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by null000 8y ago
Pandering to corporate special interests, especially when citizen and labor special interests don't have a seat at the table. One of those represents a fat narrower slice of humanity than the other two, and thus is much more like
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by null000 8y ago
Suggesting that there's enough ambiguity for it to be reasonable to assume ferns exist on the same level of consciousness or understanding of the world around them as cows is a bit of a weak argument. There's a pretty obvious diff
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by null000 8y ago
Not contradictory, but working to different ends. "You shouldn't worry about this because phytoestrogens aren't present" "You shouldn't worry about this because phytoestrogens are beneficial" Both can be t
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by null000 8y ago
> Also private patients can usually skip some waiting time (e.g. days instead of a few weeks). See, now, that just really doesn't sound like a good idea to my ears. Why should someone be forced to sit through weeks of suffering whil
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by null000 8y ago
I think a baseline requirement for these types of systems is that people don't go out of their way to be assholes for negligable gains. My understanding of Japanese culture is that, by and large, people don't do that. Americans, m
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by null000 8y ago
Airline profits have been rising over the past several years or so[1] due to lack of competition after a long period of industry consolidation[2] and the rise of anti-consumer practices (extra fees, less leg room, etc). This occurring even
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by null000 8y ago
I've been doing this for years. TBC - it doesn't eliminate the need to check your blind spot anyway (as many have mentioned) - just makes it more likely that you catch something moving unexpectedly into your blind spot, or you cat
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by null000 8y ago
This is accurate, but ignores that there are other, better things that could be done with the money considering that these are private companies who are going to be building these data centers one way or another. These deals measure in the
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by null000 8y ago
> The "yellow jacket" protests were a response to tax increases on fuel as part of the government's strategy to reduce emissions It's a bit more complicated than that. The protests came because the gas taxes, along wi
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by null000 8y ago
This article reads like someone stumbled onto something they liked, then reasoned backwards to why everyone should use it. Like all productivity things - if it works for you, great. But maybe don't assume your thing is the magic thing
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by null000 8y ago
> Needless to say, the program didn’t deliver driverless cars and automated highways to Americans. So what was the problem? The legislation didn’t really give the Department of Transportation any direction on how they should go about the
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by null000 8y ago
> 4) Getting paid to leave is simply a different metric than having to get out your wallet to pay for something. Surely the authors know this but I didn't see it mentioned. 'WTP != WTL' Glad someone mentioned this. It woul
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by null000 8y ago
I mean, I guess, but that's kinda a worst case. My vet, for instance, quoted me up front, made me sign to say that I was willing to pay (I think) up to $x000 and notified me that they might contact me if they need to do extra work, and
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by null000 8y ago
The ACA has provisions for employers giving money to employees so they can buy from the exchange, iirc.
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by null000 8y ago
But yeah, I assume it's a combination of: * Most people pay through their insurance, so they don't have to pay the sticker price or anything resembling it * Some people going on payment plans and getting stuck in debt basically fo
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by null000 8y ago
Considering I don't use face unlock on anything I care about (most financial apps, for instance, are protected by strong passwords and/or fingerprints) and the sheer fiddlyness of 3d printing, if they can get a scan and print of m
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by null000 8y ago
> I do not recommend this platform for hobbyists for this reason There's also the fact that the article suggests that they come in batches of 1000 at $1100 each.
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by null000 8y ago
Honestly I would have expected performance on a cloud provider to be measured in x per $. You're pretty much renting everything, the hardware etc is really difficult to compare, and you can usually throw more machines at the problem an
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by null000 8y ago
4-8 is about right. I've been in groups as small as 3 (although they tend to not last long) and I tend to jump ship after 7, but I've seen 8 work. If you're in a city, there's definitely the option of one of the Friendly
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by null000 8y ago
This assumes the photos of yourself are for you. Sometimes other people do genuinely want to see you in a photo. I like seeing my friends and family in pictures, and they like seeing me in pictures. You can take it to an extreme, but a lot
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by null000 8y ago
I'm thoroughly convinced one of the strategies of large tech companies is to suck all the air out of the room when it comes to engineer talent. I've seen the inside of these corporations - most of the stuff people work on is way b
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by null000 8y ago
I think the replacement is supposed to be just straight texting now that they have the rich text protocol or whatever. Kinda stupid, but like - that's Google's chat strategy in a nutshell.
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by null000 8y ago
On the one hand, screw outsourcing firms. On the other hand, this really isn't the reform these visas need right now. Lets work on the fact that visa holders live and die by their employers whims first, giving them basically zero l
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by null000 8y ago
Jesus Christ hacker news, get your shit together. Way to many Climate Change denialists/minimizers here to be anything but appalling, considering the reputation of the site's user base. Scientists agree: Climate change is terrifyi
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by null000 8y ago
The error bars are not large enough to be seriously confident that the problem can be ignored, though. Basically everything we have says that: * Humans are causing basically all of the warming happening, either directly or indirectly * All
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by null000 8y ago
Interesting site - it's nice to have such straightforward compensation numbers. Worth mentioning, though - several tech companies intentionally and transparently attempt to pay more for some locations. My company, for instance, pays wa
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by null000 8y ago
Isn't that kinda a value-neutral proposition for the area though? Yes, there's a nicer house or whatever now, but 100% of the value add goes to the person who is now going to sell the property and get their investment back with ch
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by null000 8y ago
The thing that concerns me about this is that there isn't much reason to expect the area's interests are aligned with investors' interests. Investors build something that allows the local economy to bring money into the area
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by null000 8y ago
Some schemes stretch credulity and fly in the face of the intent of the law. If I choose to pay 22% down instead of 20% so I can qualify to write off my interest payments, that's one thing. The schemes revolving around putting out shit
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by null000 8y ago
It's just an excuse assholes use

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