reagency

Who buys Coke only twice per year?

Do you really need a lov sac? More than any other beanbag chair or alternate seating?

Or did the ad nudge you toward the conclusion that it is right for you, before you got over it and forgot?

Are you sure?

There is literally billions of dollars begging someone to figure out how, and plenty of contenders trying.

Maybe there is a whole human culture of consumption and it isn't the advertisers fault that humans are greedy. No need to play the victim card all the time.

Did MLK say he wanted it freely redistributed? He delivered the speech publicly. Where does the MLK estate's money go to? Does it go to his heirs, or to the foundation activities?

That statement means nothing, without defining what "resources" means and without saying whatever you are trying to insinuate.

How very not Black of you.

WaPo has descended deep into clickbait headlines. I can't remember the last time HN hosted a legitimate headline from WaPo.

Title is false. This is not autopilot.

The stopped driver was obeying the law by not blocking an intersection. The turning driver ignored the second lane of traffic when making its turn.

My uncle died from this. Walked past a stopped car, got hit in the next lane.

Jaywalking law, including its ridiculous name , was pushed through by the auto lobby in a power grab for auto manufacturers.

I prefer an incompetent adversary over a competent one.

I think the MPEG-LA $ license is about distributing encoded videos that the viewer decodes. If YouTube transcodes, you aren't distributing encoded videos to anyone , except maybe YouTube itself, for one play.

But I could be mistaken, I haven't checked carefully.

The article takes a different tenor when you consider that is not a story about how the author came to logically prove that theism is more likely than atheism, but it is about how the author come to feel that being a theist is a better life than being atheist. Religion is a powerful idea, not because it is true (that cannot be proven) but because in its best form it is psychologically extremely useful.