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You can't compare the OP's point, that a tiered internet service would hurt small businesses doing business OVER the internet, to potential "new innovators" in the ISP space being burdened by regulations. That's an
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An HN reader who doubled their money on a house in California can find a tax guy.
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I can't research this at the moment but a couple obvious explanations: - The USA is massive compared to every first-world nation (in the West) in terms of size / population / schools. I'd be shocked if a place like Swede
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We're not at the highest point (compared to 1920s) but might be by 2023. We're a very young nation of immigrants, so I find it odd that you wouldn't retroactively apply the grievances about cultural shifts to all the generati
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Not OP but as someone familiar with BTC tech / history I still haven't discovered any real use for it. As in, issues 99% of people in first-world countries have with fiat that it solves, rather than exacerbate (let alone the other
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SSB?
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I wouldn't write something in QT nowadays, mostly for shallow reasons.. it just feels silly to have that bubbly interface running on anything past Win XP.
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Man I dunno about giving weird Rorschach monologues in general, but if you're really compelled to.. at least don't punctuate it with an XKCD.
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I'm the same way. Back when I used to have summer breaks (highschool / college if I didn't have a part-time gig) my days would start 2 hours later every day. So I'd wake up at 8, then 10, then 12... until I was fully noc
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This will certainly happen again. AR/VR, AI, and drone proliferation, and (fully) self driving cars are a handful that immediately come to mind without really thinking, which are due to really mature in the next 5-10 years.
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Have you found a concise portal / wiki for FOIA resources, information, and tools? I would always find myself tripping on local laws or strange requirements from individual agencies. I remember when the FBI said they would close the el
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I think a simple test for how innocent the UI logging is would be: does it get uploaded all the time or logged locally until a crash happens? If a company is hitting an external API with every interaction, I'm guessing it's for ga
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That $500 DSLR can definitely do some impressive work, but the issue is in how it processes the images. A DSLR will read the sensor progressively, from top to bottom. So if an image changes from the top of the frame to the bottom (if the ca
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Flights and concerts are entirely different industries, so this is a silly comparison. These issues don't have perfect Econ 101 answers. Artists can't just play more shows as touring is pretty demanding, and charging more means on
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It's pure rent seeking, it creates no value except for much wealthier people who don't want to remember when tickets go on sale.
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I agree other countries are worse but the US government makes things up and lies constantly. Obama wasn't perfect, but I don't think it's partisan to point out how Trump's admin is utterly blatant in this, comically so.
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This person is blowing up the net neutrality thread with the same insanity.
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None of what you're describing really has anything to do with net neutrality. And getting rid of net neutrality would only weaken alternative outlets. I'm thinking the problem you had with these services might have been your own f
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> the US Government, as a policy, never lies to the American press I'm sorry.. what?
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Complaining that people aren't paying attention to a sorting paper is kinda weird and makes people take you less seriously. Try to write a blog post on Medium that breaks it down and submit it that way.
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Doesn't Drive also forbid encryption, though?
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Speech is an action, I'm not sure why that isn't obvious. Your denial of it, and the weird generalizations you're making, make me think you're not actually open to rethinking any of this. Oh well.
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I don't follow Shkreli closely but him sexually harassing journalist Lauren Duca (he still continues to do this: "when I'm acquitted, I'm going to fuck Lauren Duca") makes him very much not a "man of the people
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All I need to look at is his previous (and continued) harassment of Lauren Duca to know he's not just an "intelligent guy doing no harm". He's not completely evil but he does very bad things intentionally.
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Shkreli knowingly played into this in full, so he's not exactly a victim when he managed his fame playing a "heel".
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Not a terrible point but it's worth considering that this was a 70-year-old drug. It's not like Shkreli put the money into the research in the first place, and he certainly profited personally. (Not sure why anyone owns the "
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Currently developing a different take on this same concept, but using hand-modeled voxel shapes in place of sprites. Haven't posted any significant updates in a while but progress is steady; just added cell-shading outlines to sprites
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The author of that quote clearly wasn't describing her fears that she had been hired only because of affirmative action, but the claims about her innate inabilities, however slight.
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"Diminished prospects of the world at large" more accurately describes the world after your post, not saving millions of lives. This is what happens when you either have no empathy in your worldview or an extreme racial bias.
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I can think of plenty of rooms I could walk into right now (or throughout history) and not have anyone agree with me on something I care about. I don't consider this a problem, in most of those scenarios. I'd recommend you take yo

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