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by vinhboy 10y ago
> formalizing conventions, eliminating valueless choices, and offering a full-stack framework that provides great defaults for anyone who wants to create a complete application Maybe I've drank the kool-aid too much, but I agree wit
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So this makes the router sends a stronger signal, farther. But how does this help if my laptop still has the same wifi adapter and can't send a strong signal back?
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A lot of people in this country really hates Obama. And it seems, when you take out all the other ugliness, they base that hate on the idea that he is not genuine. > President Obama was the first to come up with a deliberate and explicit
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by vinhboy 10y ago
This reminded me to donate. A lot of people in Trump's camp relentlessly defends the 2nd Amendment, but in my opinion, that is just a purposeful distraction to the real weapon we should be defending: a free and open internet. Now this
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I find it interesting that they had to rely on data volunteered by a grocery chain. They should build in something to the SNAP card system so they can track at high level where the money is being spent. That could provide some interesting d
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SNAP households spent 9.3 percent of their grocery budgets on soft drinks(nytimes.com)
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Are you saying that if Obamacare did not exist you would be better off?
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> I don't think they will throw out the good parts You are mistaken. The good parts, like covering pre-existing conditions is exactly what causes your insurance to go up. It's basic economics. The Republicans do not have a plan
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I had DEM names on there, but I deleted them because I didn't want to fall into the trap of false equivalencies. > They have constituencies that they serve as well as pander to Pandering is ok. My district has a lot of farms, so my
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I have a feeling a lot of people here are going to scoff at this news, because they think politics should be left to someone "better". We live in a country where people like Mitch McConnell, Jason Chaffetz, Jim Inhofe, and Trump a
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Oh.. thanks for that tidbit. I didn't know there was an incentive for them.
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Yea, but it also says a lot of people auto invest in target date funds. So essentially it's saying it works better when people just leave it alone. But yes, I understand your point.
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Say what you will about government incompetence, but the idea of tying things like my retirement and healthcare to my employer just sounds terrible. Also, auto-enrolling people into 401K sounds kinda like... ya know... social security.
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Good comment. Whole heartedly agree. Our job is to give them what they need, not what we think is cool. I hate it when developers over-engineer their client's needs. It becomes a costly maintenance nightmare down the road for everyone.
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I wonder if the shock of going from a first world country to a third world country contributes to these problems. Imagine for a second you're a white male growing up in rural America. Your first experience with the rest of world is a I
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These little air bags makes a lot of sense to me, I wonder why it took them so long to become popular. How did everyone live through the packing peanuts phase and not realize this is a much simpler solution?
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Completely agree. Now you make me wonder if the stigma around this kind of life style is being purposefully pushed by moneyed interest like home sellers etc...
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Click on "web" under the article title (in HN). Then you can click on the link in google. It's a built in HN hack...
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This plant is all over California. I am actually surprised I have never heard of any fatalities.
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We can easily discern, with statistics, which political ideology is providing all the insane comments. But in places like HN, people will scream at you for being partisan if you mention it. I think there needs to be an honest discussion abo
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by vinhboy 10y ago
The NYT is the ONLY high quality comment "left" on the internet. It's sad that we are letting extremists mute comment sections.
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Agreed... I feel like this study is going to be misused to mock people who choose healthy food. But the reality is, we all make those kind of decisions based on limited information. I can walk into a Best Buy right now and laugh at all the
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by vinhboy 10y ago
Is it possible he was really working a SpaceX project as a subcontractor of a contractor? I do that sometimes. Give my work to someone else to do because I am too busy working on something else.
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I don't know man. but if you loan me $4bn I will buy Yahoo and run it myself. I too don't understand how they can't make Yahoo a success. They have a couple of great products that people use like Fantasy sports and Finance. A
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by vinhboy 10y ago
Sure thing boss -- I can't edit my original comment to include sources. So here it is [1] https://commercial.jpmorganchase.com/pages/commercial-bankin... [2] http://www.salon.com/2016/12/
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In about a month, I don't think this is going to matter anymore. I heard somewhere that Trump plans on relaxing all these regulations anyways.
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Except that's not how protecting the environment works. You can't undo damage to the environment as easily as you can destroy it. So if in one minute he thinks its ok to do something destructive, in the next minute it will be too
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by vinhboy 10y ago
I want to bookmark your comment, because I think you are so on point with what is happening. The greatest threat to the moderate people of this country is our insistent on believing that everyone is good, and that everything will be ok. We
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This kind of thing has also happens to smart, tech-savy, people within the tech community. It's sad to me that we are glossing over this issue because it did not happen in the physical world. Imagine if we caught Russian agents physica
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I put "attack" in quotes because those are his own words. Again, I re-iterate my point, he sees them as an "attack". I do not believe people who dismiss his ideas set out to "attack" him. > The people who cl

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