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by jellicle 10y ago
> We know that because we have 30 years of Ukrainian data and we can see that there was no measurable increase in cancers or cancer related deaths from people in the surrounding area. What? There is plenty of evidence of increased cance
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by jellicle 10y ago
Berkshire seems to be good at buying and managing companies in order to make money. But not so good at just buying stock: http://fortune.com/2016/04/29/berkshire-hathaway-stock-warre...
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by jellicle 10y ago
Autoinjectors for other drugs sell at $33 retail: http://www.buyemp.com/product/meridian-auto-injectors They (including epipens) probably cost about $10 to make. That's total cost, from production to delivery to
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by jellicle 10y ago
> there are those out there who have an eye for value, and _can_ pick stocks. There's simply no evidence that is true at all. Every study of this issue says the exact opposite: there's no one out there who can pick stocks.
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by jellicle 10y ago
It's not peak until we have a wave of absolutely fraudulent schemes designed to take money from the gullible general public. "Kickstarter - Self-driving car - release in 2019! 4795% funded! Backers get one for just $10,000!&quot
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by jellicle 10y ago
Why can't someone create a competing ride-sharing broker? How many travel aggregator sites are there?
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by jellicle 10y ago
You're talking about Daniel Ellsberg?
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by jellicle 10y ago
> self-driving car > two drivers in every car I want to buy dictionaries for every reporter who writes about these issues.
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by jellicle 10y ago
The U.S. border security has been monitoring social media for years. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/2
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by jellicle 10y ago
And yet, the police forces of every other advanced nation on earth manage to deal with armed people every day without shooting nearly as many of them as the United States does. How do you think they manage that?
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by jellicle 10y ago
Probably the most advantageous part of fully computerized cars will be DRM and part management. Like your printer which refuses to print black because the yellow cartridge (which is half full) is past its expiration date, your car will in
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by jellicle 10y ago
The current economic system is heavily redistributive. It works very strongly to redistribute wealth and income from those who have little to those who have a lot. The main function of two whole branches of government is maintaining the w
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by jellicle 10y ago
Nothing. The question is, who is going to win: the legion of teenagers and young adults who listen to audio via the headphone jack, or device makers? (It's the legion.) If you had a replacement that was better - cheaper, less of an ann
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by jellicle 10y ago
Reduces, not eliminates. Presumably it is quite easy for employees to establish, for example, that all black employees at a company are poorly-paid compared to similar white employees. This makes redress possible. In the U.S. it is quite
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by jellicle 10y ago
Reduces gender discrimination; reduces race discrimination; reduces income inequality; allows employees to make sure they are being paid fairly for their skills; reduces tax evasion; increases trust in the system. No doubt there are more th
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by jellicle 10y ago
If every leader flies in on the world's least fuel-efficient plane, alone, and the conference is heated by a giant coal bonfire, and they adopt rules that improve CO2 emissions by 0.0001%, it's a big win for the human race. It&#x2
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by jellicle 10y ago
Urgh. What Hacker News doesn't need is more right-wing misogyny cluttering it up. Has nothing to do with technology whatsoever. Flagged. If you are curious about this decision, the CBC has an excellent explanation of it. Read this,
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by jellicle 10y ago
Wait, what? This is Hacker News, where bringing your seven mangy dogs to the office is practically required. I know they get in the way of the ping-pong sometimes, and gnaw on the cables for the PS4, but you can just feed them some snacks
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by jellicle 10y ago
> The reality is that Walmart is a victim of their own success in some ways. Well, and a victim of the policies they and their shareholders advocate that put more people in poverty. Arkansas is about the third poorest state. Maybe a li
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by jellicle 10y ago
Your statement is something akin to "who needs daily code testing, just get programmers who can, you know, program". It's dumb. Systematic measures to reduce problems are wise.
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by jellicle 10y ago
If by "free" you mean "at the cost of learning anything else".
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by jellicle 10y ago
I sincerely apologize for linking to a 9/11 denial site, but: http://www.serendipity.li/wot/other_fires/other_fires.htm We have plenty of steel skyscrapers that have burned for a LONG time and have not collap
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by jellicle 10y ago
Since the U.S. does not collect any statistics on police shootings, it's hard to see how you could know that.
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If you'd like an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Assembly_on_Electo...
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by jellicle 10y ago
What point do you think you're making?
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by jellicle 10y ago
Well, the goal is to dangle the carrot in front of you but make sure you can't ever actually take a bite of it.
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by jellicle 10y ago
> Sweden isn't legally allowed to extradite him Of course they are.
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by jellicle 10y ago
The fees for credit card transactions are roughly four times as high as fees for debit card transactions.
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What jobs? Uber insists they don't employ anyone.
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by jellicle 10y ago
But in the flyover states where housing is admittedly cheap compared to the coasts, so too are the wages. "Cheap" housing only goes so far when your employment is 30 hours per week at the local Walmart for $9/hour. You'

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