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by jqm 11y ago
So, why do people want to fight in the first place? Is any natural inclination all bad? If we level up in perspective from that of personal tragedy, is war an important force of evolution and largely responsible for the place we are at now?
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by jqm 11y ago
If only this venue thing you speak of hadn't been cutting off heads and burning at stakes and filling the pockets of fraudsters and promoting outrageous superstitions and unjust persecutions for the past several thousand years it might
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by jqm 11y ago
They do have schools for at risk kids. Military schools for instance. While I don't disagree we should do more for at risk kids, not allowing the brightest kids the best possible opportunity in an environment free from "at risk ki
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by jqm 11y ago
Maybe the solution for this problem is the same as my proposed solution for used car shopping. Eliminate the haggling. This is the salary for the position. No negotiation. If you do X,Y,Z you get so much bonus. If you get this review and me
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by jqm 11y ago
I bought and read Snow Crash based on an earlier recommendation from HN. Just to give an alternate opinion, so no one wastes (my opinion) money like I did... I thought the book was absolutely horrible. I like fantasy, I like alternate reali
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by jqm 11y ago
Yes, but the problem isn't that the system isn't perfect. The problem is that the system is horribly broken and doesn't really administer justice. When you have plea bargains and negations and hardball if one doesn't jus
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by jqm 11y ago
"high quality articles" appears to be the challenge here....
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by jqm 11y ago
Bottle is indeed an excellent tiny framework (although I usually use it with Jinja2 when it's being used for html generation).
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by jqm 11y ago
If you really "grow all your medicine out of the ground" it's more than likely if you ever get truly ill or injured you yourself will be in the place you grow your medicine out of. Accept science. It works.
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by jqm 11y ago
It might be worthwhile to examine this phenomenon in a larger context. For example, I know a girl who is obsessed with watching sticky sweet romantic shows and movies like "twilight" and "the bachelor". The romance portr
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by jqm 11y ago
When (eventually...they all do) western civilization collapses I highly doubt porn will be the leading cause. I lean more towards it being bankers, lawyers and politicians.
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by jqm 11y ago
That is indeed fascinating stuff. Hydraulic circuits. Crazy innovative.
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by jqm 11y ago
And the British even before that. The British are a large part of the reason the Saudi family gained exclusive control of the region. They supplied and aided the Sauds... against rival Arabs and against the Turks. The religious extremists w
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by jqm 11y ago
They aren't doing a very good job. Their site is broken.
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by jqm 11y ago
So, but that isn't really a "proprietary OS" if it's a Windows 7 image loaded with software. That internship sounds pretty cool. I bet they do have some neat tech.
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by jqm 11y ago
While I somewhat agree people should be able to have their DNA tested freely if they so choose, perhaps these regulations are wiser than we are aware at the moment. Look at what people foolishly give Facebook. Will these same people be more
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by jqm 11y ago
I agree. We should have. But it's too late now. He's dead.
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by jqm 11y ago
I think most wars involving religion have actually been about property.
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by jqm 11y ago
Yep. That's why they still __could__ be. Of course they also couldn't be. The beauty of unknowns. Opening a vast world of clickbait headlines....
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by jqm 11y ago
I've seen retirement make people unhappy. They become isolated and have to find ways to make connections with others. They are bored and start doing things like canvassing the neighborhood looking for minor HMA violations. Sometimes th
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by jqm 11y ago
"Median income of the subset of employed americans is only $2400/month" That's also a good point as to why people aren't saving money....
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by jqm 11y ago
Simply showing up doesn't make one "provably dependable". One needs to actually carry out tasks, something the armed services are woefully inadequate at. Which is of course why all the contractors. It's a terrible idea t
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by jqm 11y ago
"45 percent of recent new hires to the federal service are veterans, as mandated by Congress" This is disturbing if true. Certainly not a way to get the best quality work force.
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm a bit curious. How much less have you kicked people out of hackathons for? I'm not really into insulting people, but I never know what the limits of speech are nowadays. I also don't attend hackathons but just in case....
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by jqm 11y ago
The problem with drugs as a means to enlightenment is the resulting confusion. People often start thinking all kinds of things that just aren't so and believing they have it all figured out. Not to mention the method starts getting mor
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by jqm 11y ago
GDP ~$1500/ Extended Family of 500-1000 members inhabiting a whole suburb.... It's interesting how those two types of things often go together.
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by jqm 11y ago
It's also pretty trivial for smokers to grow a few marijuana plants if disposable income gets low. There goes that tax revenue. Cigarette tobacco on the other hand requires more processing and growing it for personal consumption genera
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by jqm 11y ago
To the white house. Without the clock of course.
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by jqm 11y ago
While occasionally happening on a good article, to be fair, there is a lot of junk on Medium. So much so that I often choose to skip Medium articles posted on hacker news because my experience is they are very often quickly written shallow
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by jqm 11y ago
I have to imagine vigilante justice is how justice systems begin in the first place. I mean... at it's essence, what is a justice system but either A) the arm of the masses or B) the arm of the powerful? So ya, this is terrible. But it

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