hnal943

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by hnal943 7y ago
Is this what people mean when they say that start up ideas are worthless? Or is this a joke?
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by hnal943 7y ago
Churches in America are funded by the people that attend them. I think churches in Europe actually receive tax money, which changes the equation pretty significantly.
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by hnal943 7y ago
Right, but it turns out it was just bad customer service, not fraud.
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by hnal943 7y ago
Rich people would consider being soft and cynical as virtuous? There's no way to read the quote in a positive manner.
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by hnal943 7y ago
I have three kids, A loaf of bread will last us a week. I suppose it depends on your menu.
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by hnal943 7y ago
Your baker sells you bread by the slice? Or do you consume a whole loaf of bread every day?
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by hnal943 7y ago
Manhattan's landscape is concrete and (steel and glass). It's hardly pastoral.
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by hnal943 7y ago
> We can always travel more miles at higher speeds to reach the same stuff—family, friends, jobs, dining, shopping—if technology and cheap energy enable us to keep spreading out. Heck, some of us might commute to the moon if we could. Th
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by hnal943 7y ago
Dense urban living also requires most of your surroundings to be pavement.
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by hnal943 7y ago
I think I remember Doug Crockford talk in which he laid out the original design of EPCOT. It was very similar to what you described. Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCIPKWobs
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by hnal943 7y ago
...if he were a different person, perhaps.
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by hnal943 7y ago
That doesn't address his point, which is that a programmable pump isn't something you could sell because of the liability involved.
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by hnal943 7y ago
If the variance is tighter, it doesn't matter.
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by hnal943 7y ago
The actual song is still available - it's by an artist called melodysheep.
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by hnal943 7y ago
I would say at least as many people listen to podcasts as use twitter.
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by hnal943 7y ago
There are lots of reasons the involvement of lawyers could slow things down. That doesn't mean that Google was behaving illegally.
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by hnal943 8y ago
Opting in to that experience is one thing. I would hate it if someone I couldn't get away from started a sing-along.
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by hnal943 8y ago
1 kid who does not have his own schedule is relatively easy to manage. 5 kids who need to be in different places is more difficult.
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by hnal943 8y ago
you can't raise property taxes for just one property. An appraisal could target a particular property, but fraudulently raising the appraisal value would be illegal.
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by hnal943 8y ago
A five-year-old also doesn't have any money of his own. Ultimately, the parents are spending the money and also the ones responsible for changing the situation.
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by hnal943 8y ago
Isn't that why James Damore was fired? He wrote an internal communication Google didn't like.
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by hnal943 8y ago
I haven't had a problem either, but Asmodee did make a big stink about this last year: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/39296/icv2-interview-asm...
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by hnal943 8y ago
Localism is a good thing. The benefits outweigh the costs here.
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by hnal943 8y ago
Why would you assume it's better than people give it credit for?
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by hnal943 8y ago
I skied for 15 years before I learned to snowboard. I have never fallen so hard as when I was first learning to snowboard! The other downside is not being able to traverse flat terrain, which is more or less important depending on the reso
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by hnal943 8y ago
Progressives have loved eugenics for at least 100 years.
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by hnal943 8y ago
you forgot to mention bad decisions as a source of homelessness
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by hnal943 8y ago
If you are still homeless after getting an $50,000 pay day, your problem is not lack of money.
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by hnal943 8y ago
Have you read When Helping Hurts? It's a really good exploration of this dichotomy of blame between the people and the systems. In truth, both are broken.
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by hnal943 8y ago
It's really gross that your first instinct is to call for government regulation.

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