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by koboll 9y ago
Strategic voting is what keeps the status quo alive. As long as we continue to use a first-past-the-post electoral system, it will remain tremendously difficult for third parties to gain traction, no matter their level of funding.
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by koboll 9y ago
>Sometimes the product have not been polished, or it's a concept, so you need to sell the product before even showing it. Then, at minimum, you still need to make a mockup of the result
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by koboll 9y ago
I had a friend who works as a lobbyist for Comcast. He works ~4 hours a week and makes $600k+/year (eat your heart out, Tim Ferriss). Basically because, before leaving the public sector, he rose to the right rank at the right departmen
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by koboll 9y ago
So let's say I fall into a black hole. And then four billion years later, someone else falls into a black hole from the same direction. From an outside perspective at a point nearly infinitely far away in time, we would seem to slow un
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by koboll 9y ago
But it's usually a price you willingly pay in exchange for a service. You gave your email out to get something in return. You're seeing those ads because you want to read something else on the website. You've entered into a t
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by koboll 9y ago
Agreed. Why is this necessary? The only possible endgame here seems like sites abandoning query params in favor of baking that information directly into the URL, which is a worse situation all around.
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by koboll 9y ago
So, a letter of marque and reprisal
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by koboll 9y ago
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by koboll 9y ago
>Americans who once thought of Silicon Valley as a jewel of U.S. innovation are likely to turn against these companies if they see them as relentless political enemies. This is evidently false, since everyone knows the West Coast's