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by p_j_w 1y ago
Sure, but your personal experience could very easily be on the higher end of the distribution. You simply CANT confirm something like that based on personal experience. Either your personal experience lines up with some statistical fact or
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Your hypothesis has already been tested multiple times. It has always failed.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
> feel free to go live in a dense cell block and eat bug juice if that is what floats your boat. That this is considered a valid response to someone suggesting we need more mass transit is a sign that our discourse has fallen off a cliff
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Because some people stand to lose boatloads of money if they are.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
>it can be pretty much instant, it depends on the fee you are willing to spend. 1. Not a problem with any other currency I've used. 2. I've never even been offered to have my transaction clear more quickly by paying a higher fe
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by p_j_w 1y ago
The government isn't responsibly for a Bitcoin transaction taking a long ass time to complete.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
>New things pop up here and there with each update every few years In my experience this is every few weeks.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
> Are they just sitting on their asses and getting a check, petrified of public discourse? All while patting themselves on the back and calling themselves heros.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Local governments are under no obligation to help the federal government enforce federal laws.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
I love that this happened on Miyazaki Prefecture.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Webmasters who make their money on ads seem like the group least likely to do this.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
>People these days don’t own real estate. Wealthy people own it all. The article says a similar decline is seen among the wealthy.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
HN’s moderation system (posts with lots of flagged comments get derated) seems to really easy to game. Don’t like a story? Have bots post a bunch of inflammatory comments likely to get flagged and it will go away. There’s no way the people
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Presumably from end users who care about how much time it takes to receive or send some amount of data.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
> If we want to address climate change Given our recent election results, it seems to me that we don't want to.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
It works if you swipe down from the left side of the screen.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
I mean what do you think happens? Do you think YouTube employs an army of people to watch and vet every single video that gets posted there?
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Now do frequency of recessions, depressions, and panics.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
If you actually meant revenue when you said revenue, then it shouldn't be surprising that PG&E has higher revenue compared to companies with half the population. Revenue is merely income, no costs will be deducted from that number.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
OP explains in the comments. She’s crying because she’s tired of pushing the cart around with her COPD machine and would like to retire instead, but can’t afford to.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Law abiding people always have something to fear when due process is being thrown out the window. If the government can just assert criminality without having to prove it then they can mete out punishment to any law abiding people. > Tru
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by p_j_w 1y ago
> It was basically an open border. Open border nowadays means “I don’t know what the word open means.”
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by p_j_w 1y ago
"It's not perfect so we should just do it arbitrarily instead" is a pretty silly scientific proposition.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Why?
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by p_j_w 1y ago
Why should tonnage matter more than value? Would you rather have 10 tons of dung or 1 ton of smartphones?
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by p_j_w 1y ago
>The trouble was that there was a single line feeding the farm from about 6km away, so if that went down a single farmowner complained - the rate payers who were in a denser urban area always got priority, because there were 600+ people
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by p_j_w 1y ago
>if you pair it with offshore wind Unfortunately the current government of the US is entirely beholden to fossil fuel interests so they're actively hostile to offshore wind.
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by p_j_w 1y ago
> The US drives about 3.2 trillion miles per year. Waymo has 56.7 million miles over several years. Their percentage data is essentially useless. Your third sentence doesn’t follow from your first two. On what grounds do you draw this co
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by p_j_w 1y ago
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by p_j_w 1y ago
> Millions were let across our borders with almost no vetting whatsoever. Criminals came in freely from all over the world bringing drugs, violence, and human trafficking with them. The Biden administration acted more like a travel agent

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