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New comment by shooner in "U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme"

shooner — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:51:32 +0000

Billy McFarland was arrested for selling fake tickets to Coachella, Burning Man, The Met Gala, and The Superbowl while he was out on bail for his Fyre-related charges. That is not ineptitude.

New comment by shooner in "62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share"

shooner — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:51:19 +0000

This is a very broad definition of political.

New comment by shooner in "23andMe licenses its own drug compound to Spanish firm Almirall"

shooner — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:01:53 +0000

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

New comment by shooner in "Tesla Cybertruck"

shooner — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:58:20 +0000

It's nice to say that, but enforcement generally doesn't reflect it. Failing to yield to (or killing) a pedestrian on the road outside of a crosswalk often has no legal consequences.

New comment by shooner in "Stockton residents got $500/month basic income, spent on food, clothing, bills"

shooner — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:09:39 +0000

Is a higher-paying job the goal of UBI? I thought the fundamental macro issue was that as automation of one kind or another becomes an increasingly inherent part of new technologies, it will inevitably depress the human job market beyond its ability to employ enough people to maintain the economy.

New comment by shooner in "I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media"

shooner — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:37:23 +0000

>Many people just go through Facebook and create a private event and invite their Facebook friends when they have a birthday gathering nowadays. You will miss out on these if you opt-out completely. I did.

This has been my experience. It's a valid pragmatic argument for staying, and a valid principled argument for opting out.

New comment by shooner in "Meta-Analysis of Relation of Skipping Breakfast with Heart Disease"

shooner — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:45:11 +0000

This was my thought process as well. First "Crap, I should start eating breakfast" then quickly to "or maybe I should restructure my life so I have the spare time and mindfulness to sit down for 15 minutes and eat breakfast."

New comment by shooner in "Why I don't use web components"

shooner — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:32:30 +0000

Well, I thought the 'good' model of the web was schema-based XML was your data, XSLT was your representation structure logic, HTML was your representation structure, and CSS was your representation styling. But the ship sailed on that one a while ago...

New comment by shooner in "Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster"

shooner — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:39:08 +0000

>they will certainly close ranks and attempt to protect their own; however, that is organizational not individual.

Are you not talking about an organization conspiring to protect law-breakers from justice? Because normal people don't do that.