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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, this is sort of true, depending on the rifle. Some hunting rifles are as efficient as an AR-15, and some aren't. The ease of reloading a hunting rifle depends on the type of magazine it takes. Internal box or rotary magazines will be s
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by gyardley 14y ago
Civilians haven't been able to register fully-automatic weapons in America since 1986. I suppose they could buy a grandfathered-in weapon that was on the registry before then, but if that's the case, you have some seriously wealthy friends.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question. Interest
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'd be wary of drawing meaningful conclusions from such a limited amount of data. I could just as easily argue that our increasing dependency on the government for various forms of means-tested handouts is gradually transforming society int
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by gyardley 14y ago
Bad analogy, since the government that invested in my healthcare and education when I was growing up hasn't asked for a dime of my money. (Who knows - maybe they should.) I do get the point you're trying to make, but no matter how you feel
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by gyardley 14y ago
Easy, tiger. I might find paying large amounts of taxes painful, but that doesn't automatically imply I'm an Ayn Rand fan, don't see the need for some form of social safety net, and don't get why a progressive tax system is an unfortunate n
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by gyardley 14y ago
Anecdotally, the years I've been in this situation I've found it extremely painful - way more painful than the years I make $40K or so. I'm sure there's a threshold beyond which you just don't care, when you already have enough money to do
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by gyardley 14y ago
In my opinion, this is the correct way to think about the problem, but you should go deeper, and keep in mind that cultural traits aren't solely good or solely bad - they might be both good and bad, like a prescription medication with side-
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by gyardley 14y ago
I know HN frowns upon any kind of "political" discussion, so I'll won't elaborate too much, but can someone please explain why a school teacher would have three guns in her house, one of them a Glock semi-automatic pistol?? She liked to g
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by gyardley 14y ago
So, people who vote 'against their interests' (that is, against what you believe their interests are) but can't articulate why are stupid. Are people who vote 'for their interests' (that is, for what you believe their interests are) but can
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by gyardley 14y ago
No matter what user agent you use, Chrome won't show you how your page looks in a non-WebKit layout engine like Gecko, Trident, or Presto.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I've only read the reporting on the memo, not the memo itself, so I can't comment on the legal arguments within. But aside from that, I thought it was a fairly sensible move, precisely because the policies were a) pretty benign - they're no
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by gyardley 14y ago
I used to jam those little castle Lego swords and spears into the stitching of the braided area rug in my bedroom, to create that authentic medieval battlefield look. When my dad tromped on one of those things after coming off the evening s
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by gyardley 14y ago
I don't understand what's so hard about qualifying one's advice. I've given people advice more than a few times in the past, but I usually stress that I may have just gotten lucky, it might not be applicable to their present situation, wha
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by gyardley 14y ago
That was a rather selective quote, given that the same article says this just a paragraph down: Institute director, Peter Martin, stresses that his research group wants to maintain "arms length" from the coffee industry for ethical reasons
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by gyardley 14y ago
Although Canada has been blessed with a twenty-year streak of good federal governance, I wouldn't say Canadian politicians get more done with their campaign spending. I would say that their spending is strictly capped at the national and lo
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by gyardley 14y ago
Anthropology is ridiculously useful for sales and marketing. I owe a guy named Michiel van Meeteren a beer or three for his 'Indie Fever' ( http://www.madebysofa.com/indiefever/ ), a ethnography of indie Mac developers - which came out righ
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by gyardley 14y ago
Well, yes - they are politicians, after all.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Your comment is bizarre. First, if government has been responding to the desires of the disadvantaged all along, it would seem that a good portion of the poor and disadvantaged want to stay poor and disadvantaged. I don't believe that's the
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by gyardley 14y ago
You can't possibly actually believe this. When I'm doing volunteer work, I'm working for the interest of the disadvantaged. My synagogue collectively works for the interest of the disadvantaged through their social action programs. My town'
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure - it's fairly common at startups, especially in urban areas where many or most people aren't driving home at night. If you like beer, it's a nice-enough perk. Note that there's unwritten etiquette around the consumption of alcohol in t
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by gyardley 14y ago
America has a single federal government, yes. If you just want a ranking, you can go ahead and use the national average. However, America is ridiculously diverse culturally, and just using the national average is useless for understanding a
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by gyardley 14y ago
Are you sure you were censored? Perhaps you just submitted the exact same URL that I submitted six days ago, here (which, incidentally, you commented on): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4781004 When you submit the exact same URL as o
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by gyardley 14y ago
There is plenty of top-grade politically-conservative technical talent in America. Yes, Silicon Valley leans left in some ways, and politically conservative developers are outnumbered. The Democrats could probably pull together enough peopl
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by gyardley 14y ago
No kidding - ORCA should've been miles down the priority queue. That tens of thousands of election-day volunteers were wasted on it when they could've been doing more essential things is infuriating. The Romney campaign didn't build the rig
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by gyardley 14y ago
As I understand it, a lot of the infrastructure is contained in private companies (some non-profit, some not) closely associated with one of the two parties and available to all the campaigns associated with that party. For instance, the De
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by gyardley 14y ago
Not to get too political on HN, but the top 10% of earners in the United States already pay ~45% of the taxes, which is a greater share of the burden than anywhere else in the industrialized world. In Germany, for example, the top 10% of ea
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by gyardley 14y ago
Small percentages like these aren't necessarily worth reading much into, and they don't necessarily have anything to do with the question being asked. It could very well be that lower-income, older people (who would disproportionately liv
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by gyardley 14y ago
It's actually very important to point out when people are being antisemitic, just like it's important to point out when people are being racist or sexist. Most people don't like to think of themselves as bigots, so pointing out their bigotr
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by gyardley 14y ago
There are ways to be critical of the Israeli government without being antisemitic. You could be critical of, say, something relating to unemployment insurance. But that's not what people are usually talking about when this argument comes up

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