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by porpoisely 8y ago
It's sad that you are being downvoted. This is a legitimate question especially considering the history of science and just history in general. We used to wipe out all kinds of animals that were deemed pests only to find out later on t
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by porpoisely 8y ago
You should hold it against them because veganism ( and to a lesser degree vegetarianism ) is morally wrong as it the most environmentally destructive and the most unnatural healthy diet. Veganism is the worst diet you can choose for your he
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by porpoisely 8y ago
A lot of health study regarding food is junk "science" because a lot of them are funded by companies, industry, special interest groups or charlatans trying make money by selling you a diet plan. Everything from "fat is bad&q
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I just listened to it during lunch and that was my first thought. What are the odds?
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by porpoisely 8y ago
1 million lines of code in 1000 pages would come out to 500 lines of code per side of page. You'd need a big magnifying glass to get through that. The book covers an old version of linux which had a few thousand lines of code.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It's semantics to say community guidelines serve to support a wide range of people and not behaviors. It has the same effect. It will drive away people who do not fit your definition of "good" behavior. It's no different
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by porpoisely 8y ago
So what if people communicate with each other? That's the point of the internet and has been forever. That's like blaming telephones for outrage. What does Q have to do with outrage? Is Q responsible for Smollet and the race baiti
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Is it social media or the news? Is it CNN, Foxnews, NYTimes, BuzzFeed, Huffpo, MSNBC, etc or social media? Did rolling stone intentionally lying about campus rape cause the problem or social media? Is the media constantly peddling lies like
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by porpoisely 8y ago
When we are talking about toxic, I think we all understood it meant behavior. And the point of community guidelines isn't to make it the community more inclusive, it's actually to make it more exclusive. Limiting speech and though
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by porpoisely 8y ago
ICBMs stand for InterContinental ballistic missile. Intercontinental being the key word. Last I checked both china and japan were on the same continent.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I disagree. Let passionate people on all sides have their say. I think it's more toxic to stifle passionate people. It's amazing how everyone from Steve Jobs to Bill Gates to Linus Torvalds is labeled as "toxic" and yet
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by porpoisely 8y ago
He isn't wrong since most linux servers run on x86 architecture and obviously most windows desktops run on x86 architecture. To your last point, if that is true, then what will the differences be when both the OS and CPU architectures
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Firstly, you are repeating propaganda you've heard in the media that simply isn't true. From the founders til today, the US has been highly anti-immigration. Secondly, population growth may have been great for the US economy, but
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I have and even more, I know people who work in silicon valley. Have you been there? Ignoring the fact that "90% of tech workers there were born outside the USA" is absolutely false, what does that have to do with H-1B visas? It c
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Why do you post the same lies in every H1B related thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19156756 As I corrected your lies in that thread, I'll correct them here as well. H-1B visas had nothing to do with Silico
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Japanese Spacecraft to Attempt Landing on Distant Asteroid(phys.org)
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I think the H1B should be ended entirely. What incentive is there for corporations and the government to invest in its own people when they can just import workers. Not only that, it is unfair to others countries who lose workers. If these
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Indonesia might has 15X more people, but it's also geographically 50X bigger than the netherlands. The netherlands is far more overpopulated than indonesia. Also indonesia's poverty is a legacy of more than a century of dutch colo
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I think you are misreading what I wrote. Obviously I'm not advocating for all of europe to be tax and the wealth shifted. It was an example to highlight my point of Europe minding its own business and Indonesia minding its own business
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It's just paid PR for WeWork. WeWork must have a great PR team and most importantly investors with significant contacts because they get great press. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by porpoisely 8y ago
But the "externalities" got shifted from indonesia to somewhere else. How about this, if indonesia told norway to go to hell, cut down their forests, got rich and then in 20 years paid Laos $1 billion to spare their forests. Would
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by porpoisely 8y ago
This is what I despise about "news". If this was china or russia or venezuela, etc, the headline would be "China tightens grip on their people" or "International community concerned as China becomes more authoritari
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by porpoisely 8y ago
No. The take away is that norway isn't doing anything but buying publicity with their little neocolonial effort. They lost nothing by this. They only gained. If norway really cared, they should stop drilling oil immediately and turn ov
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by porpoisely 8y ago
What you are describing are diverse cities, not california as a whole. NY is even more diverse than than california if you just pick a diverse city and extrapolate that to the entire state. If you want global, it doesn't get any more g
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Considering all the money norway got to pay indonesia came from selling oil, this is really nothing more than a billion dollar PR exercise. Not to mention that in a globalized world, the deforestation will ultimately get shifted somewhere e
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I'd say it is unsavory in the same way today's movies are "manufactured" to extract the most value from american and chinese markets. Where decisions of film locations, dialogue, plot, etc are driven by marketing and pol
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Are you talking about the California of the LA Riots? The california of constant race riots in high schools? A california with the largest white supremacist population, the largest ethnic mexican gangs, largest asian-ethnic gangs, largest b
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Don't forget the Lakers - Kings 2002 conference finals. The NBA really wanted Shaq and Kobe in the finals that year.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
The refs definitely protect the stars. But the stars are why people pay money and buy tickets. So there is definitely pressure to keep the stars off the bench and on the court. And if one team is extending a lead, they seem to love to call
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Yep. I think the most egregious example is in the NFL where you can call a hold ( on offense or defense ) on every play if you wanted to. Of course in baseball, the umpire can "manage" the game by changing their strike zone. I sti

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