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by temphn 15y ago
Moved discussion to thread below. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915845 > someone who already knows what he wants to say and only needs the reports that agree :) Are you really saying you don't already have an opinion on this is
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I'd like a calm discussion, if possible. > The people who work the hardest (e.g. single mother, people with 2 and 3 jobs) are not getting ahead as fast people who don't work as hard. Sure. But I think this comes back to relative vs. abs
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> if you think working hard has some correlation to financial success. Hmm. Have you seen the BLS statistics showing the positive correlation between the number of hours worked and income levels?
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> It is impossible for any significant portion of society to be treated by the very best doctors Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, which was used to inoculate millions. Just about every medical procedure used in practice and docu
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by temphn 15y ago
Yes. But what do they do afterwards for food/rent?
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Not to pick on this too much, but elitism is a good thing . Do you want 1000 random links from the internet or 10 ordered blue links on Google? Do you want to send your child to a "mediocre" school or have them operated on by a "mediocre"
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by temphn 15y ago
Saw this in the article: > "The most difficult part of the job search is waiting for permission to give up" What exactly does it mean for someone to "give up" on a job search? Unless you have a significant other, won't you eventually st
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by temphn 15y ago
Exactly. Speaking as someone who was at one point unemployed, the first thing you need to do is take responsibility for your situation, rather than displacing the blame to anyone else. A lot of people just don't want to work hard. One of th
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by temphn 15y ago
Even small governments generally have more financial resources than all but the very largest corporations. They also have militaries and police forces and can compel people within their borders at gunpoint. The only card the company really
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by temphn 15y ago
Excellent points. To add to this: a) Taxes are used to pay for a whole host of things that large majorities find highly undesirable, including bombing Libya, harassing air travellers, and bailing out Wall Street. Whether you are on the left
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by temphn 15y ago
Know what you mean. It's mobile and social, but is it local? I suppose it is if the monetization is to send to a nearby movie theater to see the movie whose trailer you liked. Seriously though, props to them at least for choosing something
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by temphn 15y ago
The government of Zimbabwe is run by Robert Mugabe. It's pretty hard for even a secret police force to be worse than him. Moreover, the governments of many of these countries are extremely rickety and unstable. They are in the main kleptocr
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by temphn 15y ago
Well, a few points. 1) The Economist is owned by a corporation, as is the New York Times and the Washington Post. Isn't it interesting how they never run exposes on each other, or that Joe Average company can't get access to their internal
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by temphn 15y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but a nonprofit/charity will never make as big a difference as a true for-profit vehicle that is pointed at the same problem. Nonprofits are ultimately financially unustainable; they survive on donations
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by temphn 15y ago
> If that is right, then they would be depriving some of the world’s poorest people of desperately needed wealth. Really silly to see the Economist, of all places, taking this kind of line. The inhabitants of these countries lack the te
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by temphn 15y ago
> fairy farts and equity dreams. If your attitude towards the startup is that cynical, then you shouldn't be working for a startup. Go to bigco where they will pay you lots for doing nothing. Startups are difficult and need people who
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by temphn 15y ago
Whites committed many racist atrocities to preserve white majority rule. Those who did are rightly condemned today. However, do you believe it was legitimate for Nelson Mandela's wife and the ANC to engage in necklacing of those who opposed
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The "sudden and deliberate demographic shift", also known as white flight, may indeed have happened because whites were and are irrationally racist. This is certainly the conventional wisdom. And by the end, there was surely no dearth of wh
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by temphn 15y ago
At the end of World War II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked. They were rebuilt into gleaming cities because they were inhabited by the Japanese. Today it's Detroit that looks like it was nuked. Except it was the inhabitants that nuked the
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by temphn 15y ago
I respectfully submit that your priorities are misplaced. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8692110/London-... In one incident, a man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by rioters after he tried to extingui
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by temphn 15y ago
They're setting fire to buildings and cars and throwing bricks at people's faces. Arson has historically been considered one of the most serious of crimes because of the frequency with which fires spiral out of control, especially in a dens
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by temphn 15y ago
Ok. So youths are burning a building across the street from your apartment. And it's a dictatorship if you want men with guns to stop them from doing this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14446548 Here's a video of British police without gun
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by temphn 15y ago
Will link to my response below: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862467 The military quelled the LA Riots, which is the direct comparable. Northern Ireland was a decades long political/military issue, not about lads looting TVs. Not a good com
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#The_riot... "The riots, beginning in the evening after the verdicts, peaked in intensity over the next two days, but ultimately continued for several days. A curfew and deployment of the
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The fundamental problem is that the police are not free to use the force necessary to put down the riot. If rioters knew they would be shot on sight, they would stop rioting. As it is, police are afraid to crack down for fear that they'll b
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by temphn 15y ago
The question is whether you believe the issue would have become an issue even if the Republicans hadn't raised it now. Many people look at this as an intervention; if the US is addicted to oil, we are even more addicted to borrowing. I supp
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6) The educational level (or mean cognitive ability) of the US population has been decreasing just as the cognitive thresholds for gainful employment are steadily increasing. You'd say education if you were on the left and might say cogniti
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Don't get the negativity. Is there a Javascript-API scriptable, browser-based IRC client out there?
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by temphn 15y ago
You are absolutely right and I have no idea why you are being downvoted. When is the last time anyone has done IRC in the browser? What this widget does is potentially bring Facebook Chat or Gmail style Chat to your site. That's worthwhile.
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The project is awesome and kudos for that. It's a little scary, though, that we need an API to list all the federal agencies and rules. Take a look at this: http://api.federalregister.gov/v1/agencies.json Grep gives a count of 551 federal

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