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by xref 8y ago
> discussion being on general platforms, so that abhorrent ideas would have to suffer opposition Well your argument falls apart pretty early, since people subscribing to abhorrent ideas just squelch opposition themselves anyway so they d
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by xref 8y ago
The loving nostalgia for dead corporate behemoths is kind of curious. Blockbuster shut down a ton of mom-and-pop video stores. Circuit City and Good Guys did the same for small electronics retailers. Tower Records killed small record shops,
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by xref 8y ago
> The slave owner like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson was in some ways like an extreme version of the modern liberal -- seeing the person of color as needing an authority to rule over them and provide them with things like welfar
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by xref 8y ago
These articles tend to attract comments with dire predictions for US society if people knew each others salaries, so just a reminder Norway always does nationwide salary transparency https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40
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by xref 8y ago
Amazon prices fluctuate wildly depending on myriad things: user/IP (can jump on tor and see prices change), stock levels, time of day, A/B price testing etc etc. viewing the price graphs at camelcamelcamel.com are really eye openi
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by xref 8y ago
Seeding with “tiger mom” didn’t disappoint: - galigator (gal/alligator) - croctuplets (croc/octuplets) - Pumather-in-law (puma/mother-in-law)
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by xref 8y ago
All I’ve heard is they once paid $6000 to stop a ddos in 2015 at the demand of their hosting isp.
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by xref 8y ago
Shale became economically viable due to fracking, whereas previously shale had to be steam heated to release the oil which is extremely energy intensive and thus expensive, which is why Shell tried it in the 70s but abandoned the tech.
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by xref 8y ago
Short history: - Oct 2015: LogMeIn buys LastPass for $125mil - Aug 2017: LastPass raises prices 100% ($12/yr -> $24/yr) - Feb 2019: LastPass raises prices 50% ($24/yr -> $36/yr) 1Password also charges $3
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LastPass raises prices 50%(blog.lastpass.com)
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by xref 8y ago
Dismissing corporate personhood as “a convenient lie” is pretty flip when the Supreme Court has ruled it is enshrined in the constitution. But boy I’d love to dis-enshrine it.
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by xref 8y ago
Breezing past your suggestion that workers should do some tax fraud, not reporting your tips also lowers your social security earnings which is going to lower your payouts as well.
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by xref 8y ago
I used to contribute heavily to Wikipedia in 2007-08 and intermittently since, however recently it has become an absolute nightmare to contribute. Creating a missing article almost immediately is met with an admin nominating it for deletion
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by xref 8y ago
Have you used Postico? I have both it and DataGrip but find myself primarily in Postico for Postgres, feels lighter weight and easier to navigate
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by xref 8y ago
I’m very curious why unions are “obliged” to defend non-members. Is it a state/federal law?
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by xref 8y ago
You get the same benefits? As in non-union members would get a union rep to fight for them if they were fired?
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by xref 8y ago
honestly Adams has been doing more trolling than political-punditry nowadays is probably the main reason people are dismissive of him
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by xref 8y ago
HN both has an edit button and is not susceptible to your hypothetical. these are solvable problems.
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by xref 8y ago
because of massive political/economic/agricultural/etc shifts to avoid those outcomes. if nobody ever made an issue about banning CFCs do you think the ozone would be better off today?
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by xref 8y ago
I'm excited to sell all my Spotify albums on eBay then, I guess? Trying to stuff the new-world of streaming into the old-world boxes of CD or Radio just doesn't work. the world changed.
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by xref 8y ago
in the US seems like a lot of age-based laws, even the Constitution, would have to change to allow this. I.E. you have to be 35 to run for president, voice cracking "no problem I identify as that!"
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by xref 8y ago
Soooo, how about we try it? There existed no proof PoW was even possible, and then Bitcoin tried it and here we are today.
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by xref 8y ago
I'm gonna say Reader was like a dysfunctional relationship for me, once they shut it down and I had to move on (currently using newsblur.com) I saw how good an actively devoped RSS app could be
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by xref 8y ago
amen, I'm still limping along with it on Windows 10 but nothing else compares at all for managing your original photos. (I also use Google photos but that is a recompressed jpeg copy of your original)
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by xref 8y ago
an important factor since PHP 5.4 is still the default install on the latest releases of both RHEL and CentOS
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by xref 8y ago
if it is still touchscreen only there's not much way to improve it, you'll have to watch the pane of glass and not the road since there's no tactile information.
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by xref 8y ago
the dance “is a circle whose centre is the Devil, and in it all turn to the left, because all are heading towards everlasting death." anyone else immediately wonder what turning right would have implied in the 13th century?
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by xref 8y ago
It's a utopian idea but study after study shows we'd rather be treated like revenue generating cattle than humans if it means a cheaper flight. Honestly the only way the cheapest seats are going to get any larger is if the governm
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DLC Ideas: - Three hour wait in runway queue, rand() for seatbelt sign on/off - Delay for de-icing, fail to take off within 20 minutes, delay for de-icing, fail to take off within 20 minutes... - Watch from window as your lugga
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How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by xref 8y ago|1 comments

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