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by turc1656 9y ago
It goes to show that what I said isn't an "attitude" or mindset, but rather a simple observation of reality. Mainly that decisions have consequences. What I said is nothing new, yet you say that it is wrong to have that att
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by turc1656 9y ago
To be clear - it's 7k for each person in the entire country - not each recipient. So the amount received by the actual people getting the benefits is far, far more than just 7k. Think about it this way - the average household income i
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by turc1656 9y ago
Why is that wrong? Surely I am entitled to my opinion, however judgmental it may be. Also, it's barely an opinion at all. It's practically a fact based on the information in the article alone that a number of extremely bad deci
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by turc1656 9y ago
That link/picture isn't crap, even if it is Fox News. That photo goes to the whole concept of what "poor" actually is. Poor can be defined as relative or absolute. We normally use it in the relative sense, so there ar
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by turc1656 9y ago
A "real" social safety net? Is that a joke? As though we already don't have tons of social programs? Sure, the US might not be as insanely generous as some European nations, but the US has medicare, medicaid, food stamps (
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by turc1656 9y ago
I disagree. This woman needs to be realistic. It says she spent her social security on things like prime rib at the diner and a $100 guided tour of some building. I am decidedly low on sympathy for such a person.
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by turc1656 9y ago
"...and faced yet another nasty choice between need and want. Should she go to the dentist, or take a guided tour of buildings designed by her favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright? Each cost $100. She picked Frank Lloyd Wright. Her
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by turc1656 9y ago
I believe what Overtonwindow meant was that the cost of education has gotten out of control primarily because whenever the government guarantees debt ( cough housing cough ) it creates a perverse incentive where the lenders profit by bigg
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by turc1656 9y ago
This is similar in concept to how debt forgiveness works. Generally (there are exceptions), debt that was defaulted on gets taxed as though it was income because it was planned/expected to be income for the creditor, upon which taxes
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by turc1656 9y ago
"Anaheim has made a number of seemingly inexplicable decisions that offered millions in direct subsidy to Disney: for example, the city spent $108.2m to build Disneyland's new parking garage (where visitors pay between $20 and $35
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by turc1656 9y ago
It just occurred to me the same randomized reward mechanism mentioned in the article is the same one that occurs (for me, anyway) on the HN main page. Clicking refresh and not knowing what new awesome thing will be there.
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yes, totally agree with this. This is the most appropriate way to gamble. The casinos are viewed as an entertainment industry, and that's exactly what people should treat them as. For me, I realized years ago that even when I won, I
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by turc1656 9y ago
Sounds like you and I are in similar situations. I work in finance and am somewhat of a "DevOps" type of person, although much less so than I used to be in my previous company. That being said, I wrote 2-3 monsters in the past f
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by turc1656 9y ago
I suspect this has to do with how Walmart has been ramping up there internet game over the past 1-2 years. They have an API similar to Amazon's for pulling product info and placing orders (it's still in beta last I checked). Walm
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by turc1656 9y ago
Let's be real for a minute. The reason this is as large of an issue is the same reason that there are very, very few peaceful secessions throughout history. Even then, "peaceful" is relative - there may not be full on war,
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by turc1656 9y ago
I think they were just wondering why this is the #1 ranked link on HN right now because it's so obvious. Honestly, I was wondering the same thing when I saw the headline of the article.
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yes, but it makes sense for things that like to occur because when you think about it, firms care about the total contract value - meaning it might be a 50k contract per year for 2-3 years. Companies are looking at the longer term. At lea
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by turc1656 9y ago
I didn't even realize it wasn't "Magnify" until I saw your comment! And I went and read the entire site!
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by turc1656 9y ago
Do you really believe people use gmail because of its brand? Yes. Most definitely. I don't use Gmail and I recently had a discussion with my coworkers about Gmail. When I asked why they use it one person said, "because it&#x2
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by turc1656 9y ago
I rarely play games but the most recent game I played was Alien: Isolation. It had been quite a while since I played a game before that so I was surprised to see a lot of these things on by default. Specifically, chromatic aberration. Wh
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by turc1656 9y ago
You honestly think that paying 100k out of pocket in addition to a recurring 4k a month (48k a year!) just on housing is reasonable?
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by turc1656 9y ago
I hadn't heard of this or the Kindle thing mentioned by bhauer. Thanks for alerting me. A new threat I now need to monitor for (sigh).
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yep. Fortunately, though, you can simply refuse to set up the internet connection on your TV. This is what I have done. No wifi password = no outgoing data.
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by turc1656 9y ago
What this all boils down to is 1) trust and 2) the value proposition with regards to the trade-off between possible privacy violation and the value the device has to them personally. For me, these devices are worthless and even if their va
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by turc1656 9y ago
Thanks, but despite the page loading this doesn't seem to be working. I found my employer and even after clicking the radio button for the result, it then tells me that code is not found, which makes no sense, obviously, unless they h
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by turc1656 9y ago
SSN's were never meant to be used for identification purposes like they are used today. They were designed only to be able to make a SS benefit claim when you came of age to help prove you are entitled to the benefit. That's why
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yep, forgot about that one. I totally understand your point. And it is, in my opinion, a very reasonable position to take. I believe I'm the same way, for better or worse. I can't recall with certainty but I believe there is a
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by turc1656 9y ago
Also, pulling up 2-3 major news outlets right now I see that PR is mentioned on all of them, particularly because the president has announced a visit there. But still. It's on the main page of all of them this very minute. One other
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by turc1656 9y ago
While there may be a legit point to this article, let's also keep things in perspective. In the past few weeks we've had....... 3 major hurricanes resulting in enormous damage. The NFL anthem/knee controversy. Escalating t
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by turc1656 9y ago
The word "want" describes desire, willingness, and a level of interest. Saying someone or a group of people are not interested in doing something is entirely different than saying they are less capable. The proper equivalent to &q

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