wbronitsky

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by wbronitsky 5mo ago
I think that suggesting that an octogenarian either uproot their life to a less car-centric place or start riding a bike everywhere is a bit unreasonable.
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by wbronitsky 5mo ago
From my reading it is only equity that has monetary value that they are taxing; this has nothing to do with disgorging voting stock, it is merely intended to raise revenue.
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by wbronitsky 5mo ago
Sergei Brin is worth around $230b. The tax seeks around 5% of that, which is $11.5b. I don’t see how, when most of his net worth is in Alphabet stock, he would have to sell anything but trivial amounts of his ownership of the company to fun
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by wbronitsky 5mo ago
The best part about all the comments here is that they all seem to be missing that this is pretty obvious satire.
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by wbronitsky 8mo ago
I think parsing out what kind of freedom would help here. The US has a lot of “freedom of” but not a lot of “freedom from.”
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by wbronitsky 11mo ago
Matt Stoller, a journalist who blogs about monopolies, just wrote all about the pricing issue this week: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-obamaca... America has doubled down on middlemen controlling
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by wbronitsky 11mo ago
I don't know how this fits into the narrative you just posted, but DHH was a keynote speaker at RailsConf this year. I was there and heard him speak. He didn't speak about anything "political"; just his usual ranting and
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by wbronitsky 1y ago
I would say it heavily depends on what converts and festivals you’re going to. I just went to Making Time in Philadelphia where Fourtet was the headliner and by far the biggest name. Everyone else would be what you would consider “undergrou
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by wbronitsky 1y ago
The post you are trying to refute has a source which is a study that found "It can obstruct the ability to interpret emotions, fuel aggressive conduct, and harm one's psychological health in general."
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by wbronitsky 2y ago
That's just not the case here. Most of the comments are taking a stance on Israel/Palestine and arguing from there. There are a ton of comments likening Israel to the Nazis. That's pretty anti-Israel, no matter what side you&
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by wbronitsky 2y ago
The comments are just a flame war about Israel. Maybe that's why so many people are flagging it.
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by wbronitsky 3y ago
iPhones work but foreign (outside of Japan) purchased Android devices don't
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by wbronitsky 3y ago
Yes, it absolutely does. It also uses public funds for private religious institutions, which I personally believe goes against the separation of church and state.
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by wbronitsky 5y ago
I find this to be a weak reading of the judicial system. Laws are not last in, first out; previous laws need to be taken into context when new laws are created, no matter how they are created. The fact that this law was created by popular v
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by wbronitsky 5y ago
The levels of inhumanity and doublespeak in here are staggering. This post attempts to euphemize 65 people losing their incomes, and probably healthcare, to the point that it reads almost as farce. Not to mention what the impact will be on
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by wbronitsky 5y ago
Wow, this is def the next level of what you have been getting at with posting and moderation. Making me think deeply about my consumption and interaction here on yet another axis; my best posts are my most highly edited so why not edit firs
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
That’s fair. State actor or not, I feel that I have proved that the account in question is using trolling tactics to spread vaccine disinformation.
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
Yet again you resort to troll tactics. You have yet to come clean about the obvious disinformation you are spreading, and seek only to redirect the conversation to something interpersonal instead of factual. Setting the interpersonal aside,
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> I would also note how remarkable it was that nearly every business in the hardest-hit areas were quick to hang "This business supports BLM" or "PoC owned business" signs, while their suburban and rural locations fe
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This account is actively spreading disinformation. They are spreading FUD about vaccines and now about ANTIFA. They site spurious sources and they are not being properly flagged. I’m amazed that they think that two moderators could combat n
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This person, the GP, now seems to be actively spreading disinformation. I caught them claiming a complaint about efficacy in the Pfizer vaccine was about safety, after they put me down to try to make sure I didn’t read the study. I read the
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> The risk isn't worth it at this time. This pandemic was never about the risk to this cohort that continues to be brought up. The point is that taking the vaccines reduces deaths. In places where these vaccines have been deployed w
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I’m curious as to why you find the injection questionable? From my understanding, all of the vaccines approved in the US followed the same path every other vaccine follows. The difference was that Covid is everywhere, so stage 3 went really
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I would like to point out that the tweet and subsequent comments were inflammatory nonsense. Here is the proof https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account Maybe we shouldn’t just blindly believe and defend p
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
The OP posted a hugely contradictory post with respect to these original comments. The tweet and the defensive comments here now hold no water. This forum is no longer seems a place for rational conversation backed up by facts. The GP used
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I think my posting history would show that I’m far from a company shill. It would be cool to respond to the best interpretation of my post, instead of the worst, maybe. Either way, I’m sure this person had their account frozen; I’m merely w
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> he has credibility here I don’t even know how to respond to this appeal to amorphous authority, and to reply to the best possible interpretation of the post, I’ll pass over it. I’m sure this person is not lying that their account was s
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This poster continues to fling accusations at Apple and has yet to provide any proof of any of these suppositions whatsoever. I’m not sure why the commenters are so eager to believe a comment from a random Twitter account posted to HN. Conf
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
Fair. Instead of a meta-band, it’s more of a shtick, where they said they were robots, then made an album called Human After All where they sound like robots. A bit like the games the White Stripes played with Jack and Meg’s relationship, b
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This poses an interesting question to me: Daft Punk is a kind of meta-band, in that it’s members are not necessarily real people. For a more clear example, we can take The Gorillaz, a band made up of cartoon characters. So what does it mean

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