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by gravy 8y ago
America as a whole? Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are 3 mandatory spending programs that make up ~45% of gov't spending. Defense makes up ~15% and is discretionary (albeit also globally projected, though most of which goes to pay
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Hi everyone, thanks a lot for the advice. You have no idea how valuable it is to me and everyone else in the same boat (and neither do I, time will tell). I think my biggest takeaway so far is to take advantage of my youth, which I think is
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by gravy 8y ago
Thanks. :)
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Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?
126 points by gravy 8y ago|168 comments
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by gravy 8y ago
>Decades ago, men kicked women out of the programming profession just as it was taking off. I hear this a lot. Maybe I'm too young to realize, but what exactly happened?
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by gravy 8y ago
I wonder why it explicitly calls out "by threats, intimidation or abuse, including cyberbullying" as the methods for causing physical or emotional harm. In the cheating boyfriend example, why wouldn't the boyfriend be conside
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Ask HN: Cinnamon-Like Windows Manager for Windows 10?
1 points by gravy 8y ago|1 comments
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by gravy 8y ago
For that reason? Yeah probably.
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by gravy 9y ago
>perhaps it is the case that to achieve positive change you do need to embellish No, no, absolutely not in any way at all.
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by gravy 9y ago
> Private owners might reduce inefficiencies, but at what cost? Their own profit, that they would try to maximize at all costs Correct, this has been the SOP for private companies since the beginning of time. This is why things get bette
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by gravy 9y ago
What incentive would the government have to ensure it?
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by gravy 9y ago
How is this even allowed? It's just a repost of the Washington Post article but behind a paywall. Anyways what a find. It makes me wish I had a high powered telescope and a good place to look up.
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by gravy 9y ago
I think it's valid considering it's usually parents who pay for their children's schooling if it wasn't free. The benefit here is monetary, not academic.
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by gravy 9y ago
This only makes it even less appropriate than that comment and the OP. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talki
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by gravy 9y ago
It was a question of genuine curiosity. Thanks. How do the regulations or whatever it is that was repealed stop them from doing so? I actually have no idea what was repealed.
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by gravy 9y ago
How is this different from me paying for more for faster internet?
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by gravy 9y ago
I also don't understand the context. I agree with your point, but saying that you can't discriminate against citizens according to the Constitution doesn't mean they are guaranteed access to power. I don't think the virt
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by gravy 9y ago
Honestly. I went to Japan just last month and the fact that all of this is everywhere is just crazy.
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by gravy 9y ago
What is this even supposed to mean? That's exactly their point. The average-to-low-budget (as well as unpopular) anime still has power line shots all over because that's just what they do. On average, our establishing shots in our
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by gravy 9y ago
Don't companies participating in hyper-competition only compete for the best products/services/etc. in the eyes of their customers? I mean, companies only get money (investments) if there is promise or results that their prod
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Ask HN: Are companies ever willing to hire non-“top-talent”?
2 points by gravy 9y ago|3 comments
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by gravy 9y ago
Usually I'm opposed to "read these documents the way we tell you to" articles a la CNN but this was a case of judging a book by its cover on my part, with little mention of Trump. Kudos Politico.
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by gravy 9y ago
The answer is not in policing corruption, since everyone is subject to corruption (no population is free of bad apples), but in preventing corruption. If there is not much power to be had by those seeking election, then the people "in
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For the work it may be true, but there are lots of interviews that screen and filter on these kinds of questions. The other side of the gate may totally allow for learning and growth, but the gate itself is usually not as forgiving.
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The idea being that equal opportunity leads to the same thing: inequality
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Of course it's not illegal, its Google's own channel for app delivery/purchase/managing/etc. But if they're going to police it based on politics, then they should say so upfront and not pretend to be unbiased.
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by gravy 9y ago
Free speech doesn't apply to any of those examples because there was an action outside of "speech" or "thought". Speech, thought, etc. should never be illegal.