Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> People aren't asking for "income equality" they are asking for some level of humanity and democracy to be restored to our version of Capitalism, to strengthen that capitalism. That phrase could mean anything in practice
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Google published a paper about Borg (confidential until recently). Is that what you're referring to? http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html
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> Don't forget that many of these large companies paid off the politicians to ensure there were these loopholes to exploit in the first place. Which companies did that? Can you provide a link to more details?
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It's not necessarily ironic. Oracle (or specifically Sun, which Oracle purchased) chose to create and distribute OpenJDK. They didn't choose to create Google's competing implementation, which perhaps they view as fragmenting
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The poster said "and work every day", while you're saying "of course I did little else", so I don't think it's rubbish.
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To be fair, the proposal (if I've read it correctly) is not for all banks to have a 100% reserve requirements - but it's for commercial banks to have that requirement. The central bank can still create money on a fractional rese
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> It's cool if you want to run NoScript but if you think website should/would be made around that you have cognitive dissonance. I don't think that term "cognitive dissonance" means what you think it means. Also
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In asking for that specific test, she disclosed that she was a reporter conducting a surprise investigation into the company. That would reasonably freak out a company in Theranos' position, especially low level employees who might hav
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I agree with the GP on this one that most of those points are not shady. Point #1 is bogus: if you're already doing a venous draw then why do another separate test as well? That's just good sense. The other points don't espec
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No, I think that their use of existing technology is exactly the heart of the issue. They claim to have made a breakthrough in how blood tests are conducted that allows them to run a large set of blood tests on a tiny fingerprick blood samp
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It's a company with a high valuation, that's raised a lot of money and has been in the industry for 11 years (if I recall correctly) by now. Investigative journalism raised concerns that the company is a sham, which the company ex
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Enforcement Policy Statement on Deceptively Formatted Advertisements [pdf](ftc.gov)
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The section on reporting spam from Yahoo has a link to a form where you can submit spam reports from Yahoo: > Submit your report using our "Got Spam?" form if your email provider doesn't offer a spam reporting feature. The
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The numbers that we're talking about are not big. The number you specified: 641071800653367850802176606120792275422168080497001121 OK, so take a 64 bit integer. That's the typical size of an integer in a modern programming languag
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Please review the Hacker News guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Can you clarify regarding no way to kick it back to them? My understanding was that they operate typical feedback loops per RFC 6449 (though I haven't personally verified this). They also host a spam FAQ which has a link to a form to s
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It seems possible that there wasn't much initial due diligence nor a working product at the beginning: > Tim Draper, the venture capitalist, said Holmes, who was friends with his daughter growing up, is the first entrepreneur he kno
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The authors in their paper propose a different approach to citing articles, which is to cite the article name instead of the author. This criticism, while humorous, is off-base from what's actually being proposed. This is not an exampl
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What's ironic about his username? His name's Walter Bright.
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What's incorrect or out of date about it?
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Can you provide more detail? What was the option that allowed you to stay another year? > i ended up writing all docs myself What documents did you write? I'm curious and don't know much about immigration to the US.
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I'm not a lawyer but I would guess that there is no reason they need to change it. As long as they're not profiting from the likenesses of the celebrities they're emulating, then the paper is likely to be considered free spee
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> Arguably, Heller was decided wrongly Let's keep in mind the text of the Constitution: > [T]he right of the people to keep and bear Arms[] shall not be infringed. The foundation of this discussion is simple: that right shall not
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> The idea there is an individual right, is a novel invention in the last 30 years. In fact, it was never recognized until all-to-predictable 5-4 decision in 2010[1]. You are wrong about this. Please read District of Columbia v. Heller i
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You misunderstand the meaning of "militia". The term militia as used in the constitution essentially means the entire populace, all people capable of fighting. The US Supreme Court in Columbia v. Heller examines the meaning of the
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It was not the NRA that pushed for this interpretation. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, I recommend reading this US Supreme Court Case opinion in full: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.Z
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The US Supreme Court analyzed the meaning of the 2nd Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller: > [We] explained that “the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.” That definition com
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> I also wonder how well even armed citizens can defend themselves against a tyrannical government in this era of militarized police, modern weapons, and SWAT teams. Citizens have proven very capable of defending themselves in Iraq, Ukra
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The US Supreme Court analyzed the meaning of the text in District of Columbia v. Heller: > The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause and its operative clause. The former does not limit the latter gram
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I haven't voted on your comment, but here's what stands out to me: (1) It's not written in good style. People who care about how their ideas are received by others take the time to write properly, including capitalization and

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