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True but then none of us would be alive to comment about it.

Shouldn't that be “e e cummings”?

Logically I don't see how a n>2 person marriage would be more likely to be abusive than a two person marriage.

A variation on Poe’s Law essentially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

> We really don't have any direct, past precedent for this type of situation. Unfortunately we do have precedent. Through all of history almost no one owed their own home. It was b…

They may lobby and campaign finance their way to some very inconvenient legislation but to consistently hurt EV they would need to turn it into a political shibboleth in the way th…

Rent seeking kills innovation. Patents as currently legislated, issued and resold are overwhelmingly just tools for rent seeking. There probably is a theoretical way to do it that …

This means that raising housing costs, interest rates and debt, taxes, and medical costs reduce his figure for foreign imports as a percentage of spending. That increasing the amou…

But if they called it ‘rent’ instead of ‘tax’ there would be far less outrage. Strange value system.

On the positive, the personalities you’ll be forced to work with at YCombinator companies is made clear by the fanaticism found in the comments here.

> so far it seems like "no", or "not yet" On the contrary, it does indeed and has been known to do so for many decades [0,1] Indeed, in Citizens United, SCOTUS in the concurring op…

Note it is backwards to think that if a platform _fails_ to carry the regime's message then _the platform_ is impeding freedom rather than noting that it is _the government_ that i…

>Even if what you described about current American elections was actually the case (it isn't) https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13301372676801863... https://twitter.com/re…

I'm am guessing you do not live in Hungary, Poland, Brazil or Turkey either. Everything in the US is political now: face masks, 5G networks, vaccines, mail. Facebook dominates peop…

It is indeed as physics is an abstraction of reality. And both are conspicuously accurate far more often than not. "An adjustment to suffering that requires powerful people to loos…

>Yeah, it's almost as if human beings care about concrete, meaningful changes that affect their lives and not some all-encompassing, abstract class struggle. The plantation owner w…