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by enknamel 9y ago
Because this does not need to be posted on HN or even should be. However you stand on this issue doesn't matter. HN is not a site for political discussions. Go to Reddit if you want that.
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by enknamel 9y ago
There are quite a few sci-fi novels and one show I saw that feature nightmare scenarios based off of thawing ice. I seriously doubt we will see something catastrophic though. It's been a while since I took bio but bacteria/viruses
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by enknamel 9y ago
This is great and all but textbooks for me, while expensive, were nowhere close to my tuition cost. I'd love to see some traction on tuition cost reduction. I know that's trickier but hey, Amdahl's Law.
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by enknamel 9y ago
Of course people should be responsible for their choices. However that doesn't mean we can't be more accommodating to people making 100k or less. You think Starbucks will stick around if they have to pay their employees 100k or ma
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by enknamel 9y ago
I feel this pain everyday. Getting a house in the bay (because 3-4br apts are super rare) in a decent school district is right around a million dollars. That's a $5k/mo mortgage (not to mention every new development has some insan
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by enknamel 10y ago
Will this become a moving target? As ads become progressively "better" will the standards move up in terms of what is considered objectionable? Also this could be a huge antitrust issue. Google could start blacklisting sites or ad
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by enknamel 10y ago
Rates and statistics matter. News organizations tend to pick out whatever statistic meets their narrative (just look up all the analysis of the pay gap but that's a whole nother can of worms). Are more phones entering the country? Are
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by enknamel 10y ago
Do you seriously think a TSA agent would just say "Oh this phone isn't yours and you can't unlock it? I better just let you take it on the plane!" If they cannot perform the search no matter what your excuse is, I seriou
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by enknamel 10y ago
It also needs to be normalized with how many people are crossing the border. Did international travel "explode" as well? I have no idea. Absolute numbers don't really mean anything here. The rate is what matters.
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by enknamel 10y ago
The problem is that BOTH of these "fact checkers" lean hard left. We say them bending the truth (if not out right lying) in their fact checking. One candidate says a fact and it's marked as true, another candidate says the fa
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by enknamel 10y ago
Protect themselves from what? Uber is under no obligation to charge you any amount based off of route, zone, etc. They can charge you whatever they see fit and pay their drivers whatever they see fit. If you don't like the charge, don&
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by enknamel 10y ago
One of the beautiful aspects of Uber over say, taking a taxi, is that you only pay the one price no matter what. You don't have to worry over the route. You don't have to do anything other than get in a car and know you will get w
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by enknamel 10y ago
This just sounds like Uber quickly charges you for the worst case since if they charge you for the best case and things go wrong, Uber loses. No one can know what route will even be possible given how chaotic traffic and closures can be. Th
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by enknamel 10y ago
It can actually be extremely expensive if you are addicted to free to play games. There is literally no upper limit on how much you can spend in those games.
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by enknamel 10y ago
>What's clearly not OK is taking it further--charging different services different rates based on their relationships with ISPs. You wouldn't accept your electric company charging you different rates depending on the manufactu
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by enknamel 10y ago
What worries me is when Facebook and Google both decide to insert themselves into politics. I definitely saw Google trying to influence the last election. I would constantly get push notifications to my phone with anti Trump news. These wer
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by enknamel 10y ago
Buses just make it easier for you to be uncomfortable. We need to eliminate the need for long commutes not make long commutes more sustainable. We should not be spending 10+ hours a week just on commuting.
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by enknamel 10y ago
I think LA and the Bay Area are going to eventually go the way of New York where you have huge buildings and residential and business well mixed. Right now the Bay is terrible because the jobs are all in SF, MV, SJ and fairly far from affor
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by enknamel 10y ago
My experience inside and out of companies has been that this tactic is employed quite a bit. I really dislike it but it's the truth. Everyone wants a top notch team and sometimes the only way to get amazing people in less amazing roles
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by enknamel 10y ago
I've noticed a definite increase in companies doing bait and switches. They list higher level positions to attract good people and then try to offer them lower level positions. That's been my experience.
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by enknamel 10y ago
Under promise but over deliver!
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by enknamel 10y ago
It's a high quality linux-ish environment and has a huge ecosystem of developer tools. You can get almost anything that runs on linux on your MBP and you can also get a ton of things you can't get on linux that come from Apple or
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by enknamel 10y ago
They are but all my experiences with Dell have been really subpar so I am almost permanently turned off from them. The XPS Developer Edition does look interesting though. But I am biased towards Razer because I am a gamer and would love to
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by enknamel 10y ago
I really like someone stepping up and making a high quality linux laptop. After the thread yesterday about System76 (who I thought was doing that) this makes me really happy. It's also somewhat a threat to Apple. If you aren't doi
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by enknamel 10y ago
I would just like to point out that cannabis is not a cure-all or even effective sometimes. Here's my anecdotal story: I personally have constant extreme pain (the joys of Ehlers-Danlos) and when I tried cannabis for my pain it not onl
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by enknamel 10y ago
I think Twitter could beat Reddit as the front page of the internet. They could easily expand their trending information and turn it into automated events and stories. It looks like they do this a little bit. But if they did it a lot more i
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by enknamel 10y ago
I agree you should be allowed to record anything a police officer does in the line of duty. I'm all for going one step further and requiring all uniformed police officers to wear bodycams at all times. But we just shouldn't set th
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by enknamel 10y ago
There are a ton of laws about what you can or cannot record and what you are allowed to do with your recordings. Some activities you do have a protected right to privacy like healthcare access.
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by enknamel 10y ago
That shouldn't be the bar. You should have a right to not be recorded in certain circumstances. Like how it is generally illegal to record phone calls without notifying everyone that a recording will be made. You may hear with your ear
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by enknamel 10y ago
Not all acids are the same. What's at play isn't only the amount of free protons but also what else is disassociating. For instance, hydrofluoric acid is considered a weak acid but it can severely burn (pretty slowly but it will g

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