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by maratd 8y ago
I did. You spent most of it lecturing people who use cars. I explained to you why you were wrong to do so.
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by maratd 8y ago
I'm glad you like to bike. Bikes don't go 60 miles an hour, which is necessary for some individuals who work an hour or more from their residence. And no, people don't do that sort of thing because they enjoy it. They do it b
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by maratd 8y ago
A dudette?
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by maratd 8y ago
> In all seriousness, what are the advantages of stone? If done right, it is likely the most durable material to use for siding. Will last for hundreds of years. Same with bricks if well maintained. All other kinds of siding deteriorate
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by maratd 8y ago
Perhaps rather than an ad-hominem you can instead argue the point being made?
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by maratd 8y ago
Not every engineering solution needs to make sense exclusively within the engineering domain. Some engineering solutions have purely business justifications. For example, take a look at the Tesla Model X and its Falcon Wing Door. It is very
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by maratd 8y ago
I am aware, but dual intent means just that. Until they file for a green card, their intent isn't known and calling them immigrants is wrong. They are not immigrating. Although they may, if they choose to.
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by maratd 8y ago
The title on the article is wrong. H1B workers aren't immigrants and using that word in this context is wrong. H1B is a visa. They are visitors. That being said, visitors should be able to work and so should their relations if they are
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by maratd 8y ago
As a kid, if you’re working a minimum wage job, it’s not to pay rent or to repair a shitty car you don’t have.
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by maratd 8y ago
> Imagine if every high school had the budget to run a modern, staffed programming lab I don't need to imagine. If you work that minimum wage job for ONE DAY, you'll have 100 bucks in your pocket. You know what you can do with
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by maratd 8y ago
> Were things different in the United States at some point? No, but there is a political movement in the United States toward a universal income upon which anyone can live comfortably and this is a symptom of that. Jobs that were previou
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by maratd 8y ago
> The same could be said about allowing poor people to seek treatment from unlicensed medical practitioners No, it can't. Because they can always walk into a hospital and receive treatment, even if they have no capacity to pay. A ho
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by maratd 8y ago
> Like, giving the customer a $500 loan at 300% interest that they may never be able to pay back so they end up in an endless cycle of debt. If that's the percentage being charged and that's the best a person can do, that means
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by maratd 8y ago
> How much more competition do you think there can be? Quite a bit more, apparently. See the other comments here. There are startups trying to tackle the problem. Regulation is not the answer. Competition is. If you feel you can provide
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by maratd 8y ago
> Which consumers is the CPB protecting? Those very same consumers. Large, established players do not want to even touch that customer base because it represents a high risk and a low payoff. These are the only financial services these p
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by maratd 8y ago
It is absolutely shameful that this comment was downvoted. Trump is a big boy, he can take it. I couldn't care less. What of the thousands whose lives are destroyed by shoddy journalism who aren't famous enough to even be recalled
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by maratd 8y ago
> No one has proven they take some special kind of intelligence This isn't true. We have overwhelming evidence that these "skills" originate in different parts of the brain in all humans and if we disable those parts, thos
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by maratd 8y ago
> What does multi-dimensional even mean, in the context of intelligence? Emotional Logical Intuitive Social Computational Instinctive Sexual Experiential and I can keep going, but you should get the point.
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by maratd 8y ago
> Agency work is less profitable and higher hassle. I agree with the first part, but disagree with the second. Rather, partially disagree. Most agencies are inept. There are some out there that run a very tight ship and it is a pleasure
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by maratd 8y ago
Is there some way to make data available to specific users, but unavailable to others? Basically enforcing an ACL or similar?
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by maratd 8y ago
> Check the @pjc50, @Traster etc comments at the top. Those are specific examples of corruption here in the US. Are you asserting that you wouldn't be able to find the same corruption, for example, in China? Please provide a single
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by maratd 8y ago
We're now pretty deep in this thread and you still haven't given a single example?
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by maratd 8y ago
> Instead I would argue that the nature of the corruption has everything to do with the ideological foundations of said system. How so? Is corruption different somehow depending on the ideological foundations of the system? Corruption is
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by maratd 8y ago
Not sure this makes sense to me? There's corruption in every system, regardless of the ideology behind it. Are you saying there's no corruption in communism? Because I have news for you, if you do. It seems like corruption is simp
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by maratd 8y ago
> Only 25% of the government was under debate on Dec 2017, so only that 25% of the Federal Government was shutdown. That's what I said. > 25% of the federal government is roughly 800,000 workers who have gotten a $0.0 paycheck ye
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by maratd 8y ago
> Serious question for US members of HN: how do you tolerate these shutdowns? I realize this is being portrayed in the media as a total government shutdown, but that's really not the case. The US has multiple levels of government. F
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by maratd 8y ago
Instead of downvoting the parent, make an actual argument instead. You'll find it difficult. If the current shutdown proves anything, it's that many functions of the federal government are un-essential to daily life. Those un-esse
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by maratd 8y ago
While this is true with regards to the motor, battery, etc. the rest of the car is the same as standard vehicles and will fail in the same way as today's cars do. So if the AC fails, some computer board fries, suspension gets messed up
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by maratd 8y ago
Buy a silent ringtone and set it as your default. Then assign a ringtone to the contacts you want to come through. Now all calls are silent except those you specify.
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by maratd 8y ago
The kind of software the parent was alluding to is the type that tightly integrates with hardware. It's an order of magnitude more difficult to pull off, since the two must work well together in concert.

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