crazy1van

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by crazy1van 7y ago
> If my choice is to pay for cancer treatment or die, you can (and do) charge me literally whatever you want in a capitalist system One provider might charge a fortune. But then another will come along and realize he can get all this bus
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by crazy1van 7y ago
Sometimes it's called a "mandatory buy-back" like in Australia.
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by crazy1van 7y ago
They are imperfect phrases, but generally an equality of opportunity in this case refers to no matter what you look like, what your parents do, how much money you have, if you get a SAT score and GPA above a threshold, you get accepted into
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by crazy1van 7y ago
It depends on whether the poorer nation misrepresented what it would do with the trash.
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by crazy1van 8y ago
C++ is consistently one of the most popular programming languages [0]. Large-project, high-performance C++ programming that a game developer likely possesses is probably one of the most broadly portable programming skills a person could hav
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by crazy1van 8y ago
This first part of this article about the realities of diagnosing ADHD is worthwhile reading: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mor... One particularly interesting quote: "Trust m
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by crazy1van 8y ago
>Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder? Doesn’t the 2016 presidential election disprove this? The candidate who spent the most lost the election.
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by crazy1van 8y ago
>Taxis used to have laws that required them to go to any destination requested, and stop for any person hailing a ride Laws that in my experience the taxi drivers completely ignored with no consequences. At least with Uber they pick you
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by crazy1van 9y ago
(IANAL) These so-called "clickwrap" or "browser-wrap" agreements have definitely been found to be enforcible. However the details of exactly how the agreement was presented and what the user had to click can affect their
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by crazy1van 9y ago
>can I do a playout instead? Of course. That's why people do activities like hiking, tennis, surfing, basketball, biking, etc. For many people they are just fun activities that also help with fitness.
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by crazy1van 9y ago
Tax cuts may have not generated more revenue in Kansas, but there is definitely something to the theory that lowering taxes can generate more revenue. As the Laffer Curve predicts, maximum government revenue exists at a tax rate above 0% (n
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by crazy1van 9y ago
Which I think illustrates how NN is just nibbling at the edges of the problem. Competition is the real solution. If we could get the same lobbying efforts and grass roots passion behind removing local barriers to entry in the ISP market as
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by crazy1van 9y ago
> If BK was the only food option available in my city (and local community supported alternatives outlawed at the state level) Then the best solution would be to rally support to change the law to allow more food options to operate in yo
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by crazy1van 9y ago
What if I want to work more than 40 hours/week in exchange for more money. Should I be prohibited from doing that?
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by crazy1van 9y ago
> and against the will of the constituents It's Congress's job to be responsive to the will of the constituents, not the FCC. Congress has done a masterful job over the past several decades of outsourcing all the hard and poten
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by crazy1van 9y ago
"I'm saying we don't allocate wealth properly" But wealth isn't really "allocated". To use the previous examples of Rowling and Notch, no one allocated millions of consumers to buy their product. Millions
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Net neutrality rules should apply to ISPs and websites, senator says(arstechnica.com)
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by crazy1van 9y ago
what are you basing that claim on?
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by crazy1van 9y ago
Education might be the root cause and it might be neglected but in the US it certainly isn't underfunded. Source: http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/21/jeb...
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by crazy1van 9y ago
If it's not "sneaky", it's at least lazy. "Some believe they were targeted"... Who? Why? If I said "Some believe we didn't land on the moon", that would be a true statement. But, it's also a
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by crazy1van 9y ago
This entire article hinges on the "Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index", which does not seem to be defined.
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by crazy1van 9y ago
It depends on if the employee is truly too busy to handle this permit within the next 2-4 weeks or whether he just puts an arbitrary hold on all permits unless they pay the overtime fee.
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by crazy1van 9y ago
Could you elaborate on why you'd prefer Yellen?
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by crazy1van 9y ago
Seems more likely that Amazon got this patent to prevent some other brick and mortar store from acquiring it and blocking Amazon.com.
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by crazy1van 9y ago
> Now what if Comcast decided to charge more for access to HN? Then, you might want get that RJ11 outlet installed. Easy fix.
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by crazy1van 9y ago
> Neither has hardly ever been described as innovative I'm not sure what you consider innovative, but my local comcast connection has grown by about 10x in bandwidth over the last 15 years.
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by crazy1van 10y ago
Laws like this one that restrict businesses from asking questions that individuals could ask strikes me as very strange. I could ask my buddy how much he made at his last job. I couldn't ask my buddy how much he made at his last job if
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by crazy1van 10y ago
> Is the lack of competition the real issue here? Yes. Governments -- from federal to small towns -- created rules giving de facto local monopolies to certain ISPs and making market entry of competition very difficult. And yet, people w
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by crazy1van 10y ago
> If the only road company in town installs a toll booth or a series of speed bumps in front of McDonald's because Burger King paid them to This kind of thinking will lead to a big debate about what exactly is a speed bump -- how hi
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by crazy1van 10y ago
Based on their statement YC believes the travel ban will affect their ability to conduct interviews. I was trying to get a rough feel for the magnitude of the effect by looking at previous YC startups.

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