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by skwirl 11y ago
The wealth isn't "amassed," it is created. It hasn't been taken from anyone else. But I'm guessing you wouldn't ask "Wouldn't it be better if it was impossible to create that much wealth in the firs
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by skwirl 11y ago
I didn't see a better source to link to, but this seems to be impacting a lot of websites and I thought others would like to know what is going on.
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Another Neustar UltraDNS Outage – UltraDNS Goes Down(blog.dotcom-monitor.com)
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Any measure would be a good start.
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None of what you cited is actual evidence that private prisons have had an impact on incarceration rates. I will also point out that lobbying is something every industry and interest group does in the United States, including many groups wh
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by skwirl 11y ago
Having seen the numbers, they are actually referring to the crime rate, and not raw crimes.
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by skwirl 11y ago
In summary: The theory is that from the mid 70s to the early 90s the prison population increased due to a real increase in crime, but after that, it increased due to prosecutors doubling the percentage of arrestees that they charge with a f
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by skwirl 11y ago
Yes.
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It feels like something that would fail if only one state did it. A lot of low income people would move to that state for basic income and the high income people seeing massive tax increases would leave. Then the system would collapse. At
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by skwirl 11y ago
I'm kind of Ok with letting other countries try this one out first. I'm receptive to the idea of basic income, but the potential unintended consequences seem terrifying.
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by skwirl 11y ago
Did people start reading newspapers in the middle of conversations with others? I don't think the analogy entirely holds.
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by skwirl 11y ago
>The ideas behind the so-called "on-demand workforce" further solidify the notion that labor is a commodity. After all, you can order an uber ride just as easily as you can order vitamins online. How does this make Uber drivers
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by skwirl 11y ago
There are no good questions to ask about the recent news during the interview process. Asking such questions will neither get you an honest answer with useful information nor help your chances of getting an offer. It can only hurt you wit
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by skwirl 11y ago
It's pretty amazing that anyone on HN would advocate ad hominem as a good way to reach understanding of something. He laid out his arguments and his data. Attack that with your own.
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by skwirl 11y ago
Because it's more pleasant and we have the space and money. If you want more economical, why not just have everyone live in barracks?
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...in today's tech industry? Unlikely.
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by skwirl 11y ago
Why does he work there, then?
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by skwirl 11y ago
That seems like a rather inefficient and convoluted way to incentivize employees without families to have a "better" work-life balance. You implied that the company was providing dinner - maybe it should start promoting a better
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by skwirl 11y ago
He fired at it with 3 shots of number 8 birdshot[1], which means he fires hundreds of pellets per shot[2] and those pellets spread out as they travel. All it takes is one pellet to bring down the drone. It would have been trivial. [1] ht
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by skwirl 11y ago
Agreed, but it was really confusing as to why this was posted on HN at all with the renamed title. The submission link probably should have been to the commit diff instead, but I don't think the HN mods ever change the actual target o
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by skwirl 11y ago
What I do is set up billing alerts through CloudWatch. I have $25/month in personal AWS usage paid for by my company (to encourage people to learn) and I set an alert when my monthly usage has hit $20 (which just went off yesterday).
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by skwirl 11y ago
The problem is that there is no data that has shown this to be true for the types of minimum wage increases that are commonly considered. I think the actual moral view is that the government should not restrict the freedom of employers and
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by skwirl 11y ago
Didn't the Greek government promise that voting "no" was the only way to STAY on the Euro? From what I have seen both sides were promising the same outcome, so the vote was all about who you believed more.
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by skwirl 11y ago
>If yes, please, create a library. Assuming you want to force everyone to use the same technology stack. And redeploy every application every time the internals of the library change. That may well be OK for what you are doing. Or not.
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by skwirl 11y ago
App developers are building apps on top of Apple's mobile operating system. They cannot exist without Apple. Apple has nothing to do with the music being created.
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by skwirl 11y ago
It wasn't too hard to find. It doesn't look like the company is in business anymore.
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by skwirl 11y ago
What happens when your "identity wallet" gets stolen?
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by skwirl 11y ago
Yeah, this is a live stream of a political speech by a presidential candidate. I bet we wouldn't see any complaints about flagging if this was a flagged live stream of Hillary Clinton talking about immigration reform.
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by skwirl 11y ago
It shouldn't make you really feel anything since it is only a three judge panel on an appeals court. Until it reaches the Supreme Court, it is all up in the air.
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by skwirl 11y ago
You and I face that risk whenever we travel abroad no matter what country we are from or travelling to. I have never imagined that I have the same protection as citizens whenever I have traveled abroad. We are in large part protected by d

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