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by unishark 5y ago
In engineering a MS pays best, at least historically. Lately PhD's are becoming very common and much more product-oriented I'd say (as opposed to long-term high-risk research). So may be a better ticket to the upper ranks of techn
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by unishark 5y ago
Question 81 mentions problems caused by US soldiers. Crimes by foreigners generally cause a lot of outrage, regardless how common they are. I saw stats a few years ago that had the crime rates of US troops in Japan lower than the native pop
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by unishark 5y ago
When the USSR broke up, I had a school teacher at the time who said Russia will cease to be an enemy and become like France, an ally that opposes us a lot and causes headaches just out of national pride.
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by unishark 5y ago
Well you aren't supposed to, you mean to say. It does sound like a good idea for someone who has just been risking it, to get self-driving as a backup. Generally if the state finds out you have epilepsy, you'll need to be seizure
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by unishark 5y ago
In return for the 100+ million dollars he got out of it? Li's role would only have been in the sequels anyway, not the one good movie... Seriously though, for such a deal if one gets a percentage as royalties perpetually too, then it m
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by unishark 5y ago
We don't know that anyone lied. The guy had two ex-wives and a girlfriend. Perhaps they didn't ask enough family members for someone's taste. But as others noted, an objection from one ex-wife doesn't really make that ca
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by unishark 5y ago
I used to see only that, but lately I've been seeing cases where once you choose the "manage cookies" option, all the nonessential cookies are opted out by default.
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by unishark 5y ago
In this case they're actually being consistent. Your privacy is so important to us that we won't allow you to access our website and get tracked.
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by unishark 5y ago
I think having roommates should be the default living situation for people unless/until they have a family (which are technically a form of roommate of course). Besides being wasteful of space and resources, there's the (now well-
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by unishark 5y ago
Now you seem to be arguing for a complete set of welfare benefits comparable to whatever minimum wage is? Because a job is obviously more than a "box check". It's an income. Otherwise, anyone could turn their nose up at those
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by unishark 5y ago
I thought the primary argument against it was that the alternative is unemployment. You're implying the options are to pay the same person high or low wages. I don't think this is universally accepted at all.
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by unishark 5y ago
There are systems, such as international shipping and financial technology that simplify many of those difficulties for you, at least to the point of making revenue from a great many countries. Complying with the local laws (including payin
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by unishark 5y ago
You're the one who brought national origin into the thread. The arguments on both sides were made just fine without it. As for the second point, yes and those examples are also cases of restricting their own citizens. Hence the discuss
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by unishark 5y ago
So using "foreign" as a pejorative is cool as long as the foreigners are Americans? Companies can only provide products and services to willing customers. To restrict them is to restrict the choices of your own people to choose pr
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by unishark 5y ago
As I recall, extraordinary rendition occurred precisely because the interrogation techniques they wanted to use were illegal in the US but legal in the other country, which was by the way a willing participant. It may have involved kidnappi
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by unishark 5y ago
"Average" on HN obviously means average SV software engineer, if not average FAANG employee (slightly joking). But seriously it can also get tiresome when people constantly have to call out others for failing to formulate every ob
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by unishark 5y ago
A PI can be just a guy with a car and a camera though. You can't expect them to be able to handle the degree of regulations banks have. Your link says they were hired under false pretenses. There's more detail on the allegations h
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by unishark 5y ago
Yeah I don't think we look all that disfavorably on things like amputations to save someone's life if it's the only lifesaving option available on the spot (in the past or present).
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by unishark 5y ago
Depends how far ahead you want to look. National borders, the use of lethal weapons for self-defense or law-enforcement, the entire education system. It may not always be fair since the problems these things are meant to address may be most
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by unishark 5y ago
That guy and technique notwithstanding, the appeal of "banned techniques" isn't just about bringing back the injuries that got them banned, but the fact that they were often very effective. In Judo they made some pretty contr
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by unishark 5y ago
I think the biggest consideration for young (up to middle aged or so..) males is self-defense against bullies. Where there will be unwritten rules to a degree. Obviously it depends on the dojo, but the ones I've interacted with were ge
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by unishark 5y ago
Full-contact always implies dangers, hence the need to differentiate it from light sparring or whatever. I once read somewhere that high school wrestling has the highest career-ending injuries of any major sport, at 40 percent. Football was
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by unishark 5y ago
You mean Cobra Kai were supposed to be the real heroes? I think the west may put a lot less emphasis on competing honorably or whatever. But playing fair is still morally better than not. E.g. people get viewed negatively for real cheating
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by unishark 5y ago
But the only way the monopoly on technology can make money is by sharing the benefits. The point of technology is to make the production of goods and services more efficient; it's not a scarce resource in itself. If a technology is not
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by unishark 5y ago
>This is a recent idea, dating back to the late 70s and implemented through the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act. Before that research was research; development (and private research of course) was the province of business. I don't think federal
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by unishark 5y ago
But I started this thread talking about students pirating these cheap textbooks, which got hijacked to feed the expensive textbooks narrative.
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by unishark 5y ago
If you want to argue that IP is not real ownership and should not exist, then I cannot make a good counter-argument. Except to say that it is the system we have and to eliminate it would simply shift the debate to whatever new business mode
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by unishark 5y ago
I don't see this as defending myself from an attack but as debating the logical basis of an ethical position that strikes me a purely emotional. In my initial comment I already pointed out trying to pick cheap textbooks. But people wan
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by unishark 5y ago
What are you saying was the cause though? And either way, people still got healthcare and negotiated payments thinking they were close to their deathbeds prior to that era of increase. Also 1986 was the emergency room mandate, which used Me
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by unishark 5y ago
The reason I sidestep the IP issue is I am personally much more favorable to that argument, however I didn't see it as relevant when people are labeling market behavior as "predatory". It's not to corner people into an e

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