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by narrowrail 9y ago
As an American (born and raised), this whole discussion is fascinating and is similar to the 'Obamacare' debate here. All of the Indians I've known in the US corroborate your claim about knowing one's religion/ heri
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Or lack there of. They're busy getting hysterical over the highly damning allegations of the day that is our current 'NightmareTV' political situation. Because the Obama admin was implicated in it, the coverage seems to be
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by narrowrail 9y ago
I don't have the experience you do, but all of the big violent acts we have had over the last 20 years that I remember were perpetrated by US citizens (except 9/11). I agree that we should not shape our laws based on edge-case cri
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Sure, you have the tribal-ists that are anti-Trump or anti-Obama, but I find there are many civil libertarians on HN. In 2013, during the wake of the Snowden release there must have been 3-5 threads per day. I don't feel qualified to a
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Just FYI, in the rural areas, we don't have emissions at all. Also, my neighbor has 1947 Ford truck that he drives in the summer.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
I think it's interesting that George Washington, in his Farewell Address[0], warned of political parties being an enemy of the government, and could provide a route to foreign governments and interests to have influence on our governme
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Which is odd since he only became CEO in 2013, " In January 2013, it was announced that Lampert would take over as chief executive officer at Sears after Louis D'Ambrosio stepped down due to family health matters, which took effec
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by narrowrail 9y ago
I listened to the first earnings call when Lampert took the helm at Sears, and he said to think of Sears as a real estate company. In other words, I don't think he thought a lot about Sears potential as a retailer.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
>How many apps do you have on your phone? How many online accounts have you created in your life? How many different messaging apps are you using? "Single point of failure," "Separation of concerns," and "Don&#x2
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by narrowrail 9y ago
You seem to be insinuating about a conspiracy among Reddit the company, admins (low-level employees), and [mostly] independent subreddit moderators. I think your premise is flawed.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
After you made this comment, a whole discussion[0] ensued regarding this topic. Looking at the front page of Reddit is like refusing to use kill files on usenet or /ignore on IRC "because I want to see what 'they' are sa
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Thinking about this a bit more, I think it would have to be a show where the hosts were in on it. The scam artists would learn of this show if it became popular, and avoid renting to folks seemingly associated with it. A format like "D
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Looking at the Github [0], it looks like a fairly alpha product targeted at technical people and has one contributor. I think giving the project some slack at this point seems reasonable. I guess if there is major concern about this, one co
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by narrowrail 9y ago
While sugar (a really generic term usually referring to sucrose) is natural, it occurs in the highly fibrous stalks of sugar cane. Most sugars naturally occur within fiber, while modern food practices extract and/or refine leaving the
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by narrowrail 9y ago
What is the difference between medicine and drugs? It seems highly relevant since there seems to be some quibbling about using the word natural and that it has no meaning (I agree, but another comment mentioned exactly what Taleb meant by n
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by narrowrail 9y ago
That's fair, but many of my fellow American's in other countries within the continents think it is arrogant (I now realize that typing 'America' into wikip redirects to the US). I think of the United States as a reasonab
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Not only is this submission flagged, it is also almost a day old (kinda old by HN standards), but you still felt the need to show up and link to what the public sources say. You have no insider knowledge, and the chances of the publicly kno
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Not to be pedantic (It's an unfortunate consequence of nuance), but just so you know, there is no country called "America." We have north, central, and south American continents with many countries; the U.S is one country in
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by narrowrail 9y ago
It's not an impassible divide, just a mentality difference. I'm not sure where you live, but my county has ~60k people (well, year round residents).
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by narrowrail 9y ago
There are no wolves hunting humans, and the idea is so ridiculous it is astounding.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Maybe after 25 more years in the Rockies with an active back country lifestyle, I will encounter a pack of human-hunting wolves. Hubris indeed.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
This is what I was talking about elsewhere in this discussion about city people ready to believe there are packs of wolves out hunting humans. 95% of the time in the back country (over 25 years in the rockies) when encountering these large
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by narrowrail 9y ago
The person I responded to was talking about hunting. So, it stands to reason he had a rifle. Wolves are scared of humans. They recognize the apex predator. Edit: I suppose I should mention that domesticated dogs can be trained to be all sor
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Do you believe there is a link between resource consumption and climate change? I do.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
As I believe humans are the #1 cause of climate change/ destruction and the eradication of other species, I think we could stand to lose about half the current human population until we can figure out a sustainable lifestyle.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Actually, Boost and Virgin in the US are owned by Sprint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Mobile_USA
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Right. The current rules of the BLM are that they are to lease these lands for grazing and/or energy exploration.
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by narrowrail 9y ago
Seniority and precedent are legal concepts from English common law. None of us alive had a say in that, but it is the way things work. Private property is a cherished concept in the US (and, especially, the western US).
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by narrowrail 9y ago
It's the type of story that city people (who spend 0.01% of their time in rural areas) seem to be astonished by because their lifestyles are so different. Trying to impose your will on people in an area you've barely lived seems q
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by narrowrail 9y ago
The entire idea is a work of fiction (I live in the SW desert). diebir went on a hike and saw beautiful public lands being utilized by ranchers utilizing their public grazing (which they pay for, though perhaps not enough which is subjectiv

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