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    Comment #34909260

    There is no arbitrary, technical way to tax that does not impose a value judgment. "People who have more than they need to live are greedy and need to have their money taken and gi…

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    Comment #34909126

    Because the foundations of Enlightenment society are relatively stupid. The only way to maintain them in the face of their own contradictions is arbitrary threat of violence.

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    Comment #32843114

    I do a podcast. A lot of that is a tried and true method of promotion for those coming into podcasting without a big following elsewhere to try to convert. We started with a fairly…

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    Comment #32784238

    Perhaps, in my case in some of these cases I remember wording / sentences explicitly that I can recite from memory, or failing that, I surely remember a string of keywords that wil…

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    Comment #32782342

    I don't think you have evaluated the quality of your results from Google very carefully. Research is part of my job. I routinely find things on Google that I circle back to later t…

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    Comment #32782197

    > bars independent contractors from acting like “disguised” employees. It’s a world of pain if that happens. The US allows companies to fire long-term employees without cause and r…

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    Comment #32781879

    The US predominantly posts job openings for which no one will be hired for compliance. They actually hire H1B visa workers or contractors to churn out the code solely based on cost…

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    Comment #32275723

    To be honest, learning to code was a complete waste of time. No one in their right mind would jump through all of the hoops required by the software world's completely insane attem…

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    Comment #32275680

    It's really amazing that they have managed to miss every trend for so long. Mobile? Nope, don't care, let it go to Qualcomm, Arm, etc. Cloud shift from on-premise hardware? Screw t…

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    Comment #32266127

    > so I guess my point was right? No, it was not. US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dolla... …

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    Comment #32260737

    If it's so good at it, why does it always need government funding? (As testified before a congressional committee by an FDA official, his response to the question of "how many drug…

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    Comment #31731764

    But you might have a viable visual page builder. It's honestly a tough choice at times...

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    Comment #31731551

    It seems to me that both the militant believers and the militant non-believers always have a "they" to point to as the reason for their militancy. I suppose everyone forgot about t…

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    Comment #31731409

    Maybe we should try insurance for people going to doctors and see if that turns out any different, oh wait lol....

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    Comment #31731216

    Should be noted that Duke Energy spilled a massive amount of coal ash into the river near Wilmington during hurricane Florence in 2018. Also, dozens of pig waste ponds the size of …

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    Comment #31731126

    > When is it time to change jobs because of it? It's always time. If you weren't being paid, would you still go in there every day? The answer is clearly "no." Therefore all of the…

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    Comment #30937070

    Thanks! We are using it for our own recently launched podcast and it's working fine for us so far. As a minimal example, we customized the bootstrap css, about 8 HTML block/page te…

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    Comment #30933744

    If I did it would require a bit more planning on my part. Sticky points: 1. Your own Nginx is required, to serve premium media securely you really need X-Sendfile to proxy not just…

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    Show HN: An open source Patreon / Substack

    Hello everyone! I am the developer of a media centric distribution of Wagtail + Django called Rent Free Media. It is basically an open source Patreon or Substack. https://rentfree.…