frongpik

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by frongpik 5y ago
The pressure to make money out of it will turn your forum into what could be another subreddit. To repeat HN you'd need to remove pictures (they invoke emotions and attract unsophisticated audience) and all the marketing fluff, hire a
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by frongpik 5y ago
Why? It's a great delivery. It may sound harsh only to our truth-allergic world of big corps.
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by frongpik 5y ago
In a situation where a criminal breaks into someone's house and brandishes a knife, the intent doesn't matter and the criminal shouldn't have agency to decide the outcome. I think this is what rubs me the wrong way about your
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by frongpik 5y ago
Everyone can't just collectively move away from the MLS database. I'm sure redfin is trying to figure it out. I like to say that the reason you need two agents to sell a house is because you need one agent to convince the seller t
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by frongpik 5y ago
You sound like an efficient assets manager. People turn to a suicide because their life is miserable, often for objective reasons (e.g. cancer) and you may find it hard to believe, but it's their right to end it.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Before curbing the "gun epidemic" I'd look up how many lives are saved vs how many are unrightfully taken. A proxy for the first number is the number of burglaries - about 1.5 millions per year. A proxy for the second is abou
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by frongpik 5y ago
Well, if I was a woman, I wouldn't take your advice.
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by frongpik 5y ago
How many violent home invasions are reported per year?
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by frongpik 5y ago
It's their right, though. You can't take away someone's rights because you feel morally superior.
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by frongpik 5y ago
The fear of gun violence is imaginary. The media instills the fear because, quoting the Chomsky propaganda model, "when people fear, they accept authority". Most people in the US wouldn't know gun ownership is a thing, becaus
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by frongpik 5y ago
I see Mark doesn't waste time.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Referrals. Someone needs to vouch for you.
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by frongpik 5y ago
The risk of being shot in the US is below obscure kidney problems. Guns is a microscopic problem in the US that looks big only under the media's microscope. The real elephant is cancer.
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by frongpik 5y ago
I'd say you're chasing mirages and building sandcastles and look down upon the lazy neighbors who just watch the sunset.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Gun violence exists only on media outlets. However 600k/year deaths from cancer is very real and the US healthcare won't miss a chance to bankrupt those people before they die.
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by frongpik 5y ago
If you owe 30k to irs - you have a problem. If you owe 30 trillions - irs has a problem.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Just like the name "Liberia" and "Democratic Republic of" hint that they have no liberty and democracy respectively, the "united states" prefix hint that the states in america aren't that united (and europ
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by frongpik 5y ago
Add /.compact at the end to reduce the hostility even further.
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by frongpik 5y ago
The broken concept is downvoting for others. Instead, it should be downvoting for yourself. If somebody downvotes of flags something, I don't want that something to be hidden from my view, unless I've upvoted the downvoter in past
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by frongpik 5y ago
You imply good will of bitcoin miners. Once it becomes big enough for state actors, people in power will burn the Amazon forest or dry up entire rivers to mine bitcoin. Our civilization is all about ruthless greed and bitcoin exploits this
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by frongpik 5y ago
A dissenting opinion. If those in power really cared about global warming, the WH would have codified work from home into law. Right now the big corps are pulling workers back to offices, so millions of office workers are going to drive bac
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by frongpik 5y ago
Even with a 1M income you can't catch up. Their 10M grow at 10% per year, which gives 1M in the first year alone, while you can put only 0.5M after taxes. In 20 years it will take 50M to be in the top 1%.
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by frongpik 5y ago
It's not conspiracy, but an observation that hamburgers, cars, houses and yachts inflate at different rates. The gov inflation concerns hamburgers, but someone's making 200k really needs housing and that inflates much faster.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Emma, no, the top 1% has at least 10M in liquid assets (primary residence doesn't count). 150k will never take you to that level.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Nonprofit doesn't mean cheap. I see it as a defence contractor of some sort: it gets big money from the gov, hires the best staff, but is also regulated and doesn't report to wall st.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Well, the ISP clearly wanted to sell the same bandwidth twice. I mean, when I see a sign "80 acre lot for sale" and buy it, I expect to get 80 acres, not the "reasonable" 0.80 acres. It's just the internet is still
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by frongpik 5y ago
This has made me realize what the 1st amendment is really about: it's a defense against ideology, i.e. the right to call out someone's bs.
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by frongpik 5y ago
It needs to be a regulated nonprofit independent entity. Trusting an ads corp your medical data is as good as asking a bunch of junkies to look after your home while you're away on vacation.
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by frongpik 5y ago
Woke lunatics. They called Lincoln a person of questionable historical importance who encumbered rights of oppressed minorities.
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by frongpik 5y ago
I'd make a guess that the video in question hijacks the reward system in the brains by showing repetitive, almost identical, but slightly different events: kids still learn to predict the world and when they see their prediction as cor

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