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by trendia 9y ago
that they knew of. I doubt that most teens with underlying heart conditions (like atrial fib) go to a cardio center.
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by trendia 9y ago
We do have systems in place to keep people alive. Food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security, soup kitchens, charities, etc etc. Those peograms are targeted to people in need, not just "just because
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by trendia 9y ago
This is funny because he has the exact same conclusion that I have regarding the costs--that the UBI would be around $10,000 and that the breakeven would be $50,000--yet he believes that to be feasible while I don't. But the difference
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by trendia 9y ago
The population of the US is 360 million. The total Federal tax revenue is ~3.5 trillion. That means that if 100% of total tax revenue were redistributed equally, each person would receive $10,000. That's only if the federal governmen
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by trendia 9y ago
1. Modularity makes it easier to update portions of the OS even when device manufacturers are uncooperative (e.g. broadcom / qualcomm failing to provide driver source code) 2. Commercial license 3. They get to control commits (rather t
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by trendia 9y ago
If the left tries to block the right, and the right blocks the left, the Chinese the anti-Chinese..... soon nobody will be allowed to speak.
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by trendia 9y ago
Either this author does not understand basic economics or they are intentionally misrepresenting what Volcker did. Volcker raised interest rates because of 1) high inflation, 2) tight access to capital, and 3) weak US dollar. By any measure
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by trendia 9y ago
"Morally good" is dependent on perspective. I'm sure there are patriotic, moral NSA workers who believe that they are helping make America safe, and that it is morally better to lie to Americans and save their lives, than to
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by trendia 9y ago
I hoped reading this would provide insight, but instead it only offered some random eassywriter's disdain of people different from him/herself.
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by trendia 9y ago
This kind of strategy is also useful for taxes as well, because losses carry over to following years but profits don't. So, 4 years of losses and 1 year of profits could be better than 5 years of even (but smaller) gains.
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by trendia 9y ago
Maybe I'm mistaken... but at least in C++ the implementation of Foo::Bar() is similar to Bar(Foo): Bar(Foo * foo); // how Foo::Bar() is implemented So while Bar(Foo) could be passed as several ways: Bar(Foo foo
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by trendia 9y ago
Apis Cor seems to have a more complete prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xktwDfasPGQ
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by trendia 9y ago
You've got it backwards -- the current system allows individuals in high tax states to pay less to the Federal Government than everyone else. The current system is the unfair one -- people in Wyoming are subsidizing people in Californi
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by trendia 9y ago
> Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women Rule #1: Know your Audience
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by trendia 10y ago
Johnathan Haight's conclusion about the universities suggests that the slow shift of large institutions to the left can't be explained by geography alone. Whereas the geographic locations of newspapers has spread, the locations of
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by trendia 10y ago
If those things are required, then why do so many immigrants become entrepreneurs?
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by trendia 10y ago
And what benefit would they receive from knowing the location of people who don't even use the service?
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by trendia 10y ago
Just 1 week ago [0], an HN article said that "Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on supported Windows platforms." In other words, no computers should be infected because Microsoft already dealt with the problem. Howev
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by trendia 10y ago
> “When a lot of the fake peer reviews first came up, one of the reasons the editors spotted them was that the reviewers responded on time,” Wager told Ars. Reviewers almost always have to be chased, so “this was the red flag. And in a f
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by trendia 10y ago
Buying congressmen is expensive. Maybe instead, Facebook can just slowly take over the news industry and then control what people see.
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by trendia 10y ago
They're "worth" $24b but losing $500m a year...
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by trendia 10y ago
The article talks a lot about how the price changes, but doesn't explicitly say what the price represents.
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by trendia 10y ago
I'm kinda suspicious of how it's used here, too. What exactly is the "price" that consumers pay when they use Facebook? Their time? Their generation of content? What exactly is the product that's offered? Connection
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by trendia 10y ago
> I started modeling and reprogramming my brain! How did you model and reprogram your brain?
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by trendia 10y ago
Moreover, pknerd asserts that the Western media would support el-Sisi for acting in a way similar to Erdogan. I disagree with that analogy, but nevertheless the NYT absolutely criticizes el-Sisi! [0] "Enabling Egypt's President Si
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by trendia 10y ago
You say they're hypocritical but you're using a hypothetical (el-Sisi). Maybe if you want to say the Western media is hypocritical, you should use an example of a non-Muslim dictator being praised. Besides, even if Erdogan had bee
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by trendia 10y ago
Do you think spy agencies should be able to collect data on foreigners? e.g. US can collect foreigners and UK can collect foreigners? Do you think spy agencies should be able to swap data about those foreigners? Because the two in combinati
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by trendia 10y ago
Mucrosoft patched a lot of the vulnerabilities within the last several months. That doesn't mean that they weren't serious vulnerabilities (i.e. the scope of the exploit) or that they weren't actively used (since the exploits
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by trendia 10y ago
I would think the main benefit of an electric truck is that the motor achieves its peak torque at 0 RPM. Very useful for accelerating
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by trendia 10y ago
There are diffeeent levels of ethics in hacking: 1) finding a bug and notifying the company 2) finding a bug and releasing/selling 3) finding a bug and using it 4) intentionally adding bugs to software without notifying anyone 5) inten

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