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by lurk2 1y ago
> The neighborhood cafe where locals can stop by at any time and see other locals. The bar that everyone stops by after work twice a week. These are stationary physical locations that don’t require pre-planning, schedules, apps, or anyth
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by lurk2 1y ago
This isn’t really a new sentiment on HN. It chiefly comes here via a loose network of right-wing influencers on Twitter who adopted the attitude from early 20th century ultranationalists, Ted Kacynzski’s Industrial Society and Its Future, a
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Interesting notes. I’ve made a few of these observations on my own and came to largely the same conclusion; clinical psychiatry is inherently normative. Viewing behavior as disordered in particular requires a frame of reference for what con
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by lurk2 1y ago
I vouched for your parent comment earlier but have unvouched as this isn’t the standard of discourse that people expect to find here. Consider reviewing the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lurk2 1y ago
December 1st, 2014. https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/offices/list/ocr/doc...
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No. Similarly, God cannot make a married bachelor, because this is nonsensical. The conversation then turns to questions about how we define God’s omnipotence: Doesn’t the existence of any sort of limitation placed upon God imply he is boun
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by lurk2 1y ago
> In your example the saying suggests that a Camel going through the eye of a needle is an extraordinary event So is the Son of God descending to earth and being nailed to a cross for the sins of man.
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Wealth is not universally maligned in the Biblical tradition. Job is afforded material rewards in this world after his tribulation. Prosperity gospel is plainly contradicted by the Bible (see again: The Book of Job), but so is the Redditor
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by lurk2 1y ago
> This is exactly how it works. No, it isn’t. Limited liability does not shield executives from criminal prosecution. If an LLC defrauds another party, the perpetrators are both criminally and civilly liable; this is true in every common
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by lurk2 1y ago
I had forgotten about the exclusion zones. From the link you provided it looks like citizens can simply refuse to answer questions from border patrol, while foreigners in possession of a visa are obligated to disclose their status: > You
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> All because of some random law passed in 1952. Do you have some particular insight into this issue that would make you more qualified to speak on it than the judges ruling on the case?
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> I didn't steal your money, the company I ran stole your money This isn’t how it works.
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> Performers are not in the business of optimizing ROI, they're in the business of performing. I have to disagree; performers are absolutely in the business of optimization. Bo Burnham was singing about metrification destroying art
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by lurk2 1y ago
My understanding is that performers have shied away from this model because it results in less affluent fans being excluded. Lotteries are generally preferred. You could theoretically eliminate lottery scalping by making the tickets non-tra
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This was my theory but there is a problem with it: Unless there is a constant churn of scalpers failing to turn a profit, the scalpers are presumably selling off their tickets at a profit. This means the market demand from individual purcha
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by lurk2 1y ago
Pearl Jam does something similar with annual membership in their fan club. Each concert has some designated seats set aside for members of the club, with the best seats going to the members with the longest consecutive subscriptions. Allowi
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I’d like to dig down deep enough that we reach causal explanations.
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> There has been extensive coverage of the US detaining people without charge under the new regime's immigration policies. Can you cite any examples? Mahmoud Khalil (who you referenced in another comment) was not charged with a crim
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by lurk2 1y ago
The plain reading of “There ought to be more affordable housing,” is not “Society needs 100% taxation administered by a genocidal ministry of housing.” > The West isn't ready for the conversation about what would be necessary to &qu
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… because?
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Too many ads, generic instructions, account is a day old.
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> Instead, due to culture war side taking, they hobble themselves to be ever dependent on the petro-extraction and refinement industries. The majority of the content I see in this space is overwhelmingly supportive of rolling your own gr
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by lurk2 1y ago
> You and others in this thread are using HN for political or ideological battle You look to be an admin so you can do whatever you want, but I would point out that the only post I made that expressed an opinion is still up [0]. I don’t
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by lurk2 1y ago
Those of you who took the time to flag this completely innocuous comment should take a moment to review the site guidelines as you are abusing the mechanism. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Immigration policy being enforced is not an infringement of academic freedom.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Really all government actions should follow a predictable and unbiased process, a.k.a "The Law". What law do these deportations violate?
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Thanks.
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> Apple is doing something similar except they send all your data to the cloud They do? Since when?

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