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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...pledging to push for campaign finance reform[3]..." Pardon my cynicism, but I can't even see the mirrors because the smoke is so thick.
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It really does seem to me like the only possible sane strategy, on a systems level, is to raise the cost of operating a private automobile in Manhattan and use the revenue to subsidize or build more trains. Every other approach leads to Rob
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>> "...unfairly misuse their position as gatekeepers of the Apple ecosystem..." The point of building the Apple ecosystem was to exploit their position as its gatekeeper. This is the expected result. I would never expect any
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by avn2109 12y ago
What you say is true: The examples of North Korea, the USSR, and Cuba don't prove that Communism sucks. But after enough failed examples, with no successes, we start to get pretty suspicious.
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by avn2109 12y ago
And also associated with your probably-unique 150 degree of freedom browser fingerprint.
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I am neither laughing nor screaming, but rather praying for nuclear desal.
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>> "You can't de-sprawl Southern California as a whole..." Wait till the key parameters of our present socioeconomic order are perturbed. A lot of ducks have to line up in a row for suburbs to work at LA scale, and some
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>> "...the Union Square area." The Union Squarea?
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Aldridge's Law
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Do you call Retina/High DPI support not a killer feature? If you care about typography, the video output of 10.4 feels like the stone age.
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Wait I thought it was minimum interstitial spaces between conductive cage elements proportional to lambda.
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by avn2109 12y ago
I too would like to know this.
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Yup, I was pretty aggressively recruited to do a PhD there from an American school, too.
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Arms race? The entertainment industry has cantered out onto the jousting pitch with their horse and lance. Meanwhile illegal distribution is calibrating the laser cannons in their orbital battle station and dispatching their aircraft carrie
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Preach.
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Very, very tough.
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Still pretty much the best OSX.
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And they've had that feature for years.
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Can we please, please not make HN into a millennial-style* participation-trophy-giving, we're-all-winners zone of empty positive spin, with neither negative feedback nor brutal honesty? It's starting to feel like we're trendi
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The user experience and interface will still suck unbelievably.
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>> "...easy to verify with a disassembler." Have to laugh at this, because only on HN is the use of a disassembler considered "easy." True story, I program computers for a living, and I have literally no idea how t
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Would you mind elaborating on this or posting some links with more evidence for this?" I'm not the GP, but I suspect api has in mind something like this [0]. The money quote from that article is this: "At that
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That and that they want you to buy more ink.
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>> "...cattle occupy the same ecological niche as the bison did 150 years ago, with a similar environmental impact..." Montana boy here. Even if I concede for purposes of argument that cattle and bison are ecologically inter
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Or rather, the military is the state, always has been, always will be. It just appears to be a secondary, nested construct because often it outsources many of its non-core competencies to a civil bureaucracy. For example, you can destroy
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>> "...and be able to press all three pedals at once..." Interestingly, the rally heritage of the 80's Audi engineering org was such that even their unmistakably family-friendly models had unusual, competition-inspired
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>> "...what should your default zone be?" My default zone should be a team office with a transparent door that shuts (preferably a big, heavy door, so people are subconsciously incentived to only bother opening it if they re
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+1 for Coleridge, especially the first stanza of Kubla Khan [0]. Also, I'm surprised to see nobody here recommending A.E. Houseman. His Reveille is my favorite poem: ... Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying: Hear the drums of morning
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>> "The economy needs to grow as quickly as the population..." In countries with declining populations, ought the economy to contract?
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Honest question, was that ever in doubt by any thinking person? The article here claims a _former CIA director_ founded it.

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