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by strlen 13y ago
As a former USSR immigrant, I'll just leave this Soviet joke out there: An American tells a Russian that there's free speech in American; that anyone is free to just go infront of a government building and yell "American pres
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by strlen 13y ago
Yes, exactly: would people bring up a free-speech issue if someone wrote "gentrifiers go home" on the side of a new apartment development or an anti-Semitic message on the walls of JCC or offices of an Israeli company (to compare
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by strlen 13y ago
Most startups aren't looking to hire developers that are desperate for jobs. The point is they have a job they like reasonably well, they have other offers on the table from other companies. Other companies here did not require them to
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by strlen 13y ago
To be fair, Silicon Valley's zoning codes are far too restrictive and don't serve broader public interest. For example, my city (Saratoga), prohibits multi-family dwellings in most places -- meaning affordable housing can't b
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by strlen 13y ago
> I think the way to go would be to have all transit be funded by a combination of user fees and tax increment districts in the areas served by transit. After all, it's not just the subway rider that benefits from the existence of a
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by strlen 13y ago
Jim Crow, anti-miscegenation laws and hopefully anti-gay marriage laws etc.. could not have been ended without the 14th amendment and the Bill of Rights. 14th amendment is what overrode state-level majoritarianism (in states that had a whit
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by strlen 13y ago
As someone approaching 30, but with very clear memory of their mdi-to-late teens, I will disagree. I did not pursue any of the "shallow" things in high school and I do not at all regret that. I had only a few high school friends,
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by strlen 13y ago
The article rubs me the wrong way. I agree on principle: I wouldn't want to willingly build technologically that I know will be used solely or principally to circumvent the constitution and reduce individual liberty in a non-transparen
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by strlen 13y ago
To paraphrase a famous quote, I have no idea what fascism in US would look like, but I know it will involve the stars and stripes, and not brown/black shirts, Nazi uniforms, Confederate battle flags, Swastikas, or shaved heads. The e
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by strlen 13y ago
I hate it when people say "but our government is democratic" as an excuse to justify opposing limitations on its power. This is the same argument made by Prop 8 supporters in California, the same argument used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in ju
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by strlen 13y ago
Paul Graham has a great article on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.ps (I noted Preview.app was having transient issues loading this specific postscript file, so I converted
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by strlen 13y ago
If you're starting at the same Menlo Park company that I work at, for the long term, you may want to consider taking BART down to Fremont and then arranging a ride in a carpool/van-pool over the Dumbarton bridge: there are tons of folks who
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by strlen 13y ago
> The solution I've been thinking of is some sort of work on demand program, where, while your unemployed and reiciving your guaranteed income, you can be asked to do short term work for the government (and/or private companies). That's
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I wanted to stay out of the whole Michael Church discussion: it is unfair, because I read the original article as a cry for help or expression of sadness by the original author, not part of anything more systematized. However, I'll say this
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Yes, this is what I meant. Libertarianism is defined by a focus purely on negative liberty, classical liberalism (e.g., liberal parties in Non-US Anglophone countries) has a more broad focus, and social democracy/left-liberalism (generally
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by strlen 13y ago
Erm, I understand you have some strong opinions on this, but I actually meant something slightly different: people go through tough periods but generally bounce back and are actually happy (even during their tough periods). It isn't evide
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I'll say this: it sounds like the author went through a great deal of stress (interviewing, moving to another state, taking a new job, taking on a huge commute, living in an unfamiliar area) and stress does make one feel like they're less
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The economists' argument is that the rest of society is better of with the "too lazy too work" part of general public receiving a negative income tax. Several reasons for this: 1) A person that only does the bare minimum amount of work need
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by strlen 13y ago
I would say there are few dominant strands of political views in Silicon Valley: * "Liberaltarian" ( http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/liberaltarians ). Generally libertarian views (support for free markets, drug de-criminalizatio
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Excerpt: "However, you, women, do[...]please don’t get all periods on us when we reply with the same. Or better yet, before you call us a dick, look in the mirror. Shut the fuck up," I'm flagging this submission, the article is utterly cont
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by strlen 13y ago
Black powder cartridges were common stay until ~1890s and some (e.g., .45-70) were very powerful. You also technically don't even need brass: shotgun shells use plastics and (prior to that) used to use cardboard. Shot/slugs/bullets... are a
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by strlen 13y ago
> I'm not denying that Dynamo features more consistent availability, but it does so at either cost of temporal consistency or a much larger amount of resources. The trouble is that your article outlines problems with pretty much all quo
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> I really want to avoid gun control debate, Gun control debate in the US centers around several proposals: restricting semi-automatic firearms, restricting handguns in particular, and additional checks at firearm purchase time. Problem
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It's also important to understand that suppressors are not silencers. Most movies depict a suppressed handgun as sounding like an air rifle: that's just not the case unless you're talking about specially built firearms (integral suppressors
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by strlen 14y ago
That's not universally true: some states (e.g., California) take a wider view of freedom of speech beyond what first amendment allows and protected freedom of speech in certain kind of privately-owned spaces (e.g., malls open to the public)
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The OP is in the United States, likely not in Louisiana, and being sued in a federal court. I am answering to OP. That said, if the jurisdiction is different, I am still sure that an hour of talking to a lawyer (who can explain the laws and
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by strlen 14y ago
They way I view is similar to de-normalization/"pre-materializing" in a database: the real solution is for a file to be tagged with pieces of metadata, maintain a real-time index, and then to be able to perform exact queries instantly (some
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by strlen 14y ago
0) LAWYER. Get one. Do whatever she says, including ignore this comment (except for this line). 1) Do not "meet" with the the party suing you or the lawfirm representing them on your own. Do not sign anything they extend to you to "make it
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by strlen 14y ago
> NRA is at protecting the 2nd NRA refused to argue cases on second amendment grounds until very recently. They strongly opposed taking Heller to court. Second amendment has been tremendously eroded. Heller was fought by a group of non-
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(Old thread, but I think I'll reply). I am a US citizen and in a similar position: I admire his libertarian views and relate to his origins (like him, I'm a Eastern European secular-Jewish immigrant). The reason is simple: United States may

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