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by nsnick 9y ago
The mistake you are making is that you are only looking at the harm that monopolies do to their competitors. You should also look at the harm that monopolies do to consumers. If you are a monopoly you can effectively set the price of what
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by nsnick 9y ago
Britain was hardly a super power in 1982. It took every refueling plane Britain had to send one bomber to the Falklands. Refueling planes had to fuel refueling planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buc
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by nsnick 9y ago
At some point you have to stand up to despots in the name of human rights.
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by nsnick 9y ago
South Africans remember the British concentration camps.
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Europe didn't send their best either(medium.com)
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by nsnick 9y ago
The SR-71 leaked fuel before takeoff because it needed separation distance between parts to allow for expansion. It had nothing to do with the difficulty machining titanium. From your source: "Fuselage panels were manufactured to fit
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A bid to solve California's housing crisis could redraw how cities grow(wired.com)
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Even female uber drivers get paid less(recode.net)
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by nsnick 9y ago
They should probably consider doing that again.
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by nsnick 9y ago
But the crab cakes are so good!
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by nsnick 9y ago
It is not exactly the same because real Baltimore cops would not even consider the possibility of being caught and know that if they were, nothing would happen to them.
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Ich bin ein tweeter(wired.com)
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Amazon's artificial intelligence flywheel(wired.com)
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by nsnick 9y ago
Why was this flagged?
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California’s net neutrality bill is open to legal attack says EFF(arstechnica.com)
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by nsnick 9y ago
The only problem I have with Face ID is that I cannot be discreet with Apple Pay. With Touch ID you. can kinda do the touch part out of sight and then move the phone close to the payment device. With Face ID you have to hold the phone up
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The iPhoneX is Apple's underrated masterpiece(theverge.com)
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by nsnick 9y ago
Google should not do business in countries that commit gross human rights abuses.
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A new type of self driving car(theverge.com)
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by nsnick 9y ago
You mean when the Russians use the platform to get Donald Trump elected?
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by nsnick 9y ago
It also has Portland and Cleveland as the next most likely and they have been eliminated. Gambling sites are not useful for decisions like this which are made by a small group of people. Gambling sites are useful for things like elections
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by nsnick 9y ago
Pittsburgh has flights to Seattle. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/... Also, Northern Virginia is the location of Dulles. Montgomery county would also use Dulles or BWI whic
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by nsnick 9y ago
Solitary confinement isn't just getting your own room. It means that you don't get to spend any time with any other inmates.
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by nsnick 9y ago
Representatives are always from wealth centers in the status quo.
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by nsnick 9y ago
That is an argument for local government not for how we elect our representatives to a national body. Do we really want representatives pulling spending to a particular geographic region? It seems to me that people in San Francisco have m
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by nsnick 9y ago
It seems crazy that we elect representatives based on geography. Can't we elect representatives based on some other grouping? Why is there an assumption that my interests are aligned with people in geographic proximity to me?
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by nsnick 9y ago
One problem. Linus Torvalds lives in Oregon.
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by nsnick 9y ago
Please put a 2002 tag on this.
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by nsnick 9y ago
He does live less than 20 miles from Intel. They could have just driven to his house to let him know.
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by nsnick 9y ago
I don’t know about the US, but there is a California law against employer descrimination for expressing a political viewpoint

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