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The Cold War produced plenty of immoral conflicts. Is it seriously arguable that Viet Nam was a genocide? Justifiable wars since WWII are the exception.
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In both of the articles you mention the biased effects were quickly remediated.
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You’ll need a different congress for that
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While I agree with your point, the medical resident example is a poor one. Prospective medical _students_ are expected to basically devote their extra curricular free time to demonstrating their passion for medicine via volunteering, etc.
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This is not true for most SF neighborhoods, and not true for basically any east bay neighborhoods.
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It’s common for engineers here to get a significant portion of their pay in stock. Stock, of course has a tendency to change value, and in a historic bull run if you count stock growth you can get to some very high numbers for total comp.
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Ask HN: How to go about evaluating internal transfer options
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Like other commenters I think you need to vote with your feet. If they don’t have active plans to move offices the answer is no. The why’s of you not being allowed to work from home on most Fridays or the office being in San Jose are irrele
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100 billion doesn’t sound like much if their thesis is that they won’t be able to rely on oil profits in the medium term future.
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People can continue to use businesses that harm them if they have no leverage or have compromised judgment. Pay day loan operations with extortive interest rates, opioid manufacturers, casinos. All have some legitimate customers that derive
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| you have many of the same expenses as ownership You're free from the task of maintaining and securely storing the thing. My biggest personal switch has been selling my car. Granted I live in an urban area where the dollar and time co
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Not caring too much about massacring civilians is also a key part of Russia's recipe in Syria. And furthermore it is a little soon to be declaring victory for them there. What exactly would your strategy have been for a US intervention
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It's a Mitch Hedberg joke
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I’ve definitely tried out a gym and not joined because it was too crowded when I wanted to go
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That’s one read on history. Another is that the world has been tremendously lucky to not have suffered a nuclear holocaust since WWII. Many powerful people have done everything they could to advocate for nuclear bombings in the past 60 year
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Writing from Oakland, where I have a suspicion that many of the scooters taken off San Francisco streets for their permit monitoriom have ended up. Point being that there’s a LOT of these scooters around. I think they’re great. I keep wonde
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Speaking from (successful) experiences with therapy: For me the key to having success with therapy is to do your due diligence with respect to cost and personal fit ahead of time. At some point in my previous attempts at therapy it became w
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>> Mailchimp cares about deliverability, sure. Email delivery is a commodity business. Literally the only thing Mailchimp cares about is 1) deliverability and 2) price. >> having 0.1% of traffic related to ICOs isn't going
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Ridesharing and public transit can play complementary roles, in which ridesharing solves the last mile problem for regional transit. It plays this role for many of my friends in the Bay Area, especially with CalTrain.