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lonelappde··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
> crafted to exclude non-white US citizens from the electoral process.

Reads a lot like

>> pushed with discriminatory intent.

You seem to be confused about what the point of disagreement is

lonelappde··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
How recently?

Public airport or private?

"Retail" or privately hired pilot?

lonelappde··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
President Trump already did this, right before the coronavirus crisis.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/8...

Why? Because cutting benefits is popular with his supporters.

Callously cutting benefits for a miniority of the populat is populist for the selfish majority.

lonelappde··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
Why would doctors and pharmacists refuse to serve you? What's their incentive?
lonelappde··on No One Goes There Anymore
I don't know, why do people try to propagate their genes? I'm sure you've got a better handle on the situation the the force of billions of years of evolutionary history.
lonelappde··on No One Goes There Anymore
Are all your "nots" in the right places?
lonelappde··on No One Goes There Anymore
Real Talk:

no one is trying to kill you for profit. They just don't care about you because you're can't make money for them. It's still bad, but different.

You meet a lot of skeptics because no matter how honest or correct you are, without access to a large test population and a way to precisely measure your dozens of tiny ideas that add up to a healthier overall life, it's impossible for an outside observer to distinguish you from quacks like Gwyneth Paltrow.

Also, being upfront about your suffering makes people uncomfortable and avoidant. Not your fault, but that's life.

You have a lot of disappointment with HN, largely because you see all these rich people who like talking to you but won't invest in you.

My advice: take a lesson from them. Put on a fake happy face, rewrite your narrative so that your pain is in your past, copy the obnoxious marketing techniques that smell foul but work.

You're in a "line" where everyone thinks you are bullshitting. If you can't beat it, join it. Run your effort the same way the dishonest snake oil salesmen do, and use your own conscience to tell you you are doing good. Make a little money selling whatever to health fad chasers, and put that money to good use as you see fit. Answer to no one but your conscience, but behaving in the way "polite society" demands, not because they are right, but because that's how you'll get paid attention and money.

lonelappde··on No One Goes There Anymore
It's a bit rude to name something someone made a point of not mentioning.
lonelappde··on No One Goes There Anymore
How is charging X more for Y's behavior not screwing X?
lonelappde··on Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)
It's trivial to say that cheating in a competition is a winning strategy as long as you don't get caught and punished.
lonelappde··on Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake
They were talented but the talents were theft, fraud, and self-dealing, not capital allocation.
lonelappde··on Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake
As far as I can tell, only one of those people (Rubin) was substantially GS affiliated. Still, pretty bad.
lonelappde··on Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake
Congress passes laws, not the President.

The repeal passed the Senate on a near party line vote (R over D), sponsored by 3 Republicans, and passed the House will nearly all R and 2/3 of D.

Clinton could have vetoed it, though, since the Senate didn't have a two-thirds majority.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93...

Of course, looking to the future from the future, a veto would likely be irrelevant since Bush took over a year and a half later.

lonelappde··on Warren Buffett’s Berkshire dumps most of Goldman Sachs stake
That's 5% of GS shares. Did it push the price down?
lonelappde··on Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?
What do you mean? How does the order of adding ingredients influence passivation?

You should create an acid water mixture before adding the mixture to another chemical.

lonelappde··on Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?
Most people don't care about RAS syndrome, except semi-intelligent people who think grasping at (incorrect) pedantry proves they are smart.
lonelappde··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
I know you meant land when you said "house prices", but it helps to keep using the correct term to avoid misleading confusion. Houses are terrible money pits. Land (in an economically active location) is a scarce valuable resource.

This is important because people overbuild SFH not understanding the expenses, and people ruin their financial lives buying mobile or fake-mobile homes to put on rented land, not understanding that the land is where all the value is.

lonelappde··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
Who assumes that a bank account over the FDIC limit is safe?

And who cares if rich people take a haircut in a recession?

lonelappde··on Text exceeding maxlength will no longer be truncated when pasted in Firefox 77
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#client-sid...
lonelappde··on Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
Hmm, my machine doesn't.
lonelappde··on Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
Things breaking is the natural order of the world. No one needs an incentive to break anything, merely a lack of incentive to fix will suffice
lonelappde··on Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
What about the other 40 windows?

Using two large monitors is bad for your neck.

lonelappde··on Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
> but we (meaning computer users) spent decades downloading sketchy executables for our Windows PCs.

This is sadly not a valid comparison. Our PCa have a far more critical role in our lives now, have far more power to hurt us, and are reachable by 1000x more malicious actors.

We are in a new, dangerous world. We need much better OSes with much stronger sandboxing for our modern world.

lonelappde··on How Apocalyptic Is Now?
Russians were genocided by their own government, not a foreign power (except for the many used as meatbags in WWII).
lonelappde··on Twitter Looks the Other Way as Trump’s Tweets Amplified by Artificial Network
Should Twitter build and advertise a tool to let user opt in to suppression hyperactive users from their view of Twitter?

Should Twitter update their algorithm to give their judgment of a better content experience to users, or should they be hands off and let SEO spammers control the content experience?

lonelappde··on Agile Scrum is not working
What's better-- the right project over budget, or a broken nothing that is under budget?
lonelappde··on Daily standups should be async
Vicious cycle
lonelappde··on A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
Trademark infringement us not legal. Google/Doordash are selling a different product and clearly labeling it as Saddleback.
lonelappde··on America’s meat shortage is more serious than the missing hamburgers
It's more of a meat avarice than a meat shortage.
lonelappde··on Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, BSD License literally had an "advertising clause".

The only question would be whether it should be used only for non-transferable "moral" authorship or transferable as the author chooses.

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