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by hristov 9y ago
No consumers will not benefit. In a free market economy nobody benefits if they are limited to purchasing from one party only.
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by hristov 9y ago
Wikipedia is allowed to and does in fact give itself away for free. Go to wikipedia.org and check it out. If your question is why shouldn't tellcos be allowed to give wikipedia away for free, then that is a more complex question that r
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by hristov 9y ago
This is a very misleading and inflammatory title. Furthermore, it is not the linked article's title. The title makes it seem like Wikimedia's official position is against net neutrality and that is not the case. Their official pos
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by hristov 9y ago
This certainly brings back some memories. This is what I wrote in HN when I first encountered Unity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504972 HN tells me this was 2402 days ago. Oh how quickly the kilodays fly by. But I
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by hristov 9y ago
Only on Hacker News I can write an entire paragraph explaining how I am not criticizing Thiel and then still get slammed for criticizing him.
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by hristov 9y ago
There is a difference in the way the body processes sucrose and fructose from plants and that from refined sugar. Plants have all kinds of other nutrients that necessarily go into the stomach at the same time as the fructose and sucrose.
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by hristov 9y ago
By the way, Peter Thiel already sold the majority of his FB shares around the time of the IPO. See: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-thiel-facebook-... Notice that at the time the article was written he had
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by hristov 9y ago
Because in order to prescribe you need to be able to make a diagnosis and to make a diagnosis you need the full knowledge of a competent doctor.
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by hristov 9y ago
There should definitely be more med school slots and more residency slots in the US. The idea of nurses prescribing pills is very bad though. The shortage of doctors is a problem, but we should not kid ourselves -- the biggest problem in Am
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by hristov 9y ago
Majority of the time when CEOs of major companies leave, it is because they have been asked by the board of directors to leave. This is especially true after unfavorable business/stock performance. Since the HPE stock split, the HPE st
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by hristov 9y ago
Well, I think that static types are much more useful than dynamic ones. Static types allow you to find errors with your program before execution and that is very important. And if you are going to go through the effort of defining types, it
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by hristov 9y ago
Some places, yes. Unfortunately, in most places we don't. Usually wealthier neighborhoods get underground cables, but even then most long distance cables are up in the air, so if a hurricane destroys a long distance cable, you are scre
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by hristov 9y ago
They do not have to. If Kaspersky blocks the CIA backdoors and McAfee blocks the FSB backdoors, it will be fine by me.
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by hristov 9y ago
The current US government debt has nothing to do with Keynes. The current debt is the result of our ruling classes thinking they could have endless multi-front war and tax cuts at the same time. If this was a Keynes debt it would be spent o
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by hristov 9y ago
I don't think you know much about Marx or Keynes, if you conflate them like this. Keynes has been proven right as thoroughly as it is practically possible to prove an economist right. The greatest economic expansion in the modern world
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by hristov 9y ago
Ok I did not read the article but if Japan has invented ice 9 (as seems to be the case from the title), run for the hills, we are all screwed.
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by hristov 9y ago
You have to be very careful about these studies, because most official government studies flat out lie about the effects of nuclear disasters. The most egregious example is Chernobyl, where the official Soviet position was that only a singl
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by hristov 9y ago
Is that even true? I have met some rich people and they, in general, do not like to talk about how much money they have or what their grades were. I don't even know how anybody would conduct a study like this. How do you get a sample s
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by hristov 9y ago
That is the only point the grandparent made.
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by hristov 9y ago
If we need diversity of opinion, perhaps you could up-vote someone that believes that the earth is flat or black is white. There are out there some readily determinable facts, and it is perfectly fine for all of our opinions to be the same
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by hristov 9y ago
I don't think so. These rigs look massive and permanent, but in reality they are constantly deteriorating. Thus, they should not be compared to an island. Salt water is very bad for steel. And the ocean waves and winds constantly put s
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by hristov 9y ago
This has nothing to do with the TSA. It comes straight from the Department of Homeland Security. The TSA would have to enforce the ban of course, but it ain't their idea. The whole campaign against the TSA is idiotic and it is entirely
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by hristov 10y ago
Wow the public relations sock-puppetry on HN is getting very clever and sophisticated. I really love the green account - nice touch. It really helps your authenticity to pretend like you are afraid of retribution from John Deere when you ar
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by hristov 10y ago
The problem isn't that westinghouse made a couple of bad deals. The problem is that westinghouse was completely incapable of finishing the nuclear plants anywhere near their budget or their scheduled time. The cost overruns were absolu
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by hristov 10y ago
I got a counterfeit laptop power adapter. The thing had the brand name on it, and also the model number. But the counterfeiters decided to be clever and put in several model numbers on the same device. These numbers corresponded to complete
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by hristov 10y ago
We already have a 15% cushion as the article and the parent comments state. That is plenty for any conceivable jump in demand. A large state like california does not change that fast. And all the present technological trends are for lower d
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by hristov 10y ago
At the scale of California being 6 percent over requirements is an enormous waste.
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by hristov 10y ago
Hyperloop, if it ever gets built, will be at least 10 times more expensive than this. Building a 500 mile vacuum tube is not easy. The hyperloop hype is very unfortunate because it will prevent us from having a proper functioning train in t
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by hristov 10y ago
He tweeted that four days after the election. Again, I was correct to say that removing net neutrality was not part of his election platform.
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by hristov 10y ago
It is completely normal and accepted for various agencies to make rules within the confines of the laws that have empowered them. It is in fact necessary considering how complex our society is. Congress cannot possibly control everything. I

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