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by ydlr 4y ago
Both of my parents were police as well. That is why I believed them when they told me never to talk to cops. It is not a matter of good cops and bad cops. The issues are systemic and often complicated.
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by ydlr 4y ago
The reason for that is there are only a tiny number of crimes that qualify as RICO predicates. We need to expand RICO to include more types of criminal activity.
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by ydlr 4y ago
> ...leaving the temple without holy men and raising concerns among local worshippers that they wouldn’t be able to conduct “merit-making”—that is, donating food to monks as a good deed. Curious. I wonder if giving food to actual poor pe
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by ydlr 4y ago
Go requires at least two fingers. That is what makes it more challenging than chess.
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by ydlr 4y ago
What is a "spike?"
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by ydlr 4y ago
Lincoln was also a proponent of state surveillance. He reorganized the national telegraph network to spy on journalists and experimented with the use of spy balloons.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Arkansas has also removed some of the barriers for electric coops and municipal broadband, but change has been slow. There are now plenty of rural areas with symmetrical gigabit broadband available, while most cities are stuck with whatever
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by ydlr 4y ago
I found it strange that a city police force would even care about something like this. It turns out that the City of London is distinct from the city named London. It is more like a chamber of commerce with police power. Bizarre. https:&#x
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by ydlr 4y ago
Things are going to get interesting in a few years when these kids get jobs and can practice their machine-breaking in earnest.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Indeed. And not just rail workers. Every week there is a post on HN asking why we don't have a shorter work week already. Folks seem to have forgotten how much dynamite was involved in getting it down to 40 hours.
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by ydlr 4y ago
1998.
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by ydlr 4y ago
> I’ll grant this, but no matter what it’s called, ultimately no group (consumer vs. business) is better or worse off. In such a spiral it’s just the nominal numbers that are changing and not the ‘real’ numbers In the long-term, yes. In
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by ydlr 4y ago
It is _unit_ labor costs that are decreasing. In this case, because the price companies are getting for their goods is increasing faster than wages are growing.
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by ydlr 4y ago
All of this is true is a company rises prices without affecting the behavior of others. When suppliers notice their customers raising prices, they raise prices to capture some of that increase. Likewise, workers will try to increase wages.
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by ydlr 4y ago
> You charge what the market will pay, not how much it costs to produce. That saying usually applies to market participants. Google has exclusive right over the TLD, so there is market for them. There isn't much of a market for peop
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by ydlr 4y ago
Even if they manage to keep the service online, the fact that employees are sleeping in the office is a sign that they are now grossly understaffed.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Yet, Pakistan routinely cooperates with US when it suits them. Lack of extraction treaty is no guarantee of safety.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Thanks to proton, I have completely forgotten how to configure wine prefixes.
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by ydlr 4y ago
There is also https://oulipo.social/ where you can use any letter except 'e'.
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by ydlr 4y ago
There is also https://oulipo.social/ , where you can use any letter except 'e'.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Except the party that would support such a program doesn't like voter id requirements and the party that wants voter id is hostile to putting government resources into making id easier to get.
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by ydlr 4y ago
I would never sleep through the night again. That is terrifying.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Suspension with pay.
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by ydlr 4y ago
This sounds like the inverse of "Work to Rule." Instead of employees doing exactly what they are told in the dumbest way possible to sabotage production, you have employers technically upholding a contract in the dumbest way possi
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by ydlr 4y ago
That is easily fixed with legislation. We now have multiple phone companies that all interoperate. No reason we can't require the same from our many facebooks.
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Digital Proudhonism (2018)(boundary2.org)
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How have I lived on the Internet for so long without hearing Penelope Scott?
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by ydlr 4y ago
Does removing a program from the apple store also delete it from users' telephones?
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by ydlr 4y ago
Maybe we need professional certification for CEOs.
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by ydlr 4y ago
Because tech industry is not unionized: "I know we hired you to work in R&D, but are now being assigned to ads." "We need to meet a completely arbitrary deadline so that I can increase my yearly bonus, so you are working

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