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by ahoy 13y ago
This would actually be kind of amazing.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Reddit can ban whatever speech on their website they please, as can McDonalds, ACE Hardware, the local YMCA, and the local Green Party.
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by ahoy 13y ago
I like the universal basic income idea too, but haven't we gone through a similar crisis during the industrial revolution? How did we pull out of that? This is a genuine question, I'm a poor student of history.
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by ahoy 13y ago
People hold down professional, successful, white-collar careers for YEARS while doing cocaine. If it was legal why would anyone do crack?
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by ahoy 13y ago
Is trading shares of stock or oil futures any more legitimate? Or even terribly different?
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by ahoy 13y ago
Except for the orgy-porgy part. Still waiting on those to start up, Aldous.
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by ahoy 13y ago
What's most interesting about this, I think, is people's unwillingness to admit they don't know something. No one wants to look stupid, or ignorant, or uneducated, even in front of complete strangers. I'm certainly guilt
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by ahoy 13y ago
This is why I prefer a clearer distinction between 'geek' and 'nerd'. A geek cares a whole lot about the history of background characters in star wars, or about collecting limited-run Japanese mecha toys. A nerd cares a
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by ahoy 13y ago
Food coloring also reacts very badly with a small subset of the population, but we aren't banning M&M's
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by ahoy 13y ago
That isn't at all what he said. He said that if people stopped making music professionally, people would still make music. Professional, commercial music is a relatively recent phenomenon. Music wouldn't stop existing if it stoppe
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by ahoy 13y ago
I love Indian food, but I spent most of my time in Germany, where the spiciest thing to be found is the occasional sausage that accidentally brushed up against a pepper.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Lack of mexican food (or anything properly spicy) was the worst part of being in Europe.
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by ahoy 13y ago
I was also shocked by this. Surely your servers aren't worth almost twice what your cooks are! And with the "no-tips" model , I don't understand why pay wasn't more even.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Perhaps now, but having stable employees certainly saves a company the money required to hire and train new employees.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Simulated in the sense that it's a fictional work, not a documentary.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Every american employer asks for that, it's a legal thing I believe, and (supposedly) not related to hiring.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Plenty of people, if it also means their tax rate becomes lower. Or anyone who makes enough money that their tax burden is greater than the UBI.
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by ahoy 13y ago
I don't follow, do you care to elaborate? Are you suggesting that welfare programs are designed to be unpopular/to be stigmatizing?
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by ahoy 13y ago
This is correct. You'll also notice the word 'peoples' used when referring to multiple groups of people.
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by ahoy 13y ago
When I was 20, I looked back at realized 16-year-old me was a moron. At 24, I think the same thing about my 20-year-old self. I expect (and hope) that when I'm 28 I think I was an idiot at 24.
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by ahoy 13y ago
It works just fine, I think the complaint was that when one uses the scrollwheel on the mouse, the expectation is that the page will scroll. It's a cool demo page, but it feels weird.
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by ahoy 13y ago
Yeah, there's a very real difference between the collection of metadata and actually recording phone conversations and text messages. Both leave a bad taste in my mouth, but conflating the two is dangerous and dishonest.
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by ahoy 13y ago
I agree, I had to puzzle over that graph for a a minute or two before I realized what exactly was wrong with it.
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by ahoy 14y ago
Campaigns in America aren't publicly funded (that is, they aren't funded by tax money). The money to build this and to run the rest of Obama's campaign was raised by the campaign itself.
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by ahoy 14y ago
So the author's point is that debt is restrictive and stifling? And his advice is to just "eliminate your debt load"? Is this supposed to be satire?
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by ahoy 14y ago
The president was granted line-item veto by congress in the late 90s, when Clinton was in office. It got challenged in court and ruled unconstitutional.
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by ahoy 14y ago
The option to log in without requiring FB would be nice.
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by ahoy 14y ago
I didn't write my first line of code till I was 23. I agree with you whole heartedly.
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by ahoy 14y ago
This isn't remotely new information. I knew the brontosaurus was never a real thing as a kid.
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by ahoy 14y ago
Can you share a bit of information about what the application/interview process was like? I'm sort of in the same position, and I'm very interested in applying for summer or winter 13.

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