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by hga 10y ago
Don't forget the drop in the number of younger men, the most likely to become criminals, as the Baby Boomers grew older. Not to mention a bunch of the incorrigibles getting locked up for long periods of time.
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by hga 10y ago
The latter is battle tested, even...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K9_Thunder#Operational_history
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by hga 10y ago
Note also that capital gains are seldom if ever indexed for inflation, certainly not in the US. So you're frequently paying a big tax on purely paper gains.
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by hga 10y ago
Everyone knows that we're eating up our resources and dump the rest into the seas all the while doing so. The result is that a lot of things available today will be luxury super rich items in the not too distant future. Not sure how
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, it's a lot more complicated than that. People in the US have been buying up ammo at > 10 billion (thousand million) rounds/year rates for more than a decade now (US civilian production is > 12 billion/year, whi
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by hga 10y ago
A warning, though: don't try to use FreeBSD with SCSI tape drives, in my truncated experience because of what I found experience a few months ago, the driver is capable of writing without error data it then can't read back (but ca
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by hga 10y ago
While I generally agree with your points, the statement "* i.e. the fact that there's no real possibility for gain or winning outcomes, with nuclear weapons*" assumes facts that are simply not available. Some day, nuclear wea
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by hga 10y ago
Those measurements aren't as accurate as you might think. E.g. many local police forces in the US are under pressure to under report crimes of all sorts, and/or too busy to record petty crimes that are unlikely to be closed, and
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by hga 10y ago
Your first two and last points should included an implicit "Don't be afraid of being shown the door", or "Don't be surprised if your complaints are essentially ignored" and you might as well leave. I.e make it
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by hga 10y ago
Then, it will be moved to Texas, where its focus will be tested, and then to California for some final assembly. The testing is particularly high-stakes, because unlike Hubble, which was repaired and refocused in orbit by astronauts, this
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by hga 10y ago
Firing gets rid of the worst at playing the internal political game. Fixed it for you. Something I've seen at at least a couple of companies where it resulted in killing the company, and one of those was the storied Lucent (forced to
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by hga 10y ago
But what would be the grounds for a subpoena? To the extent he was giving advice to Hillary while she was Secretary of State, I suppose, and you can be sure Judicial Watch is on that, but simply running her campaign?
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by hga 10y ago
And as usual, the ends justify the means: Those researchers violated their principles The big story isn't the conspiracy theory about Trump, but that these malware researchers exploited their privileged access for some purpose other t
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by hga 10y ago
Trump the man, or his campaign? It's hard to imagine his campaign functioning without something like email, then again, I'm old fashioned and prefer it to all other forms of person to person/small groups of people methods, an
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by hga 10y ago
What troubles me the most is that these emails were hacked by a foreign government are slowly being trickled out and are having a massive impact in our election. That's not in the least clear, the foreign government part. Their Info
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by hga 10y ago
Yes, the Republican Party has been the "money in politics" whipping boy since Reagan How about since at least the mentioned Williams Jennings "Cross of Gold" Bryan (and if you haven't sampled his speech, I highly
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by hga 10y ago
For it to be that big a fraction of my life it's of course an example of parental betrayal, and as I've seen in and outside of my family, hardly a unique one. The trick is to realize sooner rather than later that your parents are
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by hga 10y ago
Some more on what Eric Schmidt did/is doing for Hillary's campaign (ignore the source, it's a "just the facts, ma'am" report, and all anodyne and entirely proper stuff, and per a linked article the company they
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by hga 10y ago
What fraction of YC companies, would you say, depend on, or plan to depend on, a wide cross section of the US population? Go by age, start with high schoolers (pro-Trump, curiously enough) to the elderly, and from coast to coast? And would
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by hga 10y ago
Not learning early enough in my life that there are people who will shamelessly betray you, even to the point of deliberately and will malice aforethought ruining your life, or possibly getting your killed, just to satisfy their own psychol
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by hga 10y ago
Does Amazon run without backing up its data??? Agreed ... and not that I want to cast aspersions, but I can't help but noticing his space company will play no role in setting up an off planet backup except for maybe providing a rocke
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by hga 10y ago
I can't imagine why I haven't made the connection, but this is inherently a part of the primary thesis of the best book on starting a company I've come across, The E-Myth ( https://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Most-
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by hga 10y ago
OK, so she messed up with some emails. No, against all advice with anyone with a clue about security, and the law , she set up her own private email server and transacted all her email State Department business on it, including the tra
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by hga 10y ago
Yes, anything about him is gone within 2-3 hours, I went so far as 5 pages past the homepage and all 6 items as I type this ( https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peter&sort=byPopularity&prefix... ), including this one tha
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by hga 10y ago
Hmmm, I guess all I have to say is that wasn't my father's experience in a lifetime of entrepreneurship, say early to mid-60s to semi-retirement bit by bit starting in the late '90s or so. The "Everybody will Treat you l
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by hga 10y ago
I agree 100% that it's a lottery, my father was an entrepreneur nearly his entire working life, and simply by a) keeping at it, b) never getting in too far that it bankrupted him or put him in jail like the fathers of some of my school
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by hga 10y ago
While I agree, you don't need formal fractional reserve banking to create the same sorts of crises, see for example the various US financial panics prior to the creation of the Fed in 1913 (e.g. go to the bottom of https://
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by hga 10y ago
Getting off topic, but " lowest level classified document was sent to an unsecured email account " does not describe the NSA TS/SCI/SAP GAMMA material a no longer cleared Sidney Blumenthal sent out. I suppose there ar
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by hga 10y ago
Considering how doing things the proper way led to the Obamacare website kerfuffle in the first place Actually, that wasn't the case, whatever the competence of the contractors (and the lead company did a fantastic job on the Medic
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by hga 10y ago
Ditto, stock 14.04 Trusty running Unity, and this was also true for Debian releases lenny through wheezy, and at least two very different hardware systems.

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