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by pen2l 12y ago
I suggest people have a baby as soon as they can -- early 20s. The later you do it, the more problems occur. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome#mediaviewer/File:... This pictures explain it nicely. But re
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by pen2l 12y ago
> I have a Blackberry Passport and it is very innovative, it does stuff nothing else does and wows people when they see it. Just curious, what are some of these "wow" things?
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by pen2l 12y ago
The other reason closing tickets is not a good answer: if there's gonna be an answer or a solution, someone who had the problem in the past or just solved it now is going to post it there. Then people googling the problem and arriving
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by pen2l 12y ago
You bring up good points -- but reading that quote again, > "Aside from the obvious and well-documented economic benefits (for high-skilled workers especially, but for immigration more generally), it’s a matter of justice—I don’t th
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by pen2l 12y ago
Good essay, but one small nitpick: The problems with education are well-documented—teachers make far too little, it’s too difficult to fire bad teachers, some cultures don’t value education, etc. Many of these are easy to f
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by pen2l 12y ago
There was an interesting comment made when this was last submitted: > Those are really nicely done effects, and I could see finding a use for > some of the effects -- but not triggered on hover, I've pretty much given
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by pen2l 12y ago
> but I definitely never associated that journal with racism in that they've always seemed equally handed in their offensiveness. After the boko haram kidnapping of many, many young girls, Charlie Hedbo's cover featured the gir
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by pen2l 12y ago
> The rules concerning Mohammad contradict freedom of expression. It's really not as simple as that. You have the "freedom" to do anything, what matters is what kind of consequences there will be after exercising that free
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by pen2l 12y ago
> Given the circumstances, you'd think everybody understands that the "je suis charlie" thing is just a gesture. The popular sentiment on most forums (at least ones I've seen) seem to equation the 'je suis charli
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by pen2l 12y ago
True freedom of expression is not ingrained in Western culture, that's a myth. In Europe and in America as well, you either get your platform taken away or possibly face prison time when you say antisemtic stuff, when you say anti-blac
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by pen2l 12y ago
But only when they published antisemtic content did they have to do something: http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/152585/charlie-hebdo-fired...
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by pen2l 12y ago
I'll play 'devil's advocate' here for a moment. I'll be sacrificing a lot of internet points, but I'm not in a great position to begin with. :) Do let me pre-emptively say: I unequivocally condemn the recent ki
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Reddit being pulled into Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination case(fortune.com)
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by pen2l 12y ago
I'm not getting something. Please explain. (is it 'sophistry'? or something else?)
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by pen2l 12y ago
I agree with you, I probably should have been more careful in my word. I should clarify that when I mean "killed", I mean killing either by manually killing, or letting it remain killed. Considering they often exercise their abili
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by pen2l 12y ago
I would back up my claims with evidence other than my stated observations if HN software wasn't so opaque. And anyway, the burden of proof falls upon the party with the pertinent pattern of the acts which they are being accused of. HN
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by pen2l 12y ago
Sadly, it hasn't truly been "flagged off", it was done by the volition (or rather, the acquiescence of HN mods). This has happened for almost every immigration-related submission critical of pg's point-of-view. When you
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by pen2l 12y ago
Exactly. I'm really confused about this situation of VCs having their cake, and eating it too. Why and when did we just stat accepting the assumption that these companies and VCs are entitled to as many "superstar" programmer
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by pen2l 12y ago
Erm, is it really free? I just followed your link, which lead me to https://www.aws.training/home?courseid=3&language=en-us&sour... ... which lead me to http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/c
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by pen2l 12y ago
Yes, it's more reasonable for a company to set up office near where talent is, rather than changing national policy to get talent from abroad. Who the hell are they to request this kind of national policy change? They're not kings
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by pen2l 12y ago
NY and SF are highly unique. For cultural, personal, and financial reasons a lot of people don't want to move there. Now, just because of this reality... VCs are entitled to changing this nation's policy on immigration? Why not si
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by pen2l 12y ago
Yes. One of the smarter guys I knew now works as a salesman at a John Deere dealership (that his dad owned). He was the guy I used to ask for help when I had trouble with my data structures assignments. I now make probably 3 or 4 times more
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by pen2l 12y ago
Until I see Apple, Facebook, $next_young_hot_startup coming to the career fair at our local midwest college looking for candidates, I will choose to believe founders and VCs are flat-out lying just so they can rake in the money with cheap l