scotuswroteus

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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Can't wait for your even handed replies to being challenged on literally anything here, lmao
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
You're saying that only New Jersey is doing this for New Jersey-specific reasons. No other state's legislature thinks it's entirely bullshit. Yeah, that's definitely a smart, informed understanding of how each state&#x27
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
It feels like society is falling apart and we're supposed to trust our fellow conversationalists to go where the conversation should. As democracy crumbles and the climate of our earth becomes unlivable, I have no doubt your polite app
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
What if I told you the manhattanization of downtown was never the dream of local San Franciscans and only a fleeting goal of elite-funded politicians who used job growth during their tenures as pols here to argue that they should be elected
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
he filed a filing
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
"Someday, maybe we, as a society, will realize" is one of those sentences that never delivers what it promises. It's always some cockamamie partisan hack job oversimplified nonsense that calls for wholesale revisions of the e
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
>Bank reserves haven't mattered for years as money, but that's pretty much the only lever the Fed holds. And this is why they aren't raising it more. If they do, and that doesn't work, people will act like the train c
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Is there an intellectually honest response to the notion that products like this, at one level, centralize rather than decentralize vitally sensitive information and therefore (1) increase the vulnerability of the customer and (2) paint a b
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
>It’s annoying that we blame everyone but ourselves Using "we" here is doing exactly that.
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Dude, I have the same issue with like all the articles in Rolling Stone
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
HN should have stickies about this so that all articles, Ask HN's, and other prompts to spark the same debate that's been raging for three years now about WFH should be relegated to that thread. Same goes for like four or five oth
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
I'm really looking forward to know what hacker news thinks about dating. I definitely come here specifically to escape the rest of the internet, where no one talks about dating. /s
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Were you born in 2009? Because if your memory worked in 2008, you'll recall that massive government bailouts were required to prevent full on collapse: the doom you dismiss as though anyone fearing it is no less in control of their cri
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Is there an online community HN/reddit style forum that hyper concentrates on this question?
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
First, don't go exclusively to expert writers to learn the craft. Skills of educating are specific, and those skills differ from the skills of talented writers. IMHO, our society suffers from missing this divergence on a grander scale:
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Oakland Library Posts Notes Found in Books Online for Grateful Public(npr.org)
2 points by scotuswroteus 4y ago|1 comments
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
"Recession" is backward looking and doesn't mean "everyone in poverty," so there's way too much energy being used to fight this meaningless war of optics. Look at the savings rate, look at various metrics of in
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Most people who say that couple it with all sorts of biases about the right time to buy a home.
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
I just went to the best Giants game of the season for $25
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
>plus it puts a geopolitical adversary in control of the data, countless devices, and a media channel central to the current cultural zeitgeist. You should interrogate your assumption that the government inside the state lines is less &q
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
How the heck do I jump off this gmail ship? I need a lifeboat
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
LOL, I absolutely will
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Literally anytime I see Eric Schmidt, I think hmm how is he setting up some weird corporate transaction that's going to harm the country's wellbeing long term?
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
No one clears the table in an off-cycle election. The notion that controlling the legislative branch is going to have an effect on his company is a bit much, especially when state governments and state courts will have so much power, not to
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Agreed. "Look at these two articles. We need to take tons of resources away from all of the other problems society has to make sure that everyone lives their lives to accommodate this one!"
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
So anonymous tattletales reported that she isn't being invited to 'huddles.' "Deese, speaking on Fox News earlier this month, called Yellen the team’s 'chief spokesperson on the economy.' Yet through Biden’s fi
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
Senator Feinstein is perceived as low key corrupt and an entitled oligarch. Look at how she talks to kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIebWywFfNw&ab_channel=USATO... She's just not the person who has credibili
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
And half the middle classes' nest eggs go poof, while the politicians who voted for it (many of whom don't hold down their own jobs) need to explain that it's actually for everyone's good. It wouldn't be a short cut
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
'Stuff' should be plural, I agree
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by scotuswroteus 4y ago
So you'd be living in stoves if wildfires hit you like they're gonna hit here over the next fifty years

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