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"Admitted" as the verb in a statement like this is blatant editorialization. Did they just finally "admit" what they had been reluctant to reveal? No doubt with their heads hung in…

The only problem I can actually name with vigilante justice is that it can be error-prone. Otherwise it's only an encroachment upon the state's monopoly on the dispensation of just…

I can't even count the number of ISPs I can choose from, because my city, county and state have no "franchise agreements" i.e. licensing programs i.e. monopoly grants for ISPs. Cab…

This was a subsidy paid to participating providers in high-cost areas to support the discount. Charter, a participating provider, said it lost customers when the discount ended. Th…

Do you think that the world is a better place if ordinary Russians can't access their own money?

I have often been described as oblivious (I prefer "focused") and I have yet to encounter someone with a worse sense of direction/orientation than mine. I could tell endless funny …

If a hacker could withdraw to this wallet, it stands to reason he could withdraw to his own.

I hope they encrypt passwords and are unable to do this.

I'm not seeing any attempt here to control for obvious confounders such as the relationship between this exposure and the climate you live in. I think I'm also not a fan of the (ed…

So it's defined as policies expected to produce affordable housing, whether or not housing turns out to be affordable under those policies. And it's not affordable without those po…

I think that it is, but I perform a lot better when I pretend that it isn't, probably because it imposes some discipline, however arbitrary.

This would defeat the entire purpose of incorporation. Not to say you're wrong, but incorporation exists to prevent this.

It seems to me every licensing regime begins with incumbents lobbying for protection from competition, then goes down in history as absolutely necessary consumer protection program…

This change doesn't prohibit hearing-impaired patients from seeing an audiologist to get set up with a hearing aid. It's just no longer compulsory. I can't imagine understanding th…

If something is not OK, can there not be a penalty for it which is also not OK?

I think #1 is more attributable to the rising minimum wage. I read the other day that the one job that automation did successfully eliminate was the elevator operator, but I'm quit…

Production happens over time. Businesses pay for their inputs at one price level, do production things, then sell their final outputs at a higher price level, resulting in higher m…

FTA: > This credit line is funded by 3rd-party capital (and not Brex directly), who are working with Brex to minimize the impact of this event to the startup ecosystem.

> It's about a couple of small groups getting to choose what content you do or don't see See I think this is a big part of why this died out. The boogeyman NN was to save us from w…

Trump was a stopped clock on this. I don't think that's paren't point. The point, to me, is that the entire establishment treated the lab leak hypothesis as misinformation for no b…

Wikipedia: > The Australia Institute is a left-wing public policy think tank... This is the only conclusion this organization could ever be expected to reach. In any case inflation…

> promoting heavy meat diets The ones not promoting heavy meat diets are generally recommending (and/or shilling) supplements of nutrients you get for free on a heavy meat diet, su…

The only reason to hold money is for future consumption. Every dollar you spend today is a dollar you can't spend tomorrow. The only person harmed when I save my money is myself, a…

Headline might as well end in "and that's a good thing." Why can't they stop editorializing everything?

Known for: Not discovering Neptune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Challis