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by gozur88 9y ago
>Even folks on HN are separated from that reality by a year or so of cushion, if even that. Not sure why you would assume that. I know people in their late 40s who could retire.
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Larry Ellison had two big advantages, though - a well-circumscribed problem domain and an obvious business model. Recycling has neither. It's a much more difficult problem.
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>Yet, also, IQ tests are strongly influenced by cultural knowledge, good scores in kids strongly correlate to kids coming from upper middle class families with well educated parents, etc. Why do you assume that's cause and not effec
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>It really looked like the only thing the Mensa folks had going for them was having done well on a test. Maybe not even that. I don't know if it's still true, but Mensa used to accept anybody with a PhD. I used to know a not-
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When I was a kid there was a Pop Shoppe store by my house that sold different flavors of soda pop in thick little glass bottles. You'd grab a crate, fill it up with whatever mix of flavors struck your fancy, and pay a deposit for the
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>In the US, various bulk stores have tried to introduce the packaging reuse notion, but all have gone out of business because we take convenience over reuse. It's not just that. Stores in the US don't trust their customers eno
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Producing a Twitter clone and dealing with toxic materials are two entirely different skill sets.
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You're underestimating the amount of pollution other countries produced during industrialization. There used to be rivers in the US that were flammable because manufacturers discharges so many volatile effluents into them. London&#x27
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>What's humiliating is that we have a budding Hitler in our midst... No we don't. That kind of hyperbole isn't productive.
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Trump is just exploiting a weakness media companies created themselves with sloppy work and a reliance on cheap talking heads shows. They made it easy for him.
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>That means you can only write accounting software if you are an accountant, in addition to a developer. You can replace "accounting" with anything else you want. That's overstated. You don't have to be a full-blown
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>...receive care that (1) is not life-threatening but (2) can't wait till dawn. How often does this happen? If it's not life threatening, why can't it wait until dawn?
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I don't fly, so I'm just kind of curious if, in the US, we've reached the point where it's cheaper to mail your luggage to the destination if you have time.
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True. I switched from Firefox to Chrome when Firefox stopped working. Literally - it would freeze and make me reboot my PC. Not gonna switch back as long as Chrome works.
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Well, sure. And if there were no legal gun market, they'd come from the illegal market like they do in places like Brazil and France. What's your point?
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I've read getting a place to stay has become easier, but I still hear people complain about getting a bank account without help from an employer.
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It's not an attempt to derail "a necessary conversation". There's no conversation, since neither side is going to budge. And it's not a semantic argument, either - you're using misleading rhetoric to misrepre
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This isn't a new trend. In 1820 72% of Americans worked in "farm occupations". Today it's less than 2%.
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The amount of acreage it takes to be profitable goes up every year, and as a result people get squeezed out of the business. That's going to be tough on a guy in his fifties who never wanted to be anything but a farmer.
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Not many people will deliberately throw away money just to avoid taxes that would have been cheaper. Farmers aren't stupid. They're doing what makes them the most money in the long run.
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"Fair" is so subjective in the context of taxation it's virtually meaningless. You can't assume other people share the same assumptions rolled up into the word.
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The article doesn't give any indication there was a decrease in drug use: > While drug-related death, incarceration and infection rates plummeted, the country still had to deal with the health complications of long-term problematic
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by gozur88 9y ago
Well, okay. In that case the word doesn't actually mean much beyond "this is the way the law is". What makes the "gun show loophole" rhetoric dishonest is it has nothing to do with gun shows.
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I'm not a big fan of Portugal's drug policy. You can buy drugs and take drugs, but not deal them? So you still have much of the crime associated with distribution. I'd like to see drug use legalized (not "decriminalize
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>That said - gun show loophole is just that - a loophole. Should be fixed. The "gun show loophole" is a misnomer. It's not a loophole. It's simply the case in most states in the US for private sales you're allo
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The school shootings are irrelevant statistically. They make the news because they're upsetting, but you're more likely to be beaten to death by someone's fists than shot with a long gun in the US. The vast majority of gun c
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>Writers rally around the laid off, are eager to commiserate. “Failed” coders are shunned in tech culture. They don’t even want to acknowledge your existence. This is true. When you get laid of from your coding job, your former coworker
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I don't see why movies should be any less "classic" than books. A Tale of Two Cities was published in 1859 and is still a classic - why not Casablanca many years after its creation?
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Which is fine - but the point is you know what you're getting.
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That's the last book I'd buy from that author. If you want to write about politics, write about politics. Don't try to sneak your political views into a technical book.

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