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by guelo 7y ago
Investor are short-sighted when they steal all the money from startup employees. Equity used to be the one way that startups could compete for talent but the more the word gets out that it's a scam the less that startups are able to co
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by guelo 7y ago
> the truth is, on balance free trade is better for the world Only because economists' only metric is GDP with the baked-in assumption that exponentially increasing natural resource usage is a good thing.
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by guelo 7y ago
Weird. The first time I read it I happened to come across it while browsing at a bookstore and I was unable to put it down. I sat down in the bookstore and read it in one sitting over a few hours.
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by guelo 7y ago
This article is blogspam. The original article [1] is better and shows that the main objections were about security concerns. [1] https://www.nhbr.com/nh-house-panel-votes-to-nix-right-to-re...
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by guelo 7y ago
I find it more absurd to think that closing clinics has no effect on the health outcomes of the affected communities.
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by guelo 7y ago
"In recent years, the agency reports, more than half of local STD programs have experienced budget cuts that led to clinic closures, as well as reduced screening and patient follow-up. "Federal spending has also been curtailed.&qu
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by guelo 7y ago
Russians also hacked into email and voting systems and directly assisted various campaings using stolen information.
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by guelo 7y ago
So the legislative process worked, cool.
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by guelo 7y ago
Pfizer also spends $14 billion/year on marketing, which patients have to pay for.
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by guelo 7y ago
That makes a lot of sense, same as private browsing which opens a new window.
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by guelo 7y ago
If raku failed to catch on whilst it was named Perl it has even less chance to catch on now.
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by guelo 7y ago
Are you a member of the Indonesian propaganda team?
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by guelo 7y ago
They controlled for temperature.
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by guelo 7y ago
I have a buddy who's an old Apple QA who tells me similar jaw dropping stories about the silos and secrecy. When I marvel how they can possibly ship all those wonderful products he says it's done through grueling brute force manua
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by guelo 7y ago
Kind of reminds me of how countries like Israel and Russia use democracy against us. Capitalism and democracy are our two weaknesses now but only because our institutions have been weakened from within.
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by guelo 7y ago
Fact is black people can't have a fun public conversation about living as a black person in America without a bunch of racists showing up and ruining it. How would you propose that be fixed?
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by guelo 7y ago
It's the (mostly white) trolls that ruin these things but you blame the people trying to salvage something.
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by guelo 7y ago
If nobody is allowed to express support for Hong Kong on Chinese social media do we really know what their sentiments are?
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by guelo 7y ago
Nobody, including Chinese citizens thinks this is "ordinary people boycotting offensive speech", this is government action.
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by guelo 7y ago
This theory has proved wrong. China has been welcomed into the WTO over the last 20-30 years and it has not reformed. It is now extending it's economic superpower into political and cultural power. It's not about making an enemy,
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by guelo 7y ago
As far as I know China has done little to threaten it's status as the world's manufacturer, anyone can build there. It is access to their internal markets that they've used as leverage. For example Google is not allowed to se
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by guelo 7y ago
China is applying economic pressure across the world to get its way. If they pull this shit on the US imagine what they can get away with with smaller poorer countries.
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by guelo 7y ago
American pop culture entertainment is by far the most dominant worldwide.
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by guelo 7y ago
Also things like sales taxes or even DMV fees can be significant percentages of lower income's taxes.
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by guelo 7y ago
From the HN guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually
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by guelo 7y ago
Environmental and human rights standards.
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by guelo 7y ago
It's probably also because there are a lot of highly paid young guys programmers that don't know what to do with all their money.
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by guelo 7y ago
Maybe there's also an effect where people try to be controversial in order to get attention, because it plays in to a narrative that makes a lot people feel better about themselves because they find someone to blame for their problems.
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by guelo 7y ago
Ok. I shouldn't have made it personal. I won't do it again.
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by guelo 7y ago
You're an obedient citizen that sees no need to go outside the box. China would have no problem with you.

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