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by Femur 17y ago
I upvoted you because, as your anecdote suggests, lying is an important social tool. No matter how liberating it may be, telling the blunt truth hurts other people and yourself.
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by Femur 17y ago
I figured out port and starboard with a little device from sailing school that has never left my head: red ->left->port green->right->starboard. note that on a sail boat, lines are traditionally colored depending on what si
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by Femur 17y ago
>I expect that we'll make exceptions for diseases, but I can't imagine human culture on this planet as I know it going for wholesale improvement. Disease: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning Is downs syndrome
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by Femur 17y ago
People already select for desired traits in their children through mate selection (although it is generally a subconscious selection). If I wanted to have a child with dark skin, I would mate with a person with dark skin. Would genetic mod
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by Femur 18y ago
I am a contract Oracle DBA. One month long project I spent working in a gutted out strip mall that had card tables and Ethernet cable strung about. There was free coffee though.
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by Femur 18y ago
>Education always pays off. That is one of those tenets in life to live by.
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by Femur 18y ago
Gmail needs a better way to organize options like this under the "labs" menu. It took me a while to find this option to enable it.
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by Femur 18y ago
>The first point to note is that the 90% rate kicked in at an earning rate of several million in today's money I did note that by saying "granted it may be his millionth $10 for the year" >Sure, there's the question of whether this
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by Femur 18y ago
>I find it interesting that you take the first proposition at face value as "self-evidently" true but feel the need to question this second proposition. Excellent point and very well written response.
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by Femur 18y ago
>We had 90% tax rates in the 50s. A man makes $10 (granted it may be his millionth $10 for the year) and we take away $9 from him. Do you honestly think this is right and just?
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by Femur 18y ago
It's OK and I upvoted you. I think anything other than a flat tax is immoral. I think a national sales tax and elimination of income taxes is a great idea. I merely posed my original response as a thought experiment.
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by Femur 18y ago
I completely agree. If Man A with $100,000 and woman B with $500,000 buy the same $50,000 sport car, they pay the same luxury tax on it. My original question posed to the parent poster was questioning if prices of goods should be based on
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by Femur 18y ago
> $1 is worth much less to the rich than it is to the poor. Extending this argument: a $1 product is worth much less to the rich than it is to the poor. Based on this argument, should the rich be charged more for products?
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by Femur 18y ago
You know, as much as I dislike any attack against civil liberties in general, attacks like this don't bother me as much as, say, unreasonable seizure or firearm confiscation. A quote comes to mind: "The Net interprets censorship as damage a
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by Femur 18y ago
That is fascinating. Other than with solar panels, I was unaware of any other non-mechanical* method for generating electricity. I wonder what the efficiency of this would be compared to a conventional hydroelectric generator. *Solar pane
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by Femur 18y ago
These fruits actually taste really good too. As a native to Missouri, I have eaten these several times right off the tree while on hikes. They taste quite a bit like a banana and have huge seeds. It is also North America's largest native
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Ask HN: What is your favorite charity?
3 points by Femur 18y ago|6 comments
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by Femur 18y ago
Going into it, I was expecting to read about girls and meaningful relationships.
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by Femur 18y ago
>There isn't yet a solution for that. There isn't yet a pleasant solution for that. Unfortunately, segments of population have been reduced before.
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by Femur 18y ago
>The way I see it, it's under-producing food, largely because of irrational resistance to modern techniques. While I do agree that the planet can sustain a much higher population, modern farming practices are causing problems and not ne
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by Femur 18y ago
A cheap and noninvasive device that can monitor and record a bunch of metrics would be great! I would love to be able to graph my cholesterol, BP, heart rate, etc. over time. It is a shame i can monitor my car more easily than I can my bod
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by Femur 18y ago
I desperately wish i could find top level tropical and non-tropical fruit of many varieties here in Houston. I love fresh fruit but mangos from Mexico are not that great and the lack of variety gets old.
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by Femur 18y ago
My fictional choice would be "The Oracle Optimizer: A Treatise" Database related books tend to be too high level and never dig down deep enough.
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by Femur 18y ago
As an Oracle DBA by profession, I agree with you 100%. The Oracle product is more than 30 years old and extremely refined and developed. It can do amazing things when used properly.
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by Femur 18y ago
Here here! Well worded! This argument about the relational model have been coming up for years and I see articles like this all the time. The fact is that RDBMSs work great when properly implemented and maintained. They are very commonly
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by Femur 18y ago
This article was very weak on any hard science and was not that interesting. Basically, the university just got a robot and they are going to hook a "brain" to it and see what happens.
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by Femur 18y ago
I love it when scientific controversy is resolved by reproducible experimentation. Humanity keeps moving on in the quest for knowledge.
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by Femur 18y ago
I was actually impressed by this article and the actions the Harvard students are taking. The fact that the students are turning their case study analysis on them selves does require a certain level of integrity. Self scrutinization, espe
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by Femur 18y ago
I just tested the feature and I like it a lot. Any shortcut that I can use to make finding emails a little easier is very welcome.
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by Femur 18y ago
>I hope Ayn Rand's work is dead and gone so that at least my generation isn't going to suffer the complete stupidity. I think a work of literature that has had such an impact should never be lost or forgotten no matter how much you disa

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