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by mac01021 8y ago
The ones I know personally all did... Much of HN likely lives in a similar bubble.
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by mac01021 8y ago
I'm the father of a young child. No company would ever ask me this question. But maybe they should. Because I'm just as distracted from my work/career by my toddler as any mother would be. And if they decided not to hire me
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by mac01021 8y ago
Right now the world's entire mineral supply is worth X dollars. If I acquire a bunch of asteroids and double the size of that supply, I now own X/2 dollars worth of minerals, instead of the zero dollars worth that I did before.
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by mac01021 8y ago
If police use firearms on the crowd, the crowd is entitled to shoot back? Is there a solid legal distinction between protesters and other classes of people whom it is the police force's job to inhibit, like bank robbers and drug dealer
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by mac01021 8y ago
I don't think there is any reason to suspect that over a hundred other causes: Radiation from cell phones Increased screen time for children More pesticides in our diets The fact that we have to think about a greater variety of things
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by mac01021 8y ago
Your dog's name is a plural noun?
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by mac01021 8y ago
What constitutes a lobbyist? Must a congressman record every discussion he has with every person he meets, just in case the topic of conversation turns to public policy?
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by mac01021 8y ago
What was the basic gist of the response?
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by mac01021 8y ago
50 * 60 is 3000. Can 3000 donations really save millions of babies?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Is adding apple slices to your menu an empty gesture? Or even a gesture at all?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Indeed you are right! The collegedata page that Google took me to must have been woefully out of date. Still, a mere doubling of the faculty salaries I was describing above is likely still not sufficient to compete with these tech giants
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by mac01021 8y ago
At CMU, annual tuition is less than $24,000. There are less than 14,000 students enrolled, which means total tuition paid must be less than $336M. If all that money were equally divided between the 1400 faculty members, they'd each ge
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by mac01021 8y ago
If I offer you $1200, on the condition that you spend that money on a 36 hour trip to Hong Kong and back, will you turn that down? I assume so. So there has to be some other force at play, unless the university admins are just maximizing r
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by mac01021 8y ago
> Then why aren't these professors getting paid a lot more to continue teaching? Paid with what money? Tuition is probably already set to the highest amount that is competitive with other schools.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Which ones?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Goons are often highly skilled and highly compensated. So that's one difference.
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by mac01021 8y ago
How accurately/precisely can your wrist watch tell you what your energy expenditure is?
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by mac01021 9y ago
> I did see a homeless encampment get bulldozed the other day. The day before that I watched a Vietnam Vet take a dump on the sidewalk, we made awkward eye contact. Dude what state do you live in? I must live in a bubble over here...
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by mac01021 9y ago
You don't need universal or publicly funded healthcare for this. You just need it to become the norm for employers not to provide healthcare insurance. So for example (and I am NOT saying we should actually do this) if they would simpl
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by mac01021 9y ago
Stories about who is winning an election, or about how many votes a candidate is going to lose because of some comment she made during her campaign are not of interest. But there is a difference between politics and policy. The effects of
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by mac01021 9y ago
> We _ALREADY_ spend more than enough on healthcare as a nation to fully fund healthcare for everybody. I would like to see a study or article demonstrating this. Do you have any links?
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by mac01021 9y ago
"Affecting employment" is not the same as reducing the total number of jobs available. And all Brin said was that we need to understand what the likely impacts on employment are. Certainly, if it becomes cost effective to have yo
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by mac01021 9y ago
Are you talking about photographs?
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by mac01021 9y ago
That's why, if you really want to limit your carbon footprint, you have to do it by conscientious consumption. Buy less meat or no meat. Never buy a car new. Used are more cost effective anyway. Same goes for clothes. Choose an electr
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by mac01021 9y ago
If there are 1 million such single-family houses, and replacing 200,000 of them with multifamily structures is sufficient to sate all the demand that is driving up costs, then that zoning reform seems like it will reduce the value of 80% o
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by mac01021 9y ago
How does a ban like this tend to work? The chemicals can no longer be sold in stores? Or you can buy it but are not allowed to apply it to your fields?
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by mac01021 9y ago
What if you can't predict when you're going to be able to focus for 4 consecutive hours?
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by mac01021 9y ago
More likely I simply have a much lower estimation than you do of the productivity of the median programmer.
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by mac01021 9y ago
Why is China overflowing with investment money? Where does it all come from?
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by mac01021 9y ago
I'm not sure "handle" necessarily means "prevent" or "halt". It seems reasonable, upon observing a growing trend in Chinese ownership of one's domestic economy, to want to formulate a plan to monitor

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