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by dbatten 8y ago
Presumably, you can trust that when you buy Amazon's private label brands, you're getting the actual Amazon private label, and not a counterfeit? If not, let's hope that this eventually creates incentive for Amazon to handle
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by dbatten 8y ago
The YouTube codec did some wild stuff with that slow-mo flying mulch at the beginning... any video experts around that can explain?
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by dbatten 8y ago
Given that Bezos envisions, for example, creating a network of preschools in low-income areas, I'd say he's at least thinking about helping people get out of cyclical poverty. Still, I'd also like to see Amazon pay its employ
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by dbatten 8y ago
Not that I doubt that they're right about this data point, but interesting choice of source... appears to be some sort of climate-change-denial organization?
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by dbatten 8y ago
Unfortunately, as long as getting health insurance through your employer remains tax-advantaged, people will be unlikely to demand the decoupling of work and health coverage...
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by dbatten 8y ago
We recently sold our house. I discovered a typo on our deed. The previous owner's deed also had the same typo. These deeds had been reviewed by at least 3 lawyers, at least 2 title insurance companies (who had a financial interest in n
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by dbatten 8y ago
I don't disagree at all, but I feel this basically just makes my broader point. Napoleon eventually lost due to the political/financial/technological might of Britain, not because he hit a better general.
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by dbatten 8y ago
I second the missing data points, especially technology and cultural/social conditions... but I'd also point out that a lot of history is written by the winners. Napoleon was able to win the way he did because social conditions in
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by dbatten 8y ago
I second the Luigi recommendation. Republic Wireless uses it for all of our data warehouse ETL, and it's been fantastic to work with. I also second the other comment that recommends starting with basic data extraction rather than divin
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by dbatten 8y ago
Interesting. I knew Gaza and the West Bank were geographically separate, but I didn't know conditions on the ground were so different. Thanks!
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by dbatten 8y ago
Random observation: I'm always fascinated by how poverty and development can co-exist in a lot of places on earth. During conflicts between Israel and Palestine, you always see photos of the insides of Palestinian hospitals and the lac
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by dbatten 8y ago
PSA: Trying to hold your breath for a long time is dangerous, especially if you hyperventilate first. People die this way. The hyperventilation thing is because your brain needs oxygen to live, but your impulse to breathe is driven by carbo
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by dbatten 8y ago
Source for industry making fat shaming bad? I'm willing to listen if there's evidence, but this doesn't pass the sniff test for me...
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by dbatten 8y ago
I've heard people argue that a much more effective way to do environmental regulation would be to basically not regulate and instead increase liability standards for environmental/health damage. Right now, in many cases, if a fact
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by dbatten 8y ago
You vote on more than just the president, though... you still have an opportunity to get your voice heard. Admittedly, as a statement of fact, it's plausible/likely that the electoral college reduces turnout because presidential e
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by dbatten 8y ago
This alone is a great reason to run AMD...
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by dbatten 8y ago
This is an awesome resource, thank you.
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by dbatten 8y ago
The first time I started actually learning about World War I and started realizing that the Germans were pretty much as innocent as anybody else in that conflict (and probably more innocent than, say, the Russians or the Austro-Hungarians,
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by dbatten 8y ago
Secure Multi-party Computation. The basic idea is developing methods for two (or more) parties with sensitive data to be able to compute some function of their data without having to reveal the data to one another. The classic example is de
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by dbatten 8y ago
Democracy in America is a fantastic book. It's amazing the number of things that might as well have been written about America in 2018. Reading it with the benefit of nearly 200 years of additional history, it basically becomes a treme
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by dbatten 8y ago
Yes, making the use of tax havens illegal is very hard. It's basically a giant game of whack-a-mole, where the corporations have more people with stronger incentives working to get around the tax laws than the government has trying to
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by dbatten 8y ago
Windows user here. I use the built-in robocopy utility to sync files to one of 2 external hard drives. One hard drive stays at work, the other at home, and I switch them periodically (usually, right after downloading new family photos onto
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by dbatten 8y ago
I suspect most readers on HN will see this as a warning against religious tyranny when it's actually a warning against attempting to rehabilitate criminals rather than simply punishing them justly for their crime... Interestingly, the
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by dbatten 8y ago
The particular essay in question is "On the Humanitarian Theory of Punishment." Here's a PDF: https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/churchman/073-02_055.pdf
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by dbatten 8y ago
Generally, if you come from a Twitter link, WSJ doesn't show the paywall. So you just search for the headline on Twitter...
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by dbatten 8y ago
Really? Works for me... That would explain it though.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Completely serious question given the downvotes: Is this discouraged or banned on HN? Whenever I hit a paywall from an HN link, I immediately go to the comments to see if somebody has linked to the full article. Thought I'd help folks
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by dbatten 8y ago
Paywall work-around: https://t.co/jZyOpZbbtD
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by dbatten 8y ago
1) Cheap junk food is marketed, whereas cheap staples aren't. Basic white/brown rice is a commodity. There's no differentiation, and ultra-slim margins, so nobody's trying to market it to you. Easy Mac on the other hand.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Unfortunately, I think this is a thornier issue than most of these articles give it credit for. Suppose for a second that the US was at war with Canada and John Doe was an American citizen, but he was serving as a uniformed combatant in the

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