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by rndmize 9y ago
I don't understand this perspective. When CNN gets a story wrong, the right creates a huge storm and people get fired. When the right gets a story wrong (Breitbart still pushing the hard anti-climate change line, Hannity with the Seth
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This is nice to hear. I use Firefox as my default browser with the tree-style tabs add-on, and just yesterday I replaced ABP with uBlock and Ghostery with Disconnect out of frustration with how slow things were going (~30-50 tabs open). The
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by rndmize 9y ago
There's a difference between "no problem with" and "actively encouraging". It's similar to how the millions of people we now have in prison as a result of three strikes laws and heavy drug enforcement that was
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by rndmize 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_bracket
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CA has an income tax that's 8% or higher above $40k. If this caused some kind of brain drain, I'd expect to see smart/wealthy people leaving the state. The last 30 years have been the opposite, with the Bay Area and SV growin
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by rndmize 9y ago
When I see articles discussing how Texas has sizable influence on textbook content and their Board of Education pushing for creationist or anti-evolution content to be taught; or when I hear Alex Jones is promoting some new conspiracy theor
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by rndmize 9y ago
"Genteel" is always used to describe people (similar to polite or well-mannered).
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In that case, a few more things. https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/d... http://webtypography.net/ You'll probably want to do some reading on common components of design su
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by rndmize 9y ago
I can't quite tell if you're having trouble with front-end architecture (code structure/design, separating things effectively across HTML/CSS/JS) or design (UI, UX, look/feel, application layout and navigation
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What part of this is a fact? I'd argue this is literally the opposite of a fact - it's a model and a prediction based on it. Those are things that may be based on facts, but that in no way makes the theorized conclusion a fact. h
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Yep. I remember conservatives crowing about how this was a study by a climate skeptic and respected scientist and they'd be willing to accept the results. Of course, when the results weren't what they wanted, They turned against t
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by rndmize 9y ago
> That is what it is, but if the company is allowed to be driven by profit motive, he should be too. It is within the best interests of his profit motive to continue with the automated work. For some reason when the person is an employee
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by rndmize 9y ago
I think this stems in part from the "oh I'm so bad at math" culture we have in the US, where its almost expected that most kids won't be good at mathematics. The side effect of this, imo, is that fields that are close to
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How much impact does the average American have on public policy?(reddit.com)
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I'm continually unsold on this. Mars is far away, inhospitable, and feels like a run-before-we-walk kind of scenario to me. Merely sending humans to Mars seems like a huge task, let alone keeping them alive there. I've felt for
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by rndmize 9y ago
What a bad joke. This isn't even remotely close to fixing the big issues, like prop 13 or zoning/NIMBYs or regulatory processes, or even minor ones in Google control, such as building office space somewhere that isn't on the
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Here’s how much you would need to afford rent in your state(washingtonpost.com)
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I think we're at a point where the value of a traditional aircraft carrier is questionable (for the cost), and likely to decrease in the coming decades. A smaller, possibly submersible craft that could launch and catch drones would pro
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by rndmize 9y ago
> So they can have a seriously deleterious effect on really very large numbers of children as a result of the power they wield. I have a hard time seeing how anything they decide to do to change schooling is going to make it worse than
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ELI5: why people say “boomers” ruined the housing market(reddit.com)
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by rndmize 9y ago
You must not read the NYT much. I just took a glance at their homepage and less than 1/3 of the articles are on US politics. The vast majority of their articles I see on HN have a wide variety of interesting topics - > They Could Bu
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by rndmize 9y ago
I think you do the article a disservice to try and summarize it in such limited fashion. It considers questions such as why does trade today/globalization no longer seem to have the benefits economists consistently claim it does, or di
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by rndmize 9y ago
I'll be honest: I don't really like how you're approaching this. It feels like a higher class of conspiracy theorizing I often see on the web in its construction, so I'll run through my issues point by point. 1 - The ori
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Why America has a trust problem(economist.com)
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I continually heard some years back that Obamacare was basically Romneycare which was basically the Republican plan from the Clinton years. Further, as we can see from the current state of things, the Republicans might say they hate Obamaca
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by rndmize 9y ago
Not the GP, but these are social issues largely, and while I care about them, I consider them less important than economic issues (for a multitude of reasons). And on economic/business issues, the two parties seems to have minimal diff
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by rndmize 10y ago
I don't think it's downplayed so much as implied - when a country has an increasing number of disenfranchised people but still has economic growth that outpaces their population growth, the wealth is probably accruing somewhere el
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by rndmize 10y ago
> The underlying issue here is that Electron reduces the barrier to entry for cross-platform development. Actually, the incentive is even stronger than this. The ability to visit a website and start using an identical version of the app
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I agree with most of what he says, but I would put Tesla at the top of the list by a fair degree. > In 2016, Waymo logged more than 635,000 miles while testing its autonomous vehicles on California’s public roads compared to just over 20
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by rndmize 10y ago
You're attaching the issue to the US (or maybe western society), when in fact this issue is inherent to humans as a whole. People are able to create mental connections between things. They are able to see patterns and extrapolate. This

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