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You can't be serious. I literally got harassed by a stranger yesterday.

Hyperbole?

The definition of hyperbole is "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally."

My statement is not hyperbole, it was not at all exaggerated is meant to be taken literally. People have gone to war over this shit.

You have a very, very misguided view of the past, we have always tied up our identities into our arguments. In fact, I would say less so now than in the past not moreso.

If we are going to play that game technically you can just keep the tab open. I meant once you lock yourself out there is no way to bypass the unlocking process.

This happened after hurricane Sandy: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Two-Arrested-for-Ga...

Trucks hold their value better than cars.

>Certain segments are shedding value even more quickly. Subcompact cars, such as the Honda Fit, and large sedans, such as the Chevrolet Impala, are depreciating faster than average. Big SUVs, vans, and pickups are holding their value a little better, and imports tend to drop more quickly than domestic models.

While technically true I have found it awfully awkward to brush manually with an electric toothbrush. I don't know if it's mental or the ergonomics are different.

You're hosting a party and you run out of something so you run to the store.

Password I know -> hash function (probably with millions or billions of iterations) -> Twitter password that I don't know.

Not peeking at the Twitter password is a non-issue, people don't generally memorize the output of hash functions, even if they wanted to, they are a long string of random characters.

Here's an example: the SHA256 hash of your username is 328BFB7DEAB24355A7A0D2377AB8DEF70D8DECF968E90AA507D590ACDD25A7AC if you were to then hash 328BFB7DEAB24355A7A0D2377AB8DEF70D8DECF968E90AA507D590ACDD25A7AC you'd get 227D82D075605DE042164082145FC7D296DF20C4BAAA2834B5541182C0D13051. Hash that and get 2062A298907588A3045EE89D9C366C64097924BC50F48981CF4A736B9BB093DF. Now repeat that process a billion or so times and you'll calculate your Twitter password.

This is a really great idea, it's literally impossible to overcome the restriction.

Batteries last a surprising long time on electric toothbrushes, mine claims it lasts two full weeks on a full charge. I've personally tested it successfully on a week and a half trip. You should have no problem bringing it camping provided your trip lasts less than a couple weeks. I never bring the charger with me when I go anywhere.

(My old electric toothbrush cost $10 about 10 years ago and used AA batteries instead of a wall charger. A couple AAs lasted quite a long time, probably close to 6 months, IIRC. So that one would last you the entire length of the appalachian trail.)

A $10 dumb phone without any service allows for 911 calls.

Yes! There's a few cities I visit very often but I ONLY visit in the "off season." Everything is much cheaper, things don't sell out, I don't get bothered by stupid events I have no interest in, parking is free or reduced price, I don't have to sit in traffic, and crowds are non-existent. I'd rather avoid crowds than pretty much any other factor other than maybe price.

>I think binding arbitration can be a useful alternative remedy to the traditional legal system.... It is often beneficial for both parties to go through the accelerated process of binding arbitration.

We see this on TV.

Those court shows (Judge Judy, People's Court, Judge Mathis, etc) are not actually "real" court, but are binding arbitration. By agreeing to arbitration both parties who appear in those forums "win" in some way no matter the outcome. The judgement is paid by the show instead of the defendant, both parties get an appearance fee plus an all expenses paid trip to Los Angeles or New York (depending on the show). So the plantiff is guaranteed quick payment if they win the case and the defendant is guaranteed not to have to pay even if they lose.

Another benefit is the plantiff doesn't have to express any effort trying to collect the judgment (like appearing in court again to get an order to garnish the defendant's bank accounts) and the defendant won’t have any civil judgement on their record (they can show up on your credit report and can negatively affect your credit score)

On top of all this the audience is entertained, Judge Judy is one of the most popular daytime shows.

(Also the judges on these shows are [usually] MORE experienced than the magistrates who hear cases in small claims court)

Not just morals, just because it is good for business.

There's other financial benefits to marriage, off the top of my head:

Family health insurance plans

Unlimited tax free inheritance

Spousal social security and pension

Social security survivors benefits

You can only enter into a common law marriage very few jurisdictions in the US and certainly not in California. In jurisdictions where you can legally enter into common law marriage in the US, the couple doesn't just "get married" by cohabitation for a few years, they have to actually agree to get married and present themselves as married to others. It's very clear that they must want to be married and agree to be married. It usually requires a public decoration of marriage. (So a marriage ceremony, just without an officiate)

You can also file married income taxes if you are legally married in your state of residence. In fact, if you didn't it probably would be considered tax fraud.

