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VPNs are "data mixers" - by combining all your traffic with others, it becomes harder to determine who sent which packets. Honestly, why can't we just have the government know every single website we visit immediately? We all
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Men and women are different. Can’t change that fact. Anyone who has children notices immediately that there are innate differences between the two (although if your memory is even fractionally good you should remember your own childhood). W
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True satisfaction comes from massive sacrifice and personal investment. I enjoy getting drinks with friends and having good conversation, but what I'm truly satisfied with - I can die tomorrow without regrets - are my children, my marr
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Kings were limited by the nobility. The English monarch was an extremely weak king. Not all monarchies were despots like in North Korea.
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How to understand central banking and the fiat currency system: All money is a coin created by a national government. USD is America Coin, Sterling is UK coin, Yen is Japan coin, etc. Within the boundaries of the nation, everyone uses the n
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If the tech industry was unionized like the trades: "Sorry, I can't merge this pull request, these config files are managed by the DevOps union and only they can review this code." "I know the system is down and our cust
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Government can track all money and its flows better. Can give directly to citizens without needing banks as middlemen. Can give money that “expires” - must be spent quickly to goose the economy and disappears if someone tries to save it. Ca
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Every government on earth since the beginning of time is not without injustice. The Aztecs enslaved and brutally dominated their region which is how the Spanish were able to conquer them - the enemies of the Aztecs joined forces with the Sp
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Unfortunately squandering your money on fleeting experiences is considered a positive by society, but patiently saving, building assets and businesses, and becoming wealthy is seen as an injustice. Hopefully property rights continue to be p
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Also extremely strange is he received a liver transplant much quicker than average, in a state far from where he lived, which later received a $40mil anonymous donation https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12&#x2F
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Both my wife and I have ancestors murdered by the state for the good of society, so we are a bit jaded.
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I have absolutely no problem with helping my children get every possible advantage I can muster. My family is an institution and their upbringing, education, personal satisfaction, and financial situation is cared for deeply by the family -
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If EMTs were so hard to find, they would be paid more money. In Massachusetts it’s significantly less training and requirements to be an EMT than a hair stylist (for whatever government-regulated reason). McDonalds and Walmart jobs are ofte
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Boston is recovering quite well, as biotech, healthcare, and education need physically present people (for now at least). SF was so insanely focused on tech that it collapsed quite suddenly. If I owned a $1 million+ property in SF I would b
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> Fossil fuels now supply about 83% of the world’s commercial energy, compared to 86% in the year 2000. The new renewables (wind and solar) now provide (after some two decades of development) still less than 6% of the world’s primary en
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If you had a ladder stretching all the way into space, you could climb it without needing any rocket propellant
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Technology increases productivity. Not all energy destroys the earth, see nuclear energy. More technology has enabled us to feed the earth with less people devoted to food production. Etc.
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It is hard to reproduce the values returned by various instruments. Using modern technology and analytics tools it’s easier to check for fraud in the western blots, so this is where the fraud is often proven. The problem is that this is ips
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Your other post said you were demoralized and “quiet quitting”, or collecting a paycheck and fucking around. That may work for a while, but long term you will be unfulfilled and miserable. It’s time for a change
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Best of luck to your software development union collectively organizing to raise wages
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My problem with these arguments is that there is supposedly a permanent class of “owners” and one of “workers”, and the workers are completely without agency nor ability to become owners themselves. Especially in software, a good idea can b
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The Quantum Computing Bubble(ft.com)
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You don’t have to be a republican (as if that’s a slur?) to disagree with the “science” of masking considering government officials said not to use masks, then to use masks, then we were all going to die if we didn’t wear masks, now no one
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Think about who your heroes are. Scientists, business leaders, artists, writers, philosophers, podcasters, actors, and on and on. You know about and respect people who accomplished great things that affected you and the world in ways you ap
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My mother was one of 8 children born to Finnish immigrant parents in America. As an adult she used the local Mormon temple to research her ancestors, connected with them on Facebook, then re-established the family back into the old country.
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HN is paternalistic to the extreme. An entire community of people who were one of the smartest growing up, and now think they should dictate how everyone else lives their lives, using guns (I mean the government). The tut-tutting that is ra
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My comment is to counteract the knee-jerk HN opinion that "All unions are a panacea!" without ignoring the very real, very well-documented counterpoints.
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And major unions such as the UAW have embezzled millions of dollars from their members, documented as fact https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/former-uaw-official-sen... Let’s not pretend one side is sinners and
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And whenever the union loses, they say the election wasn't fair to them. It's almost like both sides refuse to believe anyone can have an opposing opinion and everything is rigged
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When the facts disagree with your world view, attack the messenger

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