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by rory096 11y ago
Sure it is. It's just not freedom of speech. > Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as de
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by rory096 11y ago
You're right about inferior goods making a T&D program somewhat regressive (the canonical example is probably carbon). Still, the biggest winner is the non-smoking poor - there's just not as many rich people. Plus the whole po
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by rory096 11y ago
I was hoping someone would write about how bad this article was. (Shocked to see it's the same one as the pretty good piece from earlier.) The worst part to me was the article quoting Mitch Kapor to back up its implicit support of
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by rory096 11y ago
Tax and dividend. Don't toss Pigovian tax money into the general fund, return it to the people by sending everyone a check for their share. Solves progressivity, forms the basis of a basic income, and ideally directly defrays some of t
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by rory096 11y ago
> blindly pursue unpopular, problematic technologies like nuclear. Why is it blind problematic pursuit? Because it's unpopular?
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by rory096 11y ago
I'd think it would return the original promise, for chaining.
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by rory096 11y ago
Is this post on that thread accurate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9832812
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by rory096 11y ago
Well sure it does, when you set 1973 Q4 as index on all three... Here's centered at 1950: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=... Here's 2009: https://research.stlouisf
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by rory096 11y ago
Just gonna rip this straight from an /r/Economics comment yesterday: >Using wages as a picture welfare is unproductively restrictive. Using total compensation yields a very different picture.( http://i.imgur.com/
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by rory096 11y ago
($3.9T / 2) * 2% = $39 billion
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by rory096 11y ago
Boomerang for Gmail http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/06/09/turn-paywall-c...
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by rory096 11y ago
The volume is still 78mm CNY ($12.6mm) a day. Why would anyone be selling?
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by rory096 12y ago
Excellent point. What does that mean for civilians on that side of the argument- do they have to prove their status? Do the government's actions mean we can't assume good faith anymore?
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by rory096 12y ago
What's the difference between infiltration and legitimately voicing an opinion? Should government agents not have a seat at the table in an open forum like HN?
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by rory096 12y ago
I'm getting: You are using an outdated browser. Upgrade your browser today to experience Buttercoin. On Dolphin Mobile 11.4.3.
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by rory096 12y ago
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225 Pigeon.ly's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361
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by rory096 12y ago
abraininavat: Your account's been dead for 400 days – most people can't see your comments.
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by rory096 12y ago
How does one know it's correct? If I do a research study and discover some new fact I think is "correct," should I be able to just put that on Wikipedia, without peer review?
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by rory096 12y ago
Those are some bold accusations. I don't see how their comment history supports them being anything but a new member. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=WillPostForFood
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by rory096 12y ago
For example, probably.
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by rory096 12y ago
Correct. (I'm only back here because it's working again.) It looks like it was down for everyone, but seems to be totally back up now: https://www.google.com/search?q=usdrub
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by rory096 12y ago
Reminds me of the Iowa/South Carolina turkey plant scandal the NY Times broke last year. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/09/us/the-boys-in... http://www.nytimes.com/2
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by rory096 12y ago
Can you offer some background on why you decided to attend? How much experience with mindfulness did you have beforehand?
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by rory096 12y ago
I've been working on a side project for just that problem! Basically it sticks a programming guide on top of Netflix (and soon Hulu/HBO Go/Youtube/etc) and just autoplays a random shuffle for the channel you choose. It&#
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by rory096 12y ago
>... said Tim Newell, SolarCity’s vice president for financial products. >“By expanding the pool of people who can participate in financing solar with us, we’re diversifying our sources of capital,” said Mr. Newell, who was president
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by rory096 12y ago
Venmo is already owned by Braintree, which is owned by PayPal.
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by rory096 12y ago
"Coyote" "Jackal" "Fox" "Dingo" ... "Redondo Beach"
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by rory096 12y ago
This seems like it could work as a simple expansion of the idea. Everyone donates to the daily non-profit, but the email has a "Support Continuously" button that adds them to a list of "your" non-profits that you chose.
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by rory096 12y ago
Isn't that what GitTip^W Gratipay is? The reward/prioritization mechanism could easily be added on top of that (or be entirely informal). https://gratipay.com/
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/ * @Input1: an array of strings * @Input2: a separator that will be used when concatinating * the strings from @Input1 * @Output: a concatinated string * @Example: myConcat(["Code","Fight","On",&qu

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