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by ratsmack 5y ago
A little overly dramatic there, but if things keep escalating, this is what it could come down to.
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I guess you could say that it's the smell to die for. :)
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Spotify made the mistake of acknowledging the legitimacy of the whims of cancel culture. In doing so, it always emboldens them and has the effect of drawing in new recruits to the cause.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>"You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time." -- Abe Lincoln
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I don't have a problem with down votes as long as they have zero effect on the conversation thread, unlike here on HN. Greying out and/or making a comment dead does not achieve anything useful. Flagging comments for violating
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It is a sad state of affairs when we're litigating offending tweets.
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Pretty much all drivers licenses, ID cards and passports have a picture on them, so it's not like we don't use pictures for identifying people. The only problem I have with the proposal is letting a private company collect the pic
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Everything has to start somewhere.
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>The rising human cost of <put_your_favorite_thing_here> There are many, many vices that people struggle from such as drinking, drugs, obsessions like food, and just obsessive spending in general. There are just a lot of people tha
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I have never used an add blocker. If the page is too intrusive with toxic adds, I just close the page. Also, if I go to any page that launches a pop-up to subscribe or some other stupid crap, I again just close the page, never to return. I
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I don't understand the thought process here on HN when people start punching the flagged button the second a controversial subject comes up. I would think the large portion of scientific minded people here would be thrilled to toss aro
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The number of stale links on that page is kind of sad.
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>it's time U.S. stopped meddling and stirring up trouble in eastern Europe That is pretty much my sentiment. We, the US, have no business there and it's just the war mongers stirring the pot while the war industrial complex sal
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I believe it's time Europe takes care of it's own back yard if they have concerns with Russia.
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What I have a problem with is the number of sites that now require Google Chrome, like the T-mobile Digits site, for example. Hopefully this doesn't become the norm.
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I browse 'new' most of the time, because there is a lot of interesting stuff that never makes it to the front page.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Not to be in disagreement that there is a huge disparity in wealth, but most of this gain is in illiquid assets that vary daily, and much of it is in securities and other financial instruments. And this was driven by the Fed and other banki
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>Is it fine to question a scientific consensus on effective ways to fight a global pandemic? Yes, it is always fine to question scientific conclusions with legitimate concerns. Or we could always revert to letting the church decide what
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It seems that lately, questioning the "doctors" in public places can make you a pariah (and I won't go any further with that). On another note, I was prescribed a medicine 20 years ago called Propulsid. When I went to fill th
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Yes, the BBC and NPR are not as bad, but you can see the creep in that direction.
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>out of any news sources, the comments here continue to be mostly grounded and reasonable, not hyperbolic and dramatic. Unfortunately, somber and stoic news does not have the monetary return from advertising revenue that most news organi
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I suspect the Nvidia wants to get their hands on the Arm patent portfolio.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
There are plenty of companies that give dividends. I own about a hundred different stocks and 99% of them are dividend bearing to the tune of about $200K per year.
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And then pop up a copy of xeyes on their screen.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I was heavily involved with programming in the 70's on many of the large systems of the time (including analog computing). If there were women programmers, I never met one. I worked in the aircraft manufacturing industry in engineering
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>Rogan subreddit is full of people groaning about how awful it has become It seems like lately that Reddit has become a reference of credibility, not unlike the "as seen on TV" moniker proudly displayed on cheap consumer produc
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I have been entering my phone numbers into the register for at least twenty years. It seems that in the beginning it worked somewhat, but then it returned to the same level of spam calls. In the last five years, the number of unwanted calls
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>Hospitals get paid for deaths. Seems like paying them for recoveries would make more sense. The former seems like you would be paying them for failure rather than success.
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Even though Amazon has made efforts in cleaning up the reviews, It's still pretty obvious that rampant AstroTurfing is happening, mainly among the numerous cheap knock-off from China. Searching for quality products on has almost become
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It's amazing, but they did: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-...

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