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by tdhoot 7y ago
I think Malcolm Gladwell or maybe someone similar called this "deliberate practice". The idea is that you can't become an expert by just doing 10,000 hours of practice. The practice has to be pushing you forward for it to cou
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by tdhoot 7y ago
In the common usage of the word they are totally free. If you want to redefine the word as it's used, let's start also considering your bandwidth isn't "free" and so these apps aren't free in that sense either.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
>> That isn't free. Again, signing up for abuse of my privacy is not free. Surely the logical extension of this is that no app with ads should be marked as "free". Your attention is not free. Right?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
It's new functionality I think, or at least I just recently realized I can set LastPass as the default password manager on iOS.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
This is true in the US too, but gridlock doesn't fix itself in the time period. Even in Canada there have been multiple occasions where Parliament did not act within the time limit and now there is no law at all.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
This is really a failure of Congress. SCOTUS shouldn't even be in the business of forcing reinterpretations of these laws - Congress should realize it's being (mis/re)-interpreted and reactively clarify. That's how the s
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Correction: Boost is not a T-Mobile MVNO, it's a Sprint MVNO. I think Amazon wants assurances that the terms Boost has with Sprint will carry over to the new T-Mobile/Sprint entity.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
With solar you remove the solar panels and the area is immediately reusable. Or the panels can be mounted above usable space. Or am I missing something?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Even in America there has been a recent troubling trend towards Department of Justice settlements being used to direct money to specific non-profits [0]. There was an effort to outlaw these settlements but it seems to have gone nowhere. [0]
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Seems like everyone in the community knew. Seems reasonable considering the personal relationship he had with everyone.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Don't most people making minimum wage qualify for Medicaid?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Is your claim that there is no way to live under a minimum wage in America right now?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
How is a living wage defined, precisely? Is it defined as the wage an "average" person would need to earn to live? Or the wage a "frugal" person would need to earn to live?
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Fiverr F-1(sec.gov)
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Chinese and Japanese companies were filling to partially fund HSR in the US since it would open markets for their trainsets, but they all backed out because the US imposed "buy American" requirements that would make it impossible
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I think you're forgetting tax but I generally agree with your point.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
With four kids is it cheaper to just hire a nanny?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Good thing nuclear reactors are only being built in the West then.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
What's your source on the tax cut costing $1T/year?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
In case you didn't want to wait for the slow-typing to load the entire message: "Welcome Agent. A team of field operatives is currently on-site in enemy territory, working to retrieve intel on an imminent terrorist attack. The int
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by tdhoot 7y ago
A lot of the people who paid more in federal taxes are the wealthy in high tax states (CA, NY, etc.).
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Probably the proposed San Francisco 'IPO tax': https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Supervisor-Proposes...
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by tdhoot 7y ago
This is the worst type of email. Leads the customer on and wastes their time with nothing of substance. If anything, this has made my B&H experience worse than before and I have a negative first impression of their new product.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
You don't trust the public to filter for themselves but you trust them to elect politicians or judges that will get to filter for you? The logical extension of your argument is the public not trustworthy enough to even choose their lea
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I think the tone of this comment as "courageous" is especially humorous coming from a throwaway account.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
It may interest you to know it was actually Theranos that pushed for Arizona to change the law to allow this. [0] Might be the only good that came from their company. [0]: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizo
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by tdhoot 7y ago
They have stock, but you typically get more in MTV.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
There was a recession around ~2001, triggered deliberately by the Fed to control an overheated economy due to insane stock market valuations. The recession was pretty minor though.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Only if you don't count stock.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Free speech is not only about articulation. It's also about the ability to share, disseminate, and influence others.

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