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by madgar 10y ago
pg has no reason to fear for the impact of "contrarian ideas" like fascism. His person is secure for life. Nobody has threatened his way of life, and he knows nobody can credibly threaten his way of life. Lost lives may be merely
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by madgar 10y ago
Did you seriously just ask a stranger on HN to explain one of the biggest sociopolitical issues of the last 10 years? Here's an introduction: the GI Bill sent 2 million men to college for free from 1945-1955. In 2017, by contrast, the
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by madgar 10y ago
> But that doesn't get clicks. This is an attack on he article, but the article made quite clear that measuring productivity is notoriously challenging! You didn't have to look far - just the first sentence of the second paragr
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by madgar 10y ago
It isn't so simple when the voting public wants to see laws enforced. A lot of people consider it a betrayal of public trust to selectively enforce laws, or to outright ignore them. A lot of Americans are hoping that the next federal g
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by madgar 10y ago
In engineering and in governance, the "right" (optimal) solution can border on the impossible. Legalizing and regulating prostitution in the US in 2017 seems like one of those situations. If you personally don't want to be th
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by madgar 10y ago
> In relativistic terms, the photon leaving the Sun and arriving at the earth can be considered to be simultaneous. You just constructed an argument that can be readily used to argue that all events are simultaneous. That should flip you
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by madgar 10y ago
What's wrong with emotional benefits? I cherish the fact that I experience emotions and the richness they bring to my life.
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by madgar 10y ago
> I'm pointing out that if djsumdog's argument is valid, it applies equally well to the civil rights movement. The value of an argument is not a pure function of its syntactic structure but also the specific details of the arg
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by madgar 10y ago
What's hilarious about this statement to me is that there is a real, transparent political debate happening in NYC right now because the city government wants to prevent data from being shared with the incoming federal government (lo
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by madgar 10y ago
I bet they feel pretty good. It's the internet, after all. Isn't the whole point for a lot of people that there's no consequences for their words?
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by madgar 10y ago
I'm guessing you live in an actual house. If you don't mind my asking, how big is your lot? My parents retired to a house on a quarter-acre and they pick up a couple neighbors' networks with good signal.
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by madgar 10y ago
I personally use Hacker News Enhancement Suite for Chrome and tag users whenever I find myself mentally rolling my eyes. Then when I'm reading a page with lots of comments and see the "SKIP" tag I collapse the thread.
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by madgar 10y ago
I would characterize about 1/3 of HN posts as infantile delusion. You just learn to tune it out and get to the adult posts more quickly. There are browser extensions to help with this, too.
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by madgar 10y ago
The person you're replying to understands this. They demonstrated that they took the effort to understand the person they're replying to by including the smaller scope in their comments. GGP is either incapable of comprehending th
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by madgar 10y ago
> it's still pretty harsh on the 5% to just abandon them altogether How much money is there really to be made catering to the poorest of the poor, given Intel's position in the supply chain? Intel is a multi-billion dollar comp
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by madgar 10y ago
We're talking about NYC where taxis DO record this information.
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by madgar 10y ago
> I tell Uber the exact address at which I should be picked up and dropped off. I just leave in the address that Uber guessed for me, which is always wrong by a couple of street numbers. > Taxis don't get nearly that much granula
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by madgar 10y ago
I guess by that definition, literally all legal processes in US civil court are "thinly veiled threats". Which might be a fair perspective, but I think OP should point that perspective out ahead of time in the future. Maybe by ins
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by madgar 10y ago
I find that article very convincing, but unfortunately it's considered "fake news" by anyone who needs convincing.
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by madgar 10y ago
> Python started as a one-man-band project and of course didn't have a specification. C started as a one-man-band project and of course does have a specification. JavaScript started as a one-man-band project and of course does have
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by madgar 10y ago
Nobody wants to speculate in an area where they might be vulnerable themselves. Maybe storytime won't always be sufficient to run a business.
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by madgar 10y ago
A threat by whom? The American legal system? The sentence before the one you quoted explained the straightforward legal process by which unredaction may be authorized. A judge decides if this is officially released. Not the plaintiff.
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by madgar 10y ago
Ripping from Netflix and sharing is hard. Total idiots can copy/paste articles. I see full paywalled articles copy/pasted into Reddit threads every day, and in hacker news threads about every week.
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by madgar 10y ago
National security letters target individuals and aren't sent in enough volume to cover more than 0.01% of "everyone's emails".
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by madgar 10y ago
> But nature seems to just not abhor the "vacuum" left in cars filled with just a single rider hard enough to fill that. I'm not sure exactly what this sentence is supposed to mean, but I assure you as an NYC outer-borough
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by madgar 10y ago
> Further 1,030,000 units are "Rent Stabilized". However, "Rent Stabilized" is really just another type of Rent Controlled with different rules. Rent Stabilization has very little to do with retired individuals, unsur
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by madgar 10y ago
> Good thing I never made that claim. You said "It has applications in physics and is widely used in computation". Category theory is not widely used by those who program computers and thus produce computation in them. > I w
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by madgar 10y ago
> With respect, if you don't see any actual results, you haven't been looking. With respect, if you think any category-theoretic results were necessary to author even 0.01% of the code executed in computation globally, you&#x27
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by madgar 10y ago
I know the difference between pensions and social security. I also know that some of the commenters in this thread are talking about pensions without distinguishing between public and private pensions. I also know that there is an enormous
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by madgar 10y ago
As an American in their late 20s I don't know anybody who thinks they'll see a dime out of social security. We know we're paying into it to keep current retirees alive and we know that just won't happen for us.

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