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by mint2 3y ago
Paraphrased arguments I’ve seen in HN comment threads that doesn’t sound as good in terms of firehoses: “We shouldn’t be trying plug the firehose on social media like Twitter or Facebook because that goes against our principle of free speec
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by mint2 4y ago
Yeah it’s what I’d call a very competitive interest rate for a saving account. Amex slightly lower, citizens access slightly higher. Banks looking like they may lead to a more questionable experiences have even higher rates to offset higher
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by mint2 4y ago
Yeah that’s obvious because the comment replied as if I said “no leaks are good” which is a highly illogical and contrived reading of me saying I object to how the article is acting like “all” leaks are good.
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by mint2 4y ago
What does the word “all” mean? Those examples seem to be addressing a statement that no one made. Is that in an effort to make people think a different statement was made, one that’s trivial to disprove rather than addressing the actual sta
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by mint2 4y ago
Bellingcat isn’t a news org. Most of what I saw was rehashes of their analysis. Second, journalists use their own judgement or what to publish. Had the kid given it to a news org the reporting would have been redacted. I object to the new d
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by mint2 4y ago
Never-mind toothpaste, I want to know if they drink tea?
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by mint2 4y ago
It’s because they give clearances out like candy. One article mentioned 1.25 million of them to defense tangential people
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by mint2 4y ago
“In a hot fucking minute” Which is why his attempt will be thrown out in court. Making changes to regs likes these requires bureaucratic paperwork or they get thrown out like many of 45s rushed regulation reversals did.
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by mint2 4y ago
“ , as well as to security and features updates” Connect it to the WiFi to get the security updates that connecting it to the WiFi makes necessary!
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by mint2 4y ago
Here another fun example of the sf police refusing to work — only this one has a happy ending - they actually face consequences. An la times article said: “ San Francisco police officers Kevin Lyons and Kevin Sien have been temporarily susp
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by mint2 4y ago
GM is chasing the United airlines and Ryan air business model. United expects customers to be grateful if they get involuntarily rescheduled to arrive a day and a half after the original arrival time, with not so much as a free snack ticket
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by mint2 4y ago
They are not legally mandated to do that - that’s a group think developed largely by shareholders without morals.
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by mint2 4y ago
>“ converges will have happier users and more sales because of it.” First class tickets are irrelevant, also terrible but that’s a lengthyrabbit hole. The airline industry is loathed. No one likes them. The users are not happier but the
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by mint2 4y ago
like the way the airline market converged on how they can charge people extra to be treated like humans. And charge extra to resolve arbitrary and clearly contrived annoying policies? That’s caused happier users?
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by mint2 4y ago
This idea that there is a shared or converged sense of aesthetic or preference is really peculiar as it doesn’t match any of what I observe. Convergence really seems to happen solely due to economics, particularly mass production combined w
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by mint2 4y ago
No. We Are Not. Real estate developers have converged on beige toned car oriented soulless tracts. Some people think they like that suburban style. Others loathe it and choose to live in walkable, vibrant urban areas. I could go on for days
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by mint2 4y ago
Perhaps they’ve finally estimated the cost of having their reputation turn to shady flee market. And As the other commenters point out, this is pretty inadequate when there are 100 trivially easy other things they could do which would be ev
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by mint2 4y ago
I thought clothing bought online normally had return rates far higher than that?
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by mint2 4y ago
Other telematics programs already consider this. Also with insurance it doesn’t really matter if people hate a rating factor, if a company starts using one that turns out to be predictive than all other companies will eventually forced to o
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by mint2 4y ago
Question: Adding out of state investors to the demand pool ( that additionally can out bid locals) will likely A. Increase house prices B. Decrease house prices Question 2: adding rent seeking middlemen between people and housing is likely
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by mint2 4y ago
Demand for homes may exceed supply but ask what that demand really is. A big chunk of that demand is for 2nd or 3rd or even 4th properties as investment rental properties. Can’t afford a house in the sf Bay Area, no problem, go buy 4 invest
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by mint2 4y ago
That argument doesn’t make sense as it assumes the governments of the other countries are equally at odds as China is with the US. Western Europe and US are generally wanting each other to succeed as friends and allies. China wants the us m
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by mint2 4y ago
“Natural” is marketing. It doesn’t mean things are not bad to regularly eat. Cyanide is a natural molecule, and rattle snake venom is made of natural molecules.
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by mint2 4y ago
I don’t even know what the “collateral murder” video was until googling it just now, so… err those facts mentions are “alternative facts”. A lot of Millennials (many of whom are disgusted by assanges selective war against democrats) were oc
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by mint2 4y ago
When I’m wrong I correct myself, I was wrong it wasn’t the dnc emails it was the podesta dump that came immediately after the billy bush tape.(1.) The emails that turned out to be all hot air but hey use what you got when you’ve declared wa
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by mint2 4y ago
What did wikileaks reveal that showed Clinton broke the law? They revealed the DNC was trying to tip the scales towards her in their primary which was unsavory but I don’t recall wikileaks having anything to do with the classified emails… a
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by mint2 4y ago
Is it really a mystery why people turned on assange? In his later years his work became similar to that of breitbart, James okeef, and tucker Carlson. Regardless of what one thinks of those, There’s no question that their publications and i
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by mint2 4y ago
Jokes on them, all surface water is radioactive! So are bananas. So are you!
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by mint2 4y ago
UPS phone support might as well be a chat bot for all they are allowed to do. Also Rescheduling a package is is a nightmare. Its like they intentionally tried to make the delivery estimates and updates as unhelpful and bad as possible to me
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by mint2 4y ago
Not having a WSJ subscription and duly noting that it is good to augment news with an outside perspective, it’s strange to look to a source 2500 miles away for the primary source on a local story. Also I’d be puzzled if wsj has used the b

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