OnlineCourage

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Comment · 6 years ago
> No, it really isn't. Men in civilian clothing or blank fatigues blowing things up with zero identification is indeed distinguishable from men in uniform with American flag and POLICE patches.

How so?

Comment · 6 years ago
Percieved but not actual danger.
Comment · 6 years ago
As someone living in Minneapolis and owned a business in St Paul Midway where police have actually been defunded I feel no less "defendful" than last year. The police are pretty useless at keeping me personally safe and keeping my property safe,there has been no sudden spike in crime. Guns are essentially an adult nightlight and are rarely used. Shit is not hitting anything, crime is far below where it was in the 90s when Minneapolis was known as Murderapolis and I see no evidence showing it's going to go that way but I read a massive amount of fear mongering online. People bought a ton of bitcoin and thought the price was going up to $100,000...they were wrong.
Comment · 6 years ago
Concrete has poor liquidity though both literally and figuratively so when it turns out you spent way too much money on concrete instead of agricultural development you are screwed. Also, US financiers are bondholders, meaning the public. The public reposessing corporations would mean nationalization, which...Chinas economy is already far more nationalized than the US.
Comment · 6 years ago
Jared Diamond, who is much more researched than anyone else commenting here, has written a lot on this topic, and briefly stated - it has more to do with a society's capacity to receive and process outside ideas. It's less about American culture and more about the fact that America has been for the most part an open society, but more so American metropolitan society and not America as a whole.
Comment · 6 years ago
The examples you gave were all developed and used first in the United States.
Comment · 6 years ago
Onlyfans will commoditize what your cousin is selling in short order, just like early adopters on Uber, Airbnb, Ebay, etc...the laws of supply and demand will only allow this to last a couple years, tops! Then what will she have learned and what skills and experiences will she have to be ready for the following two years? What skills and experiences will you have at that time? Easy come, easy go.

Also, "depressed," is different than, "discouraged." Careful of your word choice and make sure you are labeling your emotions correctly.

Comment · 6 years ago
https//www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-woman-husband-died-chloroquine-warns-not-to-trust-trump-2020-3
Comment · 6 years ago
No, I don't hate anyone. Dosage. I have taken Chloroquine before, it is not as run of the mill as you think. Extreme side effects.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's going to end up killing people. Chloroquine is nasty stuff and irresponsible to be hawking...pharmaceuticals can cause as much damage as they can prevent! There is no clinical basis and Trump continues to hawk it ultimately because he is so vested in hotels and hospitality and is more focused on financial damage control of his own investments than the health and safety of the American people.
Comment · 6 years ago
You don't get to, "not buy the argument," because R&D costs are constrained by layers of unimaginably complex legislation and compliance. The company had to jump through ridiculous hoops for every component of said machine. Until you pull out the book and say, "Nope, see here Section 93...they did not have to do X, it's needless," you don't really have a good counterpoint because this is the case for all medical equipment. You can't just out of the blue say, "Yeah but not this one!" The entire medical regulatory and compliance system is overly complex. You're making the $10000 toilet seat argument...yeah, well the toilet seat needed to be delivered to a highly regulated aircraft. Ironically those $10,000 toilet seats are now $300 because they are 3d printed.
Comment · 6 years ago
Few of us will decide, many of us will die in pain. You could die any day so prepare now.
Comment · 6 years ago
Or...there are engineers who realize this regardless of hacker news and push better design factors by communicating customer needs and impact on branding. Hacker news is not as influential as we may believe.
Comment · 6 years ago
I literally just did a search for "Westinghouse radio hub" and other variations and this post was the first thing that came up, the rest was all about 1940s Westinghouse electric tubes and things like that. Westinghouse effectivly went out of business effectively in 1995 as they were bought by CBS, when the Gopher protocol had more users than the WWW. This just sounds like such an outdated argument or example it does not make any sense. Sure, network connectivity has disadvantages but refusing all connected products because of oulier examples is extreme paranoia.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is that really a "serious question?"

There are a lot of homeless people in San Fransisco. Nothing else needs to be construed.

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