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by mberning 8y ago
There you go with that wrongthink. You’re on the wrong site buddy. In general these folks don’t care that illegal immigration disproportionately impacts native born poor and miniorities. They treat it as some kind of myth. They also act as
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by mberning 8y ago
I am reminded of this gem: https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies...
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by mberning 8y ago
If you are contending that Walmart having never existed would be a net benefit for humanity I think you would have a very hard time proving that. I am not defending their business practices, merely pointing out that it would be extremely ha
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by mberning 8y ago
The world would be an overall much poorer and more brutish place without all of the businesses that have ever drawn feelings of consternation from the public.
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by mberning 8y ago
One of the few quality comments in this thread. Thank you.
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by mberning 8y ago
The results are crap, but at least the national security apparatus has your DNA to use against you in the future.
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by mberning 8y ago
“We thought hard about all the ways we could help from tapping our networks to find a more dignified temporary place for our cook to stay, to figuring out how to pay him more without having him lose access to different low-income programs f
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by mberning 8y ago
This reminds me of ads they ran in the UK about domestic violence going up when a team lost a football match. I’m not sure what to make of it. Are we going to have an ad for any and every generic stressor in this life? If a report card or s
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by mberning 8y ago
During my time as a student I felt that the computer science department should have been split into two disticnt programs. The first program should have existed in the math department dealing with the theory and mathematics of computation.
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by mberning 8y ago
It seems like it is currently Ruby's turn to take a beating just like Java before it. I guess people relentless hate on Java even to this day, so maybe it will never get much better. But Ruby certainly holds a special place in my tool
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by mberning 8y ago
https://apnews.com/216f4fe17e85429a82ee088ed2a73b41
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by mberning 8y ago
Bingo. The establishment media is so desperate to control the narrative of this. For the longest time they kept beating the drum of “gas tax protests” to downplay other less flattering issues. Well, the gas tax was abandoned but the problem
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by mberning 8y ago
Per capita is a BS way to look at it. If US emissions are growing at 0.5% per year then there is nothing to do. It will take 140 years to double and the natural progression of technology will easily solve the problem. Solar and other renewa
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by mberning 8y ago
That is a pretty staggering amount of uncertainty. The US for example looks like it could be anywhere from 0.5% to 4.5%. That is something I would like to know with more certainty before undertaking any major public policies. From a simple
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by mberning 8y ago
Flagged to hell. Just like this one will be. The HN double standard on political topics rolls on.
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by mberning 8y ago
I guess we should outlaw or regulate every labor saving device that produces any form of annoyance, no matter how fleeting. What a bout loud circular saws, concrete saws, jackhammers, vibratory packers, etc. etc. These are indespensable lab
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by mberning 8y ago
Why is it commonly assumed that "our system is broken"? What is the evidence for it? Do people consider the evidence against it? Usually not. It is very easy to fixate on things which could be better, and completely ignore things
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by mberning 8y ago
Fallout 4 was a disgrace in terms of quality. This seems to be carrying on the tradition.
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by mberning 8y ago
Also commonly known as “a pillar”.
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by mberning 8y ago
There are a lot of people that contract full time for a single client, so that number could still be misleaded. At least to me anyway. I would not consider those people to be freelancing.
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by mberning 8y ago
Still seems high to me. Even in the software world I don't run into that many people that purely freelance. Many people moonlight as developers though, so I could see it being true if we looked at it as only part time supplemental inco
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by mberning 8y ago
I'm not buying it. Just today stats came out that there were a record ~150 million employed. No way 1/4-1/3 of those are freelancing. edit: link https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20
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by mberning 8y ago
It’s not discussed. It’s casually accepted by many even though there is no evidence for it and evidence against it is ignored or hand waved away.
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by mberning 8y ago
First off - I really dislike it when people deal with blocks of people as if they are a monolith. As if all white people have some innate starting advantage, all black people have some disadvantage, etc. It’s a brutally racist mentality tha
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by mberning 8y ago
I see you are being downvoted, but thank you for the TLDR. I didn’t care to read this person’s life story just to get to the point.
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by mberning 8y ago
I agree, and the political items that managed to not be flagged to hell are highly biased. If I wanted to see this kind of stuff I could easily find it elsewhere. I really wish there was a "nothing even remotely political" policy
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by mberning 8y ago
Care in the US is quite good, but the billing is the most opaque thing imaginable. I went in for a skin biopsy and got a bill from 3 different people. Why? I don't take my car to the shop and get a bill from 3 other shops in town. Ridi
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by mberning 8y ago
If they had good test coverage and stayed on top of updates this would be a non issue. Going across several major versions of any language/framework is going to be painful.
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by mberning 8y ago
This is exactly what’s happening. I despise these headlines that are couched with a mildly anti-American sentiment. You could easily re-write it to convey the fact that many parts of the world are experiencing great prosperity and developme
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by mberning 8y ago
Went there when I was in Santa Fe. Great experience.

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