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banned1on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes

My coffee is not for pretentious people.

https://onlinestore.smucker.com/display_product.cfm?prod_id=...

$8.99 180 cups $0.04994 per cup

banned1on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes

I'm sorry! Was that an attack? I figured if you are into telling others how they should spend their money or live their lives or be taxed by government in freedom-restricting ways, then that maybe you would be intellectually honest and not be bothered if I TOLD YOU what to do with some element of your life. How is that an ATTACK?

banned1on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes

A latte is $3.65. If you made your own cup at home, you would spend $0.05. Starbucks is 73x. I believe you need to stop buying lattes from Starbucks and start making your own coffee at home like I do. Stop being such an elitist. Get to work.

banned1on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes

If you are fabulously wealthy that you can [have a latte each morning], let alone [buy it at Starbucks], you can afford [an additional tax on your latte for the peasant that got the coffee beans.]

banned1on Everyone Wants to Go Home During Extra Innings, Maybe Even the Umps

For those interested, the longest baseball game in history:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_professional_basebal...

(From a baseball player who once attempted to play cricket with my Indian friends. Threw out my shoulder in the first “at bat”)

banned1on How Much Is a Word Worth?

What did you mean by "the interpretive value of language"?

banned1on Why undertakers are worried

Watch the movie "Meet the Parents" ("dinner scene"). It's funny, but you can skip to 2:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pctsr5jf0Pw

banned1on Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

Evidently I am ignorant based on comments from people who are obviously better informed than me.

What is the field that is going to revolutionize curing diseases through genetics engineering etc?

banned1on Amazon is a master of tax avoidance

If only citizens would show up to vote for their presumed slam-dunk candidates!

banned1on Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

I thought biomedical engineering still has a lot of potential to offer?

banned1on Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'

But the counter protesters are free to organize their own speaker engagement. They ARE allowed to speak about their position. My point was that there is lack of civility in discourse. What's the point of interrupting another speaker? Let every speaker speak their mind, in an orderly manner, without interruption.

The problem is that some groups have defined "intolerance of intolerance" to be somewhat good, so then discourse stops.

banned1on Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

"The community is better at self defense than the individual." - Not sure what this means. My own experience comes from someone abusing someone at a bus. Nobody intervenes. Just a bunch of sheep until I have to say "Stop it". So while the community may be better defending, they don't, and it is up to the individual to secure his / her own protection.

If my family was murdered while I was out, then by definition I cannot defend them. The law system will take care of it presumably, but that is not "defense", it is post-fact "justice."

Unclear what your mutually destruction comment was.

banned1on Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'

Bingo! Think Antifa or the students protesting someone at school and not letting them speak.

banned1on Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'

CNN, MSNBC, mainly

banned1on Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

The country was founded on the notion that all you have is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So I rather defend myself.

If you want to “happily pay for” your own protection, you should hire your own bodyguard. I don’t want my taxes to go to your protection just because you want the government to solve all your problems.

banned1on Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

I think most hackers are concerned with public safety. The problem is subgroups of hackers differ on how to achieve it. Some hackers want to remove the rights of people not involved in a crime (like, me) to defend themselves and protect their families (interestingly, they also complain of clear plastic backpacks for kids in school, which I agree is equally ineffective in stopping crime). Other hackers want to preserve the right to defend themselves and their families from crime.

Therefore the debate is not about hacking. It’s about a different view of the world.

Therefore, there are other forums better suited for the debate, which really has nothing to do with hacking (with some exceptions).

banned1on Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

Sorry. Yeah, that was “trolly.” Will tone it down now. Apologies.

banned1on Assume a can opener

It’s the same thing coming from anti-freedom folks trying to take guns away from law-abiding Americans.

“Assume we make it illegal to have guns, then there will be no crime or school tragedies yeepee!”

banned1on U.S. nationals born in American Samoa sue for citizenship

"I think we should offer ... cheap transportation"

How many tickets do you want to purchase? I am collecting donations. Unless you are just talking...

banned1on Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster than state revenues

And yet, here we are discussing what happens when we see Dad Government saving for me. sigh

We give all of our info to Facebook, then complain when "privacy".

We give all of our money to the Government or Union, then complain "it went broke."

banned1on Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster than state revenues

Or better, give the money to the people and let them take care of their own retirement.

banned1on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

This is the sort of article that I keep coming back to HN for. It's not politics. It's pure and simple technical advice with reasonable back and forth opinions from the community (other than the "if you want to impress me" guy). And nobody wants to take my 2A right, sorry, my right to use 2FA!

banned1on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

If you want to impress me, go serverless.

banned1on U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy

The facts are here:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

I’m just trying to point out how silly some point of views are in the current state of national discussions.

From the point of view of a 2A supporter, people are attempting to take away what is a RIGHT, while conveniently forgetting to address what is effectively a modern convenience (it is not a RIGHT to own an iPhone) that is factually more impactful on the presumed end goal.

But it makes for better TV ratings and yet another polarizing dividing issue (which is not, as there are high school kids trying to advocate for guns in schools, whose voices are being drowned out by the media and the kids “on the other side”

Imagine what it would be like if we had a march to take away the right to love the person you love, because some people who love like you do get more frequently sick of some disease.

banned1on U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy

This is a fair point. I guess it would be more like a car enthusiast. Regardless, both cars and iPhones kill more people than guns, but those facts are not as convenient to some groups of people.

banned1on U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy

But you don't have to get another one because you need it. You get another one because you can. It's just like getting a new iPhone.

banned1on U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy

It seems that the gun homicide epidemic is winding down!

Oh wait there was never an epidemic: https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/the-gun-homicide-epidemic-isn...

banned1on Utah governor signs law legalizing 'free-range parenting'

Thank you

banned1on Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and...

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/d...

banned1on Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

I googled it for you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and...

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/d...

America has historically been the country most people go to.