tomdell

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by tomdell 9y ago
They do, actually.
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Walmart and Google Team Up Against Amazon(npr.org)
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Global Trade Rules Help China Compromise American Tech(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by tomdell 9y ago
> Previous UN treaties have been effective even when key nations have failed to sign up to them. The US did not sign up to the landmines treaty, but has completely aligned its landmines policy to comply nonetheless. Idk - it might be a s
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by tomdell 9y ago
It's doubtful that the most successful ads are ones specifically shown to Americans in Canada, and the number of Americans in Canada at any given time is probably very insignificant compared to the number of Canadians in Canada. It rea
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Making indie games is like making music, in a bad way(jeff-vogel.blogspot.lt)
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by tomdell 9y ago
There's a big difference between being anti-free speech and just not wanting someone to speak on your campus.
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by tomdell 9y ago
Stop with the generalizations. They're inaccurate and insulting. You don't know what you're talking about at all.
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by tomdell 10y ago
He gave a helpful pointer on comma use, and you wrote a smug and incorrect response. Congrats.
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by tomdell 10y ago
The assertion at the end of the article is absurd - "The good news, however, is that we’ll never be bored again." No matter what changes, people will find a way get bored of it.
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by tomdell 10y ago
Not everyone has to learn about computers to a high level of proficiency - there are many other things in the world for people to do with their time - and everyone learning the ins and outs of their machines probably wouldn't make the
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by tomdell 10y ago
Regarding racism in the military, I encourage you to read the story of Danny Chen - http://nymag.com/news/features/danny-chen-2012-1/ "Acceptable racism" kills.
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by tomdell 10y ago
This quote is nice, but Graham doesn't touch on dishonest PR - it does exist, and it is a problem. Look at Theranos.
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by tomdell 10y ago
Really? The piece seemed to have a fairly balanced mix of praise and criticism. "Hit pieces" don't usually praise the vision of the person they're profiling.
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by tomdell 10y ago
You really ought to give Spotify Discover a chance - my Discover tab is amazing - it feeds me a constant stream of new wave, dream pop, outsider music, early electronic music, ambient, underground rap - stuff that I like, but haven't h
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by tomdell 10y ago
Is that you, Donald Trump?
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by tomdell 10y ago
If things are done similarly to in CO, where I'm familiar with the precedents - 1. Some medical dispensaries will double as recreational shops and new recreational shops will open. 2. Many CA businesses will continue to test for mariju
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by tomdell 10y ago
Data requests of Silicon Valley companies by the government may increase. The list of people deemed "suspect" and spied on by the government using private data may grow and the people spied on may become, on average, browner and m
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by tomdell 10y ago
No - for scores of Trump voters, globalization and the resultant outsourcing of factory work that they relied on was definitely a problem. It's not A isn't / B is. Both globalization and automation of work are creating discon
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by tomdell 10y ago
In addition to Trump winning, the GOP will hold a majority in both houses of Congress, further empowering conservatives. This is not the outcome many on the left expected.
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by tomdell 10y ago
One of the main problems with single-player video games is that a lot of people work alone and don't want to spend their free time doing something that feels kind of like work, but doesn't seem to offer much in return. They'd
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by tomdell 10y ago
"the handle @POTUS will be made available to the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017... This will also be the case for other Twitter handles, including... @FLOTUS..." So if Hillary Clinton wins, they're pl
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by tomdell 10y ago
"smart people move away from low wage, low cost of life places." I understand what you're getting at, but you should qualify that statement. There are many smart people interested in things other than money.
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by tomdell 10y ago
Unfortunately? Entertainment and art give many people a significant reason to live.
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by tomdell 10y ago
He mentioned that you can look and see on GitHub that Wix explicitly forked Wordpress repositories. The gist I got was this - Wordpress was working on this in open source. Wix took their work, built on it, and didn't make their contrib
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by tomdell 10y ago
This is widespread in America. You can find it outside of major cities - I got vegetables through a co-op in a ~90,000 person city in Kansas for a long time.
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by tomdell 10y ago
"When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess
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Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?
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Imagine you want to open a restaurant. You know that it will be successful - you've done your research, whatever, yadda yadda. The government charges you a hefty initial tax to open your restaurant - it's a steep cost, but you ex
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by tomdell 10y ago
There are quite a few places where you can look into whether or not you think an increase in income inequality is a bad thing or not. Feel free to start here - https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/about-inequality/impacts

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