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by mattsfrey 9y ago
What is the economic benefit of giraffes to the government, tourist draw? Regardless they don't have the resources to cover millions of acres of open savannah, enforcement just isn't going to work for this problem.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The issue of poaching comes up repeatedly on Nat Geo for instance, the usual community outcry being that authorities need to crack down hard on poachers. The end of the day reality though is these poachers are just poor hunters trying to ee
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
I think at the end of the day they are solving a really hard problem and being one of the few players in the space actually innovating. There is a lot of appreciation and I think customers and fans of Musk and the brand will HODL. They need
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
I'm assuming this might be a move to diversify knowing they will eventually be losing substantial market share to amazon. Kind of terrifying really, to think if they are going to apply the same business practices they've used in t
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Agreed. While not as profound as bringing access to the developing world, this will also be a major win for people looking to live alternative lifestyles, i.e. perpetual traveling, van life etc, where keeping a consistent internet connectio
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
People have actually encountered this question in interviews?
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Yep, great points. I was highly skeptical of closed sourced voting machines as well. Hopefully this new wave of awareness makes an impact, all you can really hope for really.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
I think that's a really good point actually, thanks for mentioning. I think people shrugged off the overarching privacy and surveillance issues of PRISM et al, even as egregious as it was, but once it comes out that FBs data shenanigan
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Interesting points indeed, especially as I see my comment being downvoted :)
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The proliferation of these so called "prophetic" articles coming out now amuses me greatly. Am I really alone in thinking FB was cancer from the get go?. Was Snowden and PRISM not enough? Why is this new CA crap even news? I feel
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
People are downvoting this but honestly, its a huge consideration. I pay a huge premium to live in Boulder,CO and have often thought how awesome it'd be to move to Texas, save a ton of cash.. except yeah, if you're not content jus
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The argument here should be don't have a kid when you work at chipotle, let alone three. Why is this ludicrously irresponsible behavior not called out? Why do we feel sorry for people who engage in such monstrously stupid and selfish b
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by mattsfrey 10y ago
In every single functioning state, you do what the police tell you or they use violence to coerce you. This is basically what defines the existence of a 'state', the alternative is anarchy.
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by mattsfrey 10y ago
Yes, choosing an action you know will directly result in a certain outcome makes you responsible for experiencing that outcome. Logic seems pretty simple to me
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by mattsfrey 10y ago
Sure it was a dumb/unethical thing to do on behalf of the airline and should have been handled differently etc. I'm wondering why nobody is commenting on the absurd behavior of the passenger however - insisting on forcing police t
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by mattsfrey 11y ago
Anybody consider the plight of the skilled laborer who invested time and potentially money into being more marketable and is making $15, who is now brought down to the level of people working menial unskilled jobs? Is this fair? You can alm
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by mattsfrey 12y ago
Another cheery day on HN, post a framework debut and people just bitch about some PC nonsense related to the name and other semantics. On a positive note it seems like a good idea and direction to go in, thanks for your work on this, as a S
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by mattsfrey 12y ago
I can imagine the act of holding the book and thumbing through the pages as you go along might help embed the timing of things into your subconscious, as it's quite obvious exactly where you are in a book due to how you are holding it,
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
Having to enter a phone number to create an account resulted in a closed browser tab. Might want to consider this factor, can guarantee theres plenty more where I come from.
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
Yeah that was literally laugh out loud, I needed that today
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
Anyone else burst out laughing after reading this?: "I met a guy who lives at 24th and Valencia [Street]. He says the Wi-Fi signal on the buses is so powerful that when the Google bus pulls up in front of his house, it uses all the bro
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
As the years roll by I appreciate more and more the fact I learned how to program back when there was just IRC and if you asked a trivial question all you got was 'RTFM'
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomor...
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
You'd think somebody smart enough to glean a key from github and setup instances on aws would have thought this out more
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
That plus the factors of some localities that just kill people who commit bad enough crimes / allow people to walk on bribes routinely / vigilante justice etc
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
In general this only applies to dangerous or violent felonies. In Colorado for instance, the applicable felonies are: arson, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, sexual assault, or a class 3 felony sexual assault on a child If somebody or a group
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
Mailchimp is ideal for sending a high volume of emails to a small amount of users. I couldn't imagine using them with a large volume of users, it's literally $0.005 per user, imagine if you only need to send a monthly or even week
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
Damn Mike, you sure stay on top of the times. (Note to any aspiring rails coders, rails tutorial is an awesome place to start)
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
Can anyone tell me what city is shown in the main picture?
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by mattsfrey 13y ago
As cool as this is, it's scary to think where our economy is going. What will all the construction workers do?

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