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masonic

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masonic··on It’s official: Bay Area home values are finally going down
A slight decrease... in just 10% of the largest metro areas!
masonic··on SFO Int'l Terminal Evacuated After Police Find Bomb in Suspicious Package
Actual title: "SFO international terminal reopens after bomb threat prompts evacuations"
masonic··on North Carolina Looks to Remove Public EV Chargers, Probably to the Trash
This is such a crock.

Here's the bill: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/54057/0/...

All they have to do is charge per unit time and electricity used, not give away electricity for free. They don't even have to charge their full marginal costs.

This merely prevents people from using these as unlimited free parking.

masonic··on We Did It, We Lost Access to Tesla Full Self Driving Beta
>On the good side, I can now look at the control screen on my right or down at my phone for more than ~15 seconds without being nagged.

Wow, I'm glad I live multiple states away from this guy.

masonic··on Why Britain’s new stamps are causing outrage and upset
“I suggested that the Queen’s head could be done without" -- David Gentleman

I think Henry VIII said the same thing a couple of times

masonic··on Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal
>the existing coal plants... are being used more

So, they are reverting back to coal, then.

masonic··on Give Up GitHub
"Github is evil!"... sponsored by (among others) Google.
masonic··on Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills
Their TOS do ban gun sales.
masonic··on Ask HN: Who is coordinating a plan to make small towns hipster?
>"a person who follows the latest trends and fashions."

In other words, a person who doesn't think for him/herself. We have plenty of those. They are welcome to stay where they are.

masonic··on Not on Medium? Mediumize
The original, left-justified version is not only more readable overall but makes it much easier to parse the content directory.
masonic··on Why the web is turning away from WordPress
"On average, you take approximately 0.05 seconds to form your opinion of a website"

This is a misquote of a paper (and I don't see peer-review details) from 2006. I don't see how anybody was getting .05 second response on the web in 2006.

masonic··on How Many Billions in Profit Is It Worth to Kill 212,000 Americans a Year?
>Any spending bills require require 66.7% yes votes in both houses of Congress

This is absolutely false and, in fact, has never been the case.

>a cloture vote. It can currently be rejected by a single _staffer_ of any Congressperson _via email_

This is absolutely false as well. You are confusing hold requests with cloture and are confusing the Senate with the House. Cloture is a formal roll call vote in the Senate; no "staffer" participates.

masonic··on How Many Billions in Profit Is It Worth to Kill 212,000 Americans a Year?
>they do not have the votes to do much of anything

This is a flat lie that you repeat. The Democrat caucus collectively "has the votes" to do essentially anything. They could even end the Senate filibuster rule! (It's just a rule of the chamber that can be overturned by simple majority, and they run the Rules committee.)

masonic··on Plainclothes Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters
Again, you fail to give a single specific example. ALL of their articles have permalinks and are unpaywalled... so point out a few examples that exhibit factual errors.
masonic··on The most livable cities
> adding points for just being in the Northern America

To the contrary, I find it odd that there isn't a single upper-tier livable city in the western 2/3rds of the US but every city in the eastern 95% of Australia is top tier. Hell, my neighbors immigrated from Australia.

masonic··on Lessons in Liberty: Hong Kong, Crown Jewel of Capitalism (1990)
(January 1990)
masonic··on Ask HN: Are there any companies that are doing interesting work in hardware?
Their Careers page has no positions and no contact links.
masonic··on Ask HN: Are there any companies that are doing interesting work in hardware?
There's only one open position on your web page.
masonic··on Plainclothes Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters
>Not an ad hominem attack: "The Epoch Times has lied many times in the past, and it's good to keep that in mind.

If you can't name "many" such lies (let's start with, say, three?), then you are indeed doing an ad hominem attack.

masonic··on What is a well regulated militia anyway?
(December 2019)
masonic··on SCOTUS Says You Can't Sue the Cops for Violating Your Miranda Rights
It says you can't sue cops in civil actions for damages. Such confessions are still inadmissible in criminal court.
masonic··on Ask HN: Is Facebook Still Cool?
Still?
masonic··on How Many Billions in Profit Is It Worth to Kill 212,000 Americans a Year?
"The simple answer is the same reason we have an ongoing climate crisis and a student loan crisis that Republicans refuse to let Congress address..."

That tells you all you need to know about Commondreams' partisanship: all committees of both houses and all roll calls are under full control of the Democrats. There is no mechanism for Republicans to limit Congress from "addressing" anything. Filibuster is limited to calling for votes only. The House can literally push through legislation all the way from drafting to passage without allowing Republicans to even see the bill, as was done with ObamaCare.

masonic··on Engineer Who Fled US Charges of Stealing Chip Technology Now Thrives in China
Non paywall version: https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/engineer-who-fled-charge...
masonic··on GunSense DAO – Bipartisan DAO seeking gun control in US
"The NRA spent $250M on the 2020 presidential election."

These people are flat liars. NRA doesn't have that kind of budget. Per opensecrets.org, NRA spent $786,052 in campaign donations for the 2020 cycle total (Congress and Presidency). They spent an additional $2.2M in total lobbying costs in 2020 and $3.2M in 2019.

Nothing remotely approaching the claimed "$250 million".

masonic··on Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect
>How much more than the ACA

They could have done universal healthcare instead of ACA and with much simpler legislation and less regulatory authoring burden.

masonic··on California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee
>Obama enacted net neutrality by fiat

Not quite. He entered office with net neutrality in effect but then changed the regulatory umbrella it fell under into one without net neutrality in 2009, which Comcast and Verizon took advantage of in the courts. It wasn't until 2015 that ISPs were categorized in Title II and made subject to net neutrality constraints again.

Obama also nominated Ajit Pai to the FCC in the first place.

masonic··on California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee
>important local government offices, particularly Sheriffs–which are also nominally nonpartisan–are dominated by Republicans

Name any three blue counties with Republican county sheriffs.

masonic··on Ask HN: Which tech skill would you pick, if your goal is to maximize earnings?
I started in the mainframe COBOL world, and I've added COBOL search terms to job listing searches. Compensation is ridiculously low (I mean ~50K in SV itself).
masonic··on California Joins Bid to Save Nuclear Power
>useful to get access to seawater for cooling

But discharging that heat directly into seawater adversely affects sea life. This is what causes bleaching death of corals in warmer waters.

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