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by afpx 7y ago
Oh, you’re not American? Kind of overstepping a little.
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by afpx 7y ago
Reading a bunch of random tech articles makes someone capable of designing systems, now? I don’t think so. Without years of hands-on experience, the odds are that they’ll just design a pile of mud. Things like this are reasons why tech inte
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by afpx 7y ago
It’s a lot. But, in comparison to how many people die in a year? No, not really. Plus, the original topic is about foreign threats, not domestic.
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by afpx 7y ago
I completely agree. And, I have sincere respect for your efforts. I hope your actions motivate more to do the same. I’m not blind to the issues. I am just happy that I was born into a country like the USA. I could have had much, much worse
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by afpx 7y ago
Have you ever contacted your federal representatives? Who is your representative? I’ll contact them for you.
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by afpx 7y ago
None of those meet the “Major” criteria.
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by afpx 7y ago
Luckily, everyone wants their personal freedoms and few people want to take others’ freedoms away [1]. So, it comes down to our personal duty (or will) to oversee our government. Unfortunately, that’s hard to do electronically. I hope my do
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by afpx 7y ago
That seems like hyperbole to me. Remember, we live in a republican democracy. Yes, it works slowly (by design). But, it works. At least we don’t have a totalitarian state to deal with. I used to be skeptical of this stuff, too. Then, we had
939.
by afpx 7y ago
Amazon must have a good reason for tolerating the counterfeits for this long. My hunch is that they hope to use it as leverage to get brands to use them as their exclusive online sales channel. The brands know these counterfeit products are
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by afpx 7y ago
What would happen if there was an almost 100% estate tax (assuming that loopholes could be controlled)? Would it be all that bad?
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by afpx 8y ago
There’s David Hall’s Mormon utopia in Vermont: http://www.newvistasfoundation.org/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-newvistas-mormon-uto... He apparently has had to pause the project because of
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by afpx 8y ago
I used to love polytopia. But, once one figures out how to win, it loses playability. But, totally worth the $5 or whatever I paid.
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by afpx 8y ago
How much innovative, disruptive tech has never become reality because powerful tech companies acquihires all of their smartest competitors and gives them cushy jobs?
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by afpx 8y ago
So, a GUID is not actually a UUID? The article refers to endians, but I don't see endian referenced in the UUID spec (rfc4122).
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by afpx 8y ago
Photos of Shanghai that show up in western media never seem to show much traffic. Are they staged, or is there really very little traffic there? If so, how does a city of 25 million not have traffic?
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by afpx 8y ago
Even though I still enjoy Scala, the author’s perspective is valid. However, some of his pain could be eased by using Gradle instead of sbt and IntelliJ as an IDE. The core frustrations that my team has are with the flexibility it provides
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by afpx 8y ago
What do you recommend if it requires 2 months to get an appointment with a different specialist?
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by afpx 8y ago
That you even ask that question shows how segregated we’ve become. By the way, I also grew up poor - as in, growing up in the US with an outhouse poor. And, now I’m rich. And, yes, I hear that all the time.
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by afpx 8y ago
Sure, and many rich do say, “I hate the poor.” The difference is that the rich are actually able to fuck over the poor. And, they often blatantly do so.
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by afpx 8y ago
Dang, are you able to report statistics on how many accounts have been banned or considered suspicious? I don’t doubt that HN takes this issue very seriously. But, it would be useful to some of us to see how often astroturfing actually happ
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by afpx 8y ago
Some of us do it out of principle. I have no disillusions about its impact. For all the plastic I recycle, I know there’s an invisible supply chain of waste that makes my actions almost meaningless. Yet, I do it anyway, because it’s a good
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by afpx 8y ago
I hope you don’t believe that about all art. Art is one of the pillars of Homo Sapien behavior, and it is found pretty much anywhere human settlements are found. I worry that many of us are becoming too distracted with life, logistics, and
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by afpx 8y ago
The paintings remind me of Francis Bacon’s works from the 60s https://www.francis-bacon.com/artworks/paintings/1960s
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by afpx 8y ago
I'm generally not a fan of regulation. But lately, I've been changing my opinion on that. I don't see how we can all play in the economy game without having a set of unambiguous rules and referees to enforce them. Regulations
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by afpx 8y ago
I’d say foreign policy is complicated, but that’s an understatement. For one thing, US foreign policy often encourages trade with non-democratic countries because strong evidence shows that trade prevents wars. It also produces an educated
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by afpx 8y ago
So, why would sleep be benefitial to non-nocturnal animals? That is, I think the parent is saying that sleep must be very important because almost all animals sleep. If sleep wasn’t very important, a lot more animals wouldn’t sleep.
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by afpx 8y ago
“Mathematical Objects”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_object
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by afpx 8y ago
I’ll admit that I’m probably biased, and I haven’t had enough experience living outside of the US to have gained a different perspective. But, now I’m curious. Which countries are currently and historically known for being tolerant and acce
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by afpx 8y ago
It’s never an easy life to be a radical against the establishment. But, there’s plenty of tolerance for such behavior (especially if the behavior is non-violent). Even during 50s. McCarthyism was a knee jerk reaction to the Cold War. And, i
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by afpx 8y ago
What do you mean by soft punishment? The United States is a great place to be a dissident. Dissident behavior is kind of expected, and historically, they’ve been iconified.

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