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by digsy 4y ago
> It makes an assumption that other people share your attitude about raising children who are not biologically your own. Many of us out there who realize that simply having shared biology may be the least important thing between a parent
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by digsy 4y ago
Are you going to care for the unwanted babies that now get born? Are you going to pay for their upbringing? I suspect not but you will happily force others to do just that.
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by digsy 4y ago
>I think that there is a feeling that the other side is attempting to move policy forward Which policy?
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by digsy 4y ago
>should probably be migrated to fairer terms now. Maybe so. But this wasnt a re-negotiation. This was payback for Disney pausing donations to Republican politicians.
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by digsy 4y ago
There are 1800+ special districts in Florida. Special priviledges are hardly limited to Disney.
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by digsy 4y ago
I paid for it. I figured I would get CNN light for $3 a month vs Sling for $30 (which I only use for CNN now). >The average age of CNN watchers is over 60 years old, not exactly a prime streaming demographic. Isnt it? Every 60 year old I
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by digsy 4y ago
The bill was written to ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity for any age - not just K-3. > Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergar
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by digsy 5y ago
>the security flow for banks was already horrible I'm curious why you would say that. What flaws have you seen in currently banking systems?
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by digsy 5y ago
They were sold as >90% effective when introduced. But it was made abundantly clear that the original vaccines were less effective against newer strains.
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by digsy 5y ago
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by digsy 5y ago
>Why would you be anything but positive about this news? Whose payroll you on buddy? OP points out that more research is needed, which it is. And you accuse them of being a schill? Wow.
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by digsy 5y ago
So sad that this site has gone the way of reddit. I used to come here for tech discussions and maybe some startup insight. Now every day there's a post that devolves into qanon, trumpists, leftists bickering. I guess every site goes to
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by digsy 5y ago
$10 an hour isnt a livable wage in the US. Why would you advocate for people to become paupers?
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by digsy 5y ago
A lot of people in Florida ignored the Governors advice and self-locked down. So there's no real way to know what the impact of lockdowns were in Florida.
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by digsy 5y ago
> financial incentives nudge hospitals to assign coronavirus as a cause of death if you had it when you died, even if it wasn't what actually killed you. This accusation of fraud and malpractice has been a common talking point among
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by digsy 6y ago
Emby also works well - https://emby.media/
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by digsy 6y ago
They seized $4bn over 10 years - not per year.
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by digsy 6y ago
I'd appreciate a ban on political posts here. The amount of schills and astroturfing is turning HN into any other social network.
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by digsy 6y ago
>We keep hearing about how this trend will reverse soon, ("two weeks from now"), but that hasn't happened yet. Deaths are down if you look at the US as a whole. However, if you look at the state level its not always the sa
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by digsy 6y ago
Are they? Visa/Mastercard charge merchants 1-2% interchange fees for each transaction. I'd guess that people putting $20k a month on their Visa (I know a few that do) are paying for themselves with the interchange fees.
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by digsy 6y ago
My experience of the non-US military is that soldiers have a lot more accountability. You are told the rules, standards are high and you are held accountable by your peers and superiors. Infractions are punished and squads are self-policing
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by digsy 6y ago
PPE, potential treatments, Ventilators have all been proven to work for their intended purposes. Thats why we stockpile them. Stockpiling something in the hopes that it might help is a waste of resources.
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by digsy 6y ago
>It's time for legislators to legislate. Many of our current problems can be traced back to our legislature failing to do anything. Congress has sent 300+ bills to the Senate and McConnell wont even debate them. Half the Legislature
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by digsy 6y ago
Unethical to build a business scraping data from a company that makes money scraping data?
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by digsy 6y ago
I second this. I had to reboot my ISPs hardware 1-2 times a month. I bought my own and had to reboot it once in 12 months. The connection is slightly faster as well and much more consistent.
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by digsy 6y ago
>I can't see the upside in doing this through the banks other than to make it a logistical nightmare for small businesses - if anyone has thoughts otherwise I would really like to understand. Financial Institutions are set up alread
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by digsy 6y ago
Its not even that in places. Some hospitals in Dallas will only test you if you are critical i.e. cannot breathe on your own.
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by digsy 7y ago
I have a spreadsheet at work that does this for manual tasks. It calculates minutes to perform the task X # employees X yearly frequency of task. Once I've plugged in the values, I go back and ask if we really want to spend 30 hours a
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by digsy 7y ago
Water plants need people to run them. And power, which means power plants need people (or fuel trucks to refuel their generators if the power goes out). If those people are sick, the water may stop flowing.
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by digsy 7y ago
Technology wise, Magic Bands are awesome. You can pay with them in the parks (no fishing around for cash or your credit card), it links to your Disney accounts, you can use them as a ticket to get into the parks and it functions as your doo

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