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by cubano 11y ago
I personally find it almost absurd to expect the very agencies that are nominally in control of Federal expenditures to reliably track and then expose their own waste, folly, and, yes, theft of taxpayer funds. Why do you think their is such
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by cubano 11y ago
Not maybe. In my case, definitely. Thanks for the clarification.
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by cubano 11y ago
> The trendy idea that taxes in general and progressive (not in the political sense but in the technical sense) tax systems are somehow unfair is holding up important development in the U.S. I would disagree. The opposing trendy idea is
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by cubano 11y ago
>...and the people here just don't give a crap about life Yes and to finish my OP thought, I would argue that this was without a doubt the worse of it as well.
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by cubano 11y ago
>You and parent poster are both wrong. A politician rarely ever lies. Incredibly, most career politicians sincerely believe what they say. They just change their beliefs more often than most people, even several times a day. I'm sor
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by cubano 11y ago
I still to this day argue that by a significant margin, the best thing about living in Vegas was the everything goes 24-hour lifestyle where you can literally do or eat anything you want 24/365.
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by cubano 11y ago
A primary qualification of being an 10x politician is to be able to look citizen voters in the eye and sincerely lie right to their faces without any compunction.
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by cubano 11y ago
You're asking this of a population whom think that setting the time on their microwave oven is too difficult?
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by cubano 11y ago
It seems unlikely that the price of gas will be able to go much higher than the US fracking break-even point, which seems to be around $25/bbl. [1] But yes who knows...coming regulations may change that number significantly. www.brei
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by cubano 11y ago
In general, no, unless of course they were using that margin in a way that endangered low-income people's health. I mean really...I can't believe I have to defend this position. There is obviously certain types of data that shou
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by cubano 11y ago
My "argument", if I was even making one, was that the cost to Elsevier to provide an API, is a tiny fraction of $40k/yr, and thus their business practices and model is all about rent-seeking and not about saving peoples liv
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by cubano 11y ago
Defend Elsevier? I think not. I am currently working with a startup that has to do with prescription drug refilling. Obviously, interactions between drugs and such can have fatal consequences if not understood, so we responsibly are provi
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by cubano 11y ago
So in the end, you envision addiction destroying humanity. It's an interesting insight but I can't really see it happening the way you describe. There are already many substances (opiates, crack, meth to name a few), some that hav
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by cubano 11y ago
Does that answer my question about what type of work/labour is defined as "marginal" in the OP?
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by cubano 11y ago
Exactly what type of labor isn't "marginal" then? Banking? Investment advice? Construction? Software development? Whom exactly decides whos work is marginal? Do "marginal" employees somehow deserve to be displaced b
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by cubano 11y ago
So with that logic, Telerik's Nativescript can be called "fully native code" as well? Or Appcelerator's Titanium? Sorry I just don't see it like that.
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by cubano 11y ago
The question is, why do we pretend it's not happening until there's a smoking gun? Only a fool thinks it not happening everywhere, and one thing I know for sure after reading these forums for a few years now... HN members are no
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by cubano 11y ago
Really? What difference does that make? Oh it's ok for a totally crooked cop to charge me with a completely bogus felony, cost me 100's if not 1000's of dollars, and destroy my job because I had proir weed and MDMA charges
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by cubano 11y ago
What I've found lately is that almost all the docs and examples for the various "hybrid" mobile platforms are out-of-date or flat-out don't work. My guess it's just that things are moving so damn fast in that space
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by cubano 11y ago
I can tell you whats it like for personal experience. It beyond sucks, and should be something police truly fear doing due to lawsuit exposure. I was arrested on a completely bogus felony "destruction of evidence" charge about a d
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by cubano 11y ago
Without significant developer mindshare, long-term MS is toast. The new gen devs simply refused to buy into their old school closed shop practices. evolve or die.
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by cubano 11y ago
Oh surprise. Corruption at the highest levels of corporations and government. Forgive my cynicism but after a full lifetime of this nonsense and many years of reading about it through history studies, I just can't feel any other way.
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by cubano 11y ago
Yes of course. Thanks. Looking around on the site I didn't see a link to report something like this, and I didn't immediately think to goto github with it. Please excuse my ignorance.
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by cubano 11y ago
Trying to run the demo in win10.... Build error The Broccoli Plugin: [object Object] failed with: RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded at new Error (native) at Error (native) at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:
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by cubano 11y ago
It seems to me the people who can't get their heads around GMO'ed foods are going to utterly freak about this pretty soon. I hope I'm wrong, but how can anyone see that working out?
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by cubano 11y ago
I've been dreaming about getting one of those old Sun workstations with monochrome bitmapped display that used to be the thing when I was an undergrad CS student in 1984. I remember being so impressed at the size of the monitor and the
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by cubano 11y ago
To me it means they are showing effort and interest in the workplace environment, and not just making it a drab cubicle farm, and messages something beyond just the actual stuff like dogs and music instruments. BTW, nothing personal but I h
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by cubano 11y ago
As a 50-something guy as well, I guess I see it much differently than this guy did. Firstly, IMO, there was nothing "hell"-ish about Hubspot's culture or business model. It seems to me they were just playing the game-as-give
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by cubano 11y ago
Have you ever read the Terms Of Service when you agree to a rewards program? Of course it's a simple rebate as well, but I didn't think I needed to point out something that obvious.
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by cubano 11y ago
Don't you see that rewards tracking is actually the antithesis of this service? That's what those "free" rewards really are...getting more detailed information on your spending patterns and profile so they can resell tha

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