize that there are grey areas, but the role of the judiciary isn't to be an legislature-of-last-resort. What are you going to do
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by gwright 5y ago
One rationale for limited government is that there is a direct, positive correlation between the power ceded to government and the incentive to control/steer that power. By limiting the power of government you reduce the incentive to u
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by gwright 5y ago
Again blaming the victim for not being prepared. Don't get me wrong, being prepared is important but insufficient prep should never be communicated as a way mitigate the culpability of the attackers.
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by gwright 5y ago
The idea that the "real" problem with criminal activity is that victims aren't properly prepared to defend themselves is odious.
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by gwright 5y ago
> messing with oil That is an incredible understatement. Disrupting key infrastructure would be considered an act of war if it was done by a state actor. I'm not sure what the equivalent characterization would be for a non-state ac
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by gwright 5y ago
I think you are leaving out the data story. It is very difficult to push data to the edges, you can easily run into volume or consistency problems. No surprise that this means that there is no single solution. Complexity sometimes makes se
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by gwright 5y ago
There are lots of different ways to compare these tools, but code navigation and refactoring support is way better in Android Studio than Xcode, IMHO.
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by gwright 5y ago
This is another interesting one. A part of Russia that sits on the Baltic Sea disconnected from Russia proper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
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by gwright 5y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding what "Gross Profit" represents.
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by gwright 5y ago
Sure if that is the case, it is not a good trade-off. But that is a much different situation than the one that was communicated by the reporting, which suggested he had no legal way to leave. I'm still not sure I have an accurate pic
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by gwright 5y ago
My point was that "I have no legal way to leave" is a different scenario than "I won't leave until I get paid". Both situations have a tremendous unfairness about them but they aren't the same and I don'
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by gwright 5y ago
This seems like pretty important information if correct. A huge portion of the HN discussion is moot if the Mr. Aisha chose to remain. Seems like he could have continued his fight for the outstanding wages elsewhere.
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by gwright 5y ago
I know I'm working from incomplete data and confirmation bias, but it seems to me that those who fight against permanent facilities also seem to be against taking action against ad-hoc encampments. This just one of an almost endless se
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by gwright 5y ago
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't know much about direct corn subsidies, but we could talk about sugar tariffs -- which you could interpret as a subsidy to any substitute product producer -- like maybe corn syrup producers.
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by gwright 5y ago
I actually think that desalination and solar are a good pairing but > without any environmental externalities doesn't sound quite right to me. In particular I think there are reasonable concerns regarding lifetime energy and enviro
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by gwright 6y ago
Seems like that is pretty easy to deal with by simply asserting in the driver's contract that they can be asked for medical verification at any time if they make that indication.
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by gwright 6y ago
> regulatory agencies allows experts to decide those issues in a neutral setting It is difficult to talk about "regulations" in the abstract but I would suggest that many regulations aren't about a perfect solution devised
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by gwright 6y ago
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