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by hugh 18y ago
It's a big get in terms of PR but achieves nothing. Ummm, as opposed to any of his other activities?
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by hugh 18y ago
Right, so year-by-year, it'll be the same order of magnitude of cost as the Iraq war, except the war was always planned to end eventually whereas the "community service" plan is planned to go on forever. Justifying one enormous waste of mon
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by hugh 18y ago
That's something the Bush admin would do, I sure hope an Obama admin won't. I think you're doomed to be repeatedly disappointed over the coming years as we all remember that government incompetence isn't some weird temporary anomaly, it's
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by hugh 18y ago
Well that's good, but it doesn't scale. If twelve kids in the county want to do volunteer work then it's easy to find places for them, but if five thousand kids in the county need to do volunteer work they can't all be accommodated in "sens
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by hugh 18y ago
So, "slavery" then? Who'd have thunk President Obama would be the one to bring back slavery? Seriously though, it's not actually _forced_, it's just encouraged via one of those offers-you-can't-refuse. It really does make me very uneasy tho
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by hugh 18y ago
Also, let's just do the maths here: there's 10 million college students in the US. Give each of them $4000 a year to pick up trash from the projects, and that's $40 billion a year, or about 1.5% of the size of the Federal budget, or 4% the
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by hugh 18y ago
I thought it was killed for being politics. Unfortunately the later winner-of-the-election thread stayed up.
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by hugh 18y ago
That's where there's a dispute between the union and company A, so the union not only pulls company A's workers out on strike, but also company B and C's. It's a tactic most often used just to be assholes.
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by hugh 18y ago
It also makes it easier to lie to the workers about exactly what the "card" is for. The UAW keeps trying to unionize postdocs at the University of California. They do this by coming around to their offices, one-on-one, pulling them out to t
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by hugh 18y ago
Sweet! Does that mean that instead of quitting my job I can just go on permanent strike from it? That way, I know I can always get the job back if I decide to return. Kinda unfair to my boss, who won't ever be able to replace me, but hey! O
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by hugh 18y ago
That depends whether you're the one getting paid, or the one paying for it.
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by hugh 18y ago
Ummm, how do you propose that the executive branch should "get rid of" a senator?
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by hugh 18y ago
Well perhaps the article doesn't put it in quite the right way, but to put it another way: if you were Russian or Chinese intelligence and you had the opportunity to read, say, the Obama camp's internal memos, wouldn't you want to do so? As
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by hugh 18y ago
Meh, only recently. Hopefully things will return to normal soon.
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by hugh 18y ago
Y'know, I did say "almost always". Seatbelt laws? Yeah, I can't think of much there, though I'm sure there's somebody out there who'll argue that seatbelt laws promote worse driving, and there have probably been some particular crashes in w
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by hugh 18y ago
What about the point of view that Obama won partially because of pro-black racism? Both among blacks and whites, there were people who admitted voting for him because of his "race" . Now, I myself don't believe in this "race" concept tha
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by hugh 18y ago
Really? I'm considering moving back to Australia in order to start my company when the time comes. I moved to the US because it had lower tax rates, but if that gets reversed then the US can say goodbye to my income.
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by hugh 18y ago
Isn't being the most important VC in New York City a bit like being the most important fashion designer in Tulsa?
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by hugh 18y ago
Trouble is, there's hundreds or thousands of interesting people out there whose opinions on other matters would be interesting on this site. VCs, entrepreneurs, programmers, scientists, mathematicians, writers, et cetera. No doubt, every on
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by hugh 18y ago
Flagged. Far too much politics on the front page already, and while this may be by "A VC", the VC-ness of his perspective really doesn't really come through in the article.
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by hugh 18y ago
Hopefully his policies will live up to the talk, but if nothing else I believe that his message alone will go a long way towards helping improve things. Never forget: the unintended consequences of any government policy almost always wind
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by hugh 18y ago
I didn't see his victory speech this time, but I did see his victory speech in the primaries: "...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began t
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by hugh 18y ago
Having had my appendix removed last week, I'm really glad I didn't have to rely on any politician to do it. Unfortunately, making the government responsible for appendix-removal is one of the things which Obama wants to do. Comparing my exp
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by hugh 18y ago
Hopefully the new counterculture will be more libertarian. It's awfully hard to be cool while blindly supporting the President. Let's hope it remains that way, because the alternative would be bad -- not just for politics, but for coolness.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd go for "Please don't announce any winners". Seriously, I can get that from any other site. How about one island of tech news, sans US election crap?
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by hugh 18y ago
Flagged. Now this is _exactly_ the kind of thing that needs to get killed in order to make it clear that the "no politics" rule ain't kidding. If this doesn't get killed, the site is screwed.
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by hugh 18y ago
Politics, nothing new, too much of it on the front page already. Flagged.
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by hugh 18y ago
I clicked the "I voted" button just to make it go away. (I didn't vote, of course, cuz I'm not a US citizen. Erm, not that that's gonna stop some people...)
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm guessing that the no-queueing is also due to the nice low-tech pencil-and-paper voting solution we have. I have no idea how many voting machines are at a typical US polling place, but I'm sure they can't serve nearly as many people in p
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by hugh 18y ago
In Australia we have compulsory voting. Everybody has to get off their arse and do it (or at least go to a polling place, take a ballot sheet and stick it in a box, you can leave it blank or draw a penis on it if you want). Personally I see

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