thenmar

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by thenmar 13y ago
So who decides when voicing your opinion is bullying or "blackballing" and when it's just exercising your free speech?
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by thenmar 13y ago
How are those two things at all comparable? Changing the elective system might require nothing short of a constitutional amendment. At least voicing outrage about Rice/Dropbox raises awareness of privacy issues. You can't just say
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by thenmar 13y ago
Can you provide more info about this? That medical researchers are actively avoiding looking for cures for diseases? It just screams "baseless conspiracy theory" to me. And what do antibiotics have to do with it? As far as I know,
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by thenmar 13y ago
If you don't tolerate my bigotry, you're intolerant!
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by thenmar 13y ago
What if he were a black woman and the political group she donated to was one that sought to prevent white men from becoming engineers? They can still do engineering, of course, but they can't have the state title and benefits that go a
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by thenmar 13y ago
That's only temping because of the high resolution. I'm not sure if it's Comcast being intentionally awful or just incompetent, but I can't seem to stream HD anything on netflix. I turn on manual buffering and HD options
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by thenmar 13y ago
Loans or personal cash are orders of magnitude away from the necessary funds. The only option was investment. Oculus needed at least hundreds of millions of dollars to make a consumer version happen any time soon. Companies like Uber, Pinte
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by thenmar 13y ago
I don't get it... how else do they think a consumer version would ever be manufactured? I imagine manufacturing thousands of consumer grade custom tiny high definition displays would approach a billion dollars alone. What did these guy
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by thenmar 13y ago
Maybe that new comment system was a good idea after all.
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by thenmar 13y ago
Do you have any numbers on that? It seems a lot more common for very wealthy families to tie up their money in trusts that their children can't access, both to avoid taxes and to ensure there will always be a giant pile of money genera
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by thenmar 13y ago
Now if only they can design a smart bike that automatically stops at red lights and stop signs :p
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by thenmar 13y ago
The obvious big concern here is comments about minority groups and social justice. Are the 1000+ karma users going to shut down those voices?
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by thenmar 13y ago
I'm excited to see how this works, and how the process changes after some testing. If reddit is any example, stricter moderation almost always results in a better user experience and a tighter, more respectful community. Look at r&#x2F
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by thenmar 13y ago
> $5000 USD (in fiat)
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by thenmar 13y ago
How do you begin to open a discussion on these topics with people who not only lack the necessary education to talk about them accurately, but already have a disdain for words like "feminism" and "privilege"?
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by thenmar 13y ago
Wait, you don't seriously think that Russia disappeared a Malaysian airliner (and hundreds of international citizens) to distract the world (?) from Crimea. That's just fucking absurd.
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by thenmar 13y ago
I'll have to find this later when I have time, but there was at least one story about HR problems at Valve that came out not too long ago. The author basically said that while nobody has "official" power, a cabal of a few ind
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by thenmar 13y ago
Well, I don't think I'll be moving my domains BACK to godaddy, but I hope the improvements deliver anyway.
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by thenmar 13y ago
So you want us to pretend all that SOPA stuff just didn't happen? Has the leadership changed?
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by thenmar 13y ago
After I registered a domain with them, they called my personal phone to sell me their hosting services...
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by thenmar 13y ago
That is a funny quote, although a little sad when you look at the terrible product failures Microsoft has released in recent years.
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by thenmar 13y ago
I'd be a _little_ careful turning "detectable cues" into some kind of axiomatic understanding of attractiveness.
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by thenmar 13y ago
Take that, tax-and-spend liberals!
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by thenmar 13y ago
That's a good point. People on HN are sometimes a little quick to put on their "it's just a really cool piece of technology!" blinders and ignore the gruesome, wasteful military industrial complex that brought them these
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by thenmar 13y ago
Tone down the superior attitude. Sources benefit everyone.
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by thenmar 13y ago
Do you keep your real money stashed under your mattress? What if your house burns down?
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by thenmar 13y ago
ios users paying more: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/11/apple-users-buying-61...
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by thenmar 13y ago
In the article they confirm that they lost 850,000 BTC. What assets do they have that they could give back?
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by thenmar 13y ago
If bitcoin fails because of this incident, won't that be the free market deciding that unregulated financial institutions aren't acceptable?
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by thenmar 13y ago
It's fascinating to watch it happen. I hope it does recover. But I hope the most vocal proponents become a little more mature. I think part of the reason bitcoin seems radical to people, especially the tech-outsider non-first-adopter c

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