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by 13415 8y ago
That doesn't make the degrees bullshit, though, it merely means that studying the respective field is less likely to be very economically rewarding. You need to make a difference between practical life advice and evaluations of areas a
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by 13415 8y ago
I don't know, it's the second biggest world religion, so you'd expect some people who were born into it to trample someone else's human rights. We're talking about 1.8 billion people.
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by 13415 8y ago
> I didn't say nothing can be done. I particularly don't care about "convincing" some guy on HN with poor reading comprehension. You're the last person on HN who should tell other people about reading comprehen
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by 13415 8y ago
Wait a minute, isn't it also the case that according to the Weierstrass approximation theorem any continuous function on a closed interval can be approximated by a polynomial function? And isn't that kind of pointless for practica
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by 13415 8y ago
The parent has suggested a number of solutions, and you have not presented a convincing argument why any of those solutions would not help. You started by insinuating that most homeless are incurably schizophrenic. Then you looked it up on
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by 13415 8y ago
> Those who don't refuse treatment tend to not be homeless. You just literally said that 30% of the homeless are severely mentally ill. That means that 70% of the homeless are not severely mentally ill. And you have not propos
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by 13415 8y ago
I have argued that the plea bargain system is unjust in both cases, when the accused has committed the crime and when the accused has not committed the crime. There is no need for anyone to decide who has committed a crime for that argument
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by 13415 8y ago
No, if that's how you read my post you should read it again. I personally believe he should have faced 3 years maximum and that sentences are way too high in the US, up to 10 times higher than elsewhere, but that wasn't the point.
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by 13415 8y ago
The idea of justice is not to provide some benefits to people who where accused of some crimes. If someone has committed a crime, then justice system shouldn't help him . If on the other hand the person has not committed besaid crime,
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by 13415 8y ago
That's not the OPs point. The plea bargain system is principally unjust. If prosecutors had enough evidence of some crimes, then the accused should be tried for them and not go freely. If prosecutors don't have enough evidence for
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by 13415 8y ago
The realism of some payware planes has increased drastically, from aerodynamics to systems and failure modeling. Unfortunately, high quality payware has become very expensive. As for X-Plane itself, Austin Meyer doesn't seem to have lo
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by 13415 8y ago
Assange has relied on many people in the past, so there is not much evidence for your claim other than personal sentiment. What seems more credible is that only he has the keys to some data kept by other persons and he could release these k
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by 13415 8y ago
I don't understand where the duplicity would be in that. "The media" (your term) used documents from Wikileaks in their reporting and now are outraged about the arrest of Assange? There is nothing incongruent about that. Did
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by 13415 8y ago
I wasn't arguing in the first place, I was expressing my anger and sadness about how gullible some people are, because they don't realize the shift in public opinion and how it was manufactured (and partly also due to Assange&#x27
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by 13415 8y ago
It's a real pity that people don't look at the numbers but talk about these issues as if they were categorical decisions between "either meritocracy or socialism". That's a false dichotomy. There is wealth inequalit
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by 13415 8y ago
I agree, large corporations tend to design their products for early self-destruction. There are exceptions, for example Seiko makes very good watches, but it's a good rule of thumb. However, if you research carefully you can often find
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by 13415 8y ago
You can make your own website, though.
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by 13415 8y ago
I don't believe these slippery slope argument are sound. You can apply these kind of arguments to almost every alleged free speech issue. Just make it an argument against banning <insert whatever content you find absolutely reprehen
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by 13415 8y ago
Not really. Cambridge Dictionary: 1. having little money and/or few possessions 2. to have very little of a particular substance or quality Google: 1. lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a
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by 13415 8y ago
> The end result was demonstrably better for the vast majority of users (Microsoft had hard numbers to back their design decisions). I'd rather believe their studies/methodology is flawed than that the ribbon interface makes
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by 13415 8y ago
As someone who never had a problem with it, I would be interested in learning what drew you away from Ada to D.
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by 13415 8y ago
Why not? Spotify is not entitled to forcing you to display their ads either, and there are plenty of other free services on the Net that don't require you to watch ads.
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by 13415 8y ago
There is absolutely nothing to justify here. Running ad-blockers is perfectly fine in any context whatsoever. Everybody has the right to control what is displayed on their computer when they browse the Net, and Spotify has the right to canc
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by 13415 8y ago
I kind of agree. A very low UBI that barely allows people to subsist will not solve any existing social problems, it might instead effectively become a subsidy for extremely low income classes without increasing vertical social mobility, an
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by 13415 8y ago
Social welfare keeps people in Ghettos and drives them into a life of criminality, drug addiction, tax and social welfare fraud, and pretty much ensures that their children will never get any higher education and move up on the 'social
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by 13415 8y ago
It's hard for me to understand why this called a "basic income" experiment then. The central idea of basic income is that you get one fixed amount of income per month that needs to be sufficient for all expenses, including re
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by 13415 8y ago
How the guy dresses is irrelevant, unless he's looking for jobs with a dress code.
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by 13415 8y ago
To me, the fact that HN is one of the few remaining community-driven sites worth reading is proof enough that its system of downvoting and flagging works very well. Other sites with similar, though less rigid moderation systems have fallen
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by 13415 8y ago
It's trivial for New York Times articles. Your link is about advertisements disguised as news (which are illegal where I live).
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by 13415 8y ago
You can increase the font size in your browser if you're unable to read the indications for editorials and opinions. But it's also kind of odd that you consider there to be a problem in the first place, because it's also triv

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