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by mountainb 6y ago
Versus the highly spiritual experience of living in the pod, eating the bugs, paying the $4,500 every month to the landlord of the one bedroom, answering e-mails at 11:24 pm to be able to pay for it etc.
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by mountainb 6y ago
A 'principled stand' in Russia would be to accept all the legal punishments that would come from flouting Russian law and the moral conventions of the dominant religion in Russia. That would be consistent with the principles of &#
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by mountainb 6y ago
Sodomy is illegal in Iran. This has statute citations, but I don't know where Iranian laws are posted. https://pridelegal.com/iran-lgbt-laws/ Point being there is no such thing as a universally 'tolerant&#x27
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by mountainb 6y ago
It's not true that "LGBT Rights" are value-free. Promoting LGBT rights also alienates members of the largest religious groups in the world, including those that are majority-non-European like Islam and Catholicism. Being a pr
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by mountainb 6y ago
Yes. This is absolutely done when assessing and comparing security footage. Burglars are often serial burglars (it's their job or hobby to steal stuff), and many of them show up on camera multiple times from different angles. Crime goe
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You can also copyright databases in the US as well as web content. It is similar here. However, many people do not actually register their copyrights to their web content. There is also a lot of misinformation about automatic copyright in t
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by mountainb 6y ago
Try following the references on big Wiki pages and you will see why Wikipedia pages are nightmarish for any kind of research. This is important when you are trying to drill down to the sources of various claims. Many major pages relating to
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by mountainb 6y ago
Link rot has convinced me that the web is not good for its ostensible purpose. I used to roll my eyes reading how academic researchers and librarians would discourage using webpages as resources. Many years later, it's obvious that the
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by mountainb 6y ago
The Hal Varian quote there is a good illustration of this. If it was an attorney representing Google talking over e-mail, such an aside would be protected by attorney-client privilege and would not have been subject to discovery. It is a ba
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by mountainb 6y ago
Reminds me of dealing with Terminex dispatching exterminators to spray for insects in the arctic in the middle of winter when it was -20 deg F. There are lots of these service companies that are fall somewhere between inept and crooked.
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by mountainb 6y ago
They do, though. I have been on calls with Amazon reps to discuss how our ad campaigns have been performing, what can be done, and what additional sources of data from Amazon we can access through beta programs and the like. Individual Amaz
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Some manufacturers also opt in to similar SN tracking on Amazon. This is a smart way to handle it. Amazon is not nearly proactive enough in dealing with return fraud in part because it tends to externalize those costs to their vendors (the
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This could have been a warehouse error. I would err on the side of warehouse error. A real fraud would have sent you a brick or a worthless tile of the same dimension and weight.
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by mountainb 6y ago
You will not find a 4BR New Hampshire house by a lake at that price. You will not find any lakeside property for $200k unless it is a shack. I know, I was just up north in Coos County to do boating stuff and was checking prices. My 3BR in N
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by mountainb 6y ago
Why does the article not address the elephant in the room: cost of living? What was already a poor use of money (being an urban renter) is now a much worse use of money thanks to plague and other social ills. US urban quality of life has no