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by engx 9y ago
Public transist in LA is akin to mild torture. I feel for those who have to take it every day for work. Aside from the haphazard and oblique bus scheduling routes, the ride itself is jarring and agnozing. Unnecessary repeated montoned ann
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by engx 9y ago
I agree, but there's a range of people who live in their cars. Some cause destruction, trash and probably aren't employed or trying to work in a legitimate way. Hard drug use, crime etc are all likely.
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by engx 9y ago
America should be helping fight for a world where we don't need fish police. In other words, we should encourage governments that naturally want to act in a reasonable, secular-based manner.
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by engx 9y ago
I'm not directly responding to your comment but some of the best sushi chefs use fish that was frozen. And this says all sushi served in the US has to be freezed to kill any bacteria- https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004&#x
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by engx 9y ago
Good comment but I wouldn't suggest saying you look like you are from someplace far away. Just sticking with the standard where you are from is good. Better to have traveled out of the country a few times so you can relate. Best advic
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by engx 9y ago
General Hayden was recently on Sam Harris' podcast and he briefly explained the 'retroactive collection' concept- https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/privacy-and-security I'd say his argumen
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by engx 9y ago
The video clip seemed unusually harsh. The reporter said he'd announced the Hyperloop to "thrill and confuse"? Followed by several skeptical tones and questions all while contrasting it with saying he'd done things no
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by engx 9y ago
But fraud is up. Chip & Pin has just motivated them to use online methods. Or load other pay to load cards without a chip.
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by engx 9y ago
Aren't cops supposed to be a neutral party? Shouldn't they have inquired what was happening and tried to find all possible ways to communicate without force? Cops in the US seem way too ready to snap into a confrontation. They c
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by engx 9y ago
The first thing Trump was supposed to do was introduce an Amendment for term limits (Washington Post). Cruz proposed one that would limit Senators to 2 terms and Representatives to 3 terms. This seems like an idea almost everyone would sup
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by engx 9y ago
Facebook is like a network TV sitcom, produced around advertising. Everything is artificially distorted for that purpose.
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by engx 9y ago
And your suggestion about classism is moral relativism. Who is corrupt? The guy giving away $8 billion or the one who founded GiveWell? And one of their focuses is criminal justice reform and trying to improve prison conditions. If you wa
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by engx 9y ago
It's not a business, it's a non profit founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, with $1 billion in committments to funding. How is this controversial? Just because some people know each other?
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by engx 9y ago
It seems objectively better for some people to have access to money -- in this case the GiveWell founder. He's done great work there and now he's helping OpenAI all via a Facebook founder's billions.
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by engx 9y ago
I don't think a rich 24 year old kid, doing something that was widely considered an attack against the Establishment, is something that is highly unusual or bad. It doesn't seem fair to forever conflate Palmer with Trump or assume
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by engx 10y ago
When things go bad, the tendency for people to lie is shocking. I lived with a business partner, and decided to move out. Him and his girlfriend begged me to stay but I wanted privacy (it was a big house with other roommates). Few months l
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by engx 10y ago
A bus anyway in LA is substantially longer than driving. LA traffic is so annoying that a lot of people would likely take the bus if it was faster. If there were 10x more busses, and I could pay $10 for an all day pass, I'd take the b
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by engx 10y ago
I went to Pavilions grocery store the other day, and when I got home, the Facebook app said, "Have you been to Pavilions recently? Click here." I want Facebook to find friends and events nearby me, not track where I go. I can on
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by engx 10y ago
That service still exists for $5-12/month (dvd.netflix.com) for 1-2 discs at a time.
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by engx 10y ago
I disagree. One reason, is that in a 6 or 9-handed game, most players will be folding 70-80% of the time. The AI will be able to understand players tendencies faster than heads-up. And in those games, the strategies and ranges are more p
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by engx 10y ago
I've had ten friends take Adderall and all of them exhibited the same characteristics as a person on meth. They are not fun to be around. Sometimes they would be highly productive, other times they just bounce around the house, doing
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by engx 10y ago
I assume he's referring to the guaranteed boost rates which range from 1.1 to 2x the fare. So a passenger could pay $30 for a $60 ride. It's not practical since you'd be losing the increased rates and still having to drive,
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by engx 10y ago
Yeah, that's the same as admitting to hiring mentally ill people, homeless guys and young kids to start violent interactions.
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by engx 10y ago
You are expressing a possibility that has a low probability of being true. The hidden video he released today looks incontrovertible. One can only imagine all the other things these dark political operatives do if they were willing to disc
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by engx 10y ago
There's some interesting parallels between Burning Man and the Cremation of Care. The latter started at the Bohemian Grove in 1881- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_of_Care
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by engx 10y ago
Whatever happened to the other "second Snowden" where it was reported DoJ was reluctant to prosecute? http://news.yahoo.com/feds-identify-suspected--second-leaker...
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by engx 10y ago
He is like Jobs in the sense that he didn't invent Snapchat and he didn't code it. Maybe he articulated the philosophy of it being an anti-Kodak moment app. The article quotes someone saying Evan's the "best product vis
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by engx 10y ago
This is just impossible in some cities, especially when pedestrians are crossing a 5 lane road. In LA, if you did this you'd cause significant traffic issues.
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by engx 10y ago
Why do people on meth enjoy cleaning? There is little difference between meth and Adderall. Taking any type of stimulant even coffee helps people do menial tasks and be more optimistic while doing them. Maybe millions of people are effect
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by engx 10y ago
I agree with them. If LA county sheriff's deputies didn't smuggle cellphones in, how else would an undercover FBI agent get a phone to the FBI's witness that was being hidden in the jail by Sheriff Lee Baca? http:/&#x2

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