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by beatpanda 10y ago
Not true. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/20/east-porterv...
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by beatpanda 10y ago
I would like to see some journalism on how much groundwater has been replenished from this year's rainfall. Reveal did excellent work during the drought on this subject. https://www.revealnews.org/article/9-soberin
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by beatpanda 10y ago
One good year does not erase the structural problems facing California in the coming years due to climate change and poor water management. I really hope that we don't take our eye off the ball because of this.
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by beatpanda 10y ago
That depends on whose figures you use. According to the CIA, income inequality is higher in the U.S. That's also a figure for the entire country, not within the cities where these bike share companies operate, and I would guess that th
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by beatpanda 10y ago
In the case of the US per capita GDP just means that we are a country containing many rich people, not a rich country. Income inequality is extreme. When the government or private industry refuses to redistribute money downward, poor people
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by beatpanda 10y ago
So you don't have a problem with ICE agents lying to get into people's homes, so they can take people away at gunpoint, breaking families apart and turning children (frequently U.S. citizens) into orphans, and keeping people in de
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by beatpanda 10y ago
> I guess I could never justify calling someone a "monster" based solely upon their political leanings. Read: "My safety has never been at risk because of the consequences of someone's political leanings and have eith
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by beatpanda 10y ago
Why is it ridiculous to call half of U.S. voters (or roughly 20-something percent of the U.S. population) "monsters"? Because it's a lot of people? Who cares? They voted to literally send armed paramilitary troops into my nei
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by beatpanda 10y ago
More like this, please, from everyone. God bless you for doing this.
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by beatpanda 10y ago
One time, instead of a cover letter, I built a feature I thought should exist for a product the company I was applying for made. It made a big impression on one of the engineers who eventually voted up or down on my getting hired and I got
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by beatpanda 10y ago
Why is there a "long term future" fund addressing the theoretical risk of AI but not the very well understood and documented future risks of climate change?
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by beatpanda 10y ago
You could just admit you didn't read it that carefully and move on. This article appears here because of a larger political context, which is explicitly mentioned in the article. My comment is relevant for this reason. I'm sorry y
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by beatpanda 10y ago
From the article: The campaign is like few before it in France, because of the looming question of whether the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, will do the once-unthinkable, and win. She has already pushed the discourse rightward and mad
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by beatpanda 10y ago
This article is being published at this time in part because an anti-immigrant politician is leading in the polls in France, as they are in many Western democracies. All of their platforms always include some element of using police violenc
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by beatpanda 10y ago
I understand the frustration at the core of this article, and it's the reason why I live in a bigger city. It's only in bigger cities in America that you can find institutions like a local butcher or bakery that you can walk to. I
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by beatpanda 10y ago
How long until access to the open internet costs extra?
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by beatpanda 10y ago
Oh geez [shuffles papers, looks at watch] is it time to start denigrating the next generation already?
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by beatpanda 10y ago
What you're talking about is called an "editor", and web utopians spent the last decade or so screeching about how they're all autocratic gatekeepers that should be sent to the guillotine. It was a bad idea. We should ha
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by beatpanda 10y ago
This is what California always does. We forget about what happens in a drought as soon as the rain comes, and as soon as the rain comes, we realize we forgot about what happened the last time it flooded. After the catastrophe is already upo
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by beatpanda 10y ago
I don't think they're going about this the right way. The first step to identifying 'fake news' (even in NYT or WSJ!) is to be able to pull out attributions from the source text. This would give you some idea of where th
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by beatpanda 10y ago
At what point do we start holding people accountable then? Trump, so far, has done exactly what he said he would do. Are we supposed to believe the people who voted for him simply weren't listening?
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by beatpanda 10y ago
Yet Peter Thiel is still a YC partner. It's nice that Sam is speaking up but he needs to display some actual backbone here. Words are not enough.
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by beatpanda 10y ago
"Lessons learned under former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a Conservative who was accused of muzzling scientists during his term, initially energized a "race" to save the U.S. government's climate data. Activi
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by beatpanda 10y ago
Perhaps because black girls are underrepresented among the population of kids learning to code?
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by beatpanda 10y ago
No, it's still false when you count viewership. This has been covered by countless news organizations. You are making a mistake by imagining that these people are operating in good faith.
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by beatpanda 10y ago
How did you just read a long list of young entrepreneurs who were enabled and encouraged to start businesses because of having their healthcare covered, and you're still writing dumb shit like "GET A JOB!!"?
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by beatpanda 10y ago
All I want is for everyone who complains on Hacker News about living in San Francisco or in the Bay Area to be able to live wherever their heart desires and keep their jobs. I think that would fix everything. Can we all resolve to make that
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by beatpanda 10y ago
1) Yes 2) Whoever made the decision to implement the feature or worked on it with full knowledge of what it was for
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I have tried to order food there three times in SF and was so creeped out I had to walk away.
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by beatpanda 10y ago
And if this were a normal election we would have time for genteel debate about this subject, but currently, the President-elect is preparing a plan to send armed paramilitary troops into neighborhoods like mine to try to forcibly remove 11

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