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by mint2 4y ago
I don’t get why people are so defensive of a guy who breaks rules using equipment he has a license for. Will people protest fines for Flying airplanes in restricted airspace’s? Protest fines for driving cars on in areas that are clearly pro
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by mint2 4y ago
We’ll thats certainly not the “lefty liberal” shining through with that gratuitous use use of derogatory terms for female anatomy as an insult in that comment.
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by mint2 4y ago
I don’t know if I agree, that seems more tribalism than collectivism. In comparing Bob, Jane and smith or similar nondescript lao baixing names vs distinguishing family/non family plus exact hierarchical familiar relation, it doesn’t s
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by mint2 4y ago
> These words encourages a more collectivist rather than an individual mindset with biases based on the person's seniority I don’t follow how very specific relational pronouns leads equality. Explain.
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by mint2 4y ago
Yes, that exactly is what many cops are doing. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article... Some overlap with the prior one: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea&#x2F
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by mint2 4y ago
Yeah that’s why I qualified the statement with “sold to”
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by mint2 4y ago
Yeah the pandemic does throw a wrench in the assessment. But letting the police so successfully push all the blame onto the da is only going to embolden them and reward bad behavior. If the option was to recall the top police leaders plus t
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by mint2 4y ago
That $950 limit is a widespread but, to be blunt, nonesense talking point that is a great example of how the police absolve their hands of their inaction and how a lack of nationwide context creates myopic assessments. For example, In the g
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by mint2 4y ago
As another resident, I can vouch there are serious issue but the DA is largely being successfully scapegoated by the troubled police department. Pretty much all the reasons the police cite for their chronic issues and ineffectiveness are ut
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by mint2 4y ago
Most regulation is inspired or at least sold to the public based on prior willful negligence or intentionally harmful practices. There wouldn’t be regulation if people followed some “do no harm principle” which is an utterly unrealistic lib
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by mint2 4y ago
Gas stove pans should really be more like jet boil pots with fins
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by mint2 4y ago
How does one get the CEO’s address to send a letter to? is it the company address?( He says letters many times not email) Also how does one get the CEO’s email?
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by mint2 4y ago
Is this satire? I’m honestly not sure. So after slipping a pill in the drink the perp later gets a free gun to sell? And even if no drugs, how will a gun help in a crowded club? And that’s just one scenario… There’s so much ill thought out
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by mint2 4y ago
Not familiar with sf or cities? Cars, delivery trucks, garbages trucks often stop in traffic lane for loading/unloading because there is literally nowhere else to stop. It’s annoying but expected and understandable. If they do that pri
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by mint2 4y ago
one major issue is that calling out sciences signals or reminds the person that the product is mass produced in giant industrial facilities. Without mentioning science that isn’t always realized for a random person.
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by mint2 4y ago
“Once in a lifetime events” You’ve been misled. While the exact details may be once in a lifetime, expect world shaking events every 10ish or less years.
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by mint2 4y ago
It appears they are just using an alternative phrasing without making comment, but if they were actually making a comment then wouldn’t the overall objection be “not to read too much into the wording”, but that is a catch 22. Objecting to s
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by mint2 4y ago
>” To paraphrase "the data isn't wrong, but it contradicts dogmatically held beliefs, and so a strict regime of pills and treatments are required first before indulging in this heresy".” That rephrasing in itself can be de
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by mint2 4y ago
One of the hackers news guidelines is to take the generous view of comments rather than reply based on the most negative readings. Often the negative readings can turn out to be an uncommon, Nonstandard interpretation. Yes The context of th
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by mint2 4y ago
Do you as a rule look at a sample of the individual raw data, non aggregated?
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by mint2 4y ago
Also aside from the brand text size, the new box looks like a store brand style of graphic.
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by mint2 4y ago
In the two years prior to the war, what addition steps had Ukraine taken to become a nato member? Second, why all the Russian lies about nazis? If nato was a legitimate concern why do they need those lies? If nato was actually a concern, wh
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by mint2 4y ago
Well in the run up to the Russian invasion Ukraine wasn’t provoking Russia, and Russia officials continually denied it had plans to invade until oh wait they’d had plans for a super long time. I’m not sure about Ukraine complying with Russi
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by mint2 4y ago
No, it’s not ironic, it’s why the guideline is exists. If someone posts something that they know many others are going to strongly disagree with politically it’s against HN guidelines. I can point that out. I also can’t let what I view as f
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by mint2 4y ago
There’s a difference between accepting a bad call from a ref as a settled matter and still griping about the bad call, versus mobbing the ref long after the call demanding it be reversed.
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by mint2 4y ago
Please don’t comment like that. HN guidelines: “ Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. “ You and I live in different realities democrats didn’t storm congress that was trump supporters
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by mint2 4y ago
Sorry but can you explain why people cite the modern day political organization strongly preferred by current neo-nazis and white nationalists as being the same party as the one that ~175 years ended slavery like evolution and change does n
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by mint2 4y ago
I did not realize left handed people were often excluded from trials
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by mint2 4y ago
So this article wasn’t about how the close caption menu more often than not opens and blocks the skip add button
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by mint2 4y ago
You’re right cast iron is quoted as the best for searing meat, with heavy duty copper a strong contenders. But I think this is a case of there being trade offs I.e dishwasher friendliness

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