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by josho 10y ago
The US has been the largest arms exporter for as long as I can remember. For much of this time selling directly or indirectly to some very bad people. So, I find it particularly interesting that this somehow has become a partisan election i
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by josho 10y ago
One can reasonably conclude that neither is suitable for the office. Which is why I find the squabbling over the candidates so interesting. They are both _deplorable_.
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by josho 10y ago
I believe nearly every country has selective immigration programs, this is nothing new nor controversial.
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by josho 10y ago
> Calling Trump racist, for instance, isn't going to flip anyone's voting bit That is what saddens me the most from this election. The fact that someone running for a high profile position can get away with such abhorrent remar
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by josho 10y ago
I'm surprised that more Americans don't spoil their ballot. Imagine if 20% of the ballots cast were spoiled. That would certainly wake up the media & politicians to the problems inherent in this 2 party system.
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by josho 10y ago
> Realistically, you will never get a majority of US legislators to agree that giving US legislators money is a bad idea. While the electorate is bickering over distractions like this cycle you are correct. However, limiting special inte
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by josho 10y ago
> having the site served from the same, already-open, probably pre-fetched connection So, the bottleneck is really the connection setup time? Seems to me, that http2 largely solves that problem, while html already supports prefetch. Don&
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by josho 10y ago
As far as I can tell the amp-img tag doesn't add anything that img doesn't already support. The page simply mentions some vague statement about needing to understand the page layout, but uses the same attributes as img.
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by josho 10y ago
As an outsider observing the US election the statement of yours "Don't vote for candidates next month receiving large donations from Google" strikes me as ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, your logic is correct. But, in or
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by josho 10y ago
I've enjoyed reading the well thought out arguments on this page. So, where is a better political forum? I've tired of reddit as the noise/signal ratio has grown intolerable.
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by josho 10y ago
I find it interesting that you went to "banning speech". I don't equate anything the parent said with wanting to ban speech. Further I thought the comparison to Hitler was thought provoking as many German intellectuals looked
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by josho 10y ago
I like your novel approach to the problem of being forced to choose between 2 candidates that are both inappropriate (for very different reasons) for the role.
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by josho 10y ago
Immigration can be very selective. Eg. Meeting minimum education standards, having certain amounts of cash on hand, or targeting those that will start a business. research on this suggests immigration policies tend to create jobs.
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by josho 10y ago
I have to admit as much as I dislike Trump pg raises a valid point. Another analogy would be YC disavowing Thiel for being gay. An employer has no business in their employees sexual lives or politic preferences.
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by josho 10y ago
I understand that sentiment, yet am shocked that people put aside all of Trump's faults. The real issue that I wish American's focused on was their weak democracy. Why accept a two party system fuelled by private money?
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by josho 10y ago
Good points. But what specific policy or changes occur under a Trump presidency? This past spring a 500% tariff was placed on Chinese steel. So, I have a hard time understanding what he's going to do different. That is my complaint wit
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by josho 10y ago
As someone not in America I find your reality difficult to understand, it's hard to understand how its citizens see so much unnecessary disparity for a public good like education as being normal. Are roads in wealthy neighbourhoods rep
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by josho 10y ago
Have a listen to The Problem We All Live With[1] a podcast episode from This American Life. It speaks to this specifically and comes to very different conclusions. Ie. integration works. [1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/r
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by josho 10y ago
Agreed but for rather different reasons. I've travelled through the US and stumbled into public housing projects on a few occasions. I found them simply repugnant. Public policy that clumps the poor together is beyond stupid. It's
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So, you discount the research because your intuition says otherwise. I personally find that remarkable.
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by josho 10y ago
It strikes me that they are still struggling to solve the questions that get asked thousands of times a day. So, yeh, it'd be nice to have the long tail work too. But, clearly this is still very much a work in progress from all vendors
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by josho 10y ago
Rather, it's a smart biz plan. By creating their own content they can provide exclusive access to it. By continuing as they have they risk becoming a commoditized service or even getting locked out of content as other distributors buil
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by josho 10y ago
> didn't feel the Godfathers were special Read a few reviews of the Godfather. There is subtlety to the characters and a slower pace that modern day viewers may not appreciate as we aren't used to this--rather many of us have b
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by josho 10y ago
Isn't this how bad laws happen. Eg. do you think that in 20 years thickness issues won't be completely solved, likely by some completely different technology. Yet some stupid law from 2016 requires that a brand new product segment
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by josho 10y ago
If you read the Wikipedia link above the law was written by the lobbyists. It's up to the elected officials to take the time to write their own bill or they may simply work from the lobbyists draft.
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by josho 10y ago
I couldn't believe that there would be special laws for filming agriculture.. It seems I'm wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag Of note: - prohibits "entering an animal or research facility to ta
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by josho 10y ago
Nope. My command line git workflow should not require working through a GUI. Now, if this was added as some git hooks, enforcing the policy from both the command line and GUI then I'd be impressed (and excited).
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by josho 10y ago
I was going to write Apple asking why I can't download my purchased copy of Dash from the App Store. But, I wonder if that would just make things worse (ie. if suddenly hundreds of users write Apple would Apple see this as more 'm
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by josho 10y ago
> logo of a creepy dude implying I should use this only for spying I never thought of that before. But, what a subtle way for Google to dissuade people from using a tool that could impact their revenue.
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by josho 10y ago
> I would be more worried about smaller companies with shadier practices and lower security standards holding my personal information. True, I don't mind Google today, but what about tomorrow? What about N years from now when they h

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