Inconel

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by Inconel 10y ago
The USPS is a federal agency so it's not limited to NY, USPS police are federal agents. I believe they traditionally have dealt with a lot of mail fraud and child pornography investigations.
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by Inconel 10y ago
Regarding their contention that research grants to Ivy League schools are subsidies, aren't they exactly that? Don't get me wrong, those are definitely the kind of subsidies I think the government should be providing, but what is
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Amazon is building a $1.5B hub for its own cargo airline(recode.net)
4 points by Inconel 10y ago|0 comments
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not sure how illuminating that really is. I mean I'm sure that is what some people think when accusing others of virtue signalling, but I'm fairly certain others are basically saying "hey look, here's another pr
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by Inconel 10y ago
Good point, although I think it could be argued that there could be a political doctrine based on racism at say the local or regional level, that wouldn't be widespread enough at the societal level to qualify as racism under some defin
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by Inconel 10y ago
You're correct. I should have been more clear. My main point was that racial prejudice alone (#3 in the above link), minus the power component, wouldn't be enough to satisfy the requirements of racism under some definitions.
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by Inconel 10y ago
Even the term bravery can be contentious. For example some might call a multibillionaire taking a few hours from his Saturday to join a protest at SFO an act of bravery. Others might find it a nice thing to do, but ultimately insulting to c
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by Inconel 10y ago
Isn't it increasing argued that the dictionary definition of racism is only one possible definition? I've heard it stated many times that the newer excepted definition involves the traditional aspect of racism coupled with the com
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not nearly knowledgable enough about this subject to have a well informed opinion and my only exposure to homeschooled kids have turned out to be very well adjusted adults. Despite my own anecdotal experience, I'm certainly op
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to but I thought it was a good article. I've only known two people who were homeschooled, and one is an atheist while the other was Christian last time I checked, but not particularly reli
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by Inconel 10y ago
Good points, although I didn't mean to dispute that these were mostly fake accounts meant to push an agenda. As a side note, I don't have a FB account so I don't know how this works but do your friends have the ability to see
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by Inconel 10y ago
I don't doubt that many of the commenters praising Trump, or any other politician for that matter, may in fact be sockpuppet accounts, but I wonder if this might be a similar situation to what we saw with polling prior to the election
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by Inconel 10y ago
Is there some reason that Google didn't take the cloud services business as seriously as Amazon did? It looks like a huge moneymaker for Amazon, and from my rather uninformed perspective, I would have thought it was much more aligned w
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not smart enough to understand these kind of deals fully, but I always thought the Skybox acquisition made a ton of sense for Google. The Skybox assets could possibly be used to improve consumer facing products like Maps, while als
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by Inconel 10y ago
That was an interesting read, it definitely makes me want to read the book for a more detailed analysis. I've increasingly been wondering about the links between violence/social unrest and inequality, particularly as we enter a pe
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by Inconel 10y ago
Thanks for the links. I had heard of some of those issues but the sleep tracking and unsent text collection were new to me.
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by Inconel 10y ago
>and their behavior has been acceptable compared with that of others like Facebook. If you have the time, would you mind expanding on why you consider Google's behavior better than Facebook's? I find myself very wary of FB but
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by Inconel 10y ago
I submitted the post precisely because I dislike being flooded with ads wherever I go. I imagine most are upvoting it for similar reasons?
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Testing Ads in Facebook Messenger(messengerblog.com)
45 points by Inconel 10y ago|50 comments
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not nearly knowledgable enough on economics to determine the overall effects of such a tax, so please take this with a very large grain of salt, but couldn't it be argued that you purchasing a yacht would be better for the eco
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by Inconel 10y ago
> go buy some ugly desert land in the LA area I'm not sure if you've ever visited some of the desert areas around LA, but I wouldn't describe them as ugly or view their potential destruction so flippantly.
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The hell of Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds(arstechnica.com)
5 points by Inconel 10y ago|0 comments
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by Inconel 10y ago
Point taken. I'll make sure to tell the next homeless teen I see in SF how lucky they are. And yet it's your hypothetical John Smith homeowner who I should be sympathetic to.
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not sure how we go from John Smith opposing high density development to John Smith being asked to redistribute his wealth to anyone? While we're on the topic of wealth redistribution though, perhaps John Smith shouldn't d
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by Inconel 10y ago
You make an excellent point again on the risk of letting personal experiences unduly influence perspective. And I've embarrassingly never considered your point about the transient nature of tech employment in SF possibly bringing peopl
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by Inconel 10y ago
I wasn't sure how this article would fair on HN but some seem to be enjoying it, and since crdb brought up Seiko elsewhere in the comments, here is a similar tour of some of Seiko's facilities[1]. It might be worth taking a partic
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by Inconel 10y ago
Not to be facetious, but fake Rolexes are so widespread now that I actually wonder what the chances are that a random robbery will yield a real versus fake Rolex.
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by Inconel 10y ago
I've read that there was a big dip in Swiss watch exports when China started ramping up it's anti-corruption campaign. I have a Kazakh-American friend who did some contract work as a pipeline welder in Kazakhstan who told me all o
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by Inconel 10y ago
While I agree in general, I think that there are some people who just genuinely enjoy mechanical watches beyond the status signaling. I myself don't own a Rolex or other high end watch, I can't afford one, I work in machining and
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by Inconel 10y ago
I'm not sure if I really qualify as being well versed in high end watches, my only current wristwatches are a Timex and a Casio G-Shock, but I did submit the article and I do have an interest in watches and clocks so I'll try and

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