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by hx87 10y ago
When's it's owned by a publicly traded company.
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by hx87 10y ago
If cheap labor is the problem then it is also the solution. Ship the subwoofer to the country that produced it for cheap, and have the cheap labor there repair it.
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by hx87 10y ago
> There are numerous stories of hypoallergenic people who find that their new washing machine leaves significant detergent in clothing. In 99.9% percent of those cases, the problem is that they're used to the quantities of detergent
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by hx87 10y ago
Wood is also cellulose, but it is an excellent substitute for plastic in many cases (i.e. chopsticks and eating utensils)
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by hx87 10y ago
I hate those screens--so loud and so difficult (or impossible) to mute or turn off. If I want infotainment, I have a cell phone in my pocket.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'll hold the criticism until Uber drivers start using short wheelbase Camrys with vinyl seats and dividers (resulting in no legroom at all).
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by hx87 10y ago
I wonder if it would be possible (and legal) to use machine learning algorithms to determine which driver applicants are likely to have low ratings.
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by hx87 10y ago
A complicated tax system is perfectly fine if its control logic is algorithmic and its parameters are easily found by the taxpayer. That's already somewhat true, since tax law is written by lawyers and accounts, who make excellent prog
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by hx87 10y ago
> but were the 50's through the 70,s that much of a lower quality of life For the vast majority of the people who don't live in the USA or Europe, life was certainly much worse back then. Foxconn might not be the best place in
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by hx87 10y ago
To ensure that that is actually the case, police department should be held financially liable for any damaged caused during searches and seizures.
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by hx87 10y ago
When I was poor, I didn't eat meat. If I am ever poor again I would go vegetarian. Cheap meat just isn't worth it.
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by hx87 10y ago
> I don't think society as a whole could deal with the cost of meat We certainly could if we had to, but so far we haven't had to.
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by hx87 10y ago
I thought the choice was between expensive meat or antibiotics, or between cheap meat and /no/ antibiotics?
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by hx87 10y ago
If the animal is sick enough to make you sick when you eat it, it would have died long before it reached the slaughterhouse. What you'd see without agricultural prophylactic antibiotics, at worst, would be occasional mass die-offs and
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by hx87 10y ago
We could meet food demand with quite a bit less production if we ate lower on the food chain, improved transportation infrastructure and reduced waste. People don't go hungry because farmers don't produce enough food, not today; p
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by hx87 10y ago
A search warrant, if executed in certain ways, can be very destructive in itself.
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by hx87 10y ago
> The fruit and veg tend to be larger This is certainly false, as few heritage fruit and vegetable breeds approach the size of their commercial counterparts. Larger isn't better most of the time though, and smaller versions tend to
498.
by hx87 10y ago
Government guarantees property rights, full stop. It doesn't matter what the nationality of the owner is.
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by hx87 10y ago
You can't have a tech company that's as isolated from the rest of the world as an old school kibbutz. No fiber, no life. If there were a massive government-funded effort to get fiber to every last bit of the country then it might
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by hx87 10y ago
What's annoying about automatic faucets is that with most of them you can't change the temperature of the water, and 95% of the time it's too damn hot.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's what inevitably happens when the balance between "owner-occupied housing as investment" and "housing as cost of living" gets out of whack.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Eventually this kind of thing ends up costing you $50 a month and keeping you on par with everyone else in the office (who also happen to brain-chemistry-hack) If it makes the entire office more productive, wouldn't that be positi
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by hx87 10y ago
/Noticing/ old information is automatic, but assigning valence to it and having it influence a decision to a significant extent isn't. I might not be able to notice that a person is left-handed, but that doesn't mean I w
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm taking the long view of things, so I'm less interested in one particular man falsely accused of murder than falsely accused people in general. Multiple generations is indeed a reasonable period of time. Sure, social norms migh
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by hx87 10y ago
So...make them available only at certain hours and only over a 56k modem?
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by hx87 10y ago
I think the "right to be forgotten" should be replaced with the "right to not have old information considered", which is a much better compromise between the public interest and privacy. In your example, a person false a
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by hx87 10y ago
If enough of them are in a given prison they can form a gang to protect themselves.
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by hx87 10y ago
If that is indeed the case, then missing evidence should count as evidence against the officer.
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by hx87 10y ago
Solution: since you don't need to see out of the car anymore, all windows have 0% VLT tint unless it's stopped.
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by hx87 10y ago
As long as the codes are written by people who know their architecture and architectural history 100%, I am completely comfortable with that. It's just that I've had far too many experiences with historical preservation codes writ

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