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by drak0n1c 9y ago
They pulled the whole friend graph and used it to generate emails pushing supporters to reach out to specific named friends who live in specific states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru.
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The main reason for the second amendment is deterring authoritarianism. It works, regardless of force proportion. Occupying Afghanistan was a pain that was ultimately not worthwhile for anyone who tried it. Regarding self-defense, there is
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Craft beer isn't a good staple to base price measurements on, the industry is affected by regulations that other industries don't have to bear (liquor tax, compliance regulations, etc). Also craft beer is susceptible to fads and p
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
In addition to Fox and Breitbart, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, CNN, and even the New York Times have had to retract dozens of viral political articles over the last two years. The retractions were only seen by a fraction of the people who
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
The Expanse is great, both the book and the show. Smart of Amazon to pick it up.
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Individual rights protect you from active abuse perpetrated by authorities. That's fair. Why should that extend to enslaving others until your Maslow needs are fulfilled? That's not fair, and is logically opposite to the concept o
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Regardless of how tiny or slimy the little guy is, or how much they "punch up" at their mainstream competition -- isn't "punching down" effectively stooping to their level? You're either admitting you also enga
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
Should the government also ban the possibility of ad-supported websites? Technology costs money and if there is a way to subsidize or remove the cost faced by consumers that isn't always a bad thing. Transparency of "this is how w
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
CNN is contacting and doxxing every individual brand/company whose ads happen to appear on the youtube channel. Isn't this a form of anti-competitive abuse of market position? http://dailycaller.com/2018/03&#x
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Habitats don't need to be solid rock. It's possible to make many large habitats using the materials from a single large body.
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Right, and if you're tall it's often a chore to see the speedometer through the steering wheel, it sometimes requires moving your head. This might be an improvement.
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Robbing a bank is doing the former. Who pays for FDIC?
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They are probably not lying. If they get sued in a class action lawsuit and this public statement is found to be a fabrication then they will be in way more trouble than this entire issue is causing them in the first place.
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Many lanes on important highways and connecting streets downtown are being made bus-only all the time, when they really should be Bus+Carpool or allow regular car usage outside peak hours.
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That estimation may change in the coming decades. Self driving cars would allow for pooling and far greater car throughput on existing roads (no human latency/error, synchronized top speeds)
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Not to mention that the "never optimize until it feels slow" judgement calls are usually conducted on Macbook Pros with fast internet.
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Second on iPad support. Depending on how the project's storyboard is set up it might not be too much effort to support iPad.
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Julio Nivelo was a convicted felon prior to this crime and deported four times. Four times! Obviously something is broken. Perhaps improving border security isn't such a bad idea?
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by drak0n1c 9y ago
If there is a supply glut of a staple food, the prices of food in general, even not of that type tends to driven downward - because to some extent foods are interchangeable. Similar to how an overabundance of residential skyscrapers has a d
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True, and it helps that India has a large religiously vegetarian population. But that's not everyone. Government policy can only do so much - it can enforce a ban on large farms using antibiotics with some effort and resources, but it&
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There's a bit of a Trolley Problem here. 194,000,000 Indians experienced starvation and malnutrition in 2014-2015. If antibiotics greatly speeds animal growth, aids reproductive success, and increases muscle mass perhaps it's a ne
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There are upcoming Distributed Ledgers that don't use blockchains or mining - like Hashgraph which uses a form of gossip protocol to handle more than 300k transactions/second. These distributed ledgers may soon handle traffic that
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Nicknames are similar, someone you meet may let you know how they prefer to be called, and then you use it if you can remember.
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If necessary, it wouldn't be too expensive for Amazon to partner with an airline to sponsor/subsidize more frequent flights between Seattle and their HQ2 city - for airlines the difference between an axed money losing route and a
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At my previous company we used it to verbally query key performance metrics, user statistics, etc.
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I hope this helps the people of Venezuela. I just made an account. Thanks! xrb_33n5h8p5adjr1u1dsf5pwqo79qcwgyc9jyduz5rkpxwk4wfrbag7ccrnpxfg
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Stand and Deliver was based on a true story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante
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Government subsidies in the form of grants and student debt guarantees have played a big role in inflating tuitions.
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If you buy directly from the airline, it shows bag fees. If you are buying through a third party website, you can easily look up the airline's website and see the domestic and international baggage policies and fees before you buy. If
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A lower tax rate is a boon to small and mid sized US companies that make up the majority of the economy and don't have the financial scale or international presence needed to take advantage of those loopholes. These companies compete d

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