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by jadell 9y ago
> We celebrate Xmas, but that doesn't mean that we have a guy wearing a Santa (non-christian) uniform everyday. But everyday we enjoy things like child labor laws, paid time off, safe working conditions, limits on shift-lengths, ove
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by jadell 9y ago
There's an entire holiday in the US, Labor Day, that specifically marks the struggle (including deaths!) of members of labor unions literally putting their lives on the line to secure those rights.
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by jadell 9y ago
There's only two effective ways to prevent your employees from unionizing: 1) get government and law enforcement on your side and use force, or 2) treat them like human beings with their own desires and goals and make sure your busines
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by jadell 9y ago
I'm not an expert, and don't have an opinion on container homes being a good idea or not. But the linked article seems more focused on why containers are not a good idea for multi-family apartments, affordable housing or hotels. I
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by jadell 9y ago
It would depend on how often the "in-tribe altruism / out-tribe selfishness" trait crops up in other intelligent species.
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by jadell 9y ago
This is addressed explicitly in the article: > Cultures with a long-time reliance on soy protein apparently realized this early, Patisaul adds. For instance, the compounds in soy are known to interfere with the body’s uptake of iodine, a
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by jadell 9y ago
11/15 A few I missed because I didn't know enough to tell them apart (eg Kotlin/Swift.) Others were process of elimination or a straight up guess. And I didn't even know there was an abstract visual programming language!
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by jadell 10y ago
They did. And it resulted in the FCC regulations that just got rolled back.
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by jadell 10y ago
It wasn't a bill, it was an amendment to a budget resolution. Several of the Senators who voted against it said they did so because they didn't like the way it was being introduced, not because they are against the idea in princip
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by jadell 10y ago
As an American somewhat versed in British TV and movies, I always assumed wanker to be more equal to "asshole" or "son of a bitch", something you call your friends when they've done something bone-headed or mean-spi
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by jadell 10y ago
You're absolutely correct. There are many problems with Obamacare and there are many other systems we could have. The very same people licking Trump's boots now are the ones who previously shot down every proposed solution and bet
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by jadell 10y ago
Why should it not be both? "I hate non-white immigrants and I want them to get out of my country, and will use deadly force on a random subset of them in order to scare the others into leaving or not coming here" is both a racist
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by jadell 10y ago
I'm all for "socializing the risk" of oil. If more people had the same worries about their water being contaminated, maybe more people would start to demand investment in cleaner sources of energy. As it is, most people don&#
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by jadell 10y ago
Existing pipelines within a few hundred miles of this site have recently leaked into water supplies. This is not symbolic; it's about where the tribe gets their water from.
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by jadell 10y ago
From looking at the map, it seems like the pipeline could have been built heading south-east directly from Stanley, avoiding crossing the river at all. Does anyone have any insight as to why it was built west first, then swing to the south-
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by jadell 10y ago
Spend even a small amount of time on congress.gov/bill, and you notice every bill has this tacked on. It's to leave wiggle room for the inevitable backroom dealing and amendments that it takes to get legislation passed nowadays. D
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by jadell 10y ago
It's not so much proof of racism as it is proof that this executive order isn't actually about keeping America safe.
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by jadell 10y ago
In what way are you forced to use their product?
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by jadell 10y ago
When a company lobbies the government, or makes a donation to a PAC, is that not speaking for the company? Even if you disagree with what's being done?
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by jadell 10y ago
Apropos of not much, I created a Chrome extension that replaces the phrases "fake news" and "alternative facts" with the phrase "real-life fanfic." It's made my browsing over the past few days much more en
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by jadell 10y ago
In which case, Trump is still guilty of being just as corrupt as any politician, since he lets his children (who are and will be running his business empire) sit in on meetings with world leaders where he has business dealings, and appoints
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Show HN: RewardStock, earn points for free travel with a personalized plan(rewardstock.com)
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by jadell 10y ago
So if you're standing in an area, and I start firing bullets into that area while shouting "You deserve to be shot!", you're saying the onus was on you to not be in that area when I started shooting?
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by jadell 10y ago
Grand mal seizures can be deadly. Intentionally attempting to trigger one in someone with epilepsy is assault at a minimum.
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by jadell 10y ago
I wonder if the answer to the "runaway apprentice" problem is a subsidy of some sort. Give the employer a monthly stipend per apprentice to cover the cost of time, tools, part of the apprentice's wages, and a bit leftover. Th
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by jadell 10y ago
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too. I would prefer that the lesson were: &quo
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by jadell 10y ago
You're not actually downloading the package from Packagist. It acts only as a metadata repository that points you to a source repository. For the others, I would assume they act as both a metadata and a source repository.
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by jadell 11y ago
I cam here to say exactly that. A world where I have to pay a usage fee for each and every aspect of my life sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
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Why Startups Should Consider 'The Bakery Model' When Starting Out(entrepreneur.com)
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by jadell 11y ago
I'm picturing an interview with Elon Musk next week. Interviewer: So what's next for you? Musk: Well, I've been reading a lot about the teledildonics industry, and I think there's some real opportunities for synergy with

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