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by throwaway156503 7y ago
You make some really good points. Thanks for your thoughts.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
The HN crowd always suggests technical aspects they want out of online communities. No one cares about that crap. Instead, what about online communities that: don't incentivize shallow responses, don't incentivize like or karma ga
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
I no longer know how to view these concerns. The only mechanism I now know of that creates money in modern economies in order to purchase goods and services directly, without obtaining funds from circulation from other businesses, is debt c
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
So further increasing tax burden on American citizens by allowing unlawful migration, when they already bring in 1 million plus lawfully and have been for the last decade, is morally just? Their illegal immigration problem is literally an o
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
I can appreciate the effort expended on compiling such a great wealth of information, but the execution needs work. This site would essentially label all RPG games as dark games, and anything board game-like as healthy. Further, I don'
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
I'm glad someone else understands this. Every time I read about the Electoral College on HN or reddit, it reads as if Americans don't know about their own country's history, nor do they understand the definition of representa
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
If I remember correctly though, the fault was in them not following the reference layout for a particular circuit diagram.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
> None of the people working on this spec are idiots There are a lot of very smart people in the world that lose sight of simple concepts and their value, however.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
At what percentile in the net worth distribution?
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
None of them. I'm not sure what your experience has been like on the World Wide Web, but for me, immediately preceding social networks were just forums, and the best Internet community experiences of my life were on those websites. So
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
I have the privilege of doing this, and have professional contacts utilize such an address. For the layman, this would take considerable effort.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Correct.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Thank you for sharing this. This is one of the types of issues that I’m afraid of: the insulation Google has from its users. I don’t believe I could simply call a legal representative or get in touch with the staff of an elected official t
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
> Google is unlikely to kick out users unless there's some bad behaviour (which may seem innocent to you) I don't believe I've ever violated any terms of service Google has ever outlined. In practice, I have nothing to wor
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
My concern is primarily that I already have this email address attached to a plethora of services, many of which I've even forgotten. I parted with an older email address many years ago when I was much younger, but now I'm faced w
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Ask HN: I’m scared of losing GMail access. Do email protection laws exist?
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
I appreciate your first hand experience, but it's not at all what the actual demographics of Audi, BMW, or Mercedes-Benz are. "Actual luxury vehicle owners" are just the mass affluent. There's really nothing special abou
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
It certainly sounds like they need to do more. I wasn't aware of these loopholes. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
As much as I appreciate some historical commentary on the matter, none of this is revolutionary thought, and the concept is widely understood by the most common everyman. There's nothing left here to ponder nor any insight to extract.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Since Valve stopped producing games, I wonder what their net income per employee is based on assets they own less revenue produced by third-parties through Steam. If you look at just the assets Valve produces minus rent seeking, are they lo
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
So let me ask, why make this comment? Why reply like this? To shut people's concerns down? There's no value here. There's nothing to be gained. Conversely, sometimes it's OK just to let people complain: without the senti
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Consider sharing this sort of content anyway! Even for younger audiences, it's really cool to be exposed to new-to-you things.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Yes, that's true.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
> That’s sorta Honda/Toyota territory. A kid in my office said the same thing and I have no idea where people are getting this from. A brand new Model 3 costs about as much as an Audi A4, BMW 3-Series, or Mercedes-Benz C-Class. The
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Technical analysis is pseudoscience.
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
> where nobody knows their neighbours, nobody attends church In America, plenty of people know their neighbors and have their phone numbers for security purposes, and over a 1/3rd of Americans attend church. So, in the context of di
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
> Who cares about reality when there's a narrative waiting to be pushed. What narrative? These are hard numbers. There's no debate. If you took my income and compared it against American tax law and Swedish tax law, I'd be
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
It would be helpful if people commented on why you were downvoted. Americans have no appreciation for businessmen and businesswomen with experience. Sales people at Levi's who don't know how to measure your waist, roofers who don&
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
Yes, but compared to an effective tax rate of 2X.XX%, most Americans do not pay 40% of their gross income to health care, and they like it that way. Everyone wants affordable healthcare in America, the question is a matter of where American
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by throwaway156503 7y ago
What's not often discussed in the same conversation is how high your effective tax rate is. Most Americans think the idea of, for example, a 58-61% effective tax rate in Sweden is simply ridiculous.

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