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by March_f6 6y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment William. 1876 was a time when the Republican party generally wanted a large federal government (as opposed to a smaller government favored by Democrats) and you can look at the policies they supported du
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by March_f6 6y ago
To add a little context, this was during a time when the Republican party supported policies that today we typically expect the Democratic party to support and vice versa.
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by March_f6 6y ago
When you consider how much human and financial capital is put into it, yes. Doubly so when you add to that how much human and financial capital is put into dodging it.
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by March_f6 6y ago
I'm not sure exactly about the visual linking part but Zim has always worked for me. But I might be misunderstanding what you're looking for too.
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by March_f6 6y ago
I think I can understand a kernel of what is being suggested here and I think its based on the idea of proportion. Silicon Valley represents the largest aggregations of human and financial capital ever seen, but for all of that investment a
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by March_f6 6y ago
As someone who just finished their undergrad in CS I can say that the majority of the people I know who dropped did so because of the workload and the nature of it. Coding up a robust LZW compression algo or a small version of BASH in a wee
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by March_f6 7y ago
No one should be surprised by this, especially not enough to claim it as "fake news". Its entirely consistent with the administration's approach to the role of government. Unfortunately it took a crisis like this to make clea
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by March_f6 7y ago
Thanks Jedd, this is all super enlightening!
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by March_f6 7y ago
That's one take, sure. But the original point I was making was what if southern farmers had failed to make a large profit off of slave labor in the first place (with the help of the cotton gin), then maybe they wouldn't have been
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by March_f6 7y ago
Deciding if you're a part of the problem or part of the solution can be done without thinking about blame in any sort of absolute terms. Also, the steam engine and cotton gin are two completely different inventions.
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by March_f6 7y ago
Predicting outcomes is one thing. Putting the two questions: "Should I do something?" and "Can I do something?" on equal footing is another. Maybe don't conflate wishful thinking and foresight. And as far as the st
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by March_f6 7y ago
Interesting to be down-voted for this comment.
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by March_f6 7y ago
An excellent case study of what can happen when an engineer's ethical framework amounts to: "does it work?", given the cotton gin's impact on slavery. To think, if only it was invented after the civil war.
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by March_f6 7y ago
Took a tour of one of the big ones there recently. It was quite strange with respect to the content of the library (pretty much the only place you are allowed to go if not on a guided tour) and the inordinate amount of Ben Franklin ephemera
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by March_f6 7y ago
I mean, sure. But at a certain point, LISP was Javascript in terms of bleeding edge no? As someone who has built multiple things using React Native I can absolutely relate to the churn, but each time I willfully wade into it and each time I
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by March_f6 7y ago
Half way through reading this now actually and can't recommend it enough.
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by March_f6 8y ago
I lived in NYC from 2009 to 2017 and can affirm the author's feeling. Over the span of those years, and mostly as of late, I saw many of my favorite brick and mortars (Rare books, sporting goods shops, record stores, etc.) all be repla
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by March_f6 8y ago
1.) How does the market (in the most basic sense) make any meaningful distinction between "owning" a rack of DVDs and "owning" a Netflix subscription? Both are transactions where resources are being traded for "good
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by March_f6 8y ago
This kind of thing goes back to '91 at least with Feist v. Rural when Feist copied telephone entries from Rural's directory which included some fakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v
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by March_f6 8y ago
Am pretty curious what kind of "skeleton key" ATM card they were using to access all of the ATM's as different users. Lest they were posed as repair people and stood there with a laptop hooked in.
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Ask HN: How many of the interns at your company are community college students?
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by March_f6 8y ago
Third-party doctrine has been on borrowed time since at least Jones with Sotomayor's concurrence. Carpenter paves the way for moving the legal understanding of privacy beyond narrow property talk and the ill-suited third-party doctrine
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by March_f6 9y ago
This is a nice article that highlights some of the more important case law regarding privacy while traveling in your car. But I think it's important to make clear that the Supreme Court has ruled that individuals do not have a reasonab
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by March_f6 9y ago
Unfortunately, the relevance of the Fourth Amendment to informational privacy within cyberspace has been significantly diminished due to piecemeal legislation that has not been internally consistent and a fundamental misinterpreting of what