tokensimian

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by tokensimian 10y ago
1) I believe free speech has it's limits, like shouting "fire" in a theater. I was rejecting your statement that "telling people not to swear" is morally equivalent to "swearing". One is restricting anot
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by tokensimian 10y ago
I encourage you to read the wikipedia article on the settlement of the Americas, mostly because it's fun[0]. The landbridge theory has its supporters, but what's really interesting is the gaps in knowledge, and other theories abou
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by tokensimian 10y ago
1) put another way, people against profanity are trying to control what other individuals say. People into the right to be profane are expressing their freedom to swear. 2) I cannot. I can be offended by things people say, but language it
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by tokensimian 10y ago
This is good! It sucks as a learner. But for science and progress of knowledge, it provides an inefficient but lacks-false-positives mechanism. It sucks for Liebniz, but was a positive for our understanding
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by tokensimian 10y ago
They have banners, search ads, content ads, and native advertising. Some of their inventory is served by bing, so if you use both bing adcenter and yahoo/gemini, you may be competing against yourself. But I just launched a yahoo/
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by tokensimian 10y ago
You are correct. However, the sites that do the overkill of a sticky header tend to also have poorly thought out site navigation and user experiences. Let's say on a normal site, killing any absolute nav would result in a 5%* decrease
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by tokensimian 10y ago
The cost of the skimmer is insignificant, but the labor to replace it adds friction and is going to reduce the number of active skimmers. To replace the removed skimmer will also expose the criminal to more risk of getting caught, especial
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Ensuring that skimmers need to evolve frequently is a valid counter-strategy because it increases their cost of goods stolen.
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by tokensimian 10y ago
This assumes the police have competency, concern, and resources.
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by tokensimian 10y ago
It's not necessarily punitive (although it could be), but they will unlikely receive similar negotiating advantages as they did before.
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Except previously it was negotiating with a number of smaller entities. Now it will be negotiating with a block of them. The UK just willingly decreased their leverage so they had free will. Thank you, from all of America. You managed to
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Exactly. It's leverage, not abuse. What's the difference? Eye of the beholder. Regardless of judgement, you have to look at leverage. That's what really matters in terms of outcomes. I believe it's important for indi
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Sorry to jump in uninvited... but that's what HN is. I think you're mischaracterizing the situation. Perspective 1: UK is breaking up with the EU, not vice-versa. P2: EU gets some adv/dis-advantages by including UK specifical
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by tokensimian 10y ago
I have no idea what your original comment is referring to, but from my perspective you just lost the game of "let's not appear completely insane in front of strangers." That's an ineffective way of communicating your poi
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Parent's "a few cents" and what I pay in SoCal for a can of beans ($1.40 regular price; $0.99 on sale) indicate a different scope. You project a 1:3 ratio. Cheaper estimates of chip cost, more expensive beans suggest the oth
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by tokensimian 10y ago
If you are not a US immigration attorney, which your profile does not seem to indicate once I traced through a couple github profiles, you should probably resist the urge to be a top level commenter on questions submitted to OP. Sorry if th
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by tokensimian 10y ago
You have repeatedly c/p this answer in this thread. I apologize if this comes off as rude, but why are you doing that? What is your experience or qualifications to provide such advice?
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by tokensimian 10y ago
As a US citizen an HN community member, this super sucks. What is the likelihood that someone is deported within a 5-10 year period for having an app on the iOS/Android stores, provided that app isn't like a huge company? (eg. &l
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by tokensimian 10y ago
I'm not sure if you saw this other thread, but I thought it answered one of your questions so was worth sharing. Sounds like Aurora wasn't stable when this migration began, so they did the migration with an eye towards the next m
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by tokensimian 10y ago
FWIW, the US Government's regulations for civil service workers (civilians working for the federal gov't) are pretty strict, and are often used as a basis for private companies. (EG, mileage reimbursement is usually a rate set by
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by tokensimian 10y ago
That's a pretty specific set of situational criteria by which to evaluate the head of a company that does a whole lot of different things.
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by tokensimian 10y ago
IANAL but suspect disparagement is defined in such a way that a corporation's attorneys could prove this type of comment caused harm to the company, and thus meets the definition.
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by tokensimian 10y ago
How do you see the timeframe effecting wear and tear on a car? (In a general situation, I mean; not necessarily down a dirt road every day.) Take 2 cars. They each drove 70k miles; car A took 1 year, car B took 4 years. It seems to me tha
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by tokensimian 10y ago
isnt age a protected class?
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Seems reasonable, seeing as age is a protected class.
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by tokensimian 10y ago
It's a common way of expressing teh question, does the population serve the economy, or does the economy serve the population? Put another way, should countries protect workers or owners? (A false dichotomy, of course, and an oversimpl
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by tokensimian 10y ago
No worries, friend! We both learned something. Please do not let your unfamiliarity interrupt your contributions; different perspectives such asyours are why I come here. To hell if anyone makes you feel different!
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by tokensimian 10y ago
While you make no explicit claim, I suppose the responder was reacting to your opener of "I maintain". That implies you have been saying this all along, in a forum that we would expect to have heard it, but yet you have not been h
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Why do you live in the modern world after this experience?
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by tokensimian 10y ago
Average is (typically) the arithmetic mean of a sample. In a sample of one (you), the mean is the sample. It sounds awkward, and would be a red flag that someone either didn't know what they were talking about, or were trying to misl

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