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601.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Engineering degrees are governed by ABET. It's trivial for schools to email their list of graduates to ABET. Other fields have similar certifications and/or degree-independent licensing exams like CPA and actuary.
602.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Reasonable standards + lottery selections is far less gameable. And it has the right incentives, as it pressures rich folks to develop more high-quality universities.
603.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Knowing every feature of C means they have to learn custom patterns on top of the C to make things work, and that almost always means horrific unhygienic macros.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
French Revolution?
605.
by hgsgm 3y ago
You mean the landowners are liable for damages.
606.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Apparently not anymore because corner crossers have precedent.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Not really. There was a real attack (provoked by the US) on Aug 2nd, and Johnson didn't want any evidence before escalating. Johnson even lied to Congress and the public about his plans before attacking. It's clear he would have u
608.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Summary: lots of accusations, no evidence, even 70 years later when we've had decades for deathbed confessions.
609.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Mammoths travel in herd, so accuracy isn't very important.
610.
by hgsgm 3y ago
You are allowed to go to the kitchen after 58minutes.
611.
by hgsgm 3y ago
The police cars here have "Protect and Serve" decals. Saying it doesn't make it so. The proof is in the behaviors.
612.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Or maybe the problem lies with violent power-hungry cabals that dominate the Earth by force? Governments aren't created democratically, they are created by the people with the biggest weapons and least hesitation to use them.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
When you have millions of people, you need to form abstractions over large groups. The Majority of the Public is a million times better than The Whim of the King.
614.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Remember when Britain's American colonies made a whole new country based on the principle of government by consent? Thomas Jefferson remembers. Sometimes it seems like the American Revolution liberated Britain more than the USA.
615.
by hgsgm 3y ago
It's hard to even have a discussion about something without some label to distinguish it from similar things. "Naming things" is famously one of the two hard problems of computer sxient.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
The conclusion is that the OP author doesn't know what they are talking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36121331
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by hgsgm 3y ago
> usury I think you are conflating processor fees (2.9% + $.30) with bank loans (20+% for carrying a balance). These are different companies in the system.
618.
by hgsgm 3y ago
That's almost nothing compared to the rich people spending far more money at shops in the first place, which pays the fixed costs that makes it affordable to even sell to the poor people.
619.
by hgsgm 3y ago
It's not the author's fault this was pushed to the frontpage of HN.
620.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Yes, that was clearly stated. Are you trying to insinuate something?
621.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Putting water in your mouth is external application.
622.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Table salt kills slugs.
623.
by hgsgm 3y ago
When you assume the reality that many people don't brush, the benefits of brushing have no impact.
624.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Legal system doesn't bother with harassment.
625.
by hgsgm 3y ago
How would you handle chargeback claims? Should all users of the system share in the fraud risk?
626.
by hgsgm 3y ago
We can't turn back the clock, but if w never had Wakefield, and never had needles, am maybe antivax would never have achieved critical mass.
627.
by hgsgm 3y ago
(er, 6MB/sec)
628.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Scrapers scraping scrapers.
629.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Opera the theater or Opera the web browser?
630.
by hgsgm 3y ago
This is almost completely unresponsive to what parent actually wrote.

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