imustbeevil

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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Malice is just the intention to do evil, it depends what you categorize as evil. If the bar is "primarily intending to hurt other people", then I would agree this wouldn't qualify. If the bar is "primarily intending to e
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Yes. The plan my employer had in Hawaii was $700/mo for pretty average coverage. On Healthcare.gov the best possible plan I could get, $0 deductible, full coverage, etc, was $510/mo. I think the difficulty is that most people who
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Healthcare.gov. We've had that system for 12 years. I've never had employer healthcare, it was way more expensive than private insurance in Hawaii, which anyone can get and you auto-qualify for enrollment if you change jobs or mov
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
In the context of what that person was saying, they certainly just mean "cancelling" and misused "verbing" to make their communication more difficult and less succinct, defeating the entire purpose, yes. When you use &qu
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
In conversational English, you can turn nouns into verbs by adding "ing", similar to a contraction. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/the-basics-of-verbing-nouns/ "Cancel culture"-ing means &quo
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
They pre-sell ads every year. They fucked it up for next year. It was a very easy read.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Did we shut down people saying smoking is good for you? Yes, 53 years ago. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1089/public-hea...
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
The first result on Google for "how many birds are killed by domesticated cats" is a scientific article from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. https://www.nature.com&
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Another interesting thing is that many countries are experiencing lower inflation than the US, but their currency is getting weaker, so the USD's purchasing power is increasing two-fold. I've been planning a trip to Malaysia becau
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Seems likely it's a genuine mistake on their part A genuine mistake like saying "this bottle will cure any ailment", or "our machine can test blood with a single drop". They are lying about the money being safe
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Yes, increasing costs of necessities is regressive. Charging everyone the same fee costs poor people a larger percentage of their income. > A regressive tax is a tax applied uniformly, taking a larger percentage of income from low-income
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
"If there is a url, text is optional": https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
They're doing business in the US. Only their US business is directly affected. Most crypto sites have different operations in the US because different countries have different laws, and you technically have to follow all of them.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Median total compensation for a senior software engineer in the US is $138K on glassdoor, and I'd wager even that is a bit inflated. There is no reality where most engineers expect to be paid 200K+. I really don't understand techn
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
The US has financial laws. Enforcing those laws is not tyranny. The simplest way to understand this is that money from crime is tracked so that investigators can follow it to the bad guys. We have laws that financial providers have to keep
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Finally, to reiterate, bully voluntarily foregoing coercion on occasion is not a subsidy. I just have to go with the definition. Part of the brevity of the original communication was that semantics shouldn't really require discuss
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
It sounds more like you disagree with taxation, rather than the semantics around subsidization. We can't really continue this line of dialogue if you disagree that taxes are payments for services rendered. It's like saying Burger
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Yeah I'm talking about taxes in the United States, not continuing that strained analogy. I don't mean to be flippant, but engaging with a disconnected hypothetical takes away from the discussion of reality. In my original comment,
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
That's not how taxes work. Churches owe taxes because they conduct business in the United States. The government pays those taxes instead. That's a subsidy.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> When DMO issued the letter on October 29, 2014, it took a no-action position with respect to the operation of a not-for-profit market for certain event contracts and the offering of such contracts to U.S. persons by Victoria University
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Closing schools had no impact on virus This is what I mean by framing things as black and white. Why would you make such an incredible claim? How could you possibly support a claim that reducing community spread in schools (where child
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> anyone defending in this thread school closures is someone without children attending school Or like, not seeing everything as black and white. We had to do something because the hospitals were overflowing. When all the hospital beds a
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
It seems like a common misunderstanding because the reporting around this is so bad. > Musk and Twitter agreed to a so-called reverse termination fee of $1 billion when the two sides reached a deal last month. Still, the breakup fee isn’
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Also, pretty embarrassing that this was published by University of Chicago and not the University of Washington meteorology department. I guess the relevant UW profs should spend more time doing research and less time complaining about
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
I think you may have gotten lost in your communications. You responded that you were surprised that something high risk / high reward was compared to a junk bond, and then compared it to a CD. It's obviously more like a junk bond
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
To anyone else (like me) wondering why the Mormons maintain a genealogy database: > Mormons trace their family trees to find the names of ancestors who died without learning about the restored Mormon Gospel so that these relatives from p
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
The reason we have to force states into the 21st century is because they are holding the cities hostage. Local government only works if you keep going all the way down. If Austin can't make abortion legal, Texas can't make it ille
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
They took the jobs people would have had, they didn't take the jobs people currently have. Amazons factories would have employed every human on Earth if they had to use humans. That's what happened to the robots taking our jobs. T
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Since I don't want to have to respond to all of the cryptos misunderstanding what staking means, you can also just google it: https://www.coindesk.com/learn/crypto-staking-101-what-is-st... > Similarly, when yo
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
"Staking" means locking your coins on a platform/chain for some period of time (like a year). So, Tera or Celsius offer 20% APY for locking your coins there for a year, then when everything tanks and they go bankrupt everyone

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