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by dtwest 7y ago
Most people saw what Twitter did and thought, Facebook is probably under some pressure to do the same. Mark Zuckerburg saw it and thought, we now have a monopoly on social media based political advertising! $$$
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by dtwest 7y ago
That's my point. Saying engineering is the opposite of entropy doesn't make sense to me.
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by dtwest 7y ago
When you build something, taking raw materials from their current state and assembling them into something like a car or rocket ship, is that the opposite of entropy?
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by dtwest 7y ago
There are no "pure" capitalistic games being played. The US and China interfere to varying degrees. Talking about slavery in this context is also ridiculous.
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by dtwest 7y ago
Idk, I'd say the same about a party dude turned judge.
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by dtwest 7y ago
Is it possible for anthropology to be a science the way we look at physics or chemistry? I'm not trying to bash anthropology, but I think we should be honest with what the "social sciences" really are. I personally don't
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by dtwest 7y ago
The original commenter is specifically objecting to outsourcing high tech manufacturing to a country with an authoritarian government. You are ignoring this point, and suggesting that the original commenter is morally bankrupt for hating fo
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by dtwest 7y ago
Unfortunately, Apple's Chinese employees can't expect the same quality of treatment as their coworkers in America and Europe. The CCP allows this, and Apple (and the CCP) takes full advantage. What does your nationality or your wi
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by dtwest 7y ago
> they take about the same time as any other dryer This is false. Before the Dyson Airblade and the really loud Xlerator ones, World Dryer was the most common hand dryer (in America at least), and they are awful. Forget about 10 seconds,
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by dtwest 7y ago
I agree, great story but seems off topic for HN. From the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." A woman winning a race is not a
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by dtwest 7y ago
Of course it is US-centric, the post is from a US newspaper. Nobody would comment "This is all pretty German-centric" if the post came from a German newspaper. Maybe I don't understand your point. That aside, I completely agr
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by dtwest 7y ago
Ironically, it is actually hotter, it is actually colder, it's all of those things you sarcastically point out. Except being too small or dense, who told you that? I'm from the American Midwest and I'm currently in Northern E
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by dtwest 7y ago
That doesn't work in many low density areas (prime example is American suburbia). So your answer for those people is to make them move to a more dense area that can support such solutions. Which isn't a bad idea, but it's a m
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by dtwest 7y ago
That doesn't prove anything about hospital quality. From your source: "Around 40% of cancer cases could be prevented by reducing exposure to cancer risk factors including diet, nutrition and physical activity". Americans live
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by dtwest 7y ago
This is an interesting point. Do you have a source for the life expectancy numbers? I'm genuinely curious.
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by dtwest 7y ago
This problem is widespread throughout the Rust Belt/Midwest and very costly to fix. Because many of the repairs fall on local governments, poorer neighborhoods struggle with this. So you can point to the water in a poor black neighborh
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by dtwest 7y ago
19.8% of the world's foreign born population lives in the US. 14.3% of people in the US are foreign born. According to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
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by dtwest 7y ago
Considering that around 20% of the world's immigrants live in the US, saying that US immigration is "designed to keep immigrants out" is grossly misleading.
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by dtwest 7y ago
One thing I've noticed in Chicago and NYC is that the old steel elevated structures are extremely loud. However, the few locations in NYC that are made with much thicker concrete structures significantly reduce the noise. Elevated rail
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by dtwest 7y ago
I'd like to suggest an alternative to bashing the TSA. (most of the comments on here) Let's invest more in non-road infrastructure. We need bigger airports, faster trains, better mass transit connections to these hubs. Airports ar
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by dtwest 7y ago
"Huawei will mostly be fine" "All this is a tragedy for the 200 thousand Huawei employees and their families, to see the company they built with hard work getting ruined" Are they ruined or fine?
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by dtwest 7y ago
You are missing the point. The number of accounts is not an important metric. I am not saying your conclusion is false, just that you do not provide relevant facts to support your claim. Assets under management is much more important, and n
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by dtwest 7y ago
From your source: "However, a Robinhood spokesperson said not all 4 million accounts are funded. The brokerage did not disclose total assets under management, average account size or typical starting balance." They did not disclos
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by dtwest 7y ago
Some of these "fancy financial instruments" are not as fancy as you think. For instance, futures and options are a form of insurance. My great grandmother was a farmer and would trade derivatives to insure her crops for the season
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by dtwest 7y ago
The women in finance I know have much thicker skin than you think. They also put up with bullshit that is not on the same scale as this benign title. Complaining about the little things can hurt the bigger cause if you piss people off in th
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by dtwest 7y ago
We need to stop making generalizations about regulations. Some are good, some are bad, some are both.
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by dtwest 7y ago
Both the wealthy and society as a whole spend way more on medical science than space. It's fairly common in the US for every wing of a hospital or every building in a medical school to be named after some rich businessman who is doing
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by dtwest 8y ago
Most young black Americans are in jail for drug related offenses, which could warrant the death penalty in China. Also your argument is completely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by dtwest 8y ago
> I realize that this is becoming a popular opinion, but why? I almost understand the full prohibition mindset more. I was simply trying to explain why. I think the full prohibition mindset makes no sense personally. It would include mor
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by dtwest 8y ago
Is it wrong to want the others around you to not have access to drugs that can destroy their lives? I'm of the legalize everything mindset, but heroin (and fentanyl) have killed many people I personally know. Weed has not. It is not il

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