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by task_queue 7y ago
> I've always considered myself a capitalist Curious as to why? Do you derive your livelihood from your ownership in capital? Or do you have to work, but value private property, markets and liberal economics? I ask, because when I
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by task_queue 7y ago
> Notre Dame is an original, irreplaceable structure. And, from it's original state, it is gone. We cannot replace the irreplaceable, but we have the opportunity to modify it. Such is life.
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by task_queue 7y ago
> Spotify did it right; they managed to put together a service that is actually better than piracy in the ways that matter to a typical consumer. I disagree. As a listener, Bandcamp and Soundcloud fulfill my needs better. Artists are m
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by task_queue 7y ago
> It's like an old recipe, an old painting, or an old piece of music. Nobody who is seriously engaged with those things believes in improving them by substituting modern high-tech elements in the course of recreating/restoring
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by task_queue 7y ago
Brands went on a diversification kick less than a decade ago. If a customer prefers Triscuits Flavor #5, but stores only stock popular Flavor #3, that person might not choose to buy the brand at all when they go shopping. They could reach f
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by task_queue 7y ago
> I never saw this in NYC or anywhere else on the East Coast or in the Midwest. Human beings have a tough time surviving when exposed to the elements, and winter lasts for 6 months in the North East and Midwest. It is difficult to live
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by task_queue 7y ago
> It's so slow so often, and I can't understand why. The Python community is victim to pipenv's creator's marketing and shoehorning, that's why.
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by task_queue 7y ago
Companies will often sign shelf-space and display agreements with supermarkets when it comes to displaying their brands' products in-store. There very well might be an agreement between Safeway and Nabisco when it comes to their invent
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by task_queue 7y ago
Post-Walmart/2008 America is living paycheck to paycheck. It's harder to vilify those who undercut competitors if that means people get to eat this week.
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by task_queue 7y ago
Getting a fat car loan is much easier if your credit is good, you aren't in debt, and your income is relatively high. It's an indicator of relative wealth.
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by task_queue 7y ago
> I believe the previous solution was to err on the side of allowing 24-hour involuntary psychiatric holds, with observation by a neutral doctor, and taking abuses of that extremely seriously. We have a history of using this policy in
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by task_queue 7y ago
> I strongly disagree. Spotify has dramatically increased the variety of music that I listen to and introduced me to lost of tiny artists with great music. I've used a number of music recommendation applications over the last deca
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by task_queue 7y ago
The video was posted directly to the Autopilot page on Tesla's website. The video is also only 2 years old, not 3. > Tesla's has never claimed that a current vehicle can drive itself without the driver being responsible for th
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by task_queue 7y ago
The Actor's Guild is a labor union and part of the AFL-CIO.
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by task_queue 7y ago
Weird, given Tesla's claim that with Autopilot "the person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself." [1] [1] https://www.latimes.com/business&#
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by task_queue 7y ago
> Talented and ambitious people would hate being in a labor union Doubt it. Mentorship and apprenticeship opportunities are abound. Unions provide a floor for negotiations from which you can up-negotiate. If your categorization was tru
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by task_queue 10y ago
Does someone with a feeding tube eat?
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by task_queue 10y ago
Same twenty year old arguments against the defeated Clipper chip legislation apply to this and practically any backdoor proposal that can be brought to the floor.
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by task_queue 10y ago
With today's web apps, I can only sympathize with the examples that deal with file size. The others still apply to using web services.
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by task_queue 10y ago
> There should be no moderation in freedom (outside of the absolutes of killing another or dispossessing them of their property). Why the focus on property rights? Much libertarian thought is expended on equating freedom to how you&#x2F
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by task_queue 11y ago
You know all those things that make it really easy for Grandma to have her identity stolen when checking her email? They're coming to car/refrigerator/toaster near you.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Because they're small, cheap, easily made, easily replaceable and easily deployed.
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by task_queue 11y ago
> warring criminal gangs Why are criminal gangs assumed to be the bad guys here? Do you know the varied history of different gangs in the US? You might be surprised at what you find.
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by task_queue 11y ago
I find it hard to believe that thousands of engineers work in secret to build weapons that can maim and kill hundreds/thousands/millions of people at the flip of switch.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Is this with or without calibration?
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by task_queue 11y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/3k3fzm/bad_battery_... Is a general overview. Intel graphics cards almost never enter the lowest idle state in Linux, last time I checked.
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by task_queue 11y ago
RAM isn't cheap when it's integrated in your chipset.
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by task_queue 11y ago
If you've acknowledged that marriage culturally is a sticker, why care about something so insignificant? Legally, there is obvious value. Stating such an opinion leads me to believe you are being willfully dishonest in your argument.
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by task_queue 11y ago
> So who is picking up one aspect of the complex relationship here? Who is making it hard to believe you're arguing in good faith here? You've consistently harped on a reductionist definition of marriage in this thread. >If
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by task_queue 11y ago
My aunt never married my uncle, they have been together for over two decades and have produced two pretty awesome children. Reminder that this poll exists[0]. [0] http://qz.com/262645/people-without-kids-live-better-tha

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