tamalesfan

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by tamalesfan 7y ago
And then there is Trudeau... pure charisma, arrogantly certain of his establishment group-think and almost entirely incompetent.
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by tamalesfan 7y ago
> I get the sense that this kind of right-shifting after a few years in SF is not uncommon. I'll believe it when it shows up in voting behavior. Nothing is going to improve until you change who you elect. Nothing at all. FYI; some
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by tamalesfan 7y ago
Literal whataboutism. Automated systems are held to a higher standard. Telsa's Autopilot apparently has trouble spotting trailers and decapitates the occupants. Cite all the accident figures you want; it won't stop the reporting
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by tamalesfan 7y ago
> So, if someone falls for a pyramid scheme they should be ashamed of themselves? A little, yes. Detecting 'too good to be true' is an important aspect of judgement. Blithely inculcating every claim when it aligns with self in
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by tamalesfan 7y ago
> As a former owner of 2 TDI dirty diesels Sounds like you enjoyed your diesel hot rods for a good long while. You really should consider foregoing your martyrdom at some point; the well of sympathy for you isn't bottomless. Some
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by tamalesfan 7y ago
You don't. The indirection designed into the EU to isolate the government from the governed is deliberate and there is no recourse.
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
1800 word exercise in navel gazing, and it attract 200+ comments and growing. If you read this wall of text and then spent a good chunk of Friday writing one or more lengthy comments about it you should know something; you're living in
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
The SALT deduction cap removes an important incentive for perusing (using mortgage leverage) high value residential properties. Now we just need to cap mortgage interest deduction to a much lower level. It's going to be a lot less app
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
I believe the last time anyone outside of Austin heard anything about transportation in Austin -- public or otherwise -- it was that they had banned Uber for some reason. What's the latest on that?
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
>> anyone can get a website and domain name. Except they can't. The outrage brigades come after the registrars and the hosting services and the payment processors and anyone else they can coerce into compliance. A few platforms
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
> Normal economic theory says protectionism makes the pie smaller for everyone And when those theories are discussed by serious minded people they are frequently forced to qualify the discussion with "except for those left behind,&q
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
When will the launch happen?
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
"Colleges already provide an entire department or two of professionals" I don't think we've actually run out that string however; you have to go a long, long way before academe recognizes the futility of throwing more &#
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
No. Never. Graduated high school in '88. All I heard from infancy was the 'Education!' chant. It was understood that 'Education!' was the answer and the rest would fall into place. Every degree is equally valid
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
Interesting phrase: “the retributive view” Apparently criticizing poor decision making is a bad thing and so here we're provided a convenient pejorative with which to dismiss it. Recently we've seen many notables dismiss uneducate
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
"Multiple people" were left with nothing better to which to attribute maintainer decisions. See the dysfunction there? Don't address the problem, or the proposed solution; just leave it to fester and create discontent. That
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
> Do you really expect us to integrate patches without thinking about that? Whoa! You made huge leap there. At what point was it suggested that patches be recklessly applied? That didn't happen. Your quote actually suggests a rea
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
"You don't have to sue" There is literally an App[1] to track the progress of the hundreds of FOIA lawsuits outstanding at any given moment. The federal Government routinely denies FOIA requests and forces applicants to pur
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
> The drug violence is fueled by the USA's demand for drugs. So goes the conventional group think. Thing is Mexico isn't the only nation that shares a long border with the US. Yet somehow Canada isn't yet another murder
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by tamalesfan 8y ago
The 91 people killed in January while stealing gasoline from a deliberately ruptured pipeline burned to death 320 miles South of the US border. When 43 students were rounded up by the police and handed over to a cartel for execution and di