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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree. The "poachers" may have been farmers protecting a crop, and the elephants may have shown up at that particular refuge purely out of a herd instinct. Or it could have been just dumb luck. I'm very skeptical they kne
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>Now one might righfully argue that this case is not just ludicrous but also racist. Purely based on the fact the defendant and his girlfriend are black? No, I think not.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Judges aren't supposed to pick and choose which laws get enforced - you can't have a system where the legislature passes a law and rest of the government says "Nah, we don't like that one." What needs to happen is 1
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by tsotha 11y ago
The chart for legal salaries has two big lobes: a small sharp one at the very high end and a huge one at the low end. The last time I looked a brand new JD from an unexceptional law school was looking at a starting salary of somewhere in
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yes, but... there are still an estimated 8.7 million unnamed species out there.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>If there truly were a shortage of developers, then their wages would be rising, yet they aren't, as the report in the article notes. Where I work we're paying people no more than we paid in 2000. In constant dollars that&#x27
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by tsotha 11y ago
Except when job seekers actually apply for a job they're quickly disabused. The reason companies are trying to create the impression there's a shortage is otherwise you see public pressure against increases in the H-1(b) cap.
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Electric airships make a whole lot more sense than electric airplanes. There's more surface area for solar cells, and they're more efficient to start with.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Actually, deadlock should be the normal state of affairs. The world doesn't change that much from year to year that the federal legislature has to do a whole lot. People who complain about "deadlock" are really complaining C
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>Contrary to the conventional view of an American economy bubbling with innovative small companies, the reality is quite different. The rate at which new businesses have formed in the United States has slowed markedly since the late 1970
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's all play acting. They figure out how many votes they need to satisfy the people with the money, and any excess is allowed to vote the other way. Let's say the Congress wants to pass something the banks like, and they have 50
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Abe went from being very cool on the TPP to coming out in favor (at least in public) almost overnight an the only thing that changed in that period in US-Japan relations was the US state department giving Japan approval to re-militarize
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's hard to know what's real and what's not real with TPP, since we don't know what's in it. Having said that, I agree with your analysis. This move is necessary for Japan to enter into regional security agreement
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by tsotha 11y ago
Japan still has the strongest navy in East Asia, though China will surpass them soon. Don't be fooled because they call it a maritime self defense force.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>With the pharmaceutical industry, however, there is no such check. To go against Pharma as a Republican is to go against big business. To go against Pharma as a Democrat is to go against "Science." There are very, very few tru
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by tsotha 11y ago
The obvious response for companies if they're forced to release all data is to stop doing any trials on approved drugs.
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In other words, it's unconstitutional but the court is willing to ignore the constitution. Lovely.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Oddly, no. We're not a software company, and we don't normally sell our software. It's developed for in-house use. One of the managers thought this particular application would be pretty lucrative if we sold it overseas (o
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by tsotha 11y ago
There are certainly reasons to eschew rails in a new startup, but "nobody will be using it in three years" isn't one of them. At this stage in the game getting the app working is of paramount importance, and if you spend too
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's the Far East for ya. We gave a Korean company a 30-day evaluation copy of our software in the early '90s. They decided not to purchase, and a few years later we dropped the product entirely. In 1999 someone from the Korea
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by tsotha 11y ago
You still have to pay taxes on currency transactions that generate a profit, so I don't understand why this would be a tax boon. If I buy a million dollars worth of yen and sell it for two million, the taxman will be around.
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It will also probably be thrown out by the courts, too. Compacts between the states have to be approved by congress.
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It was a gradual change, but the big blow was probably Wickard , which essentially turned the states into satrapies of the federal government.
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There's nothing wrong with the American constitution. The problem is we don't follow it any more.
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It's really sad. When I graduated from college HP was where you really wanted to work. They had all kinds of cool high tech test equipment and parts. And they had a policy of never laying off people - during industry downturns they&
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by tsotha 11y ago
If you have someone in the family with serious medical issues, though, it's free money. A trip to the ER and a few days in the hospital runs tens of thousands.
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From an energy perspective, as Heinlein pointed out "Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system."
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There's a huge network effect in startups. Once the financing structure, the management skills, and technical know-how are in a place, companies start (or move) there, which in turn brings in even more skilled work force and VCs. How
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It's not the same isotope.
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This isn't how NASA politics works. Congressmen of both parties see NASA (and DoD, for that matter) as a way to channel funds to their districts. Nothing more. Republicans in national office, just like Democrats, are perfectly willi

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