travmatt

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by travmatt 7y ago
Dealers can take the money, fix the damage and still sell the car as brand new - if it hasn’t been titled yet, body work doesn’t need to be disclosed to the buyer. Dealers usually have in house body shops or relationships with body shops an
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I’ve heard that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be beneficial for some people with brain injuries, as well as omega-3 supplementation.
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Also throwing in Claude Shannon and John Von Neumann as major contributors to the development of computers.
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That most of human society is inherently political, and that trying to pretend there is some arbitrary line dividing political and nonpolitical is disingenuous.
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Every time Reddit bans one of the more cesspool-y subreddits there’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth and planned exoduses. The most popular alternative seems to be Voat, 8chan, or similar sites much more welcoming of violently racist
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Much better than many other technical books.
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Except for the fact that most criminal prosecutions in America are settled through plea bargaining, not trial - isn’t that correct? So to be accurate, the prosecutors decide most of the ‘justice’ in America - judges and juries play no part
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Do you believe Thomas Drake’s prosecution was fair and proportional to the ‘crimes’ he committed?
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Is that really a smart fight for the NCAA to pick? California has some big name sports programs, and the NCAA is an organization whose legality is not really firmly established. If the California AG decides to open a case investigating whet
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Is that really unusual for countries to ban travel to foreigners with criminal records? I was under the impression most countries had similar laws.
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Russia Today has had multiple journalists resign, citing they could not support their propaganda efforts in good conscience. One journalist resigned on air, apologizing for “whitewashing Putin's action” in downing mh17. Another resigne
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Most I believe use all words within a given Levenshtein distance.
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I believe this was common on eBay. People also looked for common misspellings of items, misspellings that would lead items to get fewer ids and usually end underpriced relative to similar items.
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by travmatt 7y ago
Hasn’t this style of computing been attempted previously by the soviets, why hadn’t it caught on previously? From my reading of the article it’s making the claim that as semiconductors become smaller, power leakage becomes more of a concern
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by travmatt 7y ago
I imagine there is some low level soldier tasked with reading the posts in the group to ascertain the actual threat, I wonder if they’re amused or annoyed. Occasionally someone in the group asks if people are serious, the usual reply is ‘ni
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by travmatt 7y ago
Assamese already was facing a sealed indictment on other charges related to the Manning dump, charges that the Obama administration carefully drew up to avoid any 1st amendment implications. The charges being discussed here, being brought b
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by travmatt 7y ago
From the last time this came up: “”” Assange is alleged to have performed acts that could be construed as attempts to access classified information, beyond merely asking for it--specifically, it is alleged that he assisted Manning with atte
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by travmatt 7y ago
And part of his pitch was the argument that his company was missing opportunities by not creating products that catered to different cultures. Responding to his success by creating an executive position dedicated to finding other such oppor
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by travmatt 7y ago
“”” Stewart’s search for a viral basis for cancer wasn’t unprecedented. In 1911, virologist Peyton Rous discovered the Rous sarcoma virus, which he concluded could transmit cancer in chickens. In 1933, Richard Shope, a physician and virolog
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by travmatt 7y ago
It’s not a binary choice between owning a cat and letting it wipe out as much of the native animal population as it can. Again, encouraging people to let their animals wipe out populations of wild animals is wrong, and doing it because it a
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by travmatt 7y ago
How about not letting your invasive species drive other animals to extinction for sport? It’s nonsensical to call it a natural animal, and completely ignore the fact that they live nothing like an animal in nature, and have their population
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by travmatt 7y ago
Except for the fact that the lawyer above is correct in their interpretation of the law, and you are wrong. You don’t get to decide that laws you disagree with are ‘pet’, ‘novel’ and go against ‘settled’ law. You’re trying to couch your opi
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by travmatt 7y ago
You’re being downvoted for knowing factually correct information that happens to disprove some of the biases that’s HN posters hold, which is a shame. Downvotes aren’t supposed to be a consolation prize for having your inferior arguments lo
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by travmatt 7y ago
It’s much easier to argue for privatizing government services that are poorly run and wasteful, than services that are well run and efficient. Making them function better would be antithetical to the end goal.
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Not positing this as your position, but we can’t base the rightness of such an action in a vacuum that only considers the interests of one party and ignore the interests of everyone else. In weighing the relative rights of individuals and s
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Additionally, it’s pretty nonsensical to claim that prosecutors will use public show trials to smear opponents, but allowing them to publicly smear opponents would make the proceeding more fair?
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That seems like quite a stretch to rationalize why a private entity making decisions about its internal processes is actually government mandated overreach.
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That makes sense, because a public one sided show trial definitely couldn’t be abused by prosecutors to smear people they have no intent of indicting. Is that actually a position people really believe?
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Reading more of the opinions here makes it fairly clear that the people holding said opinions don’t really have any understanding about the reason Manning is being held in contempt, or any real understanding of the American legal system. Mo
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>If you even show up, they could claim you said anything, do anything they want based on that made up testimony. I’d be interested in reading your proof of this, because I’m fairly certain you just made this up.

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