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by gyardley 14y ago
The Malthusian fear of overpopulation is unfounded. Most demographers expect the world population to peak between 2040 and 2050 and then begin declining. This isn't a particularly new idea, although recently it's been popularized with artic
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by gyardley 14y ago
The judge's opinion certainly makes the man sound like a victim of persecution to me. From it: The evidence was consistent that no law enforcement personnel ever attempted to communicate with Mr. Caswell about any potential safety measures
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by gyardley 14y ago
You should really download the judgement and read it before you accept that set of comments as factual. Apart from the Trip Advisor and Yelp reviews, the judge addresses the lot of them.
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by gyardley 14y ago
It's intentional. I can't say I care for it - I've tried to scroll the missing part of the type onto the screen a couple times now. You can fix this pretty easily if you use a browser extension like Stylebot to customize your page styling -
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Beware The Big-Data Campaign(nytimes.com)
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by gyardley 14y ago
In my admittedly anecdotal experience, long-term San Franciscans can't stand startup employees -- the dot-com crowd is blamed for gentrification and high rents. Getting involved in local politics would be like hanging a 'vilify me, I'm an o
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by gyardley 14y ago
While I understand the point you're making, as long as there is a way to deliver criticism while being an asshole and a way to deliver criticism without being an asshole, people who choose the former route are assholes. I also agree that as
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by gyardley 14y ago
Looks like they're re-releasing that one on dead tree: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndac... Interesting that they're doing this now. It always felt like Wizards of the Coast was trying to shoehorn me into the la
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by gyardley 14y ago
Must we really go around calling a bunch of random people 'douche bags' for behavior that in some cases, isn't even remotely problematic? One of the most astute VCs I know and have worked with came from money and knows his way around a rega
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by gyardley 14y ago
To me, the planning and density issues everyone's taking about feel like a red herring. Plunk this woman down in the middle of NYC and remove her need for a car whatsoever. Is she really going to let her kid go wherever he wants outside?
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by gyardley 14y ago
Good lord, you don't have to agree with Aaron's left-wing politics to be concerned about federal abuse of power. Seeing justice done isn't a partisan issue.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The other commenter on this thread is right - this is classic poisoning the well. When a politician does something right - and Cornyn's letter asks far more pointed and on-point questions than I expected - the correct response is not to bri
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, seriously. Are you bringing up something from 2005 to kick dirt over the rightness of Senator Cornyn's current actions? Whatever could be the point of this, besides counter-productive partisanship? Can a right action be taken only by p
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by gyardley 14y ago
Or perhaps he's simply being responsive to his constituents here in Texas, some of whom took the time to urge him to act. I'm proud to have him as a Senator.
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by gyardley 14y ago
There's tons, like you say. It's more interesting when it's used outside the corporate world - for example, by the Israeli Defense Forces: http://www.idfblog.com/idf-ranks-game/
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by gyardley 14y ago
Funny, but sometimes you do want to clean up your laptop - for example, before crossing the US border. I would be irked if I had taken steps to remove a downloaded file from my laptop, including secure deletion, only to leave evidence that
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by gyardley 14y ago
I live in small-town Texas. Yes, people here are (on average) conservative and well-armed, and the most common vehicle is a Ford F150, but I wouldn't describe anyone here as a redneck. They're happy, polite, friendly, community-minded peopl
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by gyardley 14y ago
And I posited that they would rather do something that looks good to the base than something reasonable and effective.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Done recently: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145664-3d-printed-30-roun...
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by gyardley 14y ago
It's not the President's to give away - in this country, Congress makes the laws, not the President.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The President knows his proposal will never pass the House - hell, I doubt it's even going to come up for a vote - and he knows it sounds good to his base, who has no idea what an assault weapon is and doesn't get that actual 'assault weapo
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by gyardley 14y ago
I agree completely - but it's a good step in the right direction. I didn't mention it in the letters I've already written, because I didn't know about it, but I'll certainly be working it into the letters I haven't written yet. Hopefully yo
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, the legislation won't go anywhere if you go out of your way to make it seem like a one-party issue. Some of us have been reaching out to our GOP representatives, especially those who've expressed prior concerns about prosecutorial abu
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by gyardley 14y ago
I agree that Stephen Heymann played a more direct role. However, Carmen Ortiz was his boss and therefore responsible for the work of her employees, and her firing will also have beneficial effects. First, her sacking will make every other U
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by gyardley 14y ago
Feels like I'm trudging through peanut butter when I scroll up and down the page. I suspect there's just too much going on and it's killing performance.
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by gyardley 14y ago
They are refusing to provide the funds necessary to run what you think a modern government should do. Opinions differ.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The bit about use tax isn't accurate. If you don't pay Texas sales tax on something, which varies from 6.25% to 8.25% depending on the jurisdiction, you are supposed to pay the difference between Texas sales tax and the tax you paid elsewhe
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by gyardley 14y ago
These founders need to be very, very careful. Business-to-business services that are disliked by the public and involve any type of tracking or analytics aren't just class-action-lawsuit bait, they're ambitious-prosecutor bait. All they nee
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by gyardley 14y ago
The excerpt, containing new (to me, anyway) information, that makes this article worth posting: Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. He said JS
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by gyardley 14y ago
Venture capital largely gets spent on employee salaries. At worse, the money while it lasts will create good jobs - think of it as a Keynesian stimulus, something the Conservative government's not usually known for. At best, it jumpstarts a

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