tossthere

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by tossthere 4y ago
> You cannot rely on people being responsible with substances and mechanisms that make them behave irresponsibly. That's the whole point of regulating addictive things. This statement is so profoundly simple and rational and true. M
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by tossthere 4y ago
> b) To attempt to diversify from this single source of income. Except this will never happen, nothing will ever come close to the income ads generate for them. They know this, but they have to look like they’re trying, both internally a
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by tossthere 6y ago
The media’s ad-supported business model and the effects of branding on consumer behaviors naturally results in an extraordinarily pro-left media environment. The cost of advertising is bid up by brands that benefit from presenting a liberal
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by tossthere 6y ago
Former Pokémon TCG enthusiast (circa 1999) here! Kids back then had the same approach, large and heavy coin, flip from a consistent height, consistent strength. Heads every time. There were popular coins made specifically for Pokémon TCG th
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by tossthere 6y ago
Good point. I started to notice a lot of the Spotify recommendations sounded like half of an EDM track I might like, mixed with half of something that it should’ve never been mixed with. Spotify also seems to think I’ll like literally anyth
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by tossthere 6y ago
Funny, but I was hoping this might provide some insight into why my Spotify is so bad, even by my own tastes. Spotify constantly queues and recommends songs to me that are so bad, I can’t even imagine how there could possibly exist any data
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by tossthere 6y ago
Was this intended for public consumption? Directly responding to the film by name is such an obviously terrible idea PR-wise, I’m shocked to even be seeing this from Facebook. It must be an accident.
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by tossthere 6y ago
I’ll be honest, mostly I just think that this is a very idealistic and naive reaction. The world is extremely complicated and full of unfortunate realities that humanity just doesn’t have any solutions for. There are people who can recogniz
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by tossthere 6y ago
Just to be clear, none of what I wrote is legal advice and I would never recommend avoiding legal representation. My point wasn’t that you should avoid it, my point was that in America you often don’t have any choice but to retain counsel,
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by tossthere 6y ago
Yep! Lawyers basically just look for legal entities with money, and exploit the justice system to take as much of it as they can without bankrupting the source. Constant flow. They’re like a tax paid by every person or company with a signif
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by tossthere 6y ago
The first time the media reported on an event and subject where I knew more than them, I was in my late 20s (I think you have to be at least that old to know a lot about something ... could explain why younger people seem to have such blind
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by tossthere 6y ago
This is controversial for some reason, but I don’t think there’s ever been a significant demand or market for music production. The entire notion that musicians get paid to make music is a false premise. There was a market for records, not
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by tossthere 6y ago
HN has the word “news” in its name, but I think that’s where most of the similarities end. Looking at the front page right now, I count maybe 4 items that are attempts at journalism. The rest are interesting subjects resurrected from 6+ yea
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by tossthere 6y ago
I figured this out a few years ago and completely stopped all news watching/reading entirely. I have nothing but positive things to say about that decision, and surprisingly I seem to be better-informed and feel like I have a worldview
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by tossthere 6y ago
> They no doubt billed the customer ten times what they were paying the employee while claiming cost savings. You forgot the part about how the engineer is very aware of this hourly arrangement and feels their job security depends on the
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by tossthere 6y ago
> If they really stood by their values they would act in the same way as they did by supporting the BLM movement. Companies don’t have values, people have values. Many people think of companies as if they’re people because that’s how the