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by pkt_nspktr 4y ago
In both the House and Senate, Republicans have proposed legislation to close this loophole. It's been Democrat-controlled committees that have prevented these from moving forward. Even Democratic bills have not made it out of committee
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by pkt_nspktr 4y ago
Not GP, but since you need a bit more context: if someone posted something critical of one's employer on Twitter, Facebook, or used public comment time at city hall, one should expect to no longer be employed. Whatever critical was pos
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by pkt_nspktr 4y ago
Data point of n=1: I think this effort by NY is exactly where the experiment of single-payer health care in the United States should occur, as per the 10th Amendment. According to Third Way[1], (which advocates for federal-level universal
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by pkt_nspktr 5y ago
Will four data points work? N=1, 2008. Russia invades/attacks Georgia[1]. US President: George W. Bush; US Vice President: Dick Cheney. N=2, 2014. Russia annexes Crimea[2]. US President: Barack Obama; US Vice President: Joe Biden. N=3,
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by pkt_nspktr 5y ago
If that was -more- likely to occur under Trump than Biden, why did it not? Based on actual historical evidence, Putin is more likely to invade Ukraine when Biden is in office (both as VP and POTUS) than when Trump was, regardless of whateve
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by pkt_nspktr 6y ago
Tangential to my original question, but as I was trying to track down the article I remembered, I re-discovered Paul Krugman's Theory of Interstellar Trade [1], written in 1978 which discusses the economics of shipping goods at near-l
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by pkt_nspktr 6y ago
I recall a blog post or article posted several years ago, somewhere, that discussed the networking consequences of lightspeed being an upper bound for bandwidth. Unfortunately "lightspeed networking" is not a unique search term! D
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by pkt_nspktr 9y ago
Here's my gedanken experiment (caveat: I'm not an environmental scientist or engineer!): suppose you have a large box (closed system) with a large number of light bulb sockets and an infinite power source. Let a light bulb represe
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Ask HN: Are publicity agreements a requirement for companies now?
2 points by pkt_nspktr 9y ago|0 comments