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901.
by natrius 14y ago
Choosing people primarily because they add diversity is tokenism. There are processes that are effective in obtaining underrepresented speakers that are effective and don't require choosing people because they're a minority. We should use t
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by natrius 14y ago
"If no, then the result really is inexcusable." I explained why I disagree with that. Being in the tech industry doesn't obligate one to fix its problems. It'd be nice if people tried to. "Inexcusable" doesn't apply. You even called it "t
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by natrius 14y ago
"... I would explicitly not be satisfied with a process that resulted in 100% male speakers. I would have stopped once we’d reached, say, 17 male out of 22 possible speakers (being pretty conservative, I think) and insisted that the remai
904.
by natrius 14y ago
How is that practice anticompetitive?
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by natrius 14y ago
The Chevy Aveo is actually a Korean car. It's a rebranded Daewoo Kalos.
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by natrius 14y ago
Progressive taxation is not leftist. Americans broadly agree on the concept. A 2011 WSJ/NBC poll found that 81% of Americans approved of increasing taxes on those who make more than $1 million. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274
907.
by natrius 14y ago
"Our core system of government ... is still better than the rest." By what measure?
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by natrius 14y ago
I'd put the date a little later: 1913. The ratification of the 17th Amendment got rid of the states' representatives in the federal government. Most citizens don't care about the particular divisions of power between levels of government, a
909.
by natrius 14y ago
Having the word "bank" in your name means you have to meet all the legal requirements to be a bank. Simple is not a bank.
910.
by natrius 14y ago
The west coast was populated by the taxpayers of the east coast in order to prevent it from falling into the hands of another power. Those "favorable terms" weren't charity; they were an investment that has paid off. This is a dumb argume
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by natrius 14y ago
I don't understand why you think it's instructive to compare government investments to venture capital. The government engages in plenty of investments, and none of them operate that way.
912.
by natrius 14y ago
Southern California has paid off that investment many times over, and Nevada and Arizona probably have as well.
913.
by natrius 14y ago
This seems like a "might makes right" sort of argument. Since the American government is much more powerful than the Afghan government, we can mistreat Afghans. If we did the same thing to British citizens, there'd be quite an uproar. I thi
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by natrius 14y ago
This argument isn't going to go anywhere novel. The point is that such policies help some impoverished people make more, but they make other impoverished people make less.
915.
by natrius 14y ago
There are jobs that are illegal because the highest price people are willing to pay for them is lower than the minimum wage. The potential buyers and sellers of those services would not be harmed if they were legal—they would benefit.
916.
by natrius 14y ago
I'd dispute your point, but there's no way this argument will be appropriate for Hacker News.
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by natrius 14y ago
The main concern about Guantanamo isn't the treatment of prisoners. It's the fact that people are being held without trial—making the comparison to the Gulags rather apt. Also, you're correct that people usually care less when injustices ar
918.
by natrius 14y ago
I imagine that as well, but it's easy to see that these are meaningfully different kinds of privacy at stake.
919.
by natrius 14y ago
What, pray tell, does this have to do with anonymity?
920.
by natrius 14y ago
Google has a process set up for doing exactly that. It's less outlandish than it sounds. http://www.google.com/wallet/prepaid-refund/
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by natrius 14y ago
Google Wallet is in Google Play on my phone. It isn't on Verizon phones. There is a distinction.
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by natrius 14y ago
Before I got my first Android phone, my phone book was stored in featurephones with proprietary address books that couldn't be accessed without going to a phone store. Now my address book is everywhere with internet access. Whether I'm call
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by natrius 14y ago
I use Google Wallet on my Galaxy Nexus using T-Mobile. (Or at least I did use it until my free $10 ran out. I don't get how it's supposed to be more convenient than swiping a card.) Verizon won't let phones access their network if Google
924.
by natrius 14y ago
The suggestion to use a dollar from the wallet was tangential to the point. Now you can get into strangers' inboxes. Spending a dollar of your own money to do so is cheaper than the effort you've described.
925.
by natrius 14y ago
Isn't this exactly what they're making possible? Take a dollar out of the wallet and use that dollar to get in their inbox.
926.
by natrius 14y ago
Your comment has been downvoted, but there isn't yet an explanation of why it is incorrect. I'll provide my perspective. 1) Zuckerberg didn't "take" wealth. He created it. 2) Governments don't have particular insight into the best ways to s
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by natrius 14y ago
The economies of most developing nations would be crippled. Cheap labor is a major export. Once the labor is just as cheap as in developed countries, there's no need to incur the overhead of coordinating production over long distances, so t
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by natrius 14y ago
You can force a living wage, but you can't force companies to hire people at that wage. I mean, you can , but most people would find that pretty extreme.
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by natrius 14y ago
The Affordable Care Act prohibits charging based on gender. This provision kicks in on January 1, 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
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by natrius 14y ago
My freshman year, Safeway began their online delivery service. They didn't card for the first month or two, which got them plenty of business from our dorm. Good times.

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