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by bmelton 8y ago
> but why not a standard looking body instead of some weird buggy space-age thing? I think they're still counting on the signaling. It's said that the Prius was bought by so many in large part because it looked so goofy, in t
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by bmelton 8y ago
Despite the poor media framing, Trump's "task force" is a response to that same fingerprinting snafu, and is predicated on the suspicion that some of these naturalized citizenships were improvidently granted. https:/&#x
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by bmelton 8y ago
Not to repeat myself, but this is similar to an action taken by the Obama administration. https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/politics/us-citizens-deported...
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by bmelton 8y ago
> for the first time since this was done during the second Red Scare The Obama administration also sought out citizens for potential denaturalization when it was revealed that some of the fingerprint records they were naturalized under m
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by bmelton 8y ago
Oh. Thanks for the correction!
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by bmelton 8y ago
> For example, the person who figured out how to heat food with microwaves (and created the first microwave) didn't set out to do so, he discovered that the chocolate bar in his front pocket melted while working on magnetrons. Willi
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by bmelton 8y ago
Presently, the Chargers and Rams are sharing the old Coliseum stadium, similar to how the New York Giants and New York Jets share a stadium in New Jersey.
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by bmelton 8y ago
I may be reading it wrong, but do you perhaps mean the following 'weekly' routine? If you're honestly doing 10.5 hours of exercise per day, then consider me amazed, but 4 hours of swimming per day seems nigh impossible for a
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by bmelton 8y ago
Considering that Google is a subset of anyone, I have to assume that it is. If you consider Google being able to track something as a negative, then Google+n would be at last +n negative.
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by bmelton 8y ago
Agreed. Similarly, when I learned of the Indian technique of stepwall evaporative cooling, I was shocked that something so misleadingly simple could have been derived so long ago. https://www.treehugger.com/green-architectur
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by bmelton 8y ago
The TLDR answer is that he doesn't believe that the constitution gives the federal government as much authority as they exercise. I'm mobile, so I'll try to make this brief, but in _Sessions_, for example, he expressed concer
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by bmelton 8y ago
He got a pretty good smearing done on his character by the media during his confirmation hearings. That, plus the fact that his name will always be associated with Trump, is probably enough for most people. The irony there is that there&#x
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by bmelton 8y ago
I started to downvote you on your "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but the more I read, the more I felt that I was just downvoting on biases. Regardless, I don't believe there's room for that kind of negativity on HN toward r
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by bmelton 8y ago
Agreed, and in a hypothetical universe where Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion and 4 justices signed on to his take, we would have even better protections against _Smith_ type privacy infringements than what this current decision might off
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by bmelton 8y ago
Indeed. It's almost fairer to categorize this as a 5-3-1 decision. Gorsuch tricks you into nodding along with his dissent, which reads very much like a concurrence holding _Katz_ over _Smith_, etc, until bam, there's a dissent.
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by bmelton 8y ago
Grants, partial and full-ride scholarships, community colleges, etc. will all still exist, but while it will definitely limit the number of people taking out expensive loans to get advanced degrees for low-paying jobs, it probably would not
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by bmelton 8y ago
Is that true of the +4 zip codes as well?
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by bmelton 8y ago
> if there's a revenue threshold bake it into the law There's no real winning there either. If you bake the threshold into the law, some companies may game the system such that, if the cost of total compliance is x, and we&#x2
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by bmelton 8y ago
> Why can't there be a way to get a regular, no frills coffee without waiting for tens of minutes? McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, and hell, even Starbucks offers that if you order ahead with their app and just pick it up when you g
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by bmelton 8y ago
Indeed it is. I can't thank you enough!
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If one side attributes too much to climate change, and the other side too little, then they are both wrong, and there's no benefit to favoring one side as being right in spirit while they are wrong in fact.
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by bmelton 8y ago
I dunno who gets a loan for $2.55 billion without showing sizable assets... somewhere, but the fact that the money is in separate accounts reminds me of a story. There was a car-maker (I wish I could remember who -- I want to say Audi, but
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by bmelton 8y ago
The common complaint against "new" vehicles and their drive-by-wire systems is that they functionally act as inertial compensators, dampening road feel. If the roads were perfect, you wouldn't necessarily want them (day to da
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by bmelton 8y ago
I think it depends on what you consider a worthy market -- My daughter, 16, doesn't know a single friend who doesn't have a Discord account. Moreover, the 'group chat' in subreddits is, more often than not, powered by D
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by bmelton 8y ago
> It's hard to prove these things, but they only peripherally imply the idea of 'ghost workers'. https://jalopnik.com/ill-be-damned-feds-indict-new-york-city... That doesn't prove all of the allegati
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by bmelton 8y ago
Sources: * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... * https://jalopnik.com/heres-the-most-damning-report-yet-on-wh... * https://www.washingtontimes.com&
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by bmelton 8y ago
I definitely agree that in this case, the company is playing dirty. One-click opt-in, 338 click opt-out is downright malicious. I just don't think it's representative of everybody, or that one data point makes the assertion comp
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by bmelton 8y ago
> consider the current state of the woefully unfunded NYC subway Everything I've read about the NYC Subway system indicates that it's funded more than adequately, but due to mismanagement, corruption, and cronyism, the funds wa
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by bmelton 8y ago
> 338 clicks taught me a very important lesson. Whenever someone says: "We care about your privacy." you know they don’t care about you at all. It’s just deception Probably I'm just picking a nit here, but since is the cru
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by bmelton 8y ago
I haven't spent much time with Joyce past Dubliners, but I've spent a great deal of time with Kerouac, and particularly "On the Road". I don't think it takes a special person to enjoy, but it does require a particul

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