RichardCNormos

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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
We're not against rap, we're not against rappers, but we are against those thugs...
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Absolutely. Low-income housing is the perfect use for all this extra office space. San Francisco has a problem where the low-income people who work to serve high-income people can't afford to live in the city that they work in. Convert
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
jq as a project should be re-named. In white supremacist circles, "JQ" is an antisemitic dog whistle (it stands for "Jewish Question").
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
You only have to look as far as Canada to see this in action. Canada leveraged banks for political revenge this year: https://yesithappened.substack.com/p/canada-froze-bank-accou...
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
This isn't an innovation. My dealer did this in the '90s.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
This emotional rationale is what enabled the Boomer generation's near-complete regulatory capture of the real estate market.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Permits to build, permits to remodel, taxes for simply existing year-over-year, taxes for having too few people living in the house ... is there a limit to how far government will go to control what people can and cannot do with their own
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
If he'd said it about whites, nobody would care. It looks like Black Twitter is noticing, too.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
> "Stop turning public life into a brutal struggle of group against group." Excuse me, NYT, but you were entirely complicit in, if not a driving force of, the recent racial enmity in the United States.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
In college, I had a pretty based statistics professor who said: "a skilled statistician can make the data tell whatever story his employers want". I chose not to pursue statistics as a career after that.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
The vast majority of censorship today happens server-side, not in the transport layer.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Calling people "anti-science" is something of a canard, a trick of speech designed to belittle and demean anyone who questions the validity of current research. I might add that "the science" was consistently wrong about
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I, too, keep my specifics in the pedantry.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Cocaine addiction develops with a horrifying efficiency. Cocaine users are much more prone to violence than marijuana users. This is a bad idea. Source: lived experience.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
My ex-wife used to physically abuse me (hitting, throwing things). An attorney friend told me to leave the house whenever that happened, because if anyone called the cops (including me), the police would arrest me instead of her. It's
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
What does it mean to be "well-behaved"?
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
The Pirate Bay has all the seasons. Even with the hassle of starting my VPN, downloading, making sure it's in the right format, dealing with subtitles (looking at you, Better Call Saul), piracy is a better experience than fragmented st
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Before I got married, I would always offer my dates a gamble when the check came: both of us put our cards down, and the waiter chooses one behind their back. That person pays for dinner. I've never had a date refuse, and in the long r
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
This smells of "old, entrenched interests fighting against a disruptive innovation". Remote work is the future for the tech industry. Whether or not the current generation of leaders want to believe it is immaterial. We've pr
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
My city government here in California calls them "people who live outside".
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
The government doesn't need copies of my communications living on their servers.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Oh, the logicians are at it again :-) I was agnostic for my young life, but as an undergrad, found God in mathematics (specifically algebra and analysis). Now I go to church regularly. As an algebraist, I don't have the gall to assum
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I thought that one of the Hacker News commentary tenets was "Don't shit all over other peoples' work." Except if it's crypto-related? Sheesh. Jack Dorsey is a pretty successful fellow. He sees centralization as a re
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I did the same and haven't looked back. I can take a walk without wandering through a sketchy bum colony. The streets aren't lined with RVs. My property tax is in the single-digit thousands of dollars. I was able to get a conceale
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
PG&E, our regulated monopoly electrical utility, turns the power off during hot, windy days during the summer so that they can avoid liability for starting wildfires. They never maintained their equipment, so it fails and starts massive
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Or, if you live in California. 3 hours is nothing! A while ago, we went for a week without power in the northern part of the state.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
You're being downvoted severely for going against current leftist orthodoxy, but you should know that a lot of us out here agree with you.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
It's not immediately clear to me that this is illegal. If anything, the Feds didn't "seize" the Bitcoin, they forcibly acquired a license to the wallet's private key. If they didn't understand that the license
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
"The blueprint is a set of non-binding guidelines—or suggestions—providing a 'national values statement' and a toolkit to help lawmakers and businesses build the proposed protections into policy and products." This is pe
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
This level of hatred and vitriol is curious. Why are you so angry at people you simply don't agree with?

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