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by drewrv 10y ago
> Honestly, your comment about moose hunting is downright offensive. It's supposed to be: the whole idea of allowing only people who are a good "cultural fit" is offensive. That's the point I was refuting. Determining
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by drewrv 10y ago
Most immigrants pay more taxes than they owe. In other words they add resources rather than cost them.
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by drewrv 10y ago
Why would a Canadian be a better fit for southern california or texas? Is their experience moose hunting going to help in 100 degree heat? Why would we even want someone who's "culturally" a better fit? I'd love it if th
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by drewrv 10y ago
It would barely impact them. Impoverished people who voyage hundreds of miles through the desert in search of a better life are not going to be deterred by a wall. They'll dig under it, climb over it, or smash right through it if need
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by drewrv 10y ago
Pretty much anyone who pays more taxes than they cost could be considered "useful", which is not a hard thing to accomplish and therefore a strong argument for allowing a lot more immigration. In other words one of the basic premi
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by drewrv 10y ago
If you use encrypted messaging apps, and you're careful not to put malware on your phone, they probably cannot acquire blackmail on you any time. You're spreading the exact misinformation that the entire article is trying to corre
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by drewrv 10y ago
There is a huge difference between a hacker being able to read your encrypted messages, vs a hacker being able to read your encrypted messages if they have malware on your phone. Conflating the two is dangerous, people will stop using Signa
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by drewrv 10y ago
> I'm sure she'll get to it after another hit-piece on Wikileaks for actually bringing this discussion to the table instead of trying to kill it. If this stuff is worth bringing to the table then Wikileaks can bring it to the t
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by drewrv 10y ago
Vancouver seems like the most sensible place for a satellite office, due to proximity to San Francisco.
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by drewrv 10y ago
> this just means there is a negotiation skills gap. What is the cause of the negotiation skills gap? It seems unlikely to me that one gender is just innately better at it than another, and more likely that there's a cultural issue
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by drewrv 10y ago
> often dissimilar pay is a result of other factors. Why do these "other factors" push down the pay rate of women by almost 30%? If these other factors were random noise you'd expect them to affect both genders approximate
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by drewrv 10y ago
Every society rations medical care, it's a finite resource. Sure, bureaucrats in some countries do a cost benefit analysis with human lives. That's unfortunate, but I believe it's better than what we do in the US. Here we rat
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by drewrv 10y ago
Pricing based on value provided to the customer makes a lot of sense for phones and web apps and cheetos. But how much do you value being alive? The "value" of a lifesaving drug is essentially unbounded, most people will pay anyth
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Ask HN: If you needed a crud app built, how would you build it?
27 points by drewrv 10y ago|37 comments
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by drewrv 10y ago
I really hope I'm cynical and wrong but I doubt it. Without congressional investigations nothing will happen. So far they haven't really stood up to Trump on anything else, not sure why they'd start now. Maybe after they repe
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by drewrv 10y ago
Lighter Capital will give growth capital to tech companies without expecting 10x returns or taking any equity.
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by drewrv 10y ago
People do all kinds of dangerous things. They ride motorcycles, go skydiving, some even climb into rockets and fly into space. Are they all stupid? Or did you just pick this one activity out arbitrarily?
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by drewrv 10y ago
Having the ability to lock yourself in a room and study for three months is an enormous privilege, particularly if the thing you're studying is only marginally useful.
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by drewrv 10y ago
I love my vive but VR isn't quite ready for prime time yet. It's clunky and overpriced and there's a limited library. It feels like we're in the "Palm pilot" stage of the technology. Eventually an "iPhone&
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by drewrv 10y ago
One thing to consider is that most data projects require a fair bit of manipulation or munging, and Python is particularly good at that kind of stuff.
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by drewrv 10y ago
You can't really just extrapolate the current cost of launching materials by the kilogram. A project of that magnitude would generate economies of scale and probably some innovations along the way that would bring down the cost. The &q
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by drewrv 10y ago
Honestly that amount of mass seems doable (the hard part being a near perfect fusion engine of course). Just curious about your calculations though. Did you take into account the fact that you could eject spent helium and therefore lower yo
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by drewrv 10y ago
> it's that very fatigue which seems to be one of the factors which drove people to vote for a truly awful leader. I don't understand this reasoning. Why would someone who hates being unfairly called a bigot go and vote for a b
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by drewrv 10y ago
There's a lot of talk about how important it is to listen to Trump supporters, and all it does when I listen to them is terrify me. When I listen to them, I hear people who blame others for their situation, mostly liberals and foreigne
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by drewrv 10y ago
Pretty much everyone uses heuristic filters to decide what's worth consideration and what isn't. If a lay person's opinion of a scientific theory is outside the scientific mainstream, it's probably bunk. What is the goa
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by drewrv 10y ago
I've been responding with "Sorry I'm pretty happy where I'm at right now, but can I keep your email address and let you know when I do start looking for something new". My goal is to have a giant mailing list of rec
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by drewrv 10y ago
> The OP's comment was a politically charged statement that sterotyped all white males. No, it was not. Saying "maybe we'll even see some" is not the same as saying "all".
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by drewrv 10y ago
Only in some form of measuring contest.
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by drewrv 10y ago
In this same interview, Gabe says Valve is working on three full length titles for VR. Valve has an amazing track record so far, so I'm confident we'll get some killer apps eventually.
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Female exec hired to help Magic Leap appeal to women sues for sex discrimination(theguardian.com)
17 points by drewrv 10y ago|10 comments

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