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by pavedwalden 12y ago
I understand why this keeps recurring, but the part I can't get my head around is how it started. Who was the first person who posted all that fake legalese? As hoaxes go, it doesn't seem funny enough to have been done for the lul
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
This comment was on its way to being greyed out when I came by (perhaps it was read as argumentative rather than inquisitive), but it's something that I wondered about too. Whenever I hear about terrible practices within an industry or
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
When I imagine this borrowing pattern repeated across every town in America, I start to wonder how this affects the economy. Does anyone know how large a share of the American financial sector all of this municipal borrowing accounts for?
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
To me, "laid off" means it was structural, whereas "fired" implies that the specific individual was deliberately gotten rid of. Also, I think "fired" carries a connotation of blame. You don't get laid off
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I wonder if that asymmetry is part of the problem. There's a large population of users who can push junk to the top of the page, and a much smaller population with the ability to downvote it.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Just because something gets talked about a lot doesn't mean it's not worth trying to find a solution.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
If anyone is unaware, I'd like to note that Udacity does not enforce a course schedule in their free courses. You can begin them at any time and traverse them at any pace you want.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I understand that there's an unseemly faddish element to the gluten free thing, but I think it's unfair to say that your acquaintances suddenly "developed" gluten problems. More likely, they just hadn't been announc
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
That is a shame. 90% of the criticisms I've seen of App.net were mocking it for being 'an open source twitter' and completely ignored its ambitions to encompass general social network features.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Even if we accept the operational mistakes they made, and if we also accept their questionable explanation of why it was necessary to shoot a prone man in the head... even then it's unforgivable they way they lied to the press about th
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I disagree that you can avoid using these services, because I don't think that things like public schools are a service only to their direct recipients. Even families that can afford private schools for their children benefit from livi
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I don't see anything wrong with that. I'm excited about all the possibilities of crowdfunding, including market validation and supplementary capital.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I think the concern is that there are crawlers that collect plaintext addresses, so typing out an address is a different level of disclosure than including it in an image.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Well, I haven't earned my downvote wings yet, but I'd wager you did yourself in with "typical apologist bullshit". They're not silencing your opinion, they're disapproving of your tone.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I suspect that being locked up alone with one of the world's most obnoxious trolls is unfair punishment for whoever that cellmate is.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I get why that makes sense for recruiters, but why event planners?
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I'm hesitant to totally dismiss the movie, but the trailer definitely left me cold. In addition to all the problems you mentioned, I feel like they blew the "____ simplified" gimmick, which almost worked to tie the trailer together. In so
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I first saw a copy of this at Powell's Technical Books in downtown Portland Oregon. Bookstores are a great place for serendipitous finds, and that one in particular is worth checking out if you ever have a chance.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I think HSAs are overrated. My biggest problem purchasing healthcare isn't that I can't scrape up the funds, it's that as an uninsured individual I'm charged a much higher price for services than the insurance companies will pay. So $1000 o
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Yes, but they'll need Boston Dynamics in the mix before they can build terminators.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Nevermind, I see your reply elsewhere in the thread. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617082 )
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I liked that very much. Now I'd be quite interested in knowing what your four other chosen poems are.
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
I'm having a hard time telling how much content is behind the paywall. I know I've seen SitePoint books around, but I've never bought one. Can anyone chime in with an opinion about the material available on this site?
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Still, I think it's too easy to to write off injury statistics as probably not that bad. So, less than 1 in 10 people hospitalized ended up loosing a limb, but I know there was a lot of talk about shrapnel taking "chunks" out of people's le
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
My understanding of the situation is that the government has taken the position that warrants are only needed for e-mail that has been stored for less than 180 days. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-be...
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by pavedwalden 13y ago
Personally, I don't really feel an anti-police sentiment on an individual level. I get that it's a hard job, and I've met some respectable officers. But collectively, the seemingly total lack of accountability drives me nuts.
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by pavedwalden 14y ago
Wow, an officer was FIRED for speeding. That should be the headline right there. I was beginning to think it was impossible for a cop to get themselves fired.
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by pavedwalden 14y ago
I think the point he was making is along the lines of "all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares"
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by pavedwalden 14y ago
Cults have rules like that to cut you out of your old life, but in this case I think it's a legitimate desire to eliminate ALL distraction. I did one of their retreats many years ago and concluded that the changes in my internal life that c

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