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by bmelton 10y ago
As much as I hate responding to rhetoric with rhetoric, the simple fact of the matter is that there are guns, and if we're being honest with ourselves, there always will be. The number of them might wax or wane, but the very idea of
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"Yes, Snapchat reached out to us for a particularly good ad spot at a discounted price" would be highly interesting. "Snapchat? Do they accept advertising?" would be quite illuminating as to the situation at hand. The N
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For those who weren't paying attention during the time this occurred (you can hardly be faulted) -- this is perhaps the best summation of how I recall it. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07&#x2
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Note that "Finish shit on time" is almost a subset of "being able to estimate well". Having mentored and hired more than a few junior devs, if I could stress ONE thing to make them better developers, it would be to focu
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I originally heard it while watching CSPAN, but I'm glad to be able to find a source that at least confirms the high points: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/17...
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Not for nothing, but most people of that mindset don't believe that the government is inherently bad, but that government powers should be closely and judiciously kept to a minimum to prevent it being used for bad. There's a diffe
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> What seems to be mostly adolescents continually scream 'censorship' without knowing the meaning of the word. The meaning of the word, according to Wikipedia: Censorship is the suppression of free speech, public communication
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Sell it to whom? Your neighbors? In a lot of municipalities, there's no such thing as "selling it when it's expensive" because the only customer is the utility, and the utility is only paying wholesale rate from solar
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Agreed. What strikes me as perhaps noteworthy is that I can remember when Hyundai started selling cars in the United States, and it took quite awhile (from memory, until the early 2000s) before anyone was taking them seriously. Meanwhile,
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At a federal level, they wouldn't need to provide a good reason. Political affiliation is not a protected class, and therefore has no protections against at-will termination. This may vary state by state, depending on what their laws
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> By law, all health insurance policies are required to provide this coverage. Those companies can still be vocally against abortion, but they still have to comply with the law. Not for nothing, but as it shook out, Hobby Lobby (one of t
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by bmelton 10y ago
Probably I mis-remembered and my slapdash attempt at finding a source was in error (which makes twice in two days for me, embarrassingly.) I remember of the studies perhaps better than I remember the studies, but the gist is that there&#x27
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Not good enough at absorbing impact, ergo, deemed unsafe[1]. Last I recall, the recommendation was to replace it with wood chips, but I think even that's been superseded to be rubber chips instead, which also happen to be considerably
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That is of course a use case, but the stated use case is nearly the opposite. > [Using this data,] City leaders and community groups could then facilitate participation from residents in decisions that affect their families and neighbo
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Sure. There are plenty of white gun owners who do the same. The NRA doesn't have a lock on any particular demographic other than the obvious one, which is anyone who is willing to prioritize gun rights as their #1 issue. This includ
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I don't disagree with much that you've said at all. That said, when has "let's fix socio-economic disparity" been seriously considered by our legislature for anything? It doesn't fit into a soundbite, and is
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Indeed. Thanks for the correction. The science, as I understand it, is that just being cold, but not to the point of shivering, will help boost your metabolism if you're performing exercise, while just being cold while idle will burn
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"Being cold" does not have any particular caloric advantage until and unless you are cold enough to shiver. Shivering, as it happens, is a fantastic way to burn calories, and 15 minutes of shivering is equivalent to approximately
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> I can understand why a girl would rather have a different environment to start out in. So can I, which is why I make no value judgements on those people who prefer exclusiveness to inclusiveness. That said, I'd much prefer to tea
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> But the NRA has a long history of agitating for harsh sentencing and prison construction I don't mean to defend the NRA here -- as you'll see from my other comments while I recognize and appreciate the stated role they perfor
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To keep from repeating myself, I'm going to link to another comment I just made -- but I prefer the SAF to the NRA. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634802 https://www.saf.org/
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> there isn't an alternative organization that is working to protect second amendment rights that I'm aware of There are a few others: Gun Owners of America (GOA), Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
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> but it boils down to: do you think these events are a bad thing? And I guess what I failed to express that it doesn't have to be a binary 'good' or 'bad'. I personally don't judge inclusivity or exclusivi
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Not OP, so please don't presume I'm speaking for him, but there's a HUGE difference between a "woman only" event (from which men would be excluded) and a "woman focused" event. Similarly, there would be a
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Wouldn't have been that uncommon to see someone testing this out with real money, see some early successes and start upping the ante, only to have the Nordstrom event lose them a substantial sum.
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> We could have easily picked main street banks over wall street banks. If there aren't any community banks, it's pretty hard to choose them. Dodd-Frank, according to many -- including Barney Frank, the "Frank" in Do
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> I am slightly surprised to not see Boeing here, they are set to lose an enormous amount of money in Iran I suspect that a likely reason is that Boeing is headquartered in Chicago, which doesn't fall under the purview of the Ninth
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I'm well aware of the difference, which is why I specifically did not reference any particular event for which Obama may have been responsible, except to illustrate that civil rights abuses have been going on for far longer than Trump
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Not to speak for the OP, but at least for me, I'm seeing a lot of my friends all of a sudden up in arms over policies that Obama (and Bush, and in some cases earlier than that even) got crickets for. Admittedly, I'm not trying to
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> I was hoping to see discussion on the battery tech Me too, but after this[1] comment, I'm a bit deflated on the tech discussion. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13480593

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