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by gyardley 14y ago
Jews 'got around it' due to sustained media and political pressure in the 1950s - we didn't wait for anybody. Nor did Asians take our place - quotas against Jews in elite universities were largely lifted before the widespread adoption of af
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by gyardley 14y ago
States strapped for revenue often take a 'guilty until proven innocent' attitude towards taxes - first you file your taxes, then they claim you screwed it up and owe them money, then you waste your time proving you did it right in the first
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by gyardley 14y ago
Huh, that's interesting. Did you ever write up and share what you found? I'd like to read it.
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Dale Lazarow’s Gay Comics Censored On Gumroad(bleedingcool.com)
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by gyardley 14y ago
Not everything that's ridiculed is on the four-step Gandhi plan.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I don't think there's such a thing as 'proof' in politics, really - so God knows if I'm right. (I also don't think I need to provide any here - Wikipedia this isn't.) But since I live in Texas and I'm a life member of the NRA, I do know a l
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by gyardley 14y ago
Whatever your views are on gun control, it's hard to see yesterday's events as anything but an example of an entrenched political interest using its power (money, exclusive relationships, incumbency) to maintain the status quo... Nonsense
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by gyardley 14y ago
The name wasn't mentioned, but I remember the article because I wrote a comment on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5512507
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by gyardley 14y ago
The population along that border is spread real thin. I'm guessing there's just not a whole lot of people on the Utah side within driving range of Grand Junction.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Thanks for your input, Senator McCarthy. Attitudes like yours are why things like donations to political causes should be private.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Given any economic disruption that affects food distribution, you'll see your barbarism right quick.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I doubt Newtown will have much of a legal impact.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Perhaps. That wasn't particularly evident at the time.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The most likely change to your freedoms is 'none whatsoever' -- tragedies on this scale don't threaten society as a whole and therefore are dealt with by existing laws.
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by gyardley 14y ago
In my experience, we Canadians fly our national flag and wear flag-themed garb much, much more than Americans. Even more than in Texas, where people usually fly the American flag because they think it'd be rude to fly the Texas flag solo.
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by gyardley 14y ago
It's probably mixed. Lower taxation encourages the type of risk-taking that leads to innovation, but government spending on science and technology also leads to innovation. Silicon Valley, for what it's worth, was innovative long before it
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by gyardley 14y ago
Most if not all governments believe a fixed money supply leads to deflation. They also believe that deflation is a bad thing that should be avoided. (Whether you believe this is completely irrelevant. What matters for this argument is wha
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by gyardley 14y ago
The parent believes there's parallels between the demography-driven expansion of radical Islamism in certain countries (I'm guessing in Europe, although he didn't specify) and and the demography-driven expansion of Mexican nationalism in th
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by gyardley 14y ago
It's odd that the author singles out AppGratis for so much ire. There are many, many channels for paid app promotion, and rankings in Apple's app store have been heavily influenced by advertising dollars since the fall of 2008 - long before
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by gyardley 14y ago
Here's the relevant article, 'The Weirdest People in the World?' Led to a ton of conversation about exactly what you're talking about: http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/WeirdPeople.pdf
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by gyardley 14y ago
The United States should just go the route of Canada, and give permanent residency to individuals with in-demand skills who meet a high standard for linguistic ability, educational achievement, and work experience. If a person's got the ski
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by gyardley 14y ago
Basing a business around an app is both risky and potentially very profitable. Yes, which is why you should treat your ambiguously legitimate AppStore business like a vein of gold which might suddenly run out. You make sure you can put th
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by gyardley 14y ago
The "let's say they are only 25% as good" is a bad assumption. The real downloads you get from increased app store ranking are as good as any others you'll get. The ratio - 20K real downloads from 20K incentivized, or 1:1 - is also a bad as
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by gyardley 14y ago
Oh, perhaps it will. But I'm not arguing about the ability of the economy as a whole to adapt. I'm arguing that the extreme-sounding response of the meatpacking industry, which everyone in the thread is flipping out about, should be complet
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by gyardley 14y ago
He's probably referring to the Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. If I recall he spent quite a bit of time in jail in Canada for publishing his stuff, although I'm not sure his convictions stuck on appeal. After Zundel was finally deported to G
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by gyardley 14y ago
That was an impressively long justification for a perfectly legal business. I'm curious, though - why start a business in an industry where you've had to spend time writing essays 'reasoning through your fears', instead of just doing someth
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by gyardley 14y ago
Meatpacking remains labor intensive in a way that other forms of large-scale farming are not. Even if there was labor parity, they're not usually done in the same places. Meatpacking is usually done near transportation hubs, and ranching is
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, it's a silly law, sure, it probably won't survive constitutional review, and most definitely, true cruelty to animals is a crime. But this is also a rather predictable backlash against groups who aren't looking to correct occasional v
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by gyardley 14y ago
What source should they use for their research? The phone. Everybody in the investor community knows who's investing and who's not. You just pick up the phone and call someone you're on good terms with, or you make sure to ask 'who else sho
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by gyardley 14y ago
Absolutely. If you base your actions on bad data, you'll get bad results - and that original list was painfully bad. I don't know Silicon Valley particularly well, I but I know that list told you to ignore some of the best, most helpful, an

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