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by NoPiece 13y ago
I mostly agree, but one thing I saw was multiple 7 year olds in my kids' kindergarten classes. They were "red shirted" by their parents because after reading Outliers they thought it would give them an advantage. I think it
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by NoPiece 13y ago
It does help potential entrepreneurs with preexisting conditions. But it hurts potential healthy entrepreneurs whose rates have skyrocketed. So it is unclear if there is an overall net benefit, and the article doesn't provide any evide
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Esch state draws its own districts, so there were 50 different "party in power" scenarios in 2010. Democrats in California gerrymandered themselves into a super majority. In Texas Republicans drew themselves some very safe distric
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by NoPiece 13y ago
According to numerous articles, food stamps (SNAP) aren't affected by the shutdown. School lunches and breakfasts would continue to be served, and food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, would con
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by NoPiece 13y ago
That's clearly true. But if you are like me and tend to have dozens of tabs open, the favicon change makes scanning for Gmail a lot harder which is annoying. That it is also ugly is adding insult to injury.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I am with you, but I am a PC gaming fan, not necessarily a Windows gaming fan. WHat I like about this is not the ability to put a Steambox into my living room, but to replace windows with SteamOS on my PC.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I use Yahoo and Gmail. Which is better is subjective depending on how you like to use email. I prefer Yahoo, mainly for the same reason the OP mentions about the size of compose. Yahoo compose gives you almost the full screen, in its own ta
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by NoPiece 13y ago
How can we know what they are testing for? Maybe they are optimizing for revenue and not how happy or distracted an email author is.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Here is a New York Times article on gmail from 2004 discussing the privacy issues around google scanning email content. It is a controversy that came and went, so I can imagine people who were young and not using email at the time missing i
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I'm not talking about Github the app/code, but the contents of Github.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I agree with you about patents, but overall, I don't things are worse or less open now. Visicalc wasn't patented, but it was a commercial, $99, closed source product. The open source movement is much bigger and stronger now. Linux
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by NoPiece 13y ago
There is also a century long precedent of unpaid internships, apprenticeships, etc.. This is a recent change in the workplace. I find it very odd, and restrictive that I can't work for free.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Indeed, AMD announced their first 5ghz CPU in June at E3. http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-unleashes-201... It is for sale now at Newegg for $699. 4.7ghz with 5ghz turbo. http://www.n
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Ya I have data, here is the current debt: $16,744,814,606,837.32 Or how about a quotations from our president: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You are arguing that the US has seatbelts and can survive a car crash, while Detroit gets ejected through the windshield. I'm saying, stop recklessly speeding down the highway like Detroit, because we're better off avoiding the ca
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Here is a Harvard economist drawing lessons from Detroit: http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_entrepreneurs.html
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You have a strong political opinion, and an inflated sense of authority. That smells like youth, so I forgive you for it. I promise when you're older you'll look back and be embarrassed at claiming to be entitled to make authorita
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The problem with Detroit is unsustainable debt. Depopulation is just one of many contributing factors. The depopulation has been slow, very long term, and predictable. The debt could have been avoided by scaling back spending as the the pop
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The US problem is worse than Detroit's, because Detroit can escape via bankruptcy and the US can't. Fixing the debt by printing money and the resulting inflation and unemployment would be far more disruptive to the US than the ban
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I think it is way too early to call a trend. And to the degree cities are growing just barely faster than suburbs (.2%) for the last couple years, that can largely be explained by the housing bubble and recession. While there is some data s
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I think the analogy is useful, because the financial problem has some of same roots. That the federal government has more solutions available to it doesn't excuse following the same path. It's useful to to look at Detroit to try a
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I was also very confused the first time a drove across without the toll collectors. It felt like I was doing something wrong, and was going to end getting a ticket. Do you know if the person you borrowed the car from got a bill? I'm cu
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Since earlier this year, they are taking an alternate approach with the Golden Gate bridge, and have switched to electronic only tolls. So either you have fastrak, or when you drive across they photograph your license plate and mail you a b
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Speaking to the portable gaming space, I'd also add that a big part of games is the controls. Phones don't have a d-pad and buttons (or analog sticks, etc..). That pretty much makes games like Super Mario Brothers impossible. You
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by NoPiece 13y ago
It is dishonest to ignore it, and it is dishonest to hold it up as representative.
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There are 46 indefinite detainees at Guantanamo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#D... There are 200,000 in North Korean political prison camps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The point isn't whether they are good ideas, but to illustrate that perception of risk really has changed. So much so that the anti-risk mentality has been codified. No kids wore helmets 30 years, now they have to by law. I'm just
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by NoPiece 13y ago
There are numerous laws that enforce the no risk world on parents. These are things I did as a kid that are now illegal: Rode in the back of a pick up truck Rode a bike without a helmet Sat in the front seat of a car before I was 8 years ol
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You have one investigator commenting on preliminary evidence, but the actual commission investigating not backing her up. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188 Carla Del Ponte told Swiss TV that there w
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The Le Monde article makes a strong case that there have been previous chemical attacks by the Syrian Goverment. http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/05/27/chemi... Can you share a link

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