I don't see where the comment you are replying to claims that domestic violence and spousal rape are the leading cause of divorce or even a leading cause.

I completely agree with you. Civil marriage even today is very similar to a business partnership IMO. People give a lot of other significance to it (religion, love, faith, emotional etc.) but if you look at it strictly from just a civil/legal perspective it's essentially a specific type of legally recognized partnership.

Baseball game in Japan, FYI: https://youtu.be/qL87Tq4QKqI

I fail to understand what the average American's knowledge of Japanese baseball has anything to do with the popularity of baseball in Japan.

This is an extremely ignorant and needlessly mean comment. Baseball is known as "America's pastime," however, it's not just an American sport; its also popular in Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Korea, and Japan. One MLB team is currently located outside the US and a second used to be. There are professional leagues in many countries outside of North America. A quarter of MLB players were born outside the 50 States [1] Not only that, it traces it's history back to a British game (Rounders).

Plus the British are more know for tea drinking than Americans.

For me, I absolutely love "trick plays," they are great and are part of what makes baseball fun to watch. Fake tags, fake throws, the hidden ball trick, outfielders "deking" that the lost the ball in the sun, or "deking" that they are going to catch a ball. Those are some of my favorite plays. I completely disagree when people call them Bush League plays, if that's your opinion you might as well call advancing on an errant throw, taking first on a dropped third strike, or scoring on a wild pitch Bush League as well.

[1] http://m.mlb.com/news/article/116591920/opening-day-rosters-...

And assume your family knows exactly how to do whatever you want? What about 2FA?

"Protected class" is a term used in US law to indicate a group of people with common characteristics who are protected from discrimination based on that characteristic in certain circumstances. It's illegal to discriminate against people over 40 in the US for employment purposes because "age over 40" is a protected class in employment law via the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

See[1] for a list of the protected classes

One would assume a hiring manager would have a familiarity with the laws around hiring. Especially since many states (and maybe the US?) are required to post information about those sorts of laws in a visible place in places of employment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

Wikipedia has a good summary with 180+ citations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart

Wow! Hiring managers should really know better. Age >40 is a protected class in US employment law.

We also have a case study of over diagnosis from Korea:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/52756929...

"South Korea is the poster child for the problem of overdiagnosis" of thyroid cancer, Welch says. About 15 years ago, doctors there started a mass campaign to screen for thyroid cancer. That vastly increased the rate of thyroid cancer, to the point that it exceeded cases of breast cancer and other common malignancies.

Yet Welch notes that the mortality rate from this cancer didn't change at all. "So all these extra cases were cases of thyroid cancer that weren't destined to bother people," he said. Instead, that rash of overdiagnosis sent people into needless surgery.

Harmless thyroid tumors are surprisingly common. Decades ago, pathologists in Finland noticed that more than a third of the people they saw in autopsy had thyroid tumors, but the cancers had no negative consequences.

No, it's not absurd at all.

Cancer treatment is not benign and (believe it or not) not all cancers will always causes harm.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-uncertainty-surrounding...

For instance, in 2012 a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by Archie Bleyer and H. Gilbert Welch found that, while there had been a doubling in the number of cases of early stage breast cancer in the 30 years since mass mammographic screening programs had been instituted, this increase wasn’t associated with a comparable decrease in diagnoses of late stage cancers, as one would expect if early detection was taking early stage cancers out of the “cancer pool” by preventing their progression. That’s not to say that Bleyer and Welch didn’t find that late stage cancer diagnoses decreased, only that they didn’t decrease nearly as much as the diagnosis of early stage cancers increased, and they estimated the rate of overdiagnosis to be 31%. These results are in marked contrast to the promotion of mammography sometimes used by advocacy groups. Last year, the 25 year followup for the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS) was published. The CNBSS is a large, randomized clinical trial started in the 1980s to examine the effect of mammographic screening on mortality. The conclusion thus far? That screening with mammography is not associated with a decrease in mortality from breast cancer. Naturally, there was pushback by radiology groups, but their arguments were, in general, not convincing. In any case, mammographic screening resulted in decreases in breast cancer mortality in randomized studies, but those studies were done decades ago, and treatments have improved markedly since, leaving open the question of whether it was the mammographic screening or better adjuvant treatments that caused the decrease in mortality from breast cancer that we have observed over the last 20 years.