ishouldstayaway

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by ishouldstayaway 9d ago
Or, as the old joke goes: > Psychology is really biology; biology is really chemistry; chemistry is really physics; physics is really math; and math is really hard.
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by ishouldstayaway 1mo ago
> but this setup is certainly better than eliminating public restrooms entirely.
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by ishouldstayaway 1mo ago
Of course. Isn't that what they're for?
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by ishouldstayaway 1mo ago
That is exactly the point you are responding to. There is no such thing as "safe shock levels". This is just Taser(tm) all over again.
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by ishouldstayaway 1mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly with your first sentence here. But I find it difficult to think of a worse example you could have picked than taxis. For all Uber's many faults, the taxi companies were worse. Hell they're still worse. Are
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by ishouldstayaway 2mo ago
a) This was probably just a typo for "being". b) Hey but at least you can learn something today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be
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by ishouldstayaway 3mo ago
This hasn't been the case for years.
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by ishouldstayaway 3mo ago
Apple Messages.
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by ishouldstayaway 3mo ago
> Why do these systems hold onto user's data post verification? Depending on the company, you could rate the reasons on a scale from "incompetence/naivete" to "revenue stream".
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
For now.
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
If you don't want to use ~~social media~~ any website that could contain content deemed as "adult". And what's "adult"? Hardcore pornography? Sex ed material? Otherwise-G-rated content that happens to have a ga
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
Far be it from me to defend Uber of all things, but pre-rideshares, the taxi companies were - and still are - much, much worse. I've begun to realize we now live in a time where there are a lot of adults who are too young to remember
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
Surely this is a dark joke. People need to eat, dude.
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
The same thing you do now when you can't sell a piece of land: you lower the price. In addition to what others said, in this case the land is obviously not worth very much, and thus the taxes are also minuscule.
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
The point of LVT is right there in the name: it is the land that has value. "Location, location, location" is an old cliche for a reason. If you let your property go empty and crumble, the Land Value Tax is there to provide the
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
And the part you didn't understand is that all the marketing in the world won't matter if the audience barely - or doesn't - exist.
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
You're telling me.
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
> ...he said, shovelling orphans into the crushing machine
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
> The problem is not writing - the problem is finding an audience. You are literally responding to > I really don't know if it'll have an audience
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by ishouldstayaway 4mo ago
> he doesn't (or rather the events related to his companies that make it to the front page don't) seem very popular around here to me. This is a more recent turn, and one that happened later than in other online social spaces.
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
(3) here was always just a fantasy. It never actually worked that way.
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
Let me guess: you're also the kind of insufferable (and similarly incorrect) pedant who insists that "decimate" still means "reduce by one tenth"?
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
2: one who is heartily interested in good food and drink https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gourmand Been a long time since it was purely about quantity.
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
How so?
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
We bringing back Something Awful, now?
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
> since we are slamming on Reddit anyways without realizing how fucked HN is by the same petard Same as it ever was.
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
> allowing users to hide their history from public view Yeah it's become my default assumption that any user who does this is either a bot or a bad-faith troll.
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
Do you sincerely believe that that's how grey-area's comment was meant to be read?
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
> there is some new cooking sub where it's just women posting food pictures and complaining about their significant others If you are referring to /r/girldinnerdiaries, that is not a cooking sub, nor is it intended to be.
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by ishouldstayaway 5mo ago
> The premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fragging

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