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by leetcrew 5y ago
the opposite of "big government" is not "corrupt government". the FDA has all the authority it needs to prevent dangerous or ineffective drugs from being sold. in this case, the individuals in charge have simply chosen n
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by leetcrew 5y ago
yes...? if you overdraw your account and/or bounce checks over and over, it's not unreasonable for the bank to close that account eventually.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> quite selectively and carefully > allowing readers to see patterns that were until now hidden am I being too cynical, or is this a "pick one" situation? what "pattern" are the readers supposed to see in this care
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by leetcrew 5y ago
not quite. any high-temperature combustion in atmosphere is going to create some NOx.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
a non-trivial number of people in their mid-to-late twenties are college students. not everyone starts college immediately after highschool or finishes in exactly four years. this is pretty common at non-elite schools. if you're a 25
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by leetcrew 5y ago
this isn't really true. the difference in funding from property tax is smoothed out (or more!) at the state level in most US states. some of the poorest school districts (eg, baltimore) have the highest funding per student. they still
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by leetcrew 5y ago
yes, a certain amount of discipline is required to get through boring, yet important, stuff in life. I'm really not sure US grade school does a great job instilling that virtue though. the material is generally a complete joke for any
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by leetcrew 5y ago
protip: the horizon organic (or possibly other ultra-pasteurized) milks last a very long time in the fridge. I only use milk for my daily coffee and I haven't had a single carton go sour on me yet. it's a bit more expensive, but e
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I'm not sure barber is a good example of a profession that absolutely needs to be licensed, but it's worth noting that they use implements that a) can nick you, and b) may have nicked someone else recently. there's at least t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I'm quite certain I can't tell the difference between flac and mp3 v0, but I keep all the music I care about in flac. I don't know what lossy formats will have mainstream support in 10-20 years, but I know I will be able to t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I agree, it's an important distinction that should be made more clear. one advantage to a roth (or traditional) IRA over a 401k is that you get to choose the funds yourself. my employer doesn't offer very good funds (the expense r
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't agree. police should use discretion when deciding whether to make an arrest or write a ticket, and prosecutors should use discretion when deciding which cases to prosecute. we don't need to aggressively seek penalties for
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by leetcrew 5y ago
it's worth teasing apart where words come from. the term "dynamic programming" does not make a lot of sense until you understand the historical context.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
police are also known to intentionally downgrade or even discourage crime reports to improve statistics. this can either be overt ("do you really want to file a report for that?) or the result of no one giving a fuck the last time yo
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I do notice, at least in my city, that there seem to be a lot more reports of violent crime in my area on citizen than I would expect from looking at the city's official crime map data. that said, I don't trust the city enough to
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I'm strongly in favor of prioritizing technical accuracy over perceived urgency. when people realize the sky isn't falling quite as fast as implied by the terminology, they grow cynical.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
this probably adds complexity for non-savvy users. for instance, my TV can handle a ~20mbps unencrypted stream. turn on encryption in plex, and that drops down to ~8mbps. I'm fine with routing an unencrypted stream through my LAN, but
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by leetcrew 5y ago
meh, it's a problem of their own making. I used to torrent tons of music. now that I can just buy unencumbered flac files (bandcamp) and stream the rest in good quality for a reasonable price, I don't torrent music. I have room in
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by leetcrew 5y ago
maybe times have changed, but before I got a VPN, I used to get copyright notices all the time. I didn't notice for a few years because they went to an @comcast.com email address that I never checked. when I finally looked, I saw pages
710.
by leetcrew 5y ago
there are a few ways this could not be true. the mortgage could have been locked in a long time ago at a much lower valuation. the rent would still be above the underlying mortgage, but that doesn't mean I would have bought the house w
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by leetcrew 5y ago
this is a really unconvincing example, at least to me. despite the name, bitcoin doesn't function much like a currency. that is to say, someone who would otherwise hold $1mm cash would probably not want to convert that to bitcoin, at l
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I'm a big fan of small cars, but I'm also a big fan of having friends that own trucks. just off the top of my head, I've needed to borrow a friend's truck to move a couch (twice), buy a new bedframe, and buy a TV. this i
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by leetcrew 5y ago
first of all, despite its prominence in marketing materials, engine torque doesn't tell you much about a vehicle's performance characteristics. torque is meaningless without knowing the overall gear reduction. a 911 gt3 is about a
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think anyone is entitled to an unlimited supply of their drug of choice from the state. but I do think they are entitled to a relatively safe supply of their poison, free from dangerous cuts (fentanyl, levamisole, etc.) and t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
a software engineer would. we call it "multiplexing".
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by leetcrew 5y ago
right, that's my point. many more people are killed with handguns. the public discussion has a weird fixation on certain rifle features, but most of the actual laws are concerned with handguns, as they should be. if you want a semi-aut
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by leetcrew 5y ago
the "average well educated american" is the subset of americans that agrees with my political conclusions. if they disagree with me, they obviously weren't educated very well.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I agree that the focus on "assault rifles" is weird and misguided, but I don't think this is an entirely fair characterization of gun control. in most states, even those with onerous laws for long guns, it is substantially ha
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I get the point of the quote, but it's not entirely true today. setting aside the existence of "premium colas", there is a higher tier of coca cola: the one that has actual cane sugar and is imported from mexico. if you order
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by leetcrew 5y ago
stuff like that happened at my high school, and not that long ago. do you not believe that kind of thing happens/happened, or do you just not believe that "nerds" can be the perpetrators? these kinds of events can fly under t

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