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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> Also, for all of HN's moaning, this has bipartisan support in both parties. This misses the issue; no one is mad about improvements in process efficiency. People don’t like what the purchases will be used for.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Lmao compared to the past things are easier than ever. Can you imagine telling a farmer from 100 years ago that life is too hard? Society has made people accustomed to free stuff and cushy living. Life IS hard for the majority of us without
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Don’t forget the drugs.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Go check out a drum circle, all you need is a bucket. Learn to sing, join a choir. It’s not that hard if you quit making excuses. I’ve lived in small towns in rural areas for most of my life and there have been multiple community music grou
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Step 1: ditch the DAW and learn a real instrument Step 2: find a local jam group or community band/orchestra Step 3: have fun playing music with friends
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> by the time batteries wear out, most people are going to want a new a phone. Extreme consumer brain coupled with privilege. Billions of people can’t afford a new phone every couple years, they buy things and use them until they are pas
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
And that makes autocracy better somehow? Democracies are designed to evolve. If government corruption is a problem, we as citizens have the power to change that. Laws can be passed to add controls, fund enforcement, require transparency. Wr
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> the essence of government is autocratic sovereignty *was Democracy was and is radical for putting the common people in charge of the government. The right to petition for redress of grievances is literally in the first amendment. Gover
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Plan for future market contractions, refocus on profitability over growth, assume future scaling plans may not be feasible
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
You just need to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start your own artisanal hand-grilled hotdog food truck.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
More than half the menu item descriptions I see now are AI generated, and some are completely inaccurate.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
I think that's exactly the point. It's the distillation of the most common marketing copy possible, and when that tone is applied everywhere it becomes very same-y, like those cookie cutter neighborhoods where every house is the e
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
As someone who did the former for a couple years, “better off” is subjective and dependent on your business model, particularly for B2B. It’s a trade off like anything else. You may get more leads, but they may convert at a lower rate. Send
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
This is untrue. Students who graduate without actually absorbing knowledge as laid out in the curriculum devalue the degree when they show up in the workforce lacking that knowledge. This is part of why new grads are undesirable job candida
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Whoa you mean public services are funded by taxes? I knew those free books at the library were too good to be true
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
How many companies are so desperate that they acquire a podcast network? Not even like start a podcast, they decided to add an entire line of business completely outside their core product.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
That’s a pretty far cry from “nobody makes phone calls”. You can also find people who spend 6+ hours on phone calls everyday, including people under 30.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> Like we did with phones that nobody phones with. Since when? HN is truly a bubble sometimes
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Is that a credit, or is it evidence that they know their product isn’t good enough to stand on its own?
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
If you’re not capable of setting up DMARC correctly then it’s a safe assumption you aren’t capable of adequately securing your email server. Which is even easier to mess up with much higher consequences. Even if you are not intending to be
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Why would they? Their ad dollars spend the same, and they have no incentive to police it when they are protected by section 230. Edit: I’m not implying this is morally right or good for anyone but Google shareholders. This is just 21st Cent
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
You’re not wrong, but the commenter I responded to clearly hadn’t bothered to read it at all since they were asking questions that are answered in the piece. And when that’s the case it’s hard to believe they would actually be interested in
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Have you considered reading TFA? Literally the second paragraph: > She has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
They're already illegal in a lot of states, doesn't stop it from happening. Cops aren't great at following the law.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Obama's drone campaigns, although that's less a war and more just global terrorism.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
It’s a federal crime once someone gets convicted for it. Without any precedent it will be up to the first case to lay out how existing law applies to new phenomena that may or may not be covered, depending on what a judge thinks of the argu
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> Prediction markets can only do sports gambling (the vast majority of their volume) because they self-certify under the CFTC Sports betting is still illegal in 11 states. They can only do what they’re doing because of legislation and en
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
I think it’s naive to pretend they haven’t been doing the same thing all along. The Trump admin simply has more options available to them with crypto and prediction markets. And their egos are too big to bother doing it quietly.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
“Retroactive” crime is as you say, ex post facto, and specifically disallowed by the US Constitution.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
If they’ve been fine with Congress trading stocks on insider knowledge forever why would this be any different?

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