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by moistly 4y ago
You should encourage some property tax reforms in your area. The way it should work is that a budget is set, and then property owners are taxed to meet that budget. When done that way, the tax rate on your property will actually drop as its
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by moistly 4y ago
If 100% of the population was vaccinated, 100% of the hospitalization and deaths would be of vaccinated people. Can you see how your argument is so very stupid? Edit: post limited, so I’m going to dump this here and not further engage in re
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by moistly 4y ago
It is dead obvious that you have never travelled. The problem with the power grid is that it barely exists . The problem is that the final mile is a fucked-up mess of barely-functioning hacks. The problem is that it is utterly unreliable.
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by moistly 4y ago
Again, what is your point? My claim is that ICE vehicles will continue to be used for many decades in countries with large impoverished populations, because the electrical infrastructure will not support EVs. They don’t even have reliable e
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by moistly 4y ago
I feel that one of the big flaws in our tax system is that while the growth rate of wealth rises exponentially, taxation does not. Taxation should be used to change the exponential growth curve to a linear one.
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by moistly 4y ago
Smart money says to wait a few more months before buying a Tesla — the price is likely to drop again. Especially likely if everyone waits a few months more…
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by moistly 4y ago
I’m not sure what your point is. Working lower-class Mexicans can’t afford a new vehicle, much less a bunch of solar panels as well. They are not going to transition to EVs within your lifetime.
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by moistly 4y ago
WRT ICE vehicles no longer being manufactured: ain’t happening. Purchasing or licensing an ICE vehicle may become a reality in some (wealthy) countries. It is not happening in third-world countries, eg. Mexico. Simple fact is that the uti
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by moistly 4y ago
I jumped to macOS 20-odd years ago, mostly out of frustration with the build quality of Windows laptops and the endless PITA experience of Windows itself. Figured the resale value of Apple laptops made it a minimal risk. Bought a Lenovo lap
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by moistly 4y ago
> Yeah. I worked on her quite a bit. That’s a hell of a thing. It sounds coercive, if not non-consensual. You convinced her, she did not convince herself; you worked on her quite a bit.
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by moistly 4y ago
To me, it looks like a problem of it costing too much to live, such that a couple can’t afford to get hitched and have a kid.
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by moistly 4y ago
You convinced her, she did not convince herself?
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by moistly 4y ago
> if we start differentiating AI and non-AI, it'll only blur the boundaries between real and reel life even more That’s ChatGPT talk. By definition, differentiating sharpens the boundaries.
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by moistly 4y ago
I have never understood the claim that seatbelts are uncomfortable. Are y’all cinching them down so hard it cuts off blood flow? At any reasonable tension, it exerts no more pressure than one’s underpants.
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by moistly 4y ago
13 billion doses administered. If they were one-thousandth as dangerous as you claim, we’d see a helluva lot more problems than we do. But we don’t. You’re jus plain wrong.
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by moistly 4y ago
The risk from catching sars-cov-2 was/is way higher than the risk from vaccination. This is proven by the fact that some 13 billion doses have been administered with little harm, while some 700 million infections have caused 7 millio
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by moistly 4y ago
But if they didn’t publish these scare articles with a well-buried disclaimer, scare-mongers wouldn’t be able to build fantastical claims from whole cloth!
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by moistly 4y ago
It’s a shame dang doesn’t nuke these disinformation agents from orbit.
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by moistly 4y ago
Gotcha, thx.
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by moistly 4y ago
But have you actually had the flu? I ask, because most people say “oh, I had the flu” when in actuality they just had a common cold. The flu, the real flu, knocks you on the ass so hard that you actively start considering that death is a po
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by moistly 4y ago
What makes this better?
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by moistly 4y ago
IMO it’s because Tim Cook isn’t an asshole, and Steve Jobs was. If you brought something substandard to Jobs, you’d regret it with every fibre of your being. I simply can’t imagine Cook berating anyone so severely that they’re reduced to a
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by moistly 4y ago
A large part of the problem is that most of the touch device UI is “discoverable.” There is no indication-or reason to believe—that a long press might do something different than a tap, or that a swipe might reveal an option (or that a swip
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by moistly 4y ago
It is not posted on Ask HN.
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by moistly 4y ago
You are a long-term user of HN. Why did you not use the “Ask HN” convention that you know you’re supposed to use?
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by moistly 4y ago
Well worth reading John’s blog! He’s quite the character!
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by moistly 4y ago
And then there are the people who sell phone/tablet devices, and child-oriented apps and games through their walled-garden stores — and at the same time have banned the devices for their own children.
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by moistly 4y ago
And then there are the one or two users who ask the most goddamnably stupid questions at least once a day. “Why don’t people like walking barefoot in snow?” “Can cannibalism be an ethical source of meat?” “Should we build a wall around Fi
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by moistly 4y ago
Or information about OP, who by his post history has obviously dedicated his HN life to FUD.
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by moistly 4y ago
Being late is disrespectful of the people you are supposed to be meeting. Do not expect them to respect you.

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