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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, which regulates pipelines, decided rural police should not have to pay for increased strain from Line 3 protests. As a condition of granting Line 3 permits, the commission required Enbridge to
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Considering this is a tech-focused website, my guess is it's less that it confirms our pre-existing biases, and more so that the community feels strongly about tech and its impact. Similarly, if there were a website on gun control, I&#
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> Investment banking has no problem attracting smart people. I've worked in banking and my ex worked for Facebook, and I genuinely don't see the comparison beyond rather inaccurate tropes. Bankers aren't tearing apart soci
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> Gambling seems to have passed its peak some years ago, both in terms of opportunity and social acceptability. I'm not sure if you live in the US, but it's only gaining traction here in the States. It's becoming more soci
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Side note but I absolutely love the reference to Dude, Where's My Car [1] in the title. It wouldn't have been as entertaining or remotely shocking to me if this were a tech startup's blog, but there's something awesome a
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> Whatever, no one said that - that's just a straw man. The comment was in response to your comment on Tyler Cowen's argument for eating at strip malls in suburbs. > Do you think there is more interesting and authentic Chine
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I was going to add a note that Starbucks is basically the one exception to the rule, in almost any city in the world. :) Look at the number of other big chains in NYC, like Chick-Fil-A, Burger King, Krispy Kreme, Olive Garden, Buffalo Wild
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
If you’ve been to NYC, L.A., London, and so on, this definitely isn’t true — this seems true of smaller cities like Cleveland, Tampa, and San Diego. The largest cities are almost entirely void of most chains, as nobody who lives there wants
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
This is a curiously US-centric view to take that simultaneously also doesn't acknowledge the U.S.' advantages and history. The U.S. population is under 5% of the world population — our competitive advantage has always been our abi
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Love Google Arts and Culture! I always wanted to work there, but seems it's a small team in Paris quite separated from most of Google based on researching on LinkedIn. I'm happy Google has it, and I wish they'd invest more in
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> Why do we need to give them a tax break for keeping wells open longer than they otherwise would be? This is Wyoming you're talking about, and Wyoming views the oil & gas industry positively (it's over 15% of the state&#x2
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Can I ask what service you use? I'd be interested in checking it out.
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Personally, I don't remember seeing this in June. It doesn't seem that there's a recent development, but it seems important and interesting enough that it's worth posting.
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That is fair and I agree with the assessment! My argument is advocating for guns so that a population can determine its own fate, and not be subject to either domestic or foreign top-down control against its own will.
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The Taliban was fighting against the US though, with all their high-tech drones and such, which are usually cited as the reason that guns are futile against the state.
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> No amount of technical development can keep up with exponential increase in resource usage. People having children doesn't mean exponential increase in population. The US has an average children per family of 1.93 as of 2019, whic
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Yes! Human ingenuity will either solve climate change, or it won't, in which case we're either going to die or live a hard existence on another planet. If anything, the more children there are, the higher the odds that those in th
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Dan Price being sketchy aside, yes, people feeling financially comfortable enough to produce babies is a positive thing. It's the most fundamental purpose we have as humans.
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Most of us here have read this exact story several times over the years, whether it's on LinkedIn, Twitter, or HN. He increases wages after a conversation with an employee, the employees all pitch in to buy him a Tesla out of thankfuln
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Why should everybody who can illegally enter another country automatically become a citizen of that country?
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Risking his life to save a young child was a selfless and commendable act, and his actions really helped add color to the national perspective of illegal immigrants in France, who have often been discriminated against and viewed as selfish.
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It would've been much better served for OP to link to the actual IPCC report, so we could have a substantive conversation about climate, rather than everyone (understandably) being taken aback by the extremist and communist arc of the
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
It's very far-left and unpopular, and I think their positions can easily be dismissed on HN as ludicrous if not dangerous. It's always good to have discussions on climate change and learn more about the current state of it, and I
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I saw how extreme this page was but didn't even check out how ludicrously extreme the rest of the website was — they have an "action guide" on how to smash windows [1]. As if cracking a window or throwing paint will somehow..
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> justice, equity and redistribution are essential to climate policy > death cult of conservative economics > we must abandon economic growth, which is the basis of capitalism I've worked in environmental sciences, and am in t
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I think the biggest issue with Apple building a search engine is that it doesn't fit their brand and product suite. Building a search engine comparable to Google requires utilizing tons of data and personalization in a way that Apple h
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> it is taking action to change something about the world (I am currently possessing the house) Living in someone's house against their will, and without their contractual agreement, does not a possessor make. The state is preventin
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> Why is it somebody else's home when they might have never even seen it? It’s their home because somebody bought the land, put in the effort to build the home, and then either decided to rent it out or decided to trade it to someon
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> It seems likely that you don't believe in the rights, the negative individual rights, that these Americans believe in; rather, you are willing to subordinate them to a cause which you believe is a good cause. (It might even be a g
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
You don't have the right to live in someone else's home for free, and so no rights are conflicting.

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