Pfhreak

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by Pfhreak 5y ago
We recycle less than 10% of our plastic. And of that, very little goes back to producing the same products -- plastic is typically degraded when recycled and converted from food packaging down into benches or clothing, both of which will sh
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Large, durable plastic use is less of a concern, if I understand correctly. Plastic use around food (and packaging in general), for instance, has a lifespan of approximately 6 months. Compare to the 13 years for plastics used by the automot
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Not sure why it would?
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Hey, someone invented Pinkertons as a service! I look forward to this being used to violate the rights of minorities, union strikers, women, and the homeless!
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Yeah, I understood the analogy just fine, thanks. Obviously the parent was drawing a parallel between the pampered do nothing ants and the Kardashians. But critique implies an analysis and some thought, not just a pithy one liner.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
But that doesn't solve the problem. If the problem is, "East Oregonians feel disconnected from West Oregonians", I don't think there's a way to split Oregon that results in a net equal number of new representatives
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> Why are the Kardashians the one thing in our society that is not allowed to be criticized? They aren't, and I didn't say that. You can criticize the Kardashians all you want. Saying, effectively, "Kardashians are like th
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Yes, the parent poster understood that, and was asking about the males specifically because they are relatively rare.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Let people enjoy things. If you don't like the Kardashians, fine. I don't either. But clearly some folks do and are willing to help propel them to fame (or notoriety). I know your comment is being glib, but it's emblematic of
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
The coastal cities would have access to the major international ports. I suspect the states would have to get along or everyone loses.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Because America is balanced on a knife's edge, and the Senate and Electoral college basically runs the show. If you introduce a new state that leans blue, that's two more blue senators and N more electoral college votes for a blue
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> Oregon will continue to violate more and more American values and American freedoms Haha, what? If Oregon is doing stuff, it's definitionally an American value and American Freedom, right? Who gets to decide what an "American
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
It's not hard at all, any reasonable group of people will say, "what was the price on coinbase (or equivalent) when you sold?"
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
The linked issue mentions one -- data entry at a medical clinic where new users are being signed up.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
"It's better dumped in a landfill" is miles away from "sequesters carbon". Pumping oil into a landfill wouldn't be sequestering carbon, so I'm not sure why pumping oil, processing it into plastics, shippin
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
That's a very big if. "If responsibly disposed of" has an approximately zero percent chance of occurring. And even then, some things will get accidentally dropped or discarded. It's just not a realistic starting point to
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Yes. I understand inflation. I'm pointing out that a $5k return is still income. Compare: Scenario 1: person stuffs $10k in mattress for 20 years. They have $10k at the start, $10k at the end. $0 taxes. Scenario 2: Person invests $10k,
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
That's a pretty low yield. That same investment in an index fund over that period is probably worth ~$40k and that's assuming you have no dividends. Kind of a weird example to pick. Also, even if your investment lost against infla
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing your sentence. Do you mean only poor people would want to raise taxes?
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
100% my read too. The fact that the author doesn't make an effort to identify which taxes is a signal that they aren't really being truthful.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Pedantically, yes. However folks who use it for dieting use it as a tool to restrict calories. There's a reasonable upper limit to the amount someone will eat in one meal, and by delaying their meals they are able to simply reduce the
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> The problem started a decade or so ago with Node. What problem, specifically? People enjoy writing Javascript. It has a ton of fantastic resources online, it is easy to debug and deploy, it's quick to pick up and forgiving of mist
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Not (A and B) seems obvious to me. If something is a good investment vehicle, it's going to be purchased by speculators. If speculators are competing over a finite resource, the price of the resource will rise above the current utility
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
> $272k per adult or $1044 per month for that family of 4 with 2 adults in it Something fishy about your math here. $272k per adult is $544k per family. If you paid it over one year that's $45k per month. Edit: oh, I see, you are o
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
I'm guessing it's a cherry picked statistic that is using covid relief to paint some broader picture that doesn't exist. Of course I'd expect government assistance to increase during the worst pandemic in a generation.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Well, you've recorded the cash transactions in a public ledger, so it may be more enforceable than one thinks.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
Well, in your case you'd be able to claim that loss against the taxes you paid from other gains, right? So really, maybe the IRS owes you money. :D
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
A tax is (a tax for doing bad) for doing well? You may have a tautology to clean up there, bud.
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
What you describe is how assets are typically taxed. And as far as I know, this includes currency you purchase and later sell for a profit. It's called a cost basis. Unless you are suggesting purchases made with Bitcoin (that aren&#x27
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by Pfhreak 5y ago
This clause came from the era of Al Capone, who famously boasted, "They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money." (Which was true at the time.) They added this clause and then ended up catching Capone for tax evasion. h

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