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by hbags 13y ago
Your post is bullshit, and you are attempting to manipulate us. Your argument comes down to this: people should not be reminded that war is hell. That's it. That's the entire crux if your poorly considered post. If you're a
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by hbags 13y ago
It saddens me that your thoughtless and damaging response is pinned to the top. Right now we have one major source of news about drone programs: government PR. It is biased and one-sided. The Guardian has found a legitimate source of an ad
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by hbags 13y ago
> Americans feel this way, sure. I'm American. I don't feel that way at all.
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by hbags 13y ago
They're moderating the negative responses.
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by hbags 13y ago
"How much water us used during the production of an egg? 120 gallons" This is the only one I feel comfortable commenting on specifically, but this is insanely wrong. A laying hen drinks about 16 ounces of water per day, eats a fe
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by hbags 13y ago
Perhaps you didn't intend to imply it, but unfortunately that message was communicated to several of us. Thank you for clarifying that you don't hold that view. This apparent miscommunication emphasizes the importance of not del
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by hbags 13y ago
mlyang: It is absolutely a bizarre first reaction to imply that the reporter should feel culpable for the harm that RapGenius caused themselves. If RapGenius is ruined that easily, RG didn't have a real business to begin with. Their s
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by hbags 13y ago
Many readers on this site love to attack research by reading an article about the research or reading just the abstract, and then assuming that the researcher was slightly dumber than algae. This is just another example of that particular
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by hbags 13y ago
It's because Silk Road sold a lot of hacking tools (password sniffers, key loggers, and remote access tools) alongside the drugs.
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by hbags 13y ago
Wow. I encourage you to study written English communication. Your writing clearly implied that regulation is useless because sometimes criminals evade regulation. If you were capable of understanding how communication works, you'd ad
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by hbags 13y ago
"seek out other people who are passionate about it" ding ding ding ding ding. This is what networking is. Purposefully interacting with people whose passions, and goals overlap your own. It saddens me that so many tech folks do
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by hbags 13y ago
Giving $600MM away with no hope of earning a return is not an industry. Full stop.
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by hbags 13y ago
And laws against theft don't prevent all theft so theft should be legal. I will never, in my life, understand why so many Libertarians take the argument that if some criminal might engage in a crime, then everyone should be allowed to
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by hbags 13y ago
It's hard to take you seriously when you refer to a single individual giving away a huge chunk of wealth with no hope of earning a return as being an "industry".
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by hbags 13y ago
The cars wouldn't block the lane of a major artery for long periods of time, as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876464
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by hbags 13y ago
My antipathy towards AirBNB comes because my experiments using AirBNB exposed me to: - hosts using fake names - hosts using fake addresses - hosts giving deeply inaccurate descriptions - hosts telling me that the super might swing by, and
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by hbags 13y ago
Your réponse (and dnautic's much longer response) are both based on an unsupported assumption: that employers in a zero inflation environment wouldn't trim wages. The change in inflation would impart no change to the balance of po
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by hbags 13y ago
Inflation is most damaging to those who save but do not invest. The poor are near 100% consumption, so it has essentially no effect on them. A person whose average cash balance is $100 is not vulnerable to inflation.
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by hbags 13y ago
No. You failed to recognize two key points: 1) Savings erodes investment. Savings is the non-productive hoarding of cash. Investment is when one takes cash and deploys it in a way that creates value. In a slightly inflationary economy,
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by hbags 13y ago
In most countries, giving your bank details gives them deposit-only access. The US is behind the rest of the world on this one.
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by hbags 13y ago
Deflation doesn't eliminate the demand curve, it just shifts it a bit to the left. It reduces consumption. It reduces investment. It increases savings. It does not cause a 100% reallocation from consumption and investment to saving
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by hbags 13y ago
Commodity prices are always unstable. There's a very good reason that only people with specialized needs write contracts in pork bellies, bbls of oil, or other highly volatile commodities. BTC is a virtual commodity, and as such it&#x
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by hbags 13y ago
Speaking of cocks, the technical leadership at two well-funded startups systematically harassed Zed by adding him to github repos that contained nothing but ASCII cocks. I know this because they bragged about it openly, thinking it hilario
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by hbags 13y ago
Are you criticizing the study? It appears that you have conflated the study proper with a journalist's lay interpretation of the study. if you were criticizing the study proper, could you provide a link to it?
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by hbags 13y ago
Put your money where your mouth is. Openly run a mixer. Openly advertise that you are the person who operates it. If you're right and I'm wrong, it'll be a lucrative business and you'll probably quickly dominate the mi
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by hbags 13y ago
A mixer's sole purpose in life is collect a fee for concealing sources of money. It's textbook money laundering.
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by hbags 13y ago
Ah, and here's the post where the poor, afflicted fellow disavows his stated opinions, because he now believes that the rest of us are government agents, and the conspiracy is even larger than he first imagined.
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by hbags 13y ago
Ephemeral messages is not the same as privacy. A service based on privacy wouldn't publicly show who you communicate with most often.