crazy1van

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by crazy1van 10y ago
Are there any stats on how many prior YC founders were from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen?
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Regarding the tank top comments, this is why companies have company policies regarding things like dress code. It's different to have a policy that applies to everyone (eg, no sleeveless tops) vs selectively admonishing one person&#x27
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> ...I never know what Americans mean when they use the term libertarian with a small L. Economist Arnold Kling has an interesting model called the three-axis model for libertarianism as well as conservatism and progressivism. It contend
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Source? That's a very serious claim to not have a rock solid source backing it up.
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> If we accept these conditions as the norm What conditions are you referring to? The ability to work when you want for as long as you want? The ability to take an otherwise idle asset like your car or your house and make extra money wit
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What worries me the most is when businesses start welcoming regulation. That means they are entrenched and just trying to keep out fresh competition.
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> If all roads were owned by companies, should it be OK for UPS to charge FedEx or ambulances more to drive on its roads? This seems like a good argument against NN. It makes me think that some traffic is much higher priority and should
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The hard truth about Virtual Reality development(reddit.com)
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Is this in inflation adjusted dollars? Maybe I missed it, but I don't think the article specified.
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> We can reject it because the principles [nationalism and racism] themselves are unethical I'd also contend that it's unethical for a society to reward all people the same regardless of effort and talent. Should I make as much
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> Group competition is bad simply because it is less efficient if your goal is for the maximum good for all people. Humans are lazy and self interested. They work hard when they need to and competition provides the need. That goes for in
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>Citizens United and McCutcheon were such disasters for our democracy The Citizens United case was about a non-profit being able to produce, advertise, and air a film about a presidential candidate. The government said that they could no
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> Democracy is a farce in this country. Where did this claim come from? None of the (many) scandals in the election so far have involved fraudulent voting. Democracy in America is very far from a farce. Instead it's more that you do
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>A business no long gets distracted with pension, drug, medical Unless that business was in the pension, drug, or medical industries. My point is that it's not super clear where to draw the line between common public services and bu
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Econtalk ( http://www.econtalk.org ) is an amazing resource for understanding economics and the theories and incentives at play within it. The guests have a wide array of perspectives and the host does a good job of letting them
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> Withdrawing Uber won't put me in a taxi, it'll put me in my own car, occasionally public transit, or more likely staying in and ordering delivery. This is my experience as well. My wife and I have traveled from our inner subu
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> budgets aren't unlimited, but not having to be profitable makes a huge difference in which actions can be taken. Profits are still required for gov't spending, but they are just made by someone else in the country and transfe
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If someone knows how to make a product for $30 that the competition charges $300 for, why not go into business and undercut their price by a huge margin? Millions of users' lives would be instantly improved with dramatically cheaper ep
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Russian Hackers Leak U.S. Star Athletes’ Medical Information(nytimes.com)
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I'm considering using this google service to backup an s3 bucket to google cloud. Does anyone have experience for how fast this transfers and is there any info about how efficient the service is in terms of API calls? With a bucket wit
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I agree with a lot of the complaints I've heard about ITT. They seem to broadly fall into three camps: 1) They are expensive and rely on their students getting gov't loans, 2) They don't adequately prepare students for the wo
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> Their primary business model is to convince students to take out loans to pay for a white-collar education that won't make them any more employable. I think this applies to far more schools than just private for-profits like ITT.
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> Many news outlets will say "Warning, the following story contains graphic imagery," and people don't think this is unreasonable Yes, but students shouldn't expect that warning before a class on horror films. If you
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> On the other hand, the idea that traffic laws are there to protect cyclists just doesn't make sense to me. I think traffic laws encourage predictability and predictability leads to safety for everyone -- cars, pedestrians, and cyc
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> Next time you're driving count how many people you see breaking the law be it bicycle, pedestrian or motor vehicle. If I don't count minor speeding (<10 mph over), I see a much higher percentage of cyclists breaking the la
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> It's clear that tech is the Golden mine of XXI century What's the evidence for this claim? I think tech is fun, pays for a good standard of living, and is a solid career choice for any person entering the job market. However,
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I don't understand why a prerequisite for other types of schools is a lack of privately managed charter schools. Inner city schools are such a disaster, it seems like the last thing we should be doing is blocking any new ideas -- priva
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It was remarkable how much the price per Mbps dropped in the area once Verizon FIOS entered the market. Just one real competitor to Comcast made a substantial difference.
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> given the poor level of funding Do you have a source for this? According to an OECD study I found, the US spends among the most in the world per pupil on education. https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spend
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Seems like a case of imbalanced consequences. If a company doesn't properly comply with a request, the company and some of its workers could quite possibly face criminal consequences. If the FBI's request is eventually found out t

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