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by bruceb 9y ago
both can be true. you can have discrimination and also have people who think every negative outcome is due to racism when it is not. Brietbart/Buzzfeed actively push not looking at actual complex reasons in favor of inflammatory headli
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by bruceb 9y ago
"The New York Times said it’s considered “the most promising and important apple of the future.” Washington farmers ordered 12 million Cosmic Crisp trees, with the first grocery store deliveries planned for 2019 — the biggest apple lau
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Washington State University sues own spinoff over ‘apple of the future’(geekwire.com)
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Comedian Byron Allen Buys the Weather Channel for $300M(bloomberg.com)
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by bruceb 9y ago
so out of curiosity I submitted the same story from the same source first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16649362 with the url: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/20/walmart-launc
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Walmart Launches Small Army of Autonomous Scanning Robots(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
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by bruceb 9y ago
One need not suppose anything. Look who has a majority of the H1-B visas or who comes here for higher education. Those who are not educated from East Asia can't easily come to the US illegally as those who can cross overland (Mexico a
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by bruceb 9y ago
or you could say we are for the most part only taking in a certain segment of the population from these countries. Educated and already middle class or higher. You are not comparing apples to apples.
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by bruceb 9y ago
For a less opinion based article try the Mercury News article that this one is based on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613568
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by bruceb 9y ago
I don't want to rain on your parade but don't you think "wait at the airport" is to small of a window for a coordinated meeting? The likelihood that two people from different places land at the airport within 2 hours of
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H-1B: BART reluctantly allows ads at stations and trains attacking visa(mercurynews.com)
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you can find edge cases for nearly anything. Is there any evidence more than a handful of people do this?
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by bruceb 9y ago
At a previous job I had to turn people away that had felonies. Some of them just had drug related ones. Felt terrible about it. If we are going to expect felons to reform and get a job and support themselves using legal means, well we have
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by bruceb 9y ago
>Xiaomi (the current Android One leader) is effectively banned from India after spying on millions. How are they banned? they have the best selling phones in India. They now beating Samsung https://www.neowin.net/news&#x2
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by bruceb 9y ago
Not sure what the point of this article is. There are plenty of Quad core, 2gb ram, 16gb phones for under $100 already available in the US. Of course some are initially locked but they are locked to MVNO that have relatively cheap plans $20
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by bruceb 9y ago
On a much smaller scale but country singer Garth Brooks donated $500k to his hometown hospital and then got his money back after they didn't follow through. No written agreement but he still won a lawsuit and was awarded damages. http
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by bruceb 9y ago
At the risk of being flippant the first thing Akasha needs to do is tell people what it does. Would someone who is not familiar with it and visited the site have any idea?
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Appeals court rules that Tinder’s pricing violates age discrimination laws(techcrunch.com)
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by bruceb 9y ago
HQ gets 1m+ people to watch to same thing with 100% attention twice a day. They can cover that costs with ads easy. Will people keep tuning in? Maybe. But their burn is a lot less than movie pass.
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Walmart and Rakuten partner on grocery delivery in Japan, e-books in U.S(techcrunch.com)
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by bruceb 9y ago
I have been looking in to this. I actually posted a question on why the cost of larger e-ink readers is so much higher than equivalent tablets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15787026 Which one do you have?
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Out of Storage: Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning’ Txts(wsj.com)
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I agree. Nobody seriously thinks they are going to pick Miami.
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So she thinks she deserves around 1 million a month for him being not a good guy. Good gig if you can get it.
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Malaysia to Pay U.S. Firm Up to $70M If It Finds Missing MH370(usnews.com)
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India's 'Cashew Capital' Loses Ground in Global Race [video](wsj.com)
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Ask HN: Snap's road show video has vanished, where can I find?
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Ask HN: Why are larger e-readers much more expensive than tablets?
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by bruceb 9y ago
That what we did for on CourseBuffet. Try to mirror the general requirements bachelor's degree and minors. ( http://www.coursebuffet.com ) We have not updated in a while but I have been fixing a couple things in the last few
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by bruceb 9y ago
There are not that many Sikhs around. 22 million in a country of 1.2 billion. Most live in the north. You can't easily go get food from Sikhs.

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