stanferder
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I think you're underestimating the size of 200. ADA compliance is a worthy cause, but at that level of effort I think it would make more sense to create an advocacy group and try to bring about compliance through public pressure than individual lawsuits.
Nevertheless, I don't have a lot of sympathy for the business owner in this case. If you open a business in a non-compliant site 17 years after the ADA went into effect, and 13 years later still can't build a ramp, it might be time for another business to occupy that site.
Comment · 6 years ago
When one person associated with the attorney is a plaintiff in 200 lawsuits, it does start to seem opportunistic.
Nevertheless, I can't understand why someone would open a cafe in 2007 at a site that wasn't compliant with a 1990 law without budgeting for bringing it into compliance.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a safety color.
Comment · 6 years ago
> The prefix/postfix change is a red herring, that doesn't do anything
The prefix/postfix change does something to the reader. It's a distraction trying to figure out if that change was intended, whether the author knows it has no effect, or whether I'm wrong about the change having no effect.
I appreciate the author doing the hard work of fixing this, especially with the code in full view of the public, but if I were an official reviewer I'd ask to get all the unnecessary changes removed.
Comment · 6 years ago
Well you could be driving two Cadillacs at the same time
And one's going 45, and one's going 99
Comment · 6 years ago
If these investments of yours were as much of a sure bet (or adequately sure bet) as you're suggesting, banks would simply cut out the middle-person (i.e. the borrower) and invest in these things directly.
Comment · 6 years ago
Smoking weed while wearing a hardhat seems out-of-whack.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't think it rises to the level of dishonesty, but I do think the writer should not have included something as unknowable and irrelevant as the possible hidden motives of these agencies.
Nevertheless, suing these agencies to prevent unwarranted surveillance is justified.
Comment · 6 years ago
> [T]he other media encourages polarization and demonization of the other for dumb short term. That's a purely American phenomenon...
I don't think that's true. The tone of American political news nowadays doesn't seem that different than British newspapers in the 1990s. "It's the Sun wot won it" was an explicit boast about The Sun's polarizing influence... in 1992.
Of course both The Sun and Fox News in the US are part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. But if anything this style of news seems like it arrived in the UK ten or twenty years before it was manifest in the US.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just because your economic situation is unsustainable where you are doesn't mean you'd be better off someplace else. If you arrive in a new city without a job and without connections, you're in trouble from the moment you get there.
Comment · 6 years ago
Laptops can be carried to meetings, so you always have your whole setup with you, and they make it easier to do work someplace other than your desk.
Comment · 6 years ago
> the X'ers
The last generation to know freedom from planned activities during their school years.
This is terrible advice.