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by civilian 11y ago
Maybe the people purchasing ad space wouldn't be able to verify impressions?
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by civilian 11y ago
I'm with you. I'm 28 now, working as a software engineer, and I'm loving my life. I roll into work at 10:30 and yesterday I got a raise without having to ask or negotiate for it. I have the time and money to pursue hobbies, b
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by civilian 11y ago
As someone with a biology background, it's really funny when physicists dip their toes into studying life. It's like: "hmmm, what massive oversimplification can we make!" They're intelligent agents that can choose
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by civilian 11y ago
It's not yet decided whether our brains are wired differently: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41919/...
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by civilian 11y ago
I expected better from someone with the username laotzu. And gentrification isn't even a proper example for Palindrome Peter. This isn't a matter of yuppies coming into a neighborhood that has a strong community but has been histo
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by civilian 11y ago
The best solution to Gerrymandering is the Alternate Vote. CGP Grey has a great video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE He also has a great "what is gerrymandering" video that illustrated
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by civilian 11y ago
Hey, I didn't downvote you, but your questions were just... very off. I imagine that the typical HN user was just downvoting because the questions aren't even relevant. (And sorry for he spirit science comment, it was an unfair d
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by civilian 11y ago
IDK, looking at that singles page, it looks bad in all major cities.
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by civilian 11y ago
Agreed. For more info, looks at the video here: http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/26/22761976/at... an engineer confronts him in a Q&A session about his bias towards engineers.
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by civilian 11y ago
Ahhh, the earth's tilt/orientation changes very slowly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt Earth's obliquity oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees on a 41,000-year cycle. It is currently 23.4
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by civilian 11y ago
And if you think the idea of philosophical zombies are rad, you should read Blindsight by Peter Watts. http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm His books asks a somewhat different question, which is: "is conscio
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by civilian 11y ago
I'm open to having a real conversation about this. Persuade me otherwise!
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by civilian 11y ago
Right, I meant it as clarification for how my family got wealth, not as a reason why poor families are poor. "Civilian's family became wealthy because we had good jobs and were frugal with our money. As oppose to other families,
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by civilian 11y ago
Cultural appropriation is a bunch of SJW & white-guilt bullshit. It's not wrong or an act of an oppressor, it's just how cultures collide. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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by civilian 11y ago
Rich people drinking out of mason jars isn't cultural appropriation of poor class! IDK about your family, but my family is wealthier because we have a long habit of being frugal. There's no need to buy something new if you can use
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by civilian 11y ago
One candidate is http://redash.io/ My team has a backlog task to set it up. We use bigquery to hold onto our data, and redash can work with that.. It's open source, so it's free (except for one server) and look
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by civilian 11y ago
Hmmm. I was gonna call BS on poor greeks not having computers, but http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/07/15/one-in-three-gree... That's fair, a ledger system would be more helpful here. But for BTC it
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by civilian 11y ago
Yup. But as a competing future employer--- I'm okay with an employer making that kind of mistake. I'm tolerant of a variety of life circumstances that the curmudgeon employers might not be, and I'd be happy to have an easier
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by civilian 11y ago
This kind of feels like an opportunity to use bitcoin or another digital currency, doesn't it?
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by civilian 11y ago
I agree! I tried to sign up for a malaria vaccine trial. Not because I need the money (I'm a software developer!), but because I see their fliers often in Seattle. I've got a background in biology so being infected with malaria do
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by civilian 11y ago
Cool, then maybe you should go to reddit.com/r/politics?
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by civilian 11y ago
Said in 1993. Ouch. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell#Is_Reality_Optio...
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by civilian 11y ago
And here's a reference for hoopd's comment: https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/23/sexist-scientist-tim-... edit// okay, here's another article that dives into the nuance and doe
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by civilian 11y ago
I was going to call BS, but money laundering checks out: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-att... I wonder if wine would also be a good money-laundering medium then?
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by civilian 11y ago
I think I have learned some web design just from using the internet for the last 15 years. I'm not a phenomenal designer, but I've got some intuition and can make some simple choices. And I get really nervous when my company'
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by civilian 11y ago
But ad blockers are a recent innovation in controlling advertising. Billboards... you can lobby your local city or state to pass laws against obnoxious billboards, but at some point it is someone else's property, and they'll be ab
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by civilian 11y ago
Whenever I hear the word "ethics" I hear: "I don't understand this new paradigm in culture or technology and there outta be a law!" It's a fearful desire to control something you aren't a part of.
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by civilian 11y ago
Yes, but wouldn't it be way better to make them honestly try to balance budgets, rather than knowing they can always over-run and kick the can down the road?
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by civilian 11y ago
I suspect it's still inconclusive. Ya know. Science. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/what-smoking-weed-does-to...
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by civilian 11y ago
If we're looking to avoid volatile revenue streams, we should also avoid income taxes. But that's not really a starter, is it? http://taxfoundation.org/blog/new-sp-report-shows-income-tax... A better solution

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