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by rentfree-media 4y ago
There is no arbitrary, technical way to tax that does not impose a value judgment. "People who have more than they need to live are greedy and need to have their money taken and given to those who do not." ^ That is the most fai
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
Because the foundations of Enlightenment society are relatively stupid. The only way to maintain them in the face of their own contradictions is arbitrary threat of violence.
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
I do a podcast. A lot of that is a tried and true method of promotion for those coming into podcasting without a big following elsewhere to try to convert. We started with a fairly large social media following that we could promote with, bu
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
Perhaps, in my case in some of these cases I remember wording / sentences explicitly that I can recite from memory, or failing that, I surely remember a string of keywords that will only appear in a handful of articles. And like I said
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
I don't think you have evaluated the quality of your results from Google very carefully. Research is part of my job. I routinely find things on Google that I circle back to later to check up on and find that they've disappeared (
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
> bars independent contractors from acting like “disguised” employees. It’s a world of pain if that happens. The US allows companies to fire long-term employees without cause and replace them with indentured servants. We're the ones
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
The US predominantly posts job openings for which no one will be hired for compliance. They actually hire H1B visa workers or contractors to churn out the code solely based on cost.
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
To be honest, learning to code was a complete waste of time. No one in their right mind would jump through all of the hoops required by the software world's completely insane attempts to filter people out of their hiring processes, all
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
It's really amazing that they have managed to miss every trend for so long. Mobile? Nope, don't care, let it go to Qualcomm, Arm, etc. Cloud shift from on-premise hardware? Screw their power and efficiency demands, let them eat c
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
> so I guess my point was right? No, it was not. US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dolla... How many new drugs rely on gov
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
If it's so good at it, why does it always need government funding? (As testified before a congressional committee by an FDA official, his response to the question of "how many drugs receive government research funding?" was &
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
But you might have a viable visual page builder. It's honestly a tough choice at times...
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
It seems to me that both the militant believers and the militant non-believers always have a "they" to point to as the reason for their militancy. I suppose everyone forgot about the individualist nature of protestantism.
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
Maybe we should try insurance for people going to doctors and see if that turns out any different, oh wait lol....
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
Should be noted that Duke Energy spilled a massive amount of coal ash into the river near Wilmington during hurricane Florence in 2018. Also, dozens of pig waste ponds the size of football fields overflow and wind up in rivers during every
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by rentfree-media 4y ago
> When is it time to change jobs because of it? It's always time. If you weren't being paid, would you still go in there every day? The answer is clearly "no." Therefore all of the other things companies and people t
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by rentfree-media 5y ago
Thanks! We are using it for our own recently launched podcast and it's working fine for us so far. As a minimal example, we customized the bootstrap css, about 8 HTML block/page templates, and built our header/footer in the
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by rentfree-media 5y ago
If I did it would require a bit more planning on my part. Sticky points: 1. Your own Nginx is required, to serve premium media securely you really need X-Sendfile to proxy not just the WSGI requests but also the media files themselves. 2. T
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Show HN: An open source Patreon / Substack
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