That may be so, but the GP was talking about the time it takes checks to clear. IIRC, uncashed checks aren't even valid after 180 days, let alone 7 years.
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7 years? Are you sure it's not something like 7 days?
That's understandable, given that's against the law and would probably be a prison sentence.
I suppose that really depends on the Communist party...
That's an odd way to complain about not being utterly dominant.
> We have Trump because the system discriminates against urban voters, i.e. currently the majority is being damned.
That's a pretty myopic read of the situation, and not very valuable. The solution to something like Trump is not to create a permanently disenfranchised and forgotten hinterland, which really seems like your desired outcome.
lol. You have an hilariously parochial point of view.
I would be interesting if someone setup some kind of monitoring that might detect if that happens. They'd probably need the cooperation of many legitimate and diverse Facebook users, though.
> tyranny of the minority
If that's how you want to characterize having rights that are protected, go ahead, but it's embarrassingly simplistic.
That's really not that hard of a question to answer, if you're willing to have some empathy and look at things from someone else's point of view. I say that as someone who has always lived in a large city.
Clearly, it's the rights of small communities, with significant material and cultural differences from large cities, to have a degree of self-determination and a real say in how they are governed.
Your choice of words shows a view that it's somehow unjust for these communities not to be dominated by distant, populous, and likely unsympathetic overlords.
Tyranny of the majority can manifest itself in a lot of different ways. That's one of them.
Also, the Viet Cong were supported by a state, North Vietnam. They also weren't able to defeat South Vietnam; that took a withdrawal of US support and the actions of the regular North Vietnamese Army.
I think it's wrong to compare North Korea to those countries. For one, the post-regime change problems in those countries have been caused by Islamic insurgencies, which is not something I'd expect to happen in NK.
But, sometimes, that's exactly what you should do. It brings to mind OpenSSL after Heartbleed. I remember reading that the LibreSSL people were ripping out all kinds of stuff (like kludges and workarounds to support OpenVMS), and rightly so. You might call it "knowledge [and] collected bug fixes," but sometimes the crap is just crap.
I wonder if it would've been cheaper for them to commission a clean-room digital version of Gil Sans? From what I gather the font itself (published 1928) is out of copyright in the UK, so the main licensing issue is probably just the more-recent digital representations.
That's the standard justification, but it leaves a lot to be desired. For one, IIRC, even brand new topics have been moderated away because the mods judged discussion might not go in the "correct" direct (for lack of a better word). Two, avoiding disagreement to the degree Metafilter does is a recipe for tension and dysfunction.
It's finally dead!
And full of anxiety and dysfunction masquerading as something else.
Eh, I don't think that's really a fair characterization. Yeah, sure, they delete dups, etc., but no one's complaining about that. The mods also delete stuff from an ever-increasing (but ill-defined) list of topics that "Metafilter doesn't do well," which basically means anything that could upset the cool kids or other favored groups.
There's a lot of hype about Metafilter's famed moderation, but all it's really done has caused the site to reach a different failure mode. Rather than discussion, you get a bunch of commenting that's bracketed by passive aggressiveness and anxiety, carefully moderated into an illusion of civility.
That's a lot like trying to dispute the effect of Donald Trump's presidency on the US by noting that he has been an American since he was born.
However, humans get by driving reasonable safely using just vision. I'm totally a computer vision layman, but couldn't you correctly interpret this situation with binocular vision?
I think it's unlikely that the current political climate will allow such problems to be solved with regulation.
There's some truth to that: whenever I bother to check I find that Amazon is no longer price-competitive with brick-and-mortar.
> If Uber tripled prices, a competitor would start up to cut into their market share.
...unless there's no actual profit at anything less than 3x the current prices. Isn't Uber running on a VC subsidy right now?
Probably not in the immediate aftermath, but someone might decades later, if the company actually does something valuable.
If that's the only logic that successfully gets through to the boss, it's good logic.
That's right, and it's a shame it's been downvoted.