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811.
by maxwell 5y ago
"Tracking my hours" was a burden but having set office hours is such a gift. Shifts aren't to keep you in, they're to let you get out.
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Untraceable Payments (2020)(medium.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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It's Not Just Income Taxes. Billionaires Don't Pay Inheritance Taxes Either.(motherjones.com)
37 points by maxwell 5y ago|21 comments
814.
Black man fatally shot by deputies in MN but there's no bodycam video(news.yahoo.com)
5 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
815.
by maxwell 5y ago
And that guideline often results in confusing, disjointed comment threads. Enforcing banal, insigificant titles diminishes meaningful discussion hinged on the actual point of the submission. Strangely, but anecdotally, the titles that I s
816.
Talks break down over crumbling Yemeni tanker threatening massive oil spill(news.mongabay.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
817.
Magic eye tube(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
818.
No Water, No Microchips: What Is Happening in Taiwan?(forbes.com)
3 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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Amazon and other retailers oppose country-of-origin labeling for online goods(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
820.
by maxwell 5y ago
Good point. I've been happy with our current 2016 LG device but will only buy dumb TVs/monitors/panels going forward.
821.
by maxwell 5y ago
Or: why I hodl/keep buying every 20th century movie I care about on tape/disc and archiving DRM-less digital files. What's Amazon going to do to the MGM back catalog? And note the nascent free video exodus beginning with the
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Weather Reporting Station Model (2008)(wpc.ncep.noaa.gov)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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Boy or girl? It's in the father's genes (2008)(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
824.
by maxwell 5y ago
True to a point, but plastic and the cloud were transitioned to for many things a few years ago because of "saving trees". And then overused to the point of surpassing paper's previous carbon output. Calling to mind palm oil,
825.
Tim Cook faces questions on developer satisfaction in Epic trial(theverge.com)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
826.
by maxwell 5y ago
Yeah, you're right. It looks like sign bans are usually unconstitutional when content-based, where the substance of what is being communicated is taken into account (e.g. bans on only commercial signs), but generally hold up if content
827.
by maxwell 5y ago
They're state laws. It's a 9th/10th Amendment issue. A federal billboard ban would certainly seem to violate the 1st. A ban in California would seem illegal as well, due to the affirmative right to free speech contained in
828.
by maxwell 5y ago
> distracting video billboards in general should be banned for safety reasons My state bans all billboards. They're thought pollution. https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-is-billboard-a...
829.
by maxwell 5y ago
The point is that appraisals appear not to be based on information, but on gut instinct. I've found no kind of federal regulation, no industry/trade/lobbying groups, only state-based certification bodies perfectly positioned
830.
by maxwell 5y ago
I was the "HN user who decided to post the article". Which was flagged, and then unflagged, and now flagged again. Apparently this doesn't gratify one's intellectual curiosity . Last year I saw the following story, this
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Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals (2020)(nytimes.com)
18 points by maxwell 5y ago|8 comments
832.
by maxwell 5y ago
They establish taxable property values! Who appraises the appraisers?
833.
by maxwell 5y ago
Splitting up companies increases the value of the "babies", and doesn't prevent reforming, as with AT&T and Standard Oil. What about revoking corporate charters and nationalizing? I'm against capital punishment (due
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Black homeowner has white friend stand in for third appraisal. Value doubles.(indystar.com)
70 points by maxwell 5y ago|47 comments
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Why are billboards banned in Maine, Vermont, Hawaii, and Alaska? (2019)(movia.media)
5 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
836.
by maxwell 5y ago
Billboards aren't banned in your state? https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-is-billboard-a...
837.
by maxwell 5y ago
How does the energy usage compare to digital advertising and cloud computing?
838.
by maxwell 5y ago
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#how-does-apples-f...
839.
by maxwell 5y ago
I agree, but do you think anything's changed over the past 10 years?
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It's 2021. You have a petabyte drive on your keychain... (2011)(youtube.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments

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