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2020 Census Apportionment Results(census.gov)
68 points by kochb 5y ago|87 comments
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by kochb 6y ago
I used to read the whole Bible, annually, with a group of friends in college. It took about 60-70 hours, reading out loud in shifts. Less of a time investment than many TV series. As for understanding the culture you live in, the historical
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by kochb 6y ago
I agree with you, he mainly dropped from the race because it was no longer an effective avenue to advance his ideas. I do have to contest the first part of your statement - it's wishful thinking to see him having won this race. You&#x
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by kochb 6y ago
It should be clear that this is a purely symbolic gesture. The bill will die in two weeks at the end of the 116th Congress. Amash is retiring at the end of his term; he would have had to run as a Libertarian against a Republican whose name
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by kochb 6y ago
Land ownership is a tangential subject, but this does portray some accurate details about modern agriculture in the US. Many children leave the family farm; they can earn more with less work, and operating a profitable farm operation is ver
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by kochb 6y ago
Speaking as someone who provides services to the industry, your statement just isn't correct; as I originally stated it's a popular myth that is very different from reality. There are large corporations involved, but they come in
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by kochb 6y ago
The inequality discussed by the article is a reduction to a popular political line. These popularized, almost mythical, portrayals of agriculture are uselessly far from reality. If you want to summarize a tremendously complex industry, it&#
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by kochb 6y ago
Discussion from prior submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110850
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Root’s IPO Is a Windfall for Drive Capital, Ribbit, Other VCs(wsj.com)
1 points by kochb 6y ago|0 comments
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What Happened to Big Idea Productions?(philvischer.com)
3 points by kochb 6y ago|0 comments
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Fannie, Freddie Will Impose New Fee on Most Mortgage Refinances(bloomberg.com)
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by kochb 6y ago
The crux is whether mail delivery of the ballot can be executed securely and verifiably, and whether failures can be corrected in a timely manner. A few examples of where this can go wrong: * Introducing third party ballot collectors risks
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by kochb 7y ago
Bananas are a bad example of this. They don't follow the ordinary selection processes during domestication - the ones we commonly consume are hybridized cultivars with triploid genetics; they're infertile. They reproduce asexual
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Explainer: Why the New Coronavirus Is So Dangerous(thewire.in)
1 points by kochb 7y ago|0 comments
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by kochb 7y ago
Even if it’s a mundane problem, if your product solves a valuable need for an underserved market you shouldn’t have problems making a market rate hire. There are plenty of people who would be happy to work on a good opportunity while enjoyi
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Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe(nytimes.com)
2 points by kochb 7y ago|0 comments
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H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’(mercurynews.com)
1 points by kochb 7y ago|0 comments
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Katamari Damacy's Creator Had to Move Mountains to Get His Game Made(kotaku.com)
7 points by kochb 8y ago|0 comments
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by kochb 8y ago
This is a great example of a link that should be off-topic for HN. There’s not one new material fact in the linked tweet, nor does it make an attempt at fair analysis. It instead consists of hyperbole (“company ending”) and unfounded specul
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by kochb 8y ago
Excluding Napoleon due to a "winning your campaigns" criteria is a bit silly. You're weighting the loss at the end of his career instead of fairly judging the win/loss record on his entire portfolio of two decades of c
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by kochb 8y ago
I've always had issues telling the icons apart, but in fairness the recent UI updates have already been phasing out the icons. They're no longer on the management console home page, and they've been replaced with much improv
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by kochb 8y ago
This is a dupe of the much more thorough Boston Globe article from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17635761 I'm not a huge fan of all the borderline off-topic political articles, but if we're go
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by kochb 8y ago
She might have been using it as a replacement for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_dace_with_salted_black...
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SV Angel says it won’t be raising another fund from outside investors(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kochb 8y ago|0 comments
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by kochb 8y ago
The New York Times recently did an article on the topic: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-franci... The short answer is that while a natural disaster is possible, the time frame
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by kochb 8y ago
This article is pretty weak. It’s just a haphazard jumble of “drug gangs extort money from avocado farmers” and “agriculture has potentially harmful impacts on the environment” with no attempt to quantify, dig deeper, or present evidence ab
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by kochb 9y ago
We're still in the early days on this, but given this video it appears that there was a hazard in the road that should have been detectable by a road safe system. In this case, the system failed to recognize a person, and they're
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by kochb 9y ago
I hate to diss kottke also, but this specific article is the textbook definition of blogspam, and we shouldn’t excuse low quality in deference to ethos. I left out some of the other issues this has, like political advocacy over content.
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by kochb 9y ago
Hey all, we need to go meta for a sec and talk about why this article doesn't belong here, and how culturally this is a step in the wrong direction for HN. First off, this is blogspam, the original Popular Science article is a bit bett
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by kochb 9y ago
Also interesting are the other compiler bomb submissions: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/build-a-c... All are short bits of code in a variety of languages that expand to massive files.

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