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by hrunt 1mo ago
These two articles remind me of the old Point/Counterpoint from the Onion[0]. I feel like someone wrote the first article so they could write the second as a bit of absurdity. [0] https://theonion.com/opinion/point-
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by hrunt 2mo ago
I'm not saying Jason Gibson is or isn't a real peron, but a quick sleuthing turns up this: - Alcorn State History major within Department of Social Sciences[0] - Jason Gibson LinkedIn[1] It's true he's not listed on Alco
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by hrunt 3mo ago
In the flag examples given, I agree they are almost all uniformly uninspired. The six- and eight-pointed stars must be clip art, and the flat, solid colors and geometric abstractions are boring. It says more about the lack of design educati
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by hrunt 3mo ago
> I feel like we could have like a >95% income tax when you are worth more than like $20 million and it wouldnt actually matter too much to the people who would cap it out? It wouldn't matter, because the ultra-wealthy generally
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by hrunt 5mo ago
In my school, I was part of a group of students who hand-programmed games on TI-81 or TI-82 calculators using TI-BASIC. No cable transfers. Games included: Hangman, Missile Command, Minesweeper, and R-Type. Looking back, it was really amazi
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by hrunt 5mo ago
I subscribe to handful of investment-related YouTube channels. This pattern has been common for years. A bot will reply with a comment loosely related to the video and about how something worked for them. Another bot will reply asking how t
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by hrunt 8mo ago
If the problem with being a car company is that they'd have to compete with China, then I have some bad news about being a robot company. China is already farther ahead in both technology and volume of humanoid robots.[0][1][2][3] [0]
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by hrunt 8mo ago
Yes, people expect SCOTUS to rebuff Trump on the tariffs. [0] Lately SCOTUS has been providing stricter textual interpretations of Constitutional questions. Many of these have aligned with Trump administration arguments based on the power o
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by hrunt 9mo ago
> Archive vs. Delete is another question but not as important. Over time I've found that I'm probably deleting too much (e.g. where did I buy that <nice thing> 5 years ago? want it again, can't find the order). Then
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by hrunt 10mo ago
> What was the test for citizenship before the 14th amendment? Basically, the same. Inglis v. Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor (1830) established: The rule commonly laid down in the books is, that every person who is born within the
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by hrunt 1y ago
This is not what's happening in these schools. Many children have no outside-of-school work -- at all. My two children have had many classes with no homework up through 8th grade. And this is in a highly regarded, very competitive scho
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by hrunt 1y ago
You are wrong. The fuel shutoff switches are directly beneath the throttle levers, and they move down to cutoff, which is exactly the direction a hand beneath the throttle would move to accidentally switch them to cutoff. Secondly, while th
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by hrunt 2y ago
Bitcoin and Ethereum don't have "insiders", and the ownership pool is sizeable and diverse enough to make pump and dump difficult to perform with them. It's important to recognize that pump-and-dump coins (scams), memeco
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by hrunt 2y ago
> What control do they need beyond normal copyright? Money. Content partners pay to have NFL content on their platforms, NFL content is highly valuable, so the NFL doesn't want anyone else to monetize it without the NFL getting thei
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A cybersecurity executive was pardoned by Donald Trump. His crime is a mystery(businessinsider.com)
7 points by hrunt 2y ago|1 comments
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by hrunt 2y ago
I accept that /other/ people are idiots, so please, don't restrict /my/ access to guns. /s
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by hrunt 2y ago
Planet Money did an episode[1] on People Express, a low-cost airline that sprung up right after deregulation in the 80s. The history of People Express as told in that episode mirrors Spirit. Once the major carriers decided to compete, it su
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by hrunt 2y ago
Yes, workers are required to pay taxes on that income. Whether they do or not is another question. When tips used to be mostly cash, workers would often just pocket the cash. The government can't tax what they don't know about. Mo
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by hrunt 2y ago
Note that of the two states currently splitting electors, neither do it in proportion of votes. They award an elector to the winner of the vote in each of the state's congressional districts, and then the overall statewide winner recei
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by hrunt 2y ago
More meetings: both the cause of and solution to our problems!
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by hrunt 2y ago
What we do know is that SpaceX was able to deliver the requirements 4 years (and counting) earlier than Boeing. And they continue to deliver. Yeah, they could be losing money hand over fist, but at the very least they delivered.
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by hrunt 2y ago
Underground
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by hrunt 2y ago
It was supposed to be 830 persons per dollar.
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by hrunt 2y ago
Here's a fun thought experiment. How much should National Public Data have to pay the people affected by this breach? The article says there are 2.9 billion people impacted. Let's take that at face value and assume that there are
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by hrunt 2y ago
I agree that the governor's efforts to remove homeless encampments is a good thing. But the worst part about homelessness is the quality of life for homeless people -- full stop. Framing the problem of homelessness as a financial burde
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by hrunt 2y ago
> You would expect teams to game the system and use longer splitters if photo finishes happen often enough. Tried taking a look at the regulations and it seems that they're not publicly available. NASCAR cars are standardized and me
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by hrunt 2y ago
> In effect, you can win a race while having traveled 1 or 2 laps less than the others if you benefited from the lucky dog rule once or twice. The driver still has to travel the full number of laps to win the race, same as any other winn
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by hrunt 2y ago
22.5 light HOURS. Imagine pressing a button on your old desktop calculator and waiting 2 days for the number to show up.
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by hrunt 2y ago
I'm not a musician and I'm a Rick Beato fan as well. I especially like his "What Makes This Song Great?" series of videos breaking down how well-known songs are put together. I think he explains what he's saying in
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by hrunt 2y ago
Related to your unrelated, I also used Free Tax USA this year. I ended up having to use TurboTax to complete my taxes because FTUSA didn't handle calculations for a Schedule K-1 correctly and did not support all information provided by

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