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by tolbish 5y ago
Edit: free version mentioned in TFA
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by tolbish 5y ago
> Health Insurance for better or worse heavily discriminates against the older folks. Medicare exists only for the elderly.
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by tolbish 5y ago
I don't see how it's irrational to find women's gymnastics more interesting and artistic. You can do that without making a judgment on the difficulty or superiority of one over the other.
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by tolbish 5y ago
There are several movie theaters that serve alcohol. The Alamo Drafthouse is the only place that tries to make the movie going experience a genuine blast.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Definitely not just a rich kid thing. The camps are usually run by small-ish organizations like the local church. And considering the point is to bring in children, there are often options for those who need financial assistance. Besides, r
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by tolbish 5y ago
Found the landlord. Also, you have made quite a few assumptions there, friend. There are several good ideas listed here, including raising taxes on unoccupied homes.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Should housing be a primary vehicle for investment and the de facto way of making money? Or should it serve as a necessity and basic aspect of life?
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by tolbish 5y ago
Doesn't every child get their DNA sampled and stored in most states if the parents want any hope of screening the baby against a variety of diseases?
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by tolbish 5y ago
This seems more of a consequence of not having a social safety net. Other countries were able to shut down.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Are people within the streaming community considered "average gamers"? Would the average gamer even care anout streamers?
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by tolbish 5y ago
Serious answer: Yes, but it's legal discrimination. If you were doing so based on sex, race, or other protected class it would be illegal discrimination.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Alternatively: Every car is a car you can sleep in. You just won't necessarily wake up.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Yes, but how were they selected?
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by tolbish 5y ago
Very interesting! Does anyone have more information on how they were selected? It's not exactly a local operation.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Someone is going to try livestreaming a fleeing suspect and end up getting riddled with bullets.
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by tolbish 5y ago
"Liability laundering" does roll off the tongue more easily than "machine learning algorithm".
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by tolbish 5y ago
If ShotSpotter can't either then it effectively useless.
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by tolbish 5y ago
With different transit measures, there will be more livable communities available, freeing up that family of 5 to move somewhere where they don't need to take such long winded trips in the first place.
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by tolbish 5y ago
> Bikers should realize they are driving a more dangerous vehicle. Bikes have no protective covering, no crash cage. Your body is exposed directly to the road... These are only a problem if you build your society such that bikes are trav
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by tolbish 5y ago
I'm trying to understand how you can just come to that realization when that point get repeated ad nauseam all the time on HN.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Much like junk food being a substitute for a lack of real nutrition, what happens when the desire for real nutrition atrophies?
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by tolbish 5y ago
It is abundantly clear how all of your data will be used, not buried in ToS/legalese?
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by tolbish 5y ago
Not true at all. It could also be they want you to be humiliated. It's not always about the threat of a physical altercation. Much like the cases of girls bullying brown girls after 9/11, boys bullied brown boys after 9/11 in
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by tolbish 5y ago
That doesn't sound true at all. Male bullies don't just prey on the weak, they also prey on the out groups. An example of this would be bullies who picked on brown people after 9/11, who would call these people horrible names
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by tolbish 5y ago
That is the plot of at least 3 Avengers movies.
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by tolbish 5y ago
In reality, modesty is not used in the way you say it is. You call someone modest when it is a slightly negative trait. You would otherwise call them unpretentious or humble. Posting on GitHub and having a decent internet presence seems lik
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by tolbish 5y ago
The equivalent is alcohol being prohibited leading to everyone drinking 180 proof smuggled moonshine that makes you go blind.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Why is it legal for them to sell personal data? It should be explicitly asked each time, not buried in a ToS and legalese. If it's information you wouldn't just offer to a stranger (like your address or where exactly you went last
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by tolbish 5y ago
Paycheck transparency, paycheck+stock option transparency, or transparency of all benefits? Didn't Steve Jobs have a salary of $1?
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by tolbish 5y ago
This is it. It would be quite the sight to see people with real money/power (Jeff Bezos, for instance) discuss that.

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