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by singlow 5y ago
But the ACLU doesn't generally get involved in trying to battle bureaucratic incompetence. If the bureaucracy was being used to mask racism or other prejudicial policies the ACLU might be interested, but in this case it just looks like
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by singlow 5y ago
Or it's a reference to a real life marketing campaign that was referenced in that movie? [Edit] So I googled. Never realized that message was never a real secret code from the radio show. Sponsored by Ovaltine but apparently the creato
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by singlow 5y ago
A significant portion of the super-rich believe they are super-rich because they scrutinize bills and are thrifty/smart with money. "If only everyone else was as smart with their money they could be as rich as I am..."
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by singlow 5y ago
But Facebook cannot do through an agent what it is not allowed to do itself. Doesn't matter if the agent is a subsidiary or a partner.
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by singlow 5y ago
> They probably are irrelevant, so why exempt them? Because not exempting them may make it harder to pass the bill?
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by singlow 5y ago
That's not how laws work.
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by singlow 5y ago
Usually a government program to give parents fixed annual tuition voucher which they can use to enroll their child at a private school. The voucher may cover part or all of the tuition at the private school and the parent would pay the rema
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by singlow 5y ago
I believe you have a kernel of good intent but very poor wording.
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by singlow 5y ago
But if you have an android phone you can buy apps where ever you choose, even from the developer directly. There are alternative app stores. The market has a low barrier to entry. Apple only has control over consumers who chose for them to
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by singlow 5y ago
The brand names pay for their spot, so its moot. There is no meritocracy in grocery store product placement. For the most part the grocery store doesn't have a formula to decide where to put most things based on sales data. If you sell
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by singlow 5y ago
But in this case they are setting up a bank that has the ability to facilitate certain banking practices that would be difficult to accomplish without a complicit bank. As such, no person, whether a criminal or not, would be able to commit
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by singlow 5y ago
So Does GM have a monopoly on Chevrolets? Does that mean they can be regulated as a monopoly? Chevrolets compete with Fords and Mercedes and Honda, etc; so having a monopoly on your own brand is not a monopoly. I have both an Android phone
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by singlow 5y ago
Were the bank activities themselves illegal? It would only be entrapment if they were soliciting the illegal activity. It sounds like they were just soliciting banking services in a way that was attractive to illegal actors. Even if the ban
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by singlow 5y ago
My irony detector is not giving me a clear reading...
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by singlow 5y ago
Definitely not misleading. Possibly easy to misunderstand? It did take me a second to realize what was meant.
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by singlow 5y ago
How do you tell when a project only works on a Mac? It has a pretty marketing website and never mentions it's operating system support.
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by singlow 5y ago
But on big projects, doesn't the architect often work for the bidder?
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by singlow 5y ago
So all of the senses of theft that do apply, which have been in use for millenia, are not "meaningful" because they do not meet the cause of your morality. Of course when Prometheus "stole" the fire from Mount Olympus he
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by singlow 5y ago
Every grammar rule is a convention by definition.
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by singlow 5y ago
I used to own a pickup. I resolved to never own another one because it resulted in requests to help haul stuff or help someone move at least twice per month.
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by singlow 5y ago
And actually Mac the Knife was a very popular gossip column in MacWeek magazine in the 90s which was a reference to the song and probably not the video game. That column was most likely in mind as much as the song when this was written.
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by singlow 5y ago
A. You can store redundant copies in various secret locations. B. To bury gold you must transport the valuable property in meat space to your hiding spot after acquiring it. With cryptocurrency, you hide the secrets before they have value a
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Access YouTube TV from the Roku YouTube App(twitter.com)
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by singlow 5y ago
But the first time Fred is introduced in chapter 2 it is clear that Bob Arctor is Fred. He's in the scramble suit at the Lion's club and He's introduced as Fred to the audience, but the Narrator calls him Bob Arctor: > In
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by singlow 5y ago
Pretty close to the original: --- from the book --- "--this guy," Luckman was saying, manicuring a box full of grass, hunched over it as Arctor sat across from him, more or less watching, "appeared on TV claiming to be a worl
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by singlow 5y ago
I don't understand why so many people want to use AWS for such small budgets. At that scale wouldn't it be easier to just build everything out of a few VMs at a cheap service? AWS is awesome when you have a large number of resourc
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by singlow 5y ago
Also it will break your back button which will scroll to arbitrary points in the article instead of going back to HN.
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by singlow 5y ago
But to be fair, those aren't the taxes that get raised when one raises taxes. They raise the portion that is effectively zeroed out for a large portion of households who don't earn above the cutoff for the first tax bracket after
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by singlow 6y ago
A defense is not the most common definition of apology in modern usage, but it is the most historical meaning of the word, and most aligned with its Greek etymology. This letter is very much a hybrid of both a defense and a mea culpa, the t
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by singlow 6y ago
But cloudfront already sends that original ip back in a standard header.

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