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by mmooss 3mo ago
Those costs are relatively minimal, courts do charge fees (though I don't know how well that covers the court's expenses), and few class action suits go to trial - they are settled or dismissed beforehand.
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by mmooss 3mo ago
> 0°F and 100°F are kind of the top and bottom of the temperature range I’m going to be experiencing and anything outside that is waaay too hot or cold. Food, saunas, the weather, a fever, and much more are often over 100F.
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Is it really that hard for people to stop doom scrolling or to stop inhaling or drinking dangerous chemicals? They aren't selling these foods and coincidentally they are addictive. They have chosen the most addictive foods to sell - th
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How do they externalize the cost? Who is paying them? The plaintiff class-action firm pays their own costs and hopes get reimbursed when the case is resolved.
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> incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases I don't see it: Class-action suits require the law firm owners (partners) to pay teams of attorneys, as well as experts, and others for years. I saw one firm rent an office and hire doz
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Just look at their About page, which conflicts with much of the parent comment: > international NGO What does 'international' mean here and why do you mention it? About page: "nonprofit organisation registered in the Neth
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That doesn't explain all the lower-HHI people moving to and praising Texas.
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That is one of the more beautiful, insightful things I've read about mathematics. Thank you!
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> we have no clue what we don't know We have very good ideas about it, including the issue described in the OP. We also don't know how gravity and the other forces work together. We don't know where other life is in the un
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How can those few people - and again narrowed down to the population mailing letters AND needing stamps AND seeking discounts AND willing or ignorant enough to do/risk fraud - with that little revenue per item, make a half-price stamp
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Here's a look at FIFA's finances, "Where the money comes from and where it goes". I've always wondered where the billions go (and for the Olympics too): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7330307&
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> half-price stamps Who is selling half-price stamps? #1 How big is your potential market? It's people still mailing things from home, who haven't figured out how to do postage on their computer. #2 Of the population in #1, it&
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by mmooss 3mo ago
I find younger people are more likely to trust whatever they read - social media rumors, LLM output, Reddit threads - and older people looking for credible sources.
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by mmooss 3mo ago
I can imagine many on HN having excited discussions about their satellite descramblers. > do it because they can get away with it. Lots of people on HN download and upload copyrighted materials. Is it really different?
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What is HHI level ? What you say isn't entirely true. Lot's of people are moving to Texas (and Florida), thus they are able to move. Lots of wealthy people go out of their way to praise Texas. The answer is really politics, I thi
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by mmooss 3mo ago
I know it's hard to move for most people. People just love to lecture, even when I already addressed that in my first comment.
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by mmooss 3mo ago
I'm not sure what to say that doesn't repeat myself. I can add to my prior comment that many Republican-run states, including Texas, restrict freedom of speech and other freedoms in many ways.
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Despite that fun trope, in reality democratic government reguarly delivers very well: Traffic safety systems work easily, dependably, economically. The Internet was developed by the government, the web at a government-funded research instit
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by mmooss 3mo ago
> The only acceptable solution would be for apps and websites to simply include a recommended age. Allowing parents to configure their children’s devices to block services that require users to be older than the specified age or that do
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Instead of an out-of-state vpn, why not an out-of-state home? Why do people put up with the lack of freedom there? People complain about European countries but then praise states like Texas. (Realistically, moving is easier said than done,
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Isn't the parent comment almost a duplicate of your other comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=49109868
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Thank you! Now then, how was the player supposed to figure out that rectangular gold thing with the four semispheres? Were there clues I missed? I love the 'top 80%!' bit, by the way!
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by mmooss 3mo ago
(potential spoilers:) How could anyone figure out the provenance of that rectangular gold object with the four semispheres? Gold has been widespread and doesn't narrow it down much. I wondered if its abstract-ish design might be modern
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Are the prices competitive with the used market? Just one datapoint: I know someone who tried to trade in a laptop; Apple offered ~$200, eBayers were buying for ~$400.
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Wonderful - thank you to the creator! Requests, just in case you are reading: * Make hints that prompt thinking and teach analysis (interesting!), not give answers (boring). For example, for the Inca ceramic depicting corn: 'The object
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I know what the prior comment said but I (and I imagine others) don't understand it. There is a lot of context or prior reasoning left out: In what respect are they being compared, from your perspective? How do you think they are not c
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Could you tell us more?: How are those groups not comparable in this context, and what do you see as the downside? And what is dishonest about the presentation?
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Also, people can look at the Github repo of your prior version and see it's clearly not just 'running it through Claude'. https://github.com/sweisman/translation-pipeline What I haven't found in eit
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If you do understand theory and science, you know that theory doesn't apply to individuals, that it's evidence of nothing. To describe something in the real world, you need objective evidence, in this case of someone's motive
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by mmooss 3mo ago
People who dislike this situation need to stop taking the Trump administration's (and allies') statements at face value, like David Harkey does in the article, and stop calling them crazy. Either way, they are playing you and dist

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