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How will this affect the illegal smuggling operations into the US? Probably not at all. If the US legalizes drugs that would bankrupt the drug cartels in Mexico.
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I don't think he was being rude. I think it's a legitimate point, this is a major motion picture, for which I've seen adds on national TV god only knows how many times. Not that any geek needs adds to know this movie is theaters now. How co
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Using the world "eulogy" makes me very uncomfortable.
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You know what struck me about this? It was really well written. Not the greatest of ideas or observations, but I can't recall the last time I red something on the internet that was this well written!
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I could have sworn the parasite theory is very old. I even recall genetic studies of human head and pubic lice vs. ape and gorilla lice. The genetic history of the lice matched nicely with our hair loss genes. And I have no trouble believin
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Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin 10 Sex Tips To Drive Your Man Crazy Jon And Kate What Now Bat Boy Born in Boise Subscribe to HN and get headlines just like the ones on the magazine rack in the checkout isle of the grocery store!
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I think most people start companies to gain freedom and independence. Money does not automatically make you extraordinary, millionaires are fairly ordinary.
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Money is security, control, power and yes even social acceptance in very real non-metaphorical terms. Saying that may be cynical but it's reality.
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There is a glut of credit in the world. Free trade and huge pools of untapped labor in the developing world have kept inflation in consumer goods and wages to a minimum. Not so when it comes to investments. There are thousands of hedge fund
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When you're a teen you're either extremely idealistic and deeply troubled or extremely idealistic and happy, either way exciting times. Your 20s are a weird transitional period between that and adulthood. Your 30s, your adulthood, for the w
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I've heard tell that physicists had been claiming freak waves are eminently possible, the math clearly shows it. That sailors had been claiming they had witnessed and/or experienced such freak waves. But oceanographers were doubtful and tha
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What this article is saying is that in the future, I'm guessing 2 to 5 years, China could see a credit bubble and misguided investments. If you're an economist this is obvious. And as the article states, the Chinese leadership knows it as w
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It occurs to me that 3rd places in the old world may have existed in large part due to market inefficiencies. A combination of local monopolies and low overhead. Some element of love of the game, much like OS software, might have also playe
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Come on people, "Politics" is right in the title!
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In addition to corporations we also have humans. Breaking news, 100% of murderers are human!
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The patient allegedly had no contact with bush meat, but got it from someone who did. Am I the only one concerned that sooner or later an entirely different virus will come out of bush meat and that one will be airborne? It's pure luck HIV
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I seriously doubt any cavemen or any human other then modern man, ever had regular access to THIS much animal protein and fat. During peak times, migratory season, sure, but not all the time. And I don't think the diet as described, most ca
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Darn, I used to think of Switzerland as the exception to the ever advancing big brother state. Can anyone think of a free country left in the world? Not some crazy idealist absolute of freedom, but even what just the US had not too long a
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I'm not a fan of Java or .NET but I bet you a good Java developer will be able to grok PHP.
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Do you know what hyper inflation does to banks?
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Elephants and Humans aren't aquatic.
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but were likely used to wading in shallow pools and similar bodies of water That's not disputed. There's food in them shallow pools and there's plentiful evidence of people eating tons of shellfish etc, all around the world. This is also
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The cost of education TODAY is essentially zero. There's a huge amount of knowledge in the public domain, and libraries aren't expensive, and neither are computers, and then there's also the internet. But you don't go to college for the edu
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What happens when your gas station needs fewer employees because everything involved in pumping and payment is automated (as many are in California). What happens when checkouts are all automated (Starting to Happen in Home Depot, Walmart,
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The HN-worthiness of this article aside, I continue to be amazed just how quickly and how far anyone who posits the question is down voted. It's surprising how all the diverse interests here share such an extreme intolerance for this meta d
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The act of discovery was not complete for him until he had taught it to someone else. That's an amazing trait. As an aide, to get a more complete view of what Thinking Machines was don't miss this: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinkin
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Not against GM food in general, but against some specific examples of who's doing it today: More here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=706752
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Chemical engineers? I mean if you define: Engineering == blueprints that's fine, but it's an awfully narrow definition.
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They certainly have the brain power required, but India is still figuring out how to feed its multitudes. America also has hungry people, look around the Appalachians. Having an underclass does not mean you can't go to the moon. Perhaps i
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Ha ha ha, lets all point and laugh at the postmodernists. Or we could just ignore them.
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