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by pnathan 9y ago
> The point being there are checks. "No questions asked" implied no checks. it really doesn't. no questions need to be asked if you aren't tripping the fraud wires of, e.g., grabbing 30 diapers a day for 1 kid. > S
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by pnathan 9y ago
> unscrupulous individuals will abuse the system. Welfare fraud isn't that prevalent, and adequate checks on gratuitous abuse are not exactly difficult to implement. For the people who would rather see newborns have health issues th
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by pnathan 9y ago
They are expensive because they haven't hit the price points which induce demand pressure downward. That said, the thread holding this narrative together is the terrible welfare system in the United States. I see absolutely zero reas
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by pnathan 9y ago
* Terrible transit. * Anti-tax attitude * Limited multi-cultural experience * Less forward-looking attitude (this is hard to verbally pin down). With respect to the child, it'll be more difficult in the city. But I want to stress that
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by pnathan 9y ago
after moving from seattle to a smaller city , my wife and I regret it a great deal and plan to move to an urban location permanently, with our young child. It was a voyage of self-discovery.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> fostered a libertine atmosphere in which taking offense was itself offensive. I've seen this here and there. What this does - among the useful things - is it removes the ability to set healthy boundaries. So unhealth grows. Bounda
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by pnathan 9y ago
Regarding point 2 - that is only traditional within the last 75 years for the modernized west; prior to that it was the upper class which had such ideations regarding children. Most cultures historically have expected children to work and c
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by pnathan 9y ago
s3 does this really nicely, for pennies per gig
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by pnathan 9y ago
companies who are federal contractors are required to hold the requirements bar, or get very angry auditors/federal investigators on their tail. something I learned at an HR training. So that is useful to prune your search.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> proof is a slightly different game. this is the dicey bit with spy games. part of the goal is to ensure courtroom proof isn't available. > why Russia might have poisoned the man Kill double agents as warnings? disloyal spies ar
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by pnathan 9y ago
> You could also have a counter of problematic area's: some parts are easier to break than others, and could be improved/made more robust... Oh yes. Nothing I said should be read as precluding that. High-risk components cause m
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by pnathan 9y ago
> I doubt that here, on HN, most of us would go so deep with conspiracy, but rational thinking did not lead me to the conclusion that Putin is responsible this time. Putin is given far too much credit. But the Russian wetworks division,
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by pnathan 9y ago
I am really looking forward to reading the new stories - I bought your collection of stories too. :)
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by pnathan 9y ago
Most mistakes aren't problematic. But while we blame the code, not the writer - it serves well to quietly have a counter of "problematic errors" and to keep an eye on the people who increment it the most. After a while, and
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by pnathan 9y ago
In Seattle, most of the RV people tend to be homeless and use the RV to camp out in on-street parking. It's a big issue.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Yes, I'm very bummed about the EPA direction. It's part and parcel of the general GOP plan, which is to roll back the Great Society, New Deal, and Progressive Era policies. Very bad for the country on many axes.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Owners can simply claim they’re unaware of lead paint on the property, and in most cases, that’s the box they check on the disclosure form because lead inspections occur so rarely, This needs to change. There needs to be a duty on the
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by pnathan 9y ago
To be completely honest, from everything I've seen, I'd love to see the GPDR be copy-pasted into US law and made a part of international treaties. It seems like The Right Thing to do.
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by pnathan 9y ago
After reading the prior discussion & spending some time at the gym doing deadlifty things with a trainer, I experimented with doing the squat. What I found was that while I can do a squat in, e.g., gym shorts, I simply can not do them w
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Half is pretty good for lower-tier places I was politely fudging. :) But, thank you for your kind remarks. I'll definitely feed them into the career contemplation hopper.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I live in a very not-white-collar neighborhood these days and am on in variety of neighborhood e-groups. Facebook is used , heavily, by the lower class. Very. heavily.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I have a personal refusal to ever own a minivan, despite the wife, kid, and mortgage. :-) I just note that I go home to the family to indicate that I can't go to the evening events where more interesting people & discussions are.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Curious. How's the market look for MS holders with experience in industry? I've always had the yen to teach (enjoyed it in graduate school!), but the pay tends to be 1/2 what I make in industry, with similar benefits.
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by pnathan 9y ago
It does seem to be pretty bimodal, doesn't it...
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by pnathan 9y ago
A fair bit of marijuana in the Seattle tech scene. No particularly visible ill effects from what I can tell. I have the notion hallucinogens have been used, but no one admits current use (to me). I would expect the more far out tech scene
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by pnathan 9y ago
This is exactly right and largely why I have not launched any subscription webapp on my own (b2c, b2b). I haven't yet invested enough time for an adequately starter backend infrastructure. I should look into Laravel Spark tho', I
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by pnathan 9y ago
> I'm OK with missing items, I'll just get a refund and deal with it. It's still far far better than dealing with a physical grocery store. Curious. Why do you say that? I use Instacart as a timesaver, or as a way to accom
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by pnathan 9y ago
I've never had an issue with Instacart. I order from them.... occasionally. Great service. The fee structure is weird, agreed.
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by pnathan 9y ago
After spending a little too much time on advice books, I put them permanently on the shelf, dispensed to used book stores as time went on. Particularly awful were the "What to Expect" books, which were doctrinaire and promised gre
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by pnathan 9y ago
Nice! My opinion is that philosophy is the undervalued discipline in American life today. To back that up: I would rather work with a philosopher than an arbitrary "other degree" holder outside of the Math/CS preference. Pa

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