RightMillennial

I was hoping these would be some new pictures since Saturday.

The benefit of the bank account is that you get interest on what you have saved. You only get cash back from a credit card on what you've spent.

Here's a big one: illegal immigration.

1. The US-Mexico border wall. The purpose of the wall is to prevent people from illegally crossing the border to enter the US. Say what you will about its effectiveness. I doubt it would be that effective and think our money is better spent elsewhere. But if you support it, you'll be branded a racist.

2. Deporting illegal aliens. If you agree that people who are in the US illegally should be deported, you'll be branded a racist. Race has nothing to do with it. It's the legality of it. If you don't like the law, lobby for it to be changed. You'll also be accused of hating all immigrants (i.e., ones here legally) which has no basis.

Did anything become of the complaint filed by HUD against Facebook for race discriminated housing ads?

I mostly agree. We should be hand counting all ballots. But also incorporating a counting machine could help improve reliability similarly to a checksum. If the hard counted and machine results are not identical, then recount because there was a mistake somewhere.

If this is some pun or joke, I don't get it. I assure you a place can be both cold and windy simultaneously, and this is not exclusive to Chicago.

Have you lived in Chicago during the winter? It gets quite cold and windy. I couldn't imagine willingly commuting there on bike even if adequate infrastructure existed.

I took AP Computer Science online in high school as well but in MI in '07. It wasn't nearly as bad as your experiece, and it was an actual easy A (I had prior C++ experience). Granted, it should have been named AP Java Programming 101 using BlueJ. It hardly touched any computer science.

For those who drive, certainly. Road tolls in my experience have been either a flat fee (e.g., the ones around Chicago, IL) or by distance traveled (e.g., the Ohio Turnpike). This is effectively a flat tax rate, not a progressive rate. Thus it will have a greater financial impact on someone with a low paying job who drives.

The problem with tolls, and gas taxes and vehicle registrations for that matter, is that they disproportionally affect the poor. I, and many on HN might not give the marginal cost second thought, but for many it adds up.

I just found that same page. The heading to that section is:

> Sec. 804. [42 U.S.C. 3604] Discrimination in sale or rental of housing and other prohibited practices

> The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing transactions including print and online advertisement on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, or familial status.

Emphasis mine.

If the FHA does indeed prohibit online advertisement discriminating on those criteria, this sounds pretty damning to Facebook. Those are some of the key features of Facebook ads.

There was a protest or something by some Google employees a few months ago about contracts with the Pentagon:

Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064776

Cheaper medical school tuition isn't going to lead to more doctors. The limiting factor is the number of available seats and residency positions, not the cost.

No, I'd rather say "gear" than "pawn". If I can be well compensated to do what I enjoy doing, why not? But then again I'm satisfied with my employment.

True, but it's very possible for someone who's not technically Christian to be more "Christian". Not the theological aspect but the whole behavior part: "love thy neighbor", and not throwing out charitable works.

And that's just for tuition. That doesn't including living expenses.

Are polar ice caps that rare of an event for the Earth? I only see them at 600 (N & S), 450 (S), 300 (S), 35 (S) and 20 (S) Mya.

What compromise? The ACA passed the House [1] and Senate [2] without a single Republican vote.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

> The House voted 219 to 212 to approve the measure, with every Republican voting no.

[2]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...

> Vice President Biden presided over the 60 to 39 party-line vote, ...

English does have double negatives, and they're grammatically correct when used properly. They simply cancel each other out which differs from Spanish where they add emphasis.

Chrome on Android doesn't support extensions so you can't install its ad-blockers.

...it is. The House of Representatives seats are based purely upon population which is determined by a census every 10 years. The Senate is redundant because of the 17th Amendment but its original purpose was to represent the individual State governments separately from the populace.

More like if everyone is breaking the law, you have your pick of who to go after with selective enforcement.

There's definitely going to be cultural differences since Grand Rapids is in west Michigan and not eastern Germany. The food's decent, and there are a few art festivals, museums, venues and arenas. Lansing is an hour away which has more of the same. Holland is a little closer and on Lake Michigan. Chicago is only a couple hours away if you're yearning for the big city. I can't speak much about the night life but last I knew we had multiple bars and clubs if that's your thing. The only public transportation is the Rapid (bus system).

I think it depends on the state. At least in MI, you only have to pay the difference [1] [2]:

> Use Tax on the Difference

> If you paid at least 6 percent to another state on your purchase, you do not owe use tax to Michigan. If you paid less than 6 percent, you owe the difference.

> NOTE: The full 6 percent use tax is also owed on purchases made in a foreign country.

[1]: https://www.taxslayer.com/support/1153/michigan-use-tax

[2]: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/taxes/MI_1040_Instruction...

I thought with use taxes you owed the remaining difference in tax. Say I purchase a $100 widget in Kenosha, WI with a sales tax of 5.5%, and I live in MI with a sales and use tax of 6%. I would owe MI the 0.5% difference on the $100 which would be $0.50.

I'd be all for a federal VAT over federal income tax. But that wouldn't remove any of the state or local sales taxes.

Sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic and criticizing those things people use cars for.

Those are funny things to get upset over. Most of those don't sound irrational if you have the need, but I don't have any of those. I never knew what that "26.2" bumper sticker meant. I do have a CUV for the winter snow and ice though. Also, I don't think taxis, let along driverless ones, service my area which is out in the country (rural) even though it's only 30 minutes from downtown.

I own my car for pretty rational reasons: to commute to and from work, and to run other errands in and around the medium sized city I live near.