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by quacked 4d ago
Is your opinion that the denizens of a locale ought to have no say in what happens to it?
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by quacked 5d ago
Then maybe I used to wrong term. It was a building full of singles, built to look almost exactly like the classic 5-over-1.
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by quacked 5d ago
That's what they're working on next.
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by quacked 5d ago
As I understand it, NIMBYism is "don't ever build anything anywhere in the neighborhood/town", not "don't build in this one spot we all really like". As I said, there are tons of other buildings going up o
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by quacked 5d ago
They weren't multifamily units.
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by quacked 5d ago
I live near a small town of about 10,000 people that's about 30 minutes away from a "hot commodity" city. The crown jewel of this small town is the main street, which retains a bit of kitschy Americana that has remained charm
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by quacked 6d ago
I don't understand why this standard is always applied to westerners. When we go to other countries, are they explaining all the fundamentals of western music in addition to the theories of their own? "Yeah our students in Boston
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by quacked 7d ago
Sorry, are you saying that small direct action is pointless until you can overturn the entire governmental system?
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by quacked 7d ago
Yeah, it would mean that the British Crown would no longer hold dominion over the Colonies. I'd insult you, but then dang would get mad at me.
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by quacked 7d ago
There are other ways of attacking the camera directly, I think.
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by quacked 8d ago
I've been very pleased to see the reaction to Flock in the US. I was talking to a younger guy, very normal kid who keeps his nose clean, studying criminal justice in his junior year at college. I jokingly mentioned to him that maybe he
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by quacked 19d ago
The problem with granting every worker permanent residency is that they would then lose the impetus to perform the work they're so critical for at the low wage they currently take, and the prices of goods and services will rise just li
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by quacked 19d ago
We'll do it ourselves! People are natural hoarders and archivists, as should be effortlessly proven by custom wikis.
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by quacked 20d ago
I would not. I'm far less concerned about the rights and profits of copyright holders and far more concerned with society and civilization having access to the art that's produced within it. Since I'm just pitching wild ideas
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by quacked 20d ago
In theory, the financier or team of financiers would be added onto the list of creating individuals. I suppose some sort of fractional representation might be worked out.
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by quacked 20d ago
I think that we should change copyright law such that 1) Rights can't be held by corporations, only individuals. So the rights to a piece of art or IP would always trace down to a list of names. 2) Everything enters the public domain a
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by quacked 20d ago
While I understand that you think this is romantic and ethical, it also guarantees a status quo where the economy and indeed everyone's quality of life is kept afloat by a permanent imported labor underclass. As we are finding out, we
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by quacked 22d ago
I spend a lot of time seething at how poorly modern software interaction is, and I've come to the belief that they basically solved most of the window-based GUI computing interactivity problems by around XP, and have just been gutting
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by quacked 1mo ago
That's not necessarily true; fewer limitations on who is allowed to provide health service and manufacture medicine and health technologies would also drop prices. Competition in healthcare is very, very difficult because it's oft
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by quacked 1mo ago
For me, getting a tick gave me a life-threatening allergy to the galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose molecule, which is manufactured in mammal cells. I will die if I eat red meat and go into possible anaphylaxis if I have dairy. There are also th
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by quacked 1mo ago
In what possible way would the broader public destroying Flock cameras on sight and allying with one another to defend those caught doing it benefit intelligence agencies?
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by quacked 1mo ago
I don't believe a legal solution is possible. We need a three-tiered response to Flock's surveillance state business strategy, depending on what level of meddling each citizen is comfortable with. 1. Protest via yard signs and awa
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by quacked 1mo ago
My father-in-law grew up on a small-time farm and then went into environmental engineering as a professor, and briefly worked on the Secretary of Agriculture's staff in the Biden administration. He has told me that there are 3-5 (can&#
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by quacked 2mo ago
After 10-20 years, yeah, I think they should suck it up.
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by quacked 2mo ago
Yeah I could be convinced to go to 20. And I think the rights shouldn't be able to be held by companies, only creators specifically.
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by quacked 2mo ago
Humanity hasn't caught up to the reality of the times; we should adjust copyright laws so anything over say 10 years old can be hosted for free on the Internet. We should have colossal databases of music, books, movies, etc. that can b
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by quacked 2mo ago
The days where middle and high-end goods were of a relatively higher quality were also produced under a capitalist system, though. The US was capitalist when it built my parents' normal washer/dryer combination that lasted for 25
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by quacked 2mo ago
I'm inclined to agree with this. If management can't personally code, and they don't know how the big companies acquire talent, the company ends up in a deadspin of not paying enough, not adequately examining coding skills du
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by quacked 2mo ago
Teachers' jobs are difficult because they're expected to be behavioral specialists, social workers, and prison wardens. If they didn't have to do that, they wouldn't need to rely so terribly on printed worksheets and Pow
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by quacked 2mo ago
I was part of a company that was doing 10s of M in revenue, a few hundred employees, and had the technical prowess and IP to become a multi billion unicorn but the blue blood CEO was so clueless that he lost literally his entire technical c

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