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by plank_time 5y ago
Imagine the article was about a right wing anti-trans activist. The criticism would be that the NYT was providing a platform to someone that doesn’t deserve it. But this water witch is clearly a fraud. They are giving a platform to someone
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by plank_time 5y ago
Don’t read it then. The beauty of HN is how it breaks the echo chamber and introduces people like me to articles I never would have seen. This particular one is shocking and sad, I probably won’t be able to sleep at night at his angering it
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by plank_time 5y ago
I know something who went bankrupt and got a divorce after flipping condos in chicsgo just before the housing bust. It works until it doesn’t and it’s usually catastrophic.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Some decisions aren’t mathematical. Sometimes it’s better to make a decision based on whether or not it makes sense for the family as opposed to dollars and sense. If your wife wants to buy a place, I suggest finding a compromise to figure
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by plank_time 5y ago
My friend in DC said her HOA tried to ban her from getting solar panels but she pushed back using a similar law saying they can’t prevent her from getting solar, and the HOA shut up. It’s not just red states, Karens are ubiquitous.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Back in the early 90s a volcano erupted in the Philippines. In Canada where I grew up, late that summer in August, it was below freezing in the mornings. I had never encountered that before and was a direct result of the volcano.
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by plank_time 5y ago
This is the perfect way to cause complete mistrust in a movement. Look at what happened with covid and masks. Thinking that controlling the narrative and lying for the “greater good” is corruption.
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by plank_time 5y ago
The militarization of the police in the US is a huge problem that is out of control. I was extremely disappointed that Obama didn’t not only rein in this militarization but effectively made it worse. We are now having to deal with a generat
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by plank_time 5y ago
How much of this was farmed seafood? I have a friend right now who is planning on opening fish farms because he feels it will have less of an environmental impact.
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by plank_time 5y ago
If the waters heat up are you saying that no creatures will ever survive? That’s anti-science. There are creatures around the world that thrive in warmer waters. The space will be reclaimed by other creatures that can survive in that enviro
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by plank_time 5y ago
It’s not “hot season”. It was a historically abnormal heat wave. I lived in Vancouver. You don’t normally see temperatures like that. It doesn’t have to reproduce right away, that’s just unrealistic. But the larger amounts of free space wil
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by plank_time 5y ago
It’s obviously horrible, but it also means that it will allow other creatures to grow to fill that space. It’s like a forest fire. Sure the devastation is bad but there’s also renewal afterwards. It’s not like it will remain barren forever.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Exactly. What is misinformation? What you define as misinformation right now could be information in a few months. Entire discussions on things like ivermectin to treat covid were banned from YouTube as “misinformation”. Now some studies ar
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by plank_time 5y ago
The fact that Silicon Valley thrives without non-competes proves that they are unnecessary. It’s just a way for employers to put their claws in employees. If non-competes came with guaranteed 100% salary during the non-compete time, that wo
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by plank_time 5y ago
We should just let all these forest fires burn themselves out at this point, regardless of how big it gets. The idea that people would sacrifice their lives to save structures in the face of the full force of nature is stupid. Evacuate ever
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by plank_time 5y ago
Pfizer had a desperate need for everyone to get a booster shot every year to boost their revenues. I wouldn’t trust them.
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by plank_time 5y ago
How can they move the source code from open to closed source? They don’t own the contributions. I guess they hope the small contributors won’t mount a legal challenge or they will pay them off to transfer the rights? Seems like a lot of eff
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by plank_time 5y ago
Large swathes of Silicon Valley in Mountain View are super fund sites because of the degreasers and firefighting chemicals they used at Moffett field. The chemicals went into the ground water and spread throughout the entire area from 101 t
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by plank_time 5y ago
Somehow I have a different App Store account than my iCloud account than my Apple ID account. And I have some music from my older App Store account that I don’t want to spend hours and possibly corrupt my newer App Store account with. It’s
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by plank_time 5y ago
Getting fired from a predatory, horrible company like what the author describes is not shameful at all. It’s a badge of honor.
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by plank_time 5y ago
I took no offense to what you said. I think solar leases are a complete scam. The sales person sold the elderly couple an undersized system that left them still paying for electricity from PG&E every month. And a few years from now, I w
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by plank_time 5y ago
We got a significant discount over comps so even if we pay full price to pay them off we still did well, so I was okay with it. It’s still very annoying though having to deal with Tesla. I can’t believe they are still in business with their
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by plank_time 5y ago
I am trying to get out of a solar lease for the new house we bought and Tesla is saying the fair market value for 9 year old 4kW solar panels is $15k which is double the price of an 8kW system. I hate Tesla with a passion.
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by plank_time 5y ago
I use Apple CarPlay almost exclusively now, and will never buy a car that doesn’t support it anymore. When using navigation, I will often use Apple Maps. Their biggest advantage is that their directions will say “after the next stop sign, t
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Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study(bbc.com)
95 points by plank_time 5y ago|133 comments
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by plank_time 5y ago
This is probably the singly best written and most realistic article I’ve read on HN ever and I’ve been on HN for a long long time. It’s so realistic I wonder if the author took it from his diary or something. Everything about it is supersat
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by plank_time 5y ago
I know several that have left for Texas. I know one that left for Michigan. One that left for San Diego. A few that left for Seattle. So it’s very real. Whether or not it moves the needle though is the bigger question. I myself would never
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by plank_time 5y ago
We spent decades trying to get rid of cigarettes and it worked and now we let this fucking Juul through the front door. It’s as if we haven’t learned a fucking thing in decades, and the fact that this founder is celebrated in Silicon Valley
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by plank_time 5y ago
Biden needs to make Bitcoin illegal. It would instantly increase electricity capacity in many parts of the US and it would stop a large part of the money laundering that is going on in the US including ransom ware. Why they haven’t yet made
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by plank_time 5y ago
3 people who work on coronavirus research at a lab that is known for lax standards catch coronavirus, and you think it’s more plausible that they each caught it from outside?

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