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by pochamago 6y ago
I'll absolutely condone it for sports. It's the only way to consistently have access to the games you want to watch from anywhere in the world thanks to the byzantine licensing contracts, and you don't actually escape the adv
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by pochamago 6y ago
It's not really that the US lacks rails, we have the largest rail network in the world. The problem for passenger rail here is population density. France is three and a half times denser, and Japan is nearly 10x. I think they would als
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by pochamago 6y ago
Speaking as someone with a rather odd fetish and no convenient origin story, crossed wires has always made the most sense to me. For a great many of the people I've spoken with about their fetish, it doesn't have a obvious spark o
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by pochamago 6y ago
>nothing exists outside of fundamental reality A bold assertion.
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by pochamago 6y ago
That's the average price for a two bedroom apartment. You can easily find much cheaper options, the average one room apartment in Adachi ward is nearly a quarter of that. Edit: Just for comparison, the average two bedroom in San Franci
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by pochamago 6y ago
Incidentally, you also can't buy futures on movie receipts or the price of onions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
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by pochamago 6y ago
Conjobs are such a fun bit of artistry, it's a shame they cause so much harm. I appreciate that video games provide an arena that mostly reduces it.
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by pochamago 6y ago
I don't have any evidence to back up my opinion, but my impression is that many of the countries the paper recommends emulating suffer similar corruption issues. My friends who've worked in China make it sound like bribery is a fu
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by pochamago 6y ago
Disappointed that they mean discovered and not created.
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by pochamago 6y ago
"To be truly countercultural in a time of literate hegemony, you must become illiterate"
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by pochamago 6y ago
>If you cannot censor away opinions, if suppression of ideas doesn't work then why in exactly these kinds of articles do people bemoan it as dangerous? Because the unintended consequences are harmful to bystanders. Probably more har
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by pochamago 6y ago
I wonder if other taxi services do anything similar regarding drivers they fired for safety reasons
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by pochamago 6y ago
To be honest, I've always felt like this was an unproved assertion. Popper made it sound very good, but what attempts to show that it's actually true have been made?
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by pochamago 6y ago
Shouldn't that make us more sympathetic to the issue? In all the fights over those issues it was a constant among the left that free discussion is vital. Was that really just an attractive political stance, held only until it was no lo
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by pochamago 6y ago
I don't really understand what the author did wrong, which I think is why the HN guidelines promote discussion over link dropping. I would benefit from knowing what you found objectionable. Tangentially, I also don't find much val
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by pochamago 6y ago
I don't feel like I've ever satisfactorily understood why it feeling degrading to them is of greater weight than the degrading feeling of being told that your natural pattern of speech is forbidden.
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by pochamago 6y ago
It's really wonderful not having any anxiety about what you're posting being tied to some kind of identity you have to maintain
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by pochamago 6y ago
While you're right that there's a reasonable argument, I can't say it's one I agree with. I already strongly dislike the change in US tax law that now requires all e-commerce companies to adjust their sales tax based on
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by pochamago 6y ago
The cynical streak in me would suggest that now is a popular time to criticize major tech organs for their relationship to news, and the Australian government is hoping to use that to funnel money from US companies to Australian ones.
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by pochamago 6y ago
You're probably right that the incentives are misaligned. I suppose I'm just reacting against what I feel is an anti-progressive assumption, which is that reducing our carbon footprint to desirable levels will require a massive re
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by pochamago 6y ago
It certainly tried to imply it with things like mentioning that he's cited Charles Murray, and then mentioning Murray's completely unrelated writing on race.
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by pochamago 6y ago
Twenty percent of NYT writers attended an Ivy League school, which seems significant to me. https://www.journalofexpertise.org/articles/volume1_issue1/J...
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by pochamago 6y ago
I honestly just can't buy into high energy usage as a criticism. I think we should be focusing our efforts on massively expanding our power generation, not cutting back usage.
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by pochamago 6y ago
Definitely going to depend on the religion, and even the sect. Catholicism already has doctrine to deal with it developed back when there were stories about inhuman dog people inhabiting the continent of Africa.
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by pochamago 6y ago
This is a fairly political statement to put into an article on the linguistic history of a word: >The unstated goal of all this talk is a gross collection of sexism, elite gatekeeping, anti-elitism in general, and a simple partisan attac
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by pochamago 6y ago
Really? That is interesting, although I can't say it would be preferable for me. I've had plenty of times when 4x10 was a good fit for my lifestyle. I've got a co-worker who currently does 3x12 and really seems to like it.
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by pochamago 6y ago
We've done a really good job of removing choice from the system at every available opportunity. Certificate of Need laws reducing the number of medical machines in localities. Insurance limiting provider choice. Totally opaque pricing
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by pochamago 6y ago
It doesn't cost them any money to close the position, so the cash crunch doesn't apply.
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by pochamago 6y ago
Ethiopia effectively started a civil war, but I don't think it's source is the pandemic.
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by pochamago 6y ago
>Hu speculates that because the animals climb up on rocks and logs to mark their territory, the flat-sided feces aren’t as likely to roll off from these high perches. Why in the world would this be a preferable adaptation?

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