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by kevmo 8y ago
My experiences as a leader have shown me, time and time again, that people respond far better to praising what they did right, rather than excessively focusing on the negative. If Linus is serious about this, it's going to ultimately m
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It outperformed everyone's expectations.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06/...
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"Philanthropy" is just another way that oligarchs take tax-free control of our society and shape it to their whims. A fine example of this is Bill Gates - with no educational training or experience, he used his fortune to push fai
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by kevmo 8y ago
This is likely stemming at least in part from Cynthia Nixon's strong run for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York. She is running to the left of the current governor, Andrew Cuomo (Mario Cuomo's son), and has been ma
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Patterns in nature(en.wikipedia.org)
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Yes. Guaranteed convictions yield inflated statistics, which bureaucrats then tout as evidence of their value and need for (greater) funding. Paywalled, but excellent paper on this phenomenon: https://scholar.google.com/scho
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Senator Sanders is America's best bet.
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If a bank sues you, they will be making claims for various damages. One of those damages will probably be projected interest they would have made from re-lending the money that wasn't being paid. The debt could also be subject to a st
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We do. https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/18/news/economy/prison-fees-in...
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I have a law degree and used to work for a federal judge (am a developer now, though). The 13th Amendment says that you can enslave someone as part of their post-conviction sentencing. This is very broad language and allows for the general
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." - 13th Amendment of
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I am also interested in hearing about this. I guess they guaranteed good title, but kept money (earning enough interest?) in case the bank comes knocking?
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I have thought a lot about this over the years, in particular because I went to high school with Dustin Moskovitz, who was Mark's roommate and cofounder at Facebook. Dustin and I are only the barest of acquaintances at this point, so n
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Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?(theatlantic.com)
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That's great. Companies need to start IPOing earlier again. http://blog.pmarca.com/2013/03/26/unshackle-the-middle-class...
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50 years of Cold War propaganda exacted its price. Communism, socialism, and taxes are trigger words for a large number of Americans aged 40 and over. One thing I really appreciated about Bernie Sanders was that he did not shy away from the
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This sort of systematic wage suppression is why America is cruising towards socialism. You can crush the workers only so much, then they rebel.
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This is systematic manipulation of the market rate, which is far more insidious and bad than someone merely striking a bad deal for themself.
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How do we shut this place - Option Impact - down? Ideally, regulators would, but we live in a hyper-capitalistic age, so they probably won't.
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It seems rather foolhardy to presume that a teacher who wants order in their classroom is "incompetent".
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+1 for cold-calling. What is "safe" cold-calling?
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“A lot of folks thought rodeo was a white man’s game,” he said years later. “But those bulls don’t care if you’re white or black. You could be green, for all it matters. They just don’t want you on their backs.”
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Caging human beings has a long, rich tradition in America. Everyday, hundreds of thousands of American children are separated from their parents who are rotting in jail because they can't pay bail or because they're locked up for
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What? Most Americans don't even have a thousand dollars in their bank account. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/13/how-much-americans-at-have-i...
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I'm driving across the country right now, and I actually did notice that there seem to be far fewer bugs on windshields than I remembered during similar trips as a child. I just chalked it up to things being more vivid from my childho
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by kevmo 9y ago
Yes. Washington, DC is absolutely not an ideologically diverse place, by basically any measure. 93% (!) of the city voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Additionally, most people there, Democrats included, are extremely dedicated to the stat
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by kevmo 9y ago
My dad was a long-haul trucker for 20+ years. I did some hauls with him. I can confirm that peeing in bottles is the norm.
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This seems like a terrible way to pick your tech stack. Here are the most obvious drawbacks, largely revolving around the total lack of community: - Literally no one else in the world uses this framework. You are entirely on your own whe
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- when you're sick - when the bristles become less stiff (i.e. signs of wear) - or every 3 months

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