tbihl

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by tbihl 5y ago
Price gouging laws target the products with most serious risk of shortages and guarantee shortages. I think back to the gas pipeline shutdown earlier this year, and how simply that could have been a non-issue if stations had been allowed to
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by tbihl 5y ago
Maybe if sex work gets legitimized to the point of unionization. Then income from porn acting will go up, and with it the replacement of porn acting with deepfake.
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by tbihl 5y ago
If those in the positioning of governing achieve a sufficient disdain for the governed, they convince themselves that the populace is too stupid to pursue truth. You may find this a stretch, but it's roughly consistent with calling the
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by tbihl 5y ago
Which paves the way for the argument that many/most people also disbelieve the Holocaust, but they have to keep quiet because of the threat of government hanging over them.
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by tbihl 5y ago
>I find it very hard to believe that anyone is still "on the fence" about it. >And there it is--this doesn't sound like a person who is weighing their options in good faith. It sounds like someone who is already convinc
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by tbihl 5y ago
>It would seem to me that a lot of the stranger activity on social media is an attempt to fix that problem. To some extent, it seemed like the 2016 results were a response by people who wanted to resist lazy categorization. Granted, it&#
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by tbihl 5y ago
>Properly scrubbed, these answers could probably predict your ’16 and ’20 Election preferences with 90%+ accuracy. They could probably guess your preference, but prediction is way harder, as shown by the way so few people saw Clinton&#
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by tbihl 5y ago
And if your answer isn't a random string of three words, you're a good mark.
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by tbihl 5y ago
Basically, beneficial environments are anything but guaranteed. Plus, quiet is an underappreciated luxury good (and an underappreciated aspect of public libraries); seriously, poverty is so loud.
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by tbihl 5y ago
I'm sympathetic; it would take a very large house to feel "big enough" if someone released four cats into it.
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by tbihl 5y ago
In almost all conceivable contexts, no. If you've ever done any work with electrical code, you are familiar with the spacing requirements between electrical conduit and data wires to prevent magnetic interference: at least a foot apart
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by tbihl 5y ago
>True, because the alternative is being locked in your cell 23 hours per day. Source? A family member was charged with a felony for drugs and went to prison, and he was certainly not locked in his cell 23 hours daily.
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by tbihl 5y ago
Have/raise multiple kids. High-income, high-education parents generally have similar children, which makes them disproportionately likely to live low-consumption lifestyles and to do work that is important to future societal problems l
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by tbihl 5y ago
I'm guessing your pictured intersections have lower speed limits and tighter geometry. As speeds increase, the amount of physical space needed to enter or cross traffic drastically increases. Even beyond that, as speeds increase, the e
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by tbihl 5y ago
>Civil forfeiture is an outgrowth of the war on drugs (which was itself an outgrowth of anti-black racism) Where did you get this ridiculous counter-factual? As a group, Black people,by fact of being concentrated in poor and urban areas,
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by tbihl 5y ago
The answer, as much as there is one, is PA schools. 2-2.5 year programs, overwhelmingly attended by women, after which you make solidly middle class money and do almost all the work people demand to see doctors for.
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by tbihl 5y ago
>the will of the people There is no unified 'will of the people.' I would agree that, in many cases, governments were criminalizing behavior which communities had already curtailed, so to that extent they were following wills o
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by tbihl 5y ago
>I'm very much now "I'm more than happy to pay taxes for better social services, but please keep the clumsy, oafish hands of the state out of my personal life before it does any more damage". This is very much a stanc
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by tbihl 5y ago
>Tell that to Apple in China, a country that is literally using slave workforce from concentration camps. Source?
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by tbihl 5y ago
We don't onshore because we are higher up the economic food chain, and can do more specialized work. The people high up that chain in the US are the same class who conceive of minimum standards for living quality for the whole country,
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by tbihl 5y ago
The space race was possibly the pinnacle of the principle that government spending can accelerate technological progress in particular fields by raining money on those fields. The progress puts it way ahead of what could be expected and occ
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by tbihl 5y ago
If the carrier is your main threat, then port your number out to Google Voice, lock that down seriously, and go prepaid. If you buy your phone in cash, install a privacy-sneisitive OS like Graphene, and only use prepaid without giving info,
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by tbihl 5y ago
No one gets nuclear power, including the people with the subs. We're all phasing it out, out of a shared understanding that the political fight is worse than the climate and other impacts of just letting it die.
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by tbihl 5y ago
I have no idea. I don't purport to solve all the world's problems simultaneously, but there are people who could easily add a desired layer of obfuscation. And I don't think people should expect all good things to be free.
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by tbihl 5y ago
The author can barely contain his hatred for the politics of Signal's founder (about which I know nothing outside this article.) More importantly, he's possessed by the fallacy that governments have agendas rather than people with
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by tbihl 5y ago
Why not just use a VOIP number if that's a threat model you're worried about? For everyone else, the convenience of discoverability can trump.
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by tbihl 5y ago
>If you own a supermarket and want to pay a decent wage, bad news for you. Over long time you are likely to loose against your competitor who doesn't share your sentiment. If you can market this "decent wage" to your custo
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by tbihl 5y ago
Please stop doing this. Not everything you don't like needs to be illegal, and taking your business elsewhere has literally never been easier in the history of the world. I don't want to live in a world where the criminalization o
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by tbihl 5y ago
The wealthiest have minimal need to sell and asset when it's down. So the magnitude of the hit is the biggest, but if you don't use some of your wealth for diversification and the decent financial advice to get you there, you&#x27
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by tbihl 5y ago
With so much froth to ride and so much inflation biting at your heels, you chase returns. No surprise here.

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