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by omonra 13y ago
Yeah, and growing up in a foster home on an Indian reservation beats crippled mechanic dad (by the way when my family came to the US, going to McD for birthday was a big deal - the dentist dad was purely hypothetical :). I'm sure there
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by omonra 13y ago
Umm..this is too stupid to argue with, sorry.
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by omonra 13y ago
Sure - I wasn't taking it up with you, just voicing my thoughts :) On the topic at hand - again, while it's a matter of personal choice - I think that growing up in a two parent household with caring parents who provide for their
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by omonra 13y ago
Thank you, got it. In that case I just think it's a wrong choice of words. My understanding is that privilege is that few are born with (see this humorous commercial from the UK about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by omonra 13y ago
I much more sympathize with UPS workers who got Christmas day off than some shmuck who ordered his package late. Better plan next year. There is a saying I like 'failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine&#x2
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by omonra 13y ago
I see a marked increase in the use of the word 'privilege' and how it 'should be checked' - usually in reference to not being black/hispanic, female or gay. What exactly do you mean? Is it same as 'count your b
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by omonra 13y ago
How would this help Italian government? All income would flow up to the US and get eventually taxed there.
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by omonra 13y ago
No, it's not possible. To lead a country one has to be elected - hence his public position must reflect core beliefs of the majority of the electorate.
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by omonra 13y ago
Articles like these make me wish that HN had a black-list of sites that only publish partisan politicized crap journalism (regardless of actual brand of ideology preached). If they make a conscious decision to push one-way propaganda, they
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by omonra 13y ago
$2 < $30, innit.
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by omonra 13y ago
I have a simpler explanation - women (and billions of other people who are not involved in open source programming - including myself) have better use of their time than write code for free. I actuall think that explaining any group not do
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by omonra 13y ago
You know, saying 'I recommend reading up on X from an academic perspective' is a fairly useless cliche. If you want to be helpful and feel that there is a specific book or study that someone should read - go ahead and mention that
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by omonra 13y ago
Let's look at the numbers: 99% of open source developers are men ( http://people.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/talks/2011-04-05_JHU.pdf ). It appears that women just seem to have better use of their time than writing c
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by omonra 13y ago
Thank you. Guess design was too clever for me :)
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by omonra 13y ago
What's the tldr? Can't be bothered to watch a video of someone talk when it could as well be written down. My ability to skim or parse a written page is significantly faster.
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by omonra 13y ago
Even though I'm tired of all the [Political / NSA / Women in Tech] discussions, posts like these make it worthwhile to check back in.
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by omonra 13y ago
Please have a look at gender readers of Anand Tech (last I checked site with zero sex content): http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/anandtech.com There are just no women reading it. So you might consider the possibility, tha
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by omonra 13y ago
Judging from the OP, he's right and you're living in lala-land. Ie - it could be a case of major conspiracy on the part of publishers (who are all women btw) to keep their readers away from tech. Or they could simply be giving th
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by omonra 13y ago
Stopped reading at 'I'm a white male' as if it's some sort of a handicap (in the words of George Carlin - "happens to be"). Tired of white male guilt permeating every other non-technical post. To me this colors
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by omonra 13y ago
Right - but there is one piece that I think you're mislabeling. Most of the stuff I mentioned is done by US govt against actors that are external and are considered a threat. We can leave aside the argument whether it's correct in
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by omonra 13y ago
I want to thank for your thoughtful comment. My first reaction to the article was dismissive (ie bugging of foreign leaders phones is what I expect an effective intelligence service to do). But your elaboration makes a stronger case. Howeve
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WSJ: How Teen Nick D'Aloisio Has Changed the Way We Read(online.wsj.com)
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by omonra 13y ago
I am unhappy with the whole premise of labeling people as white. What do a Polish immigrant laborer, a Jewish professor and a WASP homemaker have in common - oh, they're not black. Let's lump them all together!
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by omonra 13y ago
Professional basketball player is an occupation. It's concentration of a specific group of people shows that it's exactly not a lottery. You're downvoting it because it doesn't appear to agree with your worldview.
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by omonra 13y ago
Fine - so let's make obtaining an 'airbnb license' as easy as the driver one. Then if host has issues - take it away. But somehow I imagine that red tape required to obtain a hotel license is significantly longer, benefiting
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by omonra 13y ago
I really wish articles like these would spend more time on how the poor immigrant went from 0 to first 10 million, then from 10m to 1bio (of course I realize the author only has what his subject would tell him - so it's only a wish). H
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by omonra 13y ago
I have to concur with his experience - I often get GMaps results (on Android - which matters) that are very far away. For that I think they should have a simple switch in the search bar - "How far away do you want to show results?&quot
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by omonra 13y ago
I don't think we are against hotel regulation. We just don't consider renting one's apartment on Airbnb the same as a hotel.
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by omonra 13y ago
Ok, so the issue is not really licensing, if we get honest. Instead you don't want your next door neighbor to rent out his apartment on a full-time basis and see requirement to obtain a license as a measure that would prevent that fr
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by omonra 13y ago
To me the issue is scale. Just like people can hold garage sales or lemonade stand w/o a license vs running a bar. By same token - I don't mind someone renting out AN apartment. If the issue is tax - Airbnb can simply collect it o

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