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by rhino369 5y ago
I know more than a handful of people who complain about Hollywood originality, but only go to the theater for Marvel or Star Wars movies. Or who only go to see a movie that has 80% on Rotten Tomatoes (unless its a franchise movie). The real
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by rhino369 5y ago
I struggle to understand this thinking. If (and I don’t know) this was a leak of a gain-of-function modified virus, it’s a scientific experiment that killed 10 million people. We need to know so we don’t do it again. I’m not concerned about
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by rhino369 5y ago
Right, I paid off a balance of 260k dollars in student loans. Former classmates, who make exactly the same amount of money, who instead used their salaries to buy a house get a windfall? How is that good policy? Our current system already a
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by rhino369 5y ago
Well that is a pretty bad law. I wonder what the origin of that law is?
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by rhino369 5y ago
You could. But you can only tax them so much. And the truly rich are able to avoid taxes by moving capital around. There are a lot of progressive spending proposals and they all can't be paid by just taxing the wealthy. Using that mone
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by rhino369 5y ago
Every single AirBnB I’ve stayed at in Europe has shitty DSL too.
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by rhino369 5y ago
The cost of fiber from town to town is a small part of the cost. And it’s already done for the most part. That isn’t what is holding up fiber deployments to residential houses.
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by rhino369 5y ago
Canada and Australia have the same issues as the us. It’s mostly a geography issue. I’ve also never seen convincing evidence that US is really worse on average than other large countries— Germany, France, Italy, Spain. All the speed test ra
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by rhino369 5y ago
Lobbying is protracted by the first amendment—-“petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” They money is the big issue.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I probably wouldn’t change stores. But these drinks are impulse buys. I’d be a lot less likely to impulse buy one if I can’t actually see the product.
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by rhino369 5y ago
try to find a artificial sweetener that was indistinguishable from sugar. That would be the holy grail for soft drinks.
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by rhino369 5y ago
You could have made that same argument about minorities in 1955. And people did.
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by rhino369 5y ago
IMO, framing things as "truth" or "falsehood" is part of the problem. Each side dismisses the other side as just not knowing the right facts (or denying the facts), as if everyone would agree if they just knew the right
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by rhino369 5y ago
It feels pretty far left to me. It’s not as nakedly partisan. But it covers almost exclusively left issues.
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by rhino369 5y ago
Federal civil courts aren't a small claims court. The rules aren't easily understood and are full of pitfalls that trip up even experienced litigators. Your answer to a complaint needs to address every single allegation AND rais
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by rhino369 5y ago
>You can assume in the vast majority of cases patent trolls don't have valid patents. Right, but law actually presumes they are valid. Which is why its tough to go after a troll for asserting a valid patent.
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by rhino369 5y ago
You can be sued for Office functionality. And you’d probably be the direct infringer. It’s just an inefficient way to sue people and Microsoft would likely step in. But it’s common to get sued for using functionality in open source software
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by rhino369 5y ago
I wouldn’t respond to people cold emailing either. However, the difference between this and the warranty scam is that the complaint they are attaching is 100% real. It’s more like a mechanic emailing you saying, hey I notice your car was br
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by rhino369 5y ago
The numbers aren't really illegal. The information that can be encoded via the number might be illegal to use/disclose/share. For example, you can take a revenge porn video and convert it into a number (like you can with ANY
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by rhino369 5y ago
My sister got it and had to skip Christmas. Tested positive for influenza.
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by rhino369 5y ago
The chances are really low that it was covid. A lot of colds go around and many last a long time. Millions of Americans had a cold in December 2019. A handful likely had COVID-19. You are probably in the former camp.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I was trying to speak generically to cover all options. Friends of mine travel with an au pair AND grandparents.
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by rhino369 5y ago
Doesn't have to be a 100k/year governess. Lot of families bring grandma/grandpa or a niece along to help with the kids.
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by rhino369 5y ago
In my case, its just my father in law who lives with me and watches my daughter. But many upper middle class people have nannies, au-pairs, etc. Upper middle class isn't very large, but they are certainly the demo for an AirBnB in a to
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by rhino369 5y ago
Hotels are usually easier and cheaper EXCEPT if you actually want a whole house. Traveling with kids and a babysitter requires like 3 rooms and having a kitchen is a huge plus. So for that, its really good.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I'm not even sure if its true since most media will barely engage with the issue. But Fauci appeared concerned that Covid-19 could potentially be the result of a gain-of-function research that artificially evolved another COVID strain
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by rhino369 5y ago
If you are borrowing money, you have the opportunity to set that money aside to pay taxes. It's really no different.
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by rhino369 5y ago
No different than me selling stock A, paying capital gains and then buying stock B, which could go to zero. You can handle your hypo the same way the tax system handles mine. You can deduct the capital loss from future gains.
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by rhino369 5y ago
If they cleared this, that's a horrible decision. I doubt they did. Its pretty common for employees to do their own sort of back of the envelope analysis or to pass off copied work as their own (especially if they modified it a bit).
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by rhino369 5y ago
While there is some amount of controversy, Indian does mean original inhabitants of the Americas. Check any dictionary in America.

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