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Molitor5901

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About Molitor5901

Valmy here. I work for a consumer justice nonprofit analyzing public policy related to consumer products, practices, and government intervention in the consumer market.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49195123

    IMHO the secret to making friends as an adult is to constantly put yourself in situations where you are forced to interact with others without any overarching elements of dating, s…

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    Comment #49185951

    You might consider MX, it has a much lower footprint for eating ram.

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    Comment #49184627

    Rates up, rates down, I'm so confused. Too much liquidity supposedly means inflation, too little liquidity means deflation. Would not lower rates mean more consumer spending, there…

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    Comment #49074336

    Personal experience: Exercise did not help with my severe depression. Out of sheer desperation, I started exercising and eating way better. My health improved significantly, droppi…

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    Comment #48722180

    https://archive.ph/gD5K3

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    Comment #48721743

    That is the loop hole IMO and that's how they will get around it.

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    Comment #48719285

    Aren't far-right parties opposed to government control and censorship? Ideally a provider should be politically neutral, but I'm wondering if it's preferable to have one that is op…

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    Comment #48558595

    or use bluesky

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    Comment #48238360

    That's a really good idea. I only worry about invalidating a warranty. As soon as the dealer finds out..

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    Comment #48207219

    My experience with hybrids have been.... mostly positive, good mileage, Toyota's drive very well, but.. I would not buy one for one pedantic, silly reason: I hate the government ma…

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    Comment #47769842

    If you're interested in grocery store economics, I strongly recommend: The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr, and Grocery: The…

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    Comment #47663357

    This is a really good point. I'm surprised the box office cannot print it for him for a fee at Will Call, which might be the solution here.

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    Comment #47629512

    Interesting point from the article. "The importance of the move may be largely symbolic at this point, as it does not apply to generic medicines - the most commonly used medicines …

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    Comment #47601355

    Fellow panelist David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, said his system is already seeing great success in deploying such techn…

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    Comment #47601260

    Too close for comfort.. I could believe this was true just about any other time..

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    Comment #47543774

    QuickTime and FaceTime are useful but I never thought of them as especially innovative. HyperCard, OSX, the phones, those really moved things forward independently of the rest of t…

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    Comment #47402556

    Does anyone remember Ingress? I always wondered what it was we were training by playing that game.

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    Comment #47399888

    My experience at a research university, albeit 12 years ago, was that many of my professors loathed teaching. Some openly expressed disdain for the time they wasted teaching when t…

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    Comment #47341830

    I think that dormant accounts, where someone has not logged in for, say, 2 years, does not post, does not engage, should be repurposed - with given notice. It's kind of the equival…

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    Comment #47328686

    Previously discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312775

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    Comment #47240388

    For me it was a Maryland contracting company, FH Furr, that does electrical, plumbing, etc.

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    Comment #47240188

    Related: Please don't make me talk to your AI pretend-human complete with Asian accent and background call center sounds. That's even more insulting that a chat bot.