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Boeing gives 737 MAX 10 jet a low-key rollout(geekwire.com)
1 points by drewrv 7y ago|0 comments
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by drewrv 7y ago
Or it means he's got such a huge ego, he considers himself an improvement.
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by drewrv 7y ago
It doesn't (necessarily) drive down wages because immigration expands the size of the market, there are more people to buy from and sell to.
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by drewrv 7y ago
For some people/tasks, these are the exact types of things accomplished faster in an IDE.
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by drewrv 7y ago
Because attending Harvard is a privilege, walking down a public sidewalk is a right.
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by drewrv 7y ago
Sure thing. But my point is that, if I steal a car and get caught we're not "adjudicating cars". I'm presumed innocent, but the crime of stealing cars isn't ever conflated with regular driving around.
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by drewrv 7y ago
Ideally that makes sense to me, but unfortunately courts take a long of time and don't always pursue cases thoroughly. Given that reality, I don't know how an institution is supposed to handle the following scenario without their
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by drewrv 7y ago
The way this article conflates sex with sexual assault really creeps me out. The first sentence states: Four feminist law professors at Harvard Law School have been telling some alarming truths about the tribunals that have been adjudicati
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by drewrv 7y ago
The United States itself had "open borders" for a long period of time. There was mass immigration from Ireland, Italy, and many other places and it worked out quite well for us. Even today, we have "open borders" within
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by drewrv 7y ago
The president's campaign chairman (Paul Manafort), campaign manager (Rick Gates), lawyer (Michael Cohen), and national security advisor (Michael Flynn) would love to hear about this lack of evidence.
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by drewrv 7y ago
> In reality people don't generally get their identities stolen, institutions/organizations fail to properly verify it. This reminds me of a great Mitchell and Webb sketch. https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by drewrv 7y ago
The short story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" has an interesting take on this theme, where the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, and a device lets people communicate with parallel realities. They sta
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by drewrv 7y ago
Is this it? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the... (I found it elsewhere among these comments)
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by drewrv 7y ago
I'm on a phone so links are hard, but I'll throw in... - Woodworking for mere mortals, it's a series that goes into detail about basic things for beginner woodworkers. - PBS Spacetime, they cover astronomy and cosmology at a
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by drewrv 7y ago
They gave slightly more to republicans last time around: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2018&cmte=...
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by drewrv 7y ago
> The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling. It's neither. There are a number of unsavory industries that people choo
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by drewrv 7y ago
Here's an interesting write-up about Seattle. The tldr is that it's about 280 meters for the median, 341 for the mean, in the city proper. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-distance-between-s...
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Carta was just valued at $1.7B, in a deal some see as rich(techcrunch.com)
2 points by drewrv 7y ago|0 comments
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by drewrv 8y ago
What saves Airbus is the extra MCAS system, and a stronger regulatory environment, and most importantly a jet that has the engines mounted in the proper place so it doesn't have a tendency to stall.
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by drewrv 8y ago
If I could convince you that the largest block of visa overstays are from Canada, and that a good chunk of them are from European countries, would you reconsider whether targeting Hispanic people is racist? https://www.statista.c
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by drewrv 8y ago
Actual statistics show most terrorists are not Arab, they're homegrown right-wingers. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-...
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by drewrv 8y ago
I have asked for a citation numerous times because I was genuinely curious to learn more about a topic. Not all discourse online is combative.
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by drewrv 8y ago
Wall street isn't a protected class.
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by drewrv 8y ago
The obvious analogy would be banning jihadi content, which it does.
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by drewrv 8y ago
The dystopian angle to healthcare rationing is the realization that we already do ration care. We do it with dollars rather than by need or outcome.
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by drewrv 8y ago
The certainly fanned the flames of Seth Rich conspiracy theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Fox_News_r...
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by drewrv 8y ago
This seems like a weird structure, why would anyone ever convert Class B stock to Class A?
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Joe Rogans Galaxy Brain(slate.com)
6 points by drewrv 8y ago|2 comments
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by drewrv 8y ago
It depends on how well you want to "define" something. Wikipedia describing a duck: Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae which also includes swans and geese. Ducks are divided amo
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by drewrv 8y ago
Ideally competitors drugs will have been brought to market by then, or patents will have expired.

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