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by tkahn6 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand how it's a forgone conclusion that any military action on the part of the US or NATO in any capacity means death for hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians.
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> "Primitive" cultures are deemed too inferior to be permitted to decide their own future, so it is decided for them by the Federation That seems like the exact opposite of the prime directive.
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by tkahn6 15y ago
I always get a serious 'uncanny valley' feeling when I watch a video of one of these things. It reacts very organically when it stumbles and tries to recover and yet the rest of its motions are obvious mechanical facsimiles of natural movem
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by tkahn6 15y ago
> Evidently the free market is awesome except when it results in cheap products that threaten an established industry. China actively and heavily subsidizes its solar industry. That is hardly the result of a free market.
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We don't mine lithium or nickel for its intrinsic energy.
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I wonder if this saves time because Ruby does lazy file i/o.
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Your comment seems to imply police are never punished for misconduct and yet that is obviously not true. Internal Affairs is a very real thing.
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by tkahn6 15y ago
I've written something similar as a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kikfikaiccdaabdilg... Code is here: https://github.com/tkahn6/hn-newcomments-chrome
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Thanks! I've heard of Shpider, haven't had a need for it as of yet because I haven't needed programmatic web browsing (just downloading the page and extracting info). I'll see if I can clean up the markup enough to get it to parse with hxt,
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This is probably a good place to ask: Does anyone have any tips for web scraping with Haskell? I've used tagsoup but the memory usage is really bad (or maybe I'm using the wrong string type?) and the interface is really clunky compared to
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> What makes the planes into the world trade center more evil than the hundreds of thousands of bombs used to blow up suspected enemy hideouts in iraq, Iran and Afghanistan? What makes targeting civilians more evil than targeting milita
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Source?
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Interesting but not Hacker News. Flagged.
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> We adopted it. It turned out to be poorer than Rails for our use cases. Yep I had this exact revelation with a project I was working on. About half way through implementing my own general-purpose validation function and REST/CRUD rout
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> If its interesting to people who read HN, it belongs on HN. Completely false. If that were true, there would be no need for guidelines. In fact it says, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" which is not semantically eq
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Interesting but not Hacker News. Flagged.
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Try to find a local company. Advertising companies usually do some sort of web presence thing for their clients. That's a place where you could provide value.
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I have no idea what the fuck is going on here. Comments on here are similar to what you'd find on reddit. The story is exactly the kind of thing you'd find on reddit.
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Flagged. Please keep things like this on reddit.
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It's wonderfully hypocritical that Russia Today is accusing the US of pushing propaganda and stifling disenting perspective.
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> British small garage sports cars (Ariel Atom; Bristol; etc etc) British small garage sports cars are uniquely European ? You've completely misunderstood my point.
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> I am saying that the lack in quality demanded has left us wish cheaper products that can't demand the prices that will employ engineers. If you actually click through those links on the page, you'll find that many are local hand-made
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> 1)Germany is large too with different dialects. The US is 27 times the size of Germany. > Every country is an amalgam of cultures, No European country is even remotely close to the US in terms of diversity. The US is a nation of
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> I admit there is no product from the US that is worth much and is unique A few things wrong with this statement: 1) The US is large. New York City and San Francisco have very different cultural identities. They also span a distance ro
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Some programmers value type safety. That is the niche that Roy fills I believe. I'm certainly excited about it. CoffeeScript is certainly a pleasure to work with but it lacks a type system and static type checking.
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> Seeing ads that say "Buy this or else..." completely shocked me. Why? Those products only exist because bad things can happen. Of course their advertising campaigns are going to remind you that bad things can happen. USPS's business m
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So the only difference between Western governments and the Nazis is a matter of scale and your evidence for this is that Western governments are abusing their power. All governments past and present abuse their power. Sometimes in large way
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There should be a karma or seniority threshold for upmodding. And it should be high.
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Kristalnacht, 'Der Ewige Jew', Triumph of the Will, the death camps and concentration camps, these were all concerted campaigns against the 'undesirables' of Germany in order to promote racial purity. You have given examples of parallels to
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pwg's point is that the road to any sort of catastrophic illiberal state-sponsored action is paved slowly and incrementally. Not that we are living in mini 1930s Germany. The situations in their substance or scale are not comparable. Saying

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