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If you were really trying to engage in a thought experiment with me honestly, I don't think starting with a mischaracterization and inventing a fallacy ("appeal to hypocrisy") to t…

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The replacing the existing keys is a good point. I don't feel the pain of the ESC key since I remap caps lock to it, I always thought "Function" keys were relics of a bygone era, (…

I'm adding onto this -- I have a 2017 edition of the MBP for work, and I have a faulty keyboard. I hated it. "The touchbar is stupid", I proclaimed. I recently bought a 2018 editio…

That's because the US made you as part of the Marshall Plan (assuming where you are from is Germany)

And personhood denial. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-lif...

I am fortunate to have had the experience of growing up with a rabid Greek mother who would get to the bottom of any shenanigans with any sort of insurance agency, bill collector o…

I don't mean this to be snarky, but if what you are saying is true (Congress can't do anything), why do you think the governmental disfunction will not carry over to an expanded me…

I think your phenomena might be due to startups? Obviously this is a startup focused board so I am not saying this to mean go one way or another, but I ditched the startup, job hop…

I find HN more rewarding than any other social site I visit. Healthy discussions, engaging topics and interests, no clear political slant in either direction, with multiple groups …

And the option to choose the algorithmic filtering based on my needs, in the rare cases that the number of individuals or volume of their tweets may be too large to take in chronol…

I guess some of us do. But then you have Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, The Saud family, etc.

I have heard the NIMBY argument many times before but I just don't buy it. It's too easy of a target. Plus there is so much land. Ok fine, won't build in your backyard, I'll build …

Wow this is jaw dropping. > By one estimate from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the state needs to build 1.8 million units over the next seven year…

> It puzzles me that people hate taxes so much. People's problems with taxes typically fall into two buckets, sometimes both. 1. On a fundamental economics level, the Government is…

Going to the bank costs something, if not the opportunity cost lost. When you are poor, every opportunity or cost matters much more. Most banks require some form of ID or address v…

> There are no such equivalent mechanisms in private corporations. To the contrary, you can view the free market as a parallel system of checks and balances where the people have v…

> they will either do nothing, or take an action that furthers their corporate interests. > - and look at how the banks are regulated! And you can view the US Government in a simil…

Not what I meant to come across as saying. Increased self control can help us all, and it can especially help poor people get out of debt and poverty.

I learned the hard way the unit of measurement you use for R when calculating distance between two lat,long coordinates is what you get out. So if R is in meters, you aren't calcul…

It's an extremely short term solution to make everyone feel happy and warm inside without any long term results. The lack of impulse control won't sudden vanish once the refund arr…

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We give content personalization far too much credit for the modern issue of both social and political polarization, it is much more fundamental. We've had "filter bubbles" since th…