jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"When you move matter from one place to another it moves, it's not copied." Matter is not being moved here. "There is no physical of philosophical argument differentiate between "real" teleportation and "j
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"That is the basic definition of a "protest": to prod the authorities" NO. Totally false. Carrying a gun, and trying to arbitrary stop cops from doing their jobs is not 'protest' - by any stretch. In fact, I&#x
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The fact he was carrying a gun, and trying to act out against police in the first place, is not going to engender him any sympathy in the public at large. Illegal or legal - someone carrying a gun in public trying to prod cops is creating p
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
There is nothing necessarily immoral or legal about what those cops did. They were in an incident and were deciding what charges to lay. It's a tricky thing laying charges. Laying charges is not abuse of power. Now - if the cops were i
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The articles headline is a little misleading - there's no indication that anyone made up any charges, the cops were deciding what to charge him with given the situation. That's what cops do every day. The statement 'the charg
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It's important to consider then that it has nothing to do with the 'app' per say - it's the 'icon', i.e. home screen real-estate.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I have to concur with this. Starting with a 'team of 3' and building a fairly fancy system with a lot of open-source 3rd party solutions ... making all kinds of assumptions about cost, scale etc. - this is worrying. In finance and
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I'm aware of that. It's a great place. Housing affordability is only one part of the equation. Also - what makes a place a 'great place to live' is highly subjective. It depends on what you want to measure.
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Tiny spaces.
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"Vienna has been controlling the home prices by building houses with great success for decades. [1]" Vienna is controlling nothing. Vienna has failed to create global industries that attract value creators from around the world an
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
H1 is mostly a good thing for America. Like anything, it has a bad side. Also, I do generally think that Tata is choosing the 'best people they can' from India. But again, it's a question of numbers and scale.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Paying Canadians $120K / year instead of paying Americans $140K / year is a 'thing' - but it's not the issue we're really concerned about. Wage depression among masses of low-skilled workers is a very serious p
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If you up the minimum wage, employers will just use illegals. Because they can, and competitive market forces will push them into it. The only long term answer is to have responsible, secure borders and reasonable amounts of controlled immi
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The most 'equal' societies were communist - i.e. Eastern Europe before the end, Cuba today. When you have absolute equality it's called 'communism' - it was the most destructive and murderous idea in all of human hi
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Vienna is nothing comparable to NYC in terms of cosmopolitain, NYC is of a different variety entirely. Have you been to both? About 85% of NYC residents are from out of country or out of state. Nobody is from New York. Everybody living in V
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I don't think it's 'one hidden thing'. It's a 'million little things' in the system, and most of it is cultural values, some of it is social policy, some of it is not evident, for example, 'inequality
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"outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal rich countries." Causation is not correlation. People who are not healthy, may not be able to be as motivated and productive, and are 'pushed out of the economic system'.
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"Both my grandparents and his mother dumped a lot of cash into him but nothing helped." I believe about 2% of people are like this. They want to 'live free' kind of thing. Some of them are lucky and inherit money. Some l
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"The city of Vienna / Europe spends 632 Mio € alone on social housing." You've never been to Vienna or Austria if you are comparing San Francisco to Austria. Austria has a relatively homogenous culture, very conservativ
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Reason is conscious; intuition is subconscious." Conscious or not, it can still be reason. 'Hunger' , 'fear', 'lust', 'anger' are all part of the reasonable human calculation. If you set yo
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"World Sweeping Summit" Ha ha ... only in Canada. It's actually a great sport, you can play until you're 100.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The Sami people would have been about 100K population. Norway now is almost 100x that. + Roads, airports, farms, domesticated animals etc. I don't know specifically about the Sami, but the aboriginals in most places did not domesticate
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I would invite anyone who down-voted that comment to explain how receiving money (millions of USD) for a personal fund, while at the same time providing government services and favours for donors - as a civil servant - is not a very seriou
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Simple conflicts of interest revealed in a one minute Google search: A) Matt Lauer, Tom Brokaw, Anderson Cooper, Fareed Zakaria, Katie Couric - and many others - are all members of the press who are supposed to objectively vet candidates,
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I have three sisters, two mothers, 3 aunts, a girlfriend (and ex girlfriends), and 6 female cousins - and a 20 year career working in which 50% of my colleagues were females, and several female bosses. Almost all of whom are 'professi
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"Convenient to ignore the abuse heaped on female politicians (hell any professional) daily. " Get of of HN and back to Jezebel. The position that females face 'bullying' every day in business and politics is beyond false
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Ha ha ... the Clinton Foundation is an 'operating foundation' - which means it doesn't give it's money away like other charities. So - if this was like the 'Christian Children's Fund' - than that 88% would
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The Clinton Foundation is supposed to be a charity but they spend almost nothing on charity - their expenses are 'conferences', trips, meetings - basically Bill and Hillary's personal expense account for things they cannot bi
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Because Hillary Clinton: A) Is running for President B) Is married to an ex-President, and the most influential man in the world. C) Has a $500M slush-fund into which money from nefarious places is being invested - and it's not contr
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+ People get to say: 'I saw so and so' + It establishes the cred of the audience, i.e. all the bankers can talk to clients about how they say/met so and so. + It's an indirect way to contribute to campaigns without it te

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