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>> "...reflect a relatively homogeneous ethnic block with ties of common culture/history is more modern." On the contrary, the idea of "each tribe on its own territory, with perpetual low-intensity border disputes
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Many people in my area regard "3rd world immigrants have a right to come to America" as a proposition so self-evidently true that it could not possibly merit proof, argument, or thinking about. The epistemological dimension, along
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>> "The argument that the West should let in refugees is predicated on the West's history of colonialism and military adventures in the third world." Most of the time in the public discourse near me, under no circumstan
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Traditionally, American conglomerates flourish in high-interest-rate environments, such that the money emitted by profitable verticals can be used to subsidize growing/unprofitable verticals, all beneath a single centralized authority
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It's because this ticket price is a loss leader, of course. They're hoping to build ridership/mindshare now and then jack up the prices later.
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Realistically, the odds are vanishingly small that various security-themed agencies aren't already ingesting all the DNA data. This is a treasure trove in the eyes of a police state.
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I'm not disputing your main point, but I do have a relevant sidenote: Like most politically charged post-regime-change trials, the T&RC in South Africa is widely regarded by knowledgeable parties as mostly a sham/show trial. Y
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by avn2109 8y ago
In general I'd dispute that a comment regarding the possible failure modes/malfeasance of banks should be regarded as "low quality" on a thread about starting lots more banks. Also, I find the comment civil and made in
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by avn2109 9y ago
"640 K ought to be enough for anybody."
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by avn2109 9y ago
Feature request/idle question: is it in principle possible to build something like this: I want to see a stack-ranked-by-price list of all international flights on arbitrary dates from my home airport(s), possibly with some filtering s
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by avn2109 9y ago
This might be true and probably is, but I'm in general not the sort of person who is convinced by "We have more evidence but we're not showing it here, just believe us!" It just strikes me as very sloppy epistemology, an
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I agree that this is possible, but I too would like to see them explain precisely how they narrowed it down to a single workstation in a building full of workstations, and then how they mapped a workstation to a human. A comment downthread
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First, thanks for writing these long and detailed comments; I find them very interesting and probably a lot of other people do too. Second, you mention knowing the names of various comparable firms to RenTech. Can you name some of those her
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Fate of empires by John baggot glubb is the canonical treatment of this topic. It’s also really short and pithy and you can read it in an hour.
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>> "How do we prevent companies from such shoddy behavior?" You uninstall their apps, pronto.
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>> "...UI designers are just as fashion concious as clothes fashion designers..." UI designers in general would be fashion designers if they could; they mostly went to the same school, had the same interests, are influence
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Highlighting the line you read last makes it easier to recover your place in the text after scrolling down.
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Can you elaborate on what makes CT so good? My South African friends always say this but I can't get a straight answer out of them why it's so great.
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Actually one of the books written about that incident, "Command and Control," has a lot of interesting detail about the different types of warhead fusing schemes that were implemented at various times. I can't remember which
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but nearly every hotel/motel shares information with some subset of law enforcement themed agencies, regardless of what their "privacy policy" says on paper. e.g. Why do you have to write do
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The NYC subway system was mostly privately constructed by 3-ish private-ish organizations, and later joined under a state monopoly. You can still see vestigial underground signage that says stuff like "To IRT Lines" or "BMT L
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by avn2109 9y ago
The late 2014 rMBP's were the last of the good ones. After that they put the stupid "force touch" trackpads in them, which have slightly but perceptibly worse mechanical response to being clicked. I still miss my 2014's
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>> "Car usage will go up by an order of magnitude because a major cost of driving isn't the dollars, but the time." This is the Jevons paradox applied to time cost. Definitely true.
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The article mentions "handset providers" as a thing that General Motors doesn't want to be. I'd like to observe that "a handset provider" is the most valuable public company on earth.
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We too use Confluence and it's abundantly unbelievably awful. * Super bloated and laggy * Hard to get your data out/migrate to some rival system. Did your technical writers spend a bunch of time typing strings into a table using t
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There are many other possible interpretations of the data, besides the one you provide above. E.g. the cops can do lots of shady stuff that isn't a "use of force incident."
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http://helenair.com/news/local/sharpshooter-plan-on-target/a...
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It's blindingly obvious (to me) that the cops are just disabling the cameras before doing controversial things. I find it extremely surprising that nobody else seems to believe this theory. As another commented pointed out downthread,
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This problem is widespread in the urban areas of my rural, pro-firearms home state. They solved it by hiring sharpshooters to kill the deer with rifles at night within city limits. It worked really well and they gave a ton of meat to the fo
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This is Yabla (almost)

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