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by jyounker 4y ago
The disassembly of American administrative capacity isn't a failure of policy or imagination. It's the Republican party's greatest policy success. In the words of Grover Norquist, "I don't want to abolish government
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Drug companies wouldn't be selling to other countries unless they made profits there. They just make absurd profits in the USA.
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There were a few good things that came out of it, notably PlantUML. PlantUML's sequence and state diagrams are worth their weight in gold.
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I'd say it's the opposite. The city has a few bad spots, but overall it's quite nice. The big problem is the lack of housing, which is arguably driven by the way that Prop 13 warps economic incentives.
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He knows the information about the author because he read the article.
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by jyounker 4y ago
> I was really struck going on vacation to San Francisco how together the bus schedule was, Wow. Things must have improved incredibly in the last ten years.
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by jyounker 4y ago
Yes. All jokes about Swiss punctuality are true. I say this as someone who lived in Zurich for two years.
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by jyounker 4y ago
Rule by the minority. You think that's fair?
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And then there were no more ghost crabs, because their sand-colored camouflage was no longer effective.
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by jyounker 4y ago
How does "innately" work is the question.
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by jyounker 4y ago
While failing to provide a historical account, it summed up the result quite concisely.
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In other words, contemporaneous with the Chevy Corvair, and pre-dating most modern safety regulations.
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by jyounker 4y ago
When it came out, I had one requirement for an MP3 player: It had to play without skipping while I ran. The iPod was the first MP3 maker on the market that crossed this bar.
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by jyounker 4y ago
There weren't just Bison though. Before humans came to North America there were vast herds of many other megafauna species out there too.
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by jyounker 4y ago
Giving a new definition to server farms. :)
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Depends upon where you are in the world. In rich countries local producers are outcompeted by producers in lower cost regions. Without price supports the local industry would collapse. If a country's food supply becomes completely depe
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by jyounker 4y ago
It's a mammal. You can milk it. It just takes a lot of time and appropriate milking equipment. Fortunately a full automated milking machine fits in a lunch pail. Sadly the equipment only gets you several thimblefuls per hamster-day.
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by jyounker 4y ago
I think the focus on cows is kind of ridiculous. Our world's natural balance before humans included vast numbers of ruminants over vast expanses of the world. (e.g. huge populations of forest buffalo in Europe, vast Mammoth and Bison
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Ask HN: What's Your Experience with Chargebee?
1 points by jyounker 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What's Your Experience with RevenueCat?
2 points by jyounker 4y ago|0 comments
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by jyounker 5y ago
As an America I say: Russia: Right now, worth it. North Korea: Who knows if it's worth it. Cuba: Not worth it. We're still upset that they kicked out our dictator. Iran: Not worth it. We're still upset that they kicked out ou
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by jyounker 5y ago
It gives them legal cover for seizing cameras. Right now there is no legal justification for doing so.
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by jyounker 5y ago
This law gives the police one more tool to evade accountability. People filming cops isn't a problem. It doesn't need to be regulated.
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by jyounker 5y ago
It does affect you if the police can force you turn off your camera, or if they can later claim in court that video evidence of their transgressions were illegally obtained, and thus inadmissible.
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by jyounker 5y ago
And cops get away with harassing people all the time. The US courts have been doing an abysmal job of protecting the citizenry from police abuse. (E.g. qualified immunity.) The thing that has been to some extent reversing that trend is chea
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by jyounker 5y ago
I take back what I said. It doesn't actually address my concern. All the officer has to say is that your filming was interfering with their actions, and then they'll slap that charge on you and confiscate your phone, possibly comb
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by jyounker 5y ago
I forsee many seized cameras being "accidentally damaged" in Arizona's near future.
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by jyounker 5y ago
If you think US police won't abuse the law to evade accountability then I think you haven't been paying attention.
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by jyounker 5y ago
Yeah, I actually did that, and just came back to delete my comment, but you've already replied, so I can't any more :)
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by jyounker 5y ago
Note that this makes it impossible to film a police officer while they are confronting you.

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