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931.
by sukilot 6y ago
The headline (and chart) is misleading. The article is about intoxicants. Also, sugar isn't generally considered a drug.
932.
by sukilot 6y ago
If hard drugs were legalized, I doubt they'd stay less dangerous than alcohol.
933.
by sukilot 6y ago
Education is the most portable form of wealth for aspiring middle class people.
934.
by sukilot 6y ago
What is "survival wealth"? Is that "savings and investments for future"?
935.
by sukilot 6y ago
Successful startup code quality is on par with HR quality and Legal quality. Far below Marketing quality.
936.
by sukilot 6y ago
Friendster imploded during its growth stage due to either bad code or not enough spending on servers.
937.
by sukilot 6y ago
Jeff Bezos seems to disagree with you. Ask people about the first 10 years of Amazon. Mark Zuckerberg also disagrees.
938.
by sukilot 6y ago
This thread has quite a few people looking into rose tinted mirrors and forgetting that the US Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War and oil crisis and the computer/internet (!) revolution happened. All the people saying riffs of
939.
by sukilot 6y ago
Recent History lesson: Gen X had the same concerns that Millennials had. No one in Gen X is at "normal" retirement age. The people bidding up housing are millenial techies. Mark "young people are just smarter" Zuckerberg
940.
by sukilot 6y ago
Was it ever suspended? The screenshot shows clickwall, not suspension.
941.
by sukilot 6y ago
The automated software is intended to predict and prevent public backlash. They aren't lying.
942.
by sukilot 6y ago
Reminds me of a protest sign I saw: "You kill our fathers and then mock us for not having them." Yes, it's much easier if they stick to complaining about things that the overclass can make up excuses to justify, than if they
943.
by sukilot 6y ago
You are conflating TV with reality. In Minneapolis police just shot and killed a BBQ owner who had been feeding them for free for years.
944.
by sukilot 6y ago
Nothing wrong with having one number to call for help. The problem is when only one kind of responder responds. That happens because we have too many armed, bored police and too few of other kinds of social services.
945.
by sukilot 6y ago
I think what you are missing is yet your assumptions are unreasonable and unrealistic. If we could just keep our data secret, we wouldn't need encryption at all.
946.
by sukilot 6y ago
"hiding the database" is security-through-obscurity, which is not security.
947.
by sukilot 6y ago
How does my barber take delivery of sheet metal I produce?
948.
by sukilot 6y ago
Isn't more important and effective t o shut down harassers than give the harassers free roam but try to lock down the whole world to prevent harassment?
949.
by sukilot 6y ago
How proper is proper? You can write LaTeX for math in Markdown, getting simple prose and readable math at a loss in elegance but a big win in simplicity. http://flennerhag.com/2017-01-14-latex/
950.
by sukilot 6y ago
I don't know about evil, but it's hostile because Apple is intentionally preventing a non-AppleOS version from existing. The details of how they do it are of merely scientific interest.
951.
by sukilot 6y ago
Most people know more people than the average HN commenter. I suspect you don't know the fate of everyone known by everyone you know.
952.
by sukilot 6y ago
Preying on the defenseless is not a net good. In case you haven't noticed, billions still get cavities.
953.
by sukilot 6y ago
A couple of weeks would have delayed explosive outbreaks. To prevent them would require more than the 2+ months we've already invested.
954.
by sukilot 6y ago
Which should be penalized more? Shooting a journalist for journaling, or shooting a Black person for being black? Ranking victims by status is a dangerous game.
955.
by sukilot 6y ago
The suit is only asking for some money and for the Court to order the state to stop breaking the law even though the state presumably believes it is not breaking the law It's almost entirely symbolic.
956.
by sukilot 6y ago
> Disarm the police. That might require disarming the population too. I totally agree -- As long as I am last in line to turn in my gun. And many civilian and government gun owners agree with me. Remember that the military has guns too,
957.
by sukilot 6y ago
You're slipping into the "4D chess" trap a bit. The "not tear gas" is merely banal grasping at straws to find any way they can to defend their behavior. Thoughtful observers will see that the defense incriminates mo
958.
by sukilot 6y ago
I think the relevant question is, when arguing semantics with the US Executive Branch, is the statement more or less precisely accurate than the common use of language by the Executive Branch's leader and commander-in-chief? By that st
959.
by sukilot 6y ago
No. Blackmail maybe.
960.
by sukilot 6y ago
How is that different from rot13?

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