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by genwin 13y ago
If your state has sales tax and you've bought stuff online without paying sales tax, check your state's law on that.
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by genwin 13y ago
Have you ever not paid sales tax to your state, on an item you purchased tax-free online? That's felony tax evasion when the amount is high enough; varies by state.
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by genwin 13y ago
Seems it was EmilandDC's idea all along.
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by genwin 13y ago
On 1) a slide is missing, that says the providers are bending over backwards with fiber optic links to gov't-only server farms, free of charge.
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by genwin 13y ago
Yep, memorizing formulas and tricks is the best choice absent some motivating tie-in.
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by genwin 13y ago
New patent: device shuts down if incoming pinging signal can't be detected.
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by genwin 13y ago
Without instant run-offs, voting for an alternative candidate is tantamount to voting for your worst of the two viable choices. In 2000, Gore would have won the US presidential election if not for Nader voters whose second choice was Gore.
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by genwin 13y ago
Logic dictates making the best choice over not choosing.
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by genwin 13y ago
Or they made what they thought was the best choice among the only two viable choices. The biggest problem in the US, maybe the world, is that we don't have instant run-off voting to allow competition in federal gov't. We're t
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by genwin 13y ago
It's good! Starring Grant Imahara from Mythbusters as Sulu.
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by genwin 13y ago
I've had success doing that, while never having written in Python.
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes from our point of view, where human death is always bad and future consequences are largely ignored. From a macro point of view nature achieves what is perhaps the best possible outcome. Man has a spotty track record of improving or cor
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by genwin 13y ago
You want the change to take a long time so that humans can evolve with it. Yes plant hybridization (e.g. to make fruit sweeter) is not as fast or easy which is why it's more in tune with evolution. Some things that genetic modification can
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by genwin 13y ago
Plant hybridization (or whatever the ancient method is called) is significantly different than modifying the genome of a plant to embed a pesticide. The former is much more in tune with natural evolution.
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by genwin 13y ago
Actually there is plenty of evidence of societies suffering greatly when they exceeded their resources, including modern ones like during the Rwandan genocide. We can also observe the current global fall, in terms of fast declining ocean fi
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes, we can't know that something bad will happen when we jump off a cliff. If during the fall someone claims that something bad always happens at the bottom and yet it hasn't happened, the claim is doubtful.
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by genwin 13y ago
See how long you can keep borrowing money. Pay off each credit card with a new credit card. You don't need to witness the crash to know that the future is bleak. There is plenty of factual basis to the claim that we're borrowing against our
468.
by genwin 13y ago
Education is the key to amending the culture and religion that is the root cause of the problem.
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by genwin 13y ago
Nobody needs to starve when the root cause is focused on. You're basically saying "we will starve people off in the future, but save less people today, so it's actually a good thing". Of the two of us, I'm the one advocating that less peopl
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by genwin 13y ago
No, the choice here is either we have better crops and people starve, or we do not have them and less people starve. brent_noorda explains above.
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by genwin 13y ago
The story confirms that the seeds must be purchased anew with each season.
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by genwin 13y ago
The way I read the article, it's mainly pricing of the GM product that led indirectly to their despair. They could've handled the crop failure with the cheaper non-GM seeds. It's analogous to US students getting into a pickle by accepting l
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by genwin 13y ago
Yep. > Instead I think we're just stupid that way. That's culture and religion. Both could change to promote smarter sustainability.
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by genwin 13y ago
No, I'm advocating not making the problem worse while ignoring its root cause.
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by genwin 13y ago
True. See "The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops" at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genoc...
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by genwin 13y ago
api's comment in this thread sums up the rationale behind the public's opposition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5800001 People don't need to become experts on any particular food innovation to have a very good chance of serving th
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by genwin 13y ago
Absolutely. Cigarettes were good for health too. Pretty much anything that makes an industry is good for you, until it's not. I highly doubt that GMO is different.
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by genwin 13y ago
I too keep hidden secret offsite offline backups. But there's little to worry about Dropbox or other large US clouds. It's a safe bet that the only judicial system that will squish a cloud will be the US's, for a small cloud or one not base
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by genwin 13y ago
Going on 3 hours at the top of HN, soon to be the #1 stock photo site. Nothing but MacBook Air pictures.
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by genwin 13y ago
Is 100f 30 days in a row worse than 7 months in a row of mostly overcast and rain? Not so assured.

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