NeonVice

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by NeonVice 3y ago
Birth rate decreases as income increases. The highest income earners have the lowest birth rates.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
The pointy-haired boss is still clueless. Now, the world around him is just nonsensically shifting in a way that also makes most of us feel clueless, so we can empathize.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
Funny how you criticize someone who pokes fun of people who fall into their own version of reality (and a giant corporate structure who encourages everyone to fall in line) as the one who is sinking into his own version of reality.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
When I travel between states to partake in a service that is allowed in one state but not another that is not interstate commerce. I'm still conducting intrastate commerce within the state where I am located. The federal government doe
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by NeonVice 4y ago
That's exactly what the court did. Congress is now forced to clarify the charter if they want the same regulations in place.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
The Dobbs case has everything to do with whether or not a federal abortion law would be constitutional. The court determined on 10th amendment grounds that the constitution was silent on abortion. Therefore, that power belongs to each state
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by NeonVice 4y ago
That website says $12.5 million for 2021 and was a decrease by $10 million vs 2020.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
Because they are pandering for votes. They know that the average citizen doesn't know that the law would be deemed unconstitutional based on the most recent ruling.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
Congress created the EPA, but the court ruled that some regulations were outside of their charter. Congress can fix it by updating the EPA charter.
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by NeonVice 4y ago
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Abortion regulation powers were not delegated within the US Consti
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by NeonVice 4y ago
Abortion is not mentioned in the constitution and therefore each state has the power to legislate it as they see fit. Any federal abortion law would be deemed unconstitutional on that basis.
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by NeonVice 6y ago
These media companies are regulated by the FCC, so media companies will now feel pressured to effectively regulate free speech on behalf of the political party in power to avoid any negative repercussions in unrelated matters. It's dis
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by NeonVice 6y ago
Twitter can't clean up that garbage either and is also used by extremists. However, Twitter has not been deplatformed.
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by NeonVice 6y ago
Many users wanted a free (as in freedom) platform and Parler provided it. Parler wasn't intolerant. Parler wasn't advocating for Twitter to be taken offline. Based on his heart tweet, Jack sure was happy when Parler was removed fr
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by NeonVice 7y ago
A government middle man is not going to reduce income inequality. First, we need to decide whether or not inequality is necessarily a bad thing if everyone's situation is improving. Otherwise, it just comes off as covetousness. Second,
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by NeonVice 7y ago
I found this good curated list: https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters
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by NeonVice 7y ago
He was contrasting them.
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by NeonVice 7y ago
This can benefit the consumer at the expense of the supplier. The lower Walmart can lower the price, the lower Walmart can offer the product.
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by NeonVice 7y ago
Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.
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by NeonVice 7y ago
A waste of ink, no, but somewhat a waste of thermal paper.
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by NeonVice 7y ago
Speech even without thought is still free speech. You would hope that the most thoughtful speech would be easily recognized and followed in place of its opposite. However, free speech does not exist in a world where only one group decides w
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by NeonVice 7y ago
"The odds of winning the lottery is 1 in 292 million." "But for that one person it is 100%!" sigh
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by NeonVice 8y ago
A lot of people's thinking doesn't go beyond stage one. We should all be asking ourselves "then what will happen?" many times before advocating for economic policies, especially tax increases.
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by NeonVice 8y ago
Assuming that the monetary supply is fixed, then there is a deflationary effect. Even those with less money are able to purchase more value as more value is created. This is why incentives for creating value are important to an economy as o
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by NeonVice 8y ago
Money is just a tool to represent value. Value is not a zero-sum game. If a person creates something of value, she is creating something that did not exist before.
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by NeonVice 8y ago
It's weird. Both the new_to_hn and man_made accounts were created within the last couple of hours. I wouldn't be surprised if they were created by the same person with a penchant for creating a username that mirrors the subject of
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by NeonVice 8y ago
OP was asking a genuine question that you not only did not answer, but that you then tried to cast some kind of judgment. Sometimes we need more information before jumping into the typical fray.
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by NeonVice 8y ago
It depends. Do you believe that it is the role of government to build new housing or is it their role to create an environment that encourages new building supply? Is new housing not being built because of government regulation that deters
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by NeonVice 8y ago
If I offer MongoDB as a cloud service with a homegrown web interface (e.g. mLab) then I am required to release my web interface?
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by NeonVice 8y ago
Please, keep trying to re-invent public transit if you can come up with something better.

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