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by pluto9 8y ago
So where do the expats work that they have such terrible experiences?
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It would be tough to standardize this across different vehicle models, much less manufacturers. A Model S isn't going to use the same battery pack as an electric heavy-duty pickup truck. You could use lots of small battery packs and bi
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Big rigs definitely stop in these situations. No matter how much space they try to leave, other drivers speed around them to fill it and they have to stop anyway.
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by pluto9 8y ago
If you leave more than a few car lengths between yourself and the next guy at rush hour, someone will quickly fill that gap.
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by pluto9 8y ago
Were you trying to reply to a different comment? Because your response makes absolutely no sense. > Walking into changing rooms of teenage girls isn't indicative of moral character, or is being the focus of multiple sexual assault a
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by pluto9 8y ago
> swapped the first black president for man with a less than stellar morality record This is a weird juxtaposition. You appear to be implying that "first black president" and "less than stellar morality" are moral opp
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> Except it is my business. The whole free market and negotiations for better salaries thing relies on participants having enough information. > See, it's a prisoner's dilemma type of deal (actually, it's a different ga
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by pluto9 8y ago
I think you're missing the point--someone can choose not to share personal information with you because they've deemed it none of your business , not because they're "afraid of your reaction". The fact that you c
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by pluto9 8y ago
I'm going to DM you all of my medical records. I'm also going to send you a homemade porno I made with my girlfriend. If you don't reciprocate, you're a coward. But don't worry, I'm not judging you.
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by pluto9 8y ago
I'm curious--what happens if you have a legal dispute with your employer? Can you use your Arag benefits for that?
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> Companies advocate for their bottom line and their employees at the same time. Pretty much just their bottom line. Companies advocate for whatever position makes a large majority of people think of them as the "good guys". Ho
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> drive vehicles, pick fruit, clean houses, and fold shirts What? That's a weirdly specific and tiny list. How about: - Nearly any sort of creative work: programming, graphic design, product design, landscaping, architecture, writin
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by pluto9 8y ago
One thing's for sure, they definitely aren't trying to win any design awards.
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A quick search yields this [1], which claims to render static copies of your WordPress pages. Might be what you're looking for. [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/
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Imagine feeling the bizarre compulsion to turn every discussion about technology on HN into yet another tedious political argument.
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> Tinder’s marketing frames the service as ideal for finding a study buddy or someone to hang out with on the quad. Statements like this never fail to amaze me. Obviously nobody uses Tinder for that purpose. The entire premise of the app
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by pluto9 8y ago
I think it's typical. The business-minded management folks at tech companies tend to measure success and failure purely in dollars. If the company's financial indicators are good, they assume their trajectory is correct and change
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> More importantly, we do not have a clear standarn on what qualifies as a "religion". And for, I think obvious reasons, that is a line we don't really want to draw. Some standard does and must exist, even if it's not
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by pluto9 8y ago
> their campaigns are designed primarily as reactions to other group's (mostly Christian) exercise of religion I think this is key. The intent of the Church of Satan and Pastafarianism is to make a statement about other religions. T
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> But you were, I thought, not considering that to be determinative. I refined my definition somewhat because Scientology is an edge case I hadn't fully considered. So my previous statement about Pastafarians is incorrect--if enough
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> So if you demonstrated through a preponderance of the evidence that the historical figure behind a religion wasn't serious, it would retroactively change its status? Possibly, though in practice I think it would be unwise to revok
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by pluto9 8y ago
You mean, how can you know someone's true thoughts? You can't, but you can make a reasonable guess based on their actions, social cues, and communications with others. There is plenty of precedent for making legal decisions on thi
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by pluto9 8y ago
Not sincere enough is probably what they meant. The distinction between Pastafarianism and any mainstream religion is obvious: adherents of actual religions genuinely believe in their tenets (by design, at least--the sincerity of any part
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> Grey/Gray gets me every time. GrEy for England, grAy for America.
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If a crane falls over because the operator was playing Candy Crush, I think that can be placed squarely in the category of "user error".
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> I don't see the first claim anywhere in the article. Seriously? From the article: > All across the country, there are people as repelled by the current White House as they are by the countless and increasingly baroque expressio
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There are three claims: - The more people eschew identity politics, the more uncertain is the future of any political party (left or right) that builds its platform on it. That seems self evident. - There is a significant, and possibly grow
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You act as if some great injustice has been done because this article doesn't present an empirical analysis of Peterson's following, but it never claimed to. It's obviously just an opinion piece. What you call "lies&quot
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That's a special case where the universe's state never changes. Any universe that changes over time requires information to encode the current state. Of course you could make a similar claim about a universe where coin flips alway
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There are laws that effectively require hosting providers to police their content. It's illegal to host child pornography, for example. I believe there are certain EU laws that prohibit holocaust denial, though I don't know if the

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