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by Camillo 11y ago
Right. The American worker lost his job because he was undercut by people who'll do the job for a third-world salary in third-world conditions. The solution is to let the American migrate to the third world so he can join the fun. How
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by Camillo 11y ago
It's a good thing that tobacco is the last harmful or controversial trade product we'll ever see.
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by Camillo 11y ago
That is completely false, as you would know if you had bothered to search for five seconds: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10&#x2
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by Camillo 11y ago
It's based on supply and demand. Since anyone and their dog can get a student loan, and the federal government guarantees those loans, demand for college education is basically inelastic. You can keep raising prices without losing stud
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by Camillo 11y ago
The absurd student loan system is what fueled tuition inflation in America. It needs to be abolished.
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by Camillo 11y ago
You mean all of your friends' accounts and yours being compromised at the same time?
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by Camillo 11y ago
Why doesn't Facebook use the social graph to verify identity? Have the user contact their Facebook friends and let those friends vouch for them. Weighing friends by length of friendship, frequency of interaction, etc. so that you canno
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by Camillo 11y ago
> Guy snatches a few moments with one of those pretty girls that have been ignoring him for all of his life - what do you expect? That's not in the story! It would at least have made a modicum of sense if he was a desperate loner wh
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by Camillo 11y ago
Don't worry, I am unscathed.
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by Camillo 11y ago
As if that woman was the first person to talk to him. Even if he had somehow lost all his family and friends back home, he would still have had some comrades in arms. And if he had been abnormally lonely it would have - should have! - been
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by Camillo 11y ago
A few months ago, Reddit's /r/tifu was crawling with creative writing students, shoveling their slop all over it under the guise of "true stories". (Nowadays it's all ridiculous sex stories, which somehow ends
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by Camillo 11y ago
Sounds like you're projecting your younger self on me. But in fact, "it's all about fucking" is not a conclusion from some philosophical perspective. It's all there in the story. The character forgot his guilt becau
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by Camillo 11y ago
He has to notice them first. With a normal red light, the car doesn't move, period.
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by Camillo 11y ago
Yes, so it basically turns an intersection with traffic lights into one without. The point of a red light is that it removes the guesswork, and gives people going in other directions the guarantee that the stopped traffic won't move. R
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by Camillo 11y ago
I'm not sure what people find "beautiful" or "touching" in this story. A man is wracked by guilt over what he has done to the point of deciding to end his life, but then he forgets all about it as soon as a pretty g
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by Camillo 11y ago
You mean this? http://www.epermittest.com/road-signs/left-turn-yield-green Isn't that just a normal green light on a two-way street? Do you mean all intersections should have protected left turns?
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by Camillo 11y ago
As a foreigner, "right on red" seems insane to me.
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by Camillo 11y ago
It's not going to look like a good idea even if they need the same version. You're not supposed to run homebrew as root; it runs as your own user instead. If two users try to install things with homebrew in the same directory, you
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by Camillo 11y ago
I have a trackpad and scrollbars hidden by default. It still sucks that I don't get the thumb showing up when I scroll. I have no way of knowing how far along I am.
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by Camillo 11y ago
> This is because royal financing in the late Middle Ages was a tricky thing. I'd just like to point out that no part of this story has anything to do with the Middle Ages. De Tonti and Louis XIV lived in the Modern age.
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by Camillo 11y ago
Yes, but test scores are not necessarily an objective measure of how good an employee is going to be, unless their job is going to be to take tests. They're a proxy. Suppose student A has talent 100, and student B has talent 90. Studen
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by Camillo 11y ago
I have to ask, do those "tricks" represent the way math is usually taught in America? It looks like a bad joke to me.
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by Camillo 11y ago
That is really no different from any other investment. If you buy a house, you are relying on the government to uphold your property rights, otherwise anyone could come in and take it over. Let's say you buy a house in SF, hoping for a
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by Camillo 11y ago
So you want to increase the tax burden on productive economic activity to benefit people who are just capturing rent. That's a horrible idea.
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by Camillo 11y ago
The pencil sputters individual squares when you click and drag the mouse. It should draw a continuous line instead.
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by Camillo 11y ago
Wait, bartering? At a restaurant? What did people exchange for the food?
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by Camillo 11y ago
I think part of it may be price discrimination. The customer that comes to your site directly already has your hotel in mind, and is probably less price sensitive, so you fleece them. The customer that goes to the aggregator is more price-s
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by Camillo 11y ago
Well, of course. The service the waiter provides does not change just because you're getting a discount on the food. On the other hand, the service is also the same whether you order two expensive items or two cheap ones, so it shouldn
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by Camillo 11y ago
Correct.
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by Camillo 11y ago
There seems to be a sizable number of people who do not feel represented by the narrow range of options that the political establishment has deigned to offer them, and who are tired of having to accept what the powers that be have declared

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