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by rpiguy 7y ago
It is actually very easy to do legislatively (laws tell the companies what to do, not necessarily how to do it). The technical challenges fall on Google.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Actually the whole thing started with man, Adolf Hitler, righteously calling on his brownshirts to march on the institutions he disagreed with while wearing the mantle of mortal authority. Sounds more like your argument than mine.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The children are victims of their parents' decision, not our government. Blame the parents.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I'll take capitalist tyrants over socialist tyrants any day. At least there is a tenuous correlation between hard-work and talent in a capitalist economy. Socialist and Communist utopias ultimately devolve into systems where you are re
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Agreed. Only congress can fix this, the law is the law. Do they really want to give Trump and the executive branch the power to pick and choose what laws to enforce?
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by rpiguy 7y ago
My grandfather was Filipino and joined the US army in the Philippines during WWII he earned his citizenship (which was not granted until he completed a US GED) fighting in WWII and Korea.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Nazi concentration camps featured forced labor, torture, near starvation, rape, and ultimately ended in death via exhaustion, disease, or execution. Your hyperbole is offensive to anyone whose grandparents or great grandparents actually was
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by rpiguy 7y ago
They are not Nazi concentration camps. If the alternative is to effectively have an open border than I support the actions taken to detain and process illegal border crossers.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Plants require water. Yes we can solve the plastic problem by growing more plants, but then we will have a water problem as plants, heavy industry, chemical production, recycling (which uses a lot of water), power production (most use steam
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Human beings are astounding! Assuming the Earth is about 5.972 sextillion (1,000 trillion) metric tons, we've converted .000000000000134 of the Earth into plastic. No other species could have accomplished this. A testament to our ingen
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by rpiguy 7y ago
This is a sad story, but has very little to do with HN or technology. I am sure everyone at ARS is appalled.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
You are right. Overall funding of education is up across the board, but down per-student as Universities try to grow like businesses (bigger and bigger classes every year). Enrollment balloons, so spending per student goes down despite incr
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Profits from RAM and Jeep kept FCA alive for a decade while Fiat floundered. Consumers do not want cheap, reliable cars that are good on gas - they want SUVs. Even Toyota knows this and has three times as many SUV models than cars. Fiat and
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I’ll read this later.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Girls guides were about the activities most girls were engaged in at the time, cooking, sewing, etc. You never would have seen a "Girls Guide to Shortwave Radio," for example, fifty years ago because practically no women were doin
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I am so glad several other commenters here have pointed out that boy's guides were fairly common and this is a cute reference to that genre of book. There were girl's guides too. It is not the least bit offensive nor meant to caus
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Interesting that agile was a key component in what allowed Boeing to underbid all their competitors on the T-X advanced trainer program and still produce a profitable aircraft: "Another factor was adopting an agile approach to software
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Boeing switched to Agile development for T-X program(aviationweek.com)
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Cray is such a niche player and totally dependent upon government spending. I can only see this is a play by HPE to get more government contracts. Sad what has become of HPE. What happened to Moonshot? What happened to their super memristor
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by rpiguy 7y ago
For highly congested areas the increase in the number of lanes is done to accommodate the number of cars on a given route (optimize for capacity). If you can physically fit four times as many cars on a route, but it results in only being ab
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Sadly, I do not think Aristotle said that, it actually originated from an American preacher. On the topic of Christianity in relation to the posted article honestly my first thought was that we were commanded to "Go forth and multiply.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
No one is talking about a labor shortage! The problem is a consumer shortage. Automation only makes it worse. Aging population with a shrinking population means less people to buy goods. Automation means less people employed. This is bad fo
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by rpiguy 7y ago
So you are admitting that if a country is highly developed and have undergone a demographic transition they have low growth. You just proved my point, thank you.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Only about 30% of people want overall immigration decreased according to Gallup and the President wants a merit based immigration system and fewer unskilled immigrants, which is hardly being opposed to immigration. Historically, per capita
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Certainly one day the system will be unsustainable. You can sustain growth for a little while with a stable population by increasing consumption, but once the succeeding generations have the same number of buyers or fewer, it becomes very c
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Interesting theory, but in order for economic growth to occur someone has to be there to buy the goods that these machines will be producing. Fewer humans alive to buy goods with fewer jobs equals a shrinking economy, regardless of how the
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by rpiguy 7y ago
It is within the rights of any nation to deny asylum to asylum seekers as well as to define the criteria that qualify asylum, otherwise anyone who shows up at the border saying "my country is poor and dangerous and I want to live here&
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Interesting theory that is contrary to any actual observable evidence. Look at any country with an aging and shrinking population.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Even in European countries with generous support systems, subsidized day care, free university and paid parental leave the birthrate has plummeted (below the US in most instances). So I am not sure that it is the cost, just rather a re-orie
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by rpiguy 7y ago
From an ecological perspective not a bad thing. From a national economy perspective, it is a very bad thing for two reasons. Capitalism requires an expansion of consumption to grow. Even in a recession/depression the old natural birth

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