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by ggg9990 9y ago
I thought someone had tried to kill the CEO.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I know what it means today in current US law. I think that the law should be expanded.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
And that is something that should be considered antitrust.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You don’t have a lot of artistic license for headstones in Arlington National Cemetery.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
But our universe isn’t well suited for life, our planet is. So 1) there is a god or 2) many planets exist.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s not uncommon today, but was virtually unheard of until Google did it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You don't see Crips and Bloods wearing colors but in the several cities I've spent significant time in, there are organized drug-dealing operations with management hierarchy. That, to me, is a gang.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What is EO?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I don’t know about Trump, but I’d be perfectly fine sending him to his execution if I was on his jury.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
CEO: $4m fine. With an annual salary of $20m+.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s not clear what it really is. People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hollywood celebrities for appearances too, with no expectations of political favors.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
A doctor who specializes in pain management for late stage cancer patients will prescribe thousands of times more opiates than a family doctor. More context is needed
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The large numbers of prison gangs is evidence of the networking function. And in gang ridden neighborhoods most murders aren’t even solved, and 3 years happens regularly, because of the low evidence an lack of witness cooperation causing pr
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Fountain pens are unnecessary but you at least owe yourself a uni-ball micro or similar.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The current hardware is toy-quality, so most applications are toys. When the hardware gets to pro-quality, the applications are virtually infinite (imagine being able to create any possible experience for any person... having sex with their
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by ggg9990 9y ago
In each state there is probably one prison worth of people who are capable of earning a college degree. They should be put in one place and encouraged to do so. The rest are mostly shiftless and incorrigible and prison makes them worse peop
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Because heroin addicts cause vast destruction to their communities and families.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Companies won’t take security seriously until 1) customers demand methods of evaluating the security of a company and making purchasing decisions accordingly — “size of security team” doesn’t count, and 2) sufficiently punishing companies t
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Foxconn workers suicide rate has never been demonstrated to be extraordinary.
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Pretty much everywhere, if the justice system doesn’t reflect the population’s desire for mob justice, the people will administer it extrajudicially. The places with low bloodthirst traditionally have strong civic fabrics and low violent cr
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No, it’s what the justice system is in place to formalize.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
One thing that DST discussions on HN always omit is that not everyone works as a software engineer with a reasonably flexible culture and a 10AM start culture. People who work at coffee shops, retail stores, foodservice prep, etc. often nee
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No more than 1/100s apart.
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On the other hand you gave me, a person of color who moved from New York City to exurban Minneapolis and couldn’t be happier about it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The majority of employees at advertising-based companies are employed in selling advertising and supporting the people who sell advertising. Outside of Google and Facebook scale it is still a very high touch process.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The notion that Facebook is secretly recording your microphone is beyond idiotic and shows how ignorant the general population is (and consequently how vulnerable). It is the fantasy of an aspiring but untalented screenwriter. Facebook isn’
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It always depends on how great the product is. If you had a credible approach to improving power plant efficiency by 5% you could raise ten times as much investment before shipping a product as long as you were privately hitting your develo
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Successful person overestimates his own abilities and underestimated those of his rivals.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If you think that you are extremely uninformed about the many useful pharmaceuticals out there and are probably thinking of a few Longreads articles about fentanyl abuse and ADD overmedication.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Of course it’s not the only way to produce pharmaceuticals, as pharmaceuticals are thousands of years old. But without patents the number of new drugs pharmaceuticals over the last 50 years would be probably 1-5% of it actually was.

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