chad_oliver

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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Yeah, but the bank cares about its image.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Why not? You've made a bold statement, but provided no reasons.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Yes, but those two aspects of their culture are totally orthogonal. Why can't we build a society where we have the former and not the latter?
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
To be fair, trade between European countries has increased by orders of magnitude since WW1, and that remains true even after you account for general economic growth.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
WW1 was an Austro-hungarian civil war at its heart. It spiraled out of control because we didn't have the system we have today.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
April fools?
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree in this case. The Oxford English Dictionary gives ones of the definitions of guy as 'people of either sex' [0]. There's value in defending this meaning, and not running away from it because it could
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
It seems that Erdogan reads religious freedom as "right to be as Islamic as one wishes." Of course, they're both valid outcomes of religious freedom, but it makes a big difference to those who use religious freedom as an excu
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
> in Singapore, a new Toyota Camry costs almost US$150,000 Wait, what? Surely that's a typo! If not, what makes it so expensive?
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Okay, Crake, I've got three questions for you: 1) Have you read the Christian holy text? I don't expect you to have read everything, but if you're going to make the claim that you did, you should have at least read the New
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Wondering about stock price and investors does not imply that we stop caring about the people who died. The two actions are independent. Thus, if we consider the impact of this event, independent of the human impact, it seems obvious that
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
That sounds like a very nuanced view of a complicated and diverse belief system with many different interpretations practiced by different people. No; actually, it sounds like the sort of ignorance and stereotyping that people generally acc
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
To be fair, that's Jewish civil law. The vast majority of Christians would agree that this doesn't apply to Christians today.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Hacker news isn't just a news site. That's one half, but the other half is the discussion we bring to the table. I assume diffix thought that the article was an interesting topic starter.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
New Zealand exclusively produces grass-fed beef.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Good point. I was just going off wolfram alpha's figures for average population density of both countries.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Thanks for your reply; that makes a lot of sense. However (just because I found it mildly amusing), you may be interested to know that the United State's population density is actually twice as large as that of New Zealand! In fact, N
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Ethnologue states that there are 7105 languages in the world[0]. Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that you can have x second languages, where x is any number between 0 and 7104. [0] https://www.ethnologue.com/sta
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
> You increasingly see things like 3 (or more) roommates sharing a three bedroom apartment designed with the nuclear family in mind. I'm a student in New Zealand, and almost all students here have that sort of accommodation (we call
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
It is interesting to note that the European Union officially establishes the Principle of Subsidiarity in the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht. So theoretically we should never have EU regulations which breach this principle. In practice, things
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
EU law is a framework for cooperation between local communities. Cooperation only works if it's mutual.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Ah, my bad.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
To be fair, credit cards* are much more common now than they were in the 80s. Cash is mostly a back-up medium. * or Eftpos cards, if you're in Australia or New Zealand.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
> anybody who believes in creationism is a completely backward person and incapable of rational, critical thought. Was that meant to be sarcastic? Because that's rather bigoted. I think that creationism is irrational, but it's
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
I'm not so pleased with the capacitive F keys, but changing the capslock key to a home/end key sounds absolutely great.
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Just for the record, we have a similar system in New Zealand, and it works great. 1) In New Zealand there isn't really any incentive to become homeless, because a case worker takes you through an assessment process. This ensures that h
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Your idea for a Rift app sounds like an excellent idea! It'd be a lot of fun to try to create a realistic model of an audience. The small motions would make all the difference: that guy who suddenly looks up and stares at you, the pers
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
There are quite a few hotlines which have volunteers who are willing to listen. I'm not sure if that's the sort of thing your friend is looking for, but it's certainly better than nothing.
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Consent of the Surveiled(ribbonfarm.com)
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by chad_oliver 13y ago
Yes, actually it is. Uber didn't have anything to do with the accident.

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