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by bronbron 13y ago
> Another reality is there’s not much money to be made in making new antibiotics, so we saw a lot of drug companies who left the field of antibiotic development because of this combination of factors, that it was getting really hard to d
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by bronbron 13y ago
> It was a stupid prank. The guy should be fired. 6 years in prison is a ridiculous prospect. 6 years in prison is quite excessive, but the punishment should certainly be more than "Oh you're fired." This person intentiona
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by bronbron 13y ago
I don't really see the benefit over using something that does background compilation e.g. CodeKit. Also it seems a little silly/wasteful to use this in a production environment, which I may be mistaken about but the last paragraph
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by bronbron 13y ago
I've long thought that the bay area's major problem is not necessarily problems with San Francisco proper (though the strong aversion to high-rises while complaining about the increasingly cut-throat and expensive real estate mark
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by bronbron 13y ago
> It is not in anyway "a given" that corporal punishment is viewed as barbaric. The last instance of judicial corporal punishment was in the 50's. It's a given. > Most USAians support the death penalty. Maybe you s
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by bronbron 13y ago
Well, not to be pedantic, but in this case it actually matters - he's being satirical, not ironic. It's not supposed to be ironic. He wants the debate to be about the modern penal system, not about corporal punishment. It would be
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by bronbron 13y ago
I think you're missing the point. This is a half-hearted "A Modest Proposal", the point being that our current prison system is so insanely inhumane that honest-to-god corporal punishment is actually significantly less inhuma
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by bronbron 13y ago
> The attenuation of differences in this context means that the intent is to standardize the populace, nothing more, nothing less. > "Rosenberg suggests that people's work schedules should change to fit in with their natural
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by bronbron 13y ago
> 2. Doctors are doing unnecessary tests and operations. Sometimes, I feel like they just want you to test for every single disease with a similar symptom. What a joke. Probably because you would rightfully have a slam-dunk malpractice s
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by bronbron 13y ago
Wait, what's the appeal of this over caffeine tablets? I like the taste of coffee/tea so I prefer it as a "caffeine delivery system", but if I really hated all caffeinated beverages I'd just buy caffeine tablets, wh
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by bronbron 13y ago
> I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. I think everyone's just trying to make sense of the SF real estate market, tech industry workers included. The average rental unit price in SF is now higher than Manhattan, last time I
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by bronbron 13y ago
Maybe it's just me but this seems like... fluff, a little bit. There are a lot of instances of police abusing their power, but this is really on the low-end of that (i.e. I don't really consider this news). This just sounds like o