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by viridian 9y ago
How does a minimum wage argument relate to systemic discrimination? Inject more persons into a workforce increases supply and depresses wages, it doesn't inflate hourly costs.
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by viridian 9y ago
I think it's common in communist leaning circles in general. I've talked with a few of the fine folks of anti-fa on twitter, who express similar views. I think it makes sense in the context of the worldview. After all, why let one
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by viridian 9y ago
I'd actually bet the opposite. I think if you only gave people one vote, it's pretty much guaranteed that you'd see 3 then 2 for popularity. More options without introducing rank would be the greatest gift you could give UKIP
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by viridian 9y ago
Funnily enough, this article is one of thousands of articles I have read which are contributing to my own reading problem, as seems to be the case with many of the Journalists quoted in the article. The massive size of the media, all the an
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by viridian 9y ago
I wonder if this is just a lack of knowledge on how to survive while poor. I'm in a good economic position compared to most of the US and certainly most of the world, but I can't see myself having much of an issue with this. Growi
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by viridian 9y ago
Credit unions on the other hand, you'd have a much better time with.
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by viridian 9y ago
If you have a software problem, and your solution is to throw more programmers at it, you now have two problems.
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by viridian 9y ago
Can we not assume bad faith on behalf of other commenters? I've heard similar things from a grandparent, an older science teacher, and a CS prof I knew well. Everyone knows that science reporting is in a terrible state today, but I hon
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by viridian 9y ago
I think in this case he's including the suburbs in urban, as contrasted with rural living. In that light urbanization is generally harmful, as rural living tends to have less of an effect on wildlife since individuals are rarely stoppi
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by viridian 9y ago
So if I fill out the paperwork in advance Microsoft won't ruin my night? How generous of them. I'm really glad that linux gaming is increasing year over year, because gaming is about the only reason I still use windows at home.
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by viridian 9y ago
Man, I wish I needed 100g of protein a day. I try to be very conservative on my intake, and I still need 142g minimum at 180 pounds.
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by viridian 9y ago
Funny you mention this, I swear when I replay a video game with my girlfriend that I played solo before, while listening to a podcast or something, I can recall with amazing clarity stuff I had heard on the podcast at a particular point in
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by viridian 10y ago
Then how is MyProtein so much cheaper than like everyone else?
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by viridian 10y ago
As funny as this anecdote is, the real issue was that it caused a couple of cases of permanent sterility so the scientists were forced to abandon the study. The whole thing is annoying because I've now seen the whole "lol boys can
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by viridian 10y ago
Russia has pretty much always desired to control the Baltic states for the same reason: having them as proxy states create important buffer zones to a country that has otherwise weak borders protecting it's population centers. Historic
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by viridian 10y ago
Why do you need the play store? You can install apk files without it just fine, if you have the appropriate dev options enabled in your phone.
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by viridian 10y ago
I think one of the reasons that people think that trying something out leads to permanence is that there's a pretty long established trend of that being the case on websites that HN shares membership with. You may be paying the social
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by viridian 10y ago
Every president pardons a ton of people at the end of their term. Obama will do it, and it's likely Trump will too: http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-pardons...
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by viridian 10y ago
It's funny how the title of this story, in optimizing for F-K score, looks exactly like most internet clickbait, but I suppose that isn't a coincidence. I myself have found this to be a large problem in my writing. I'm an on
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by viridian 10y ago
16.5% of methane emissions, give or take. If you could further apply this to all livestock, it's around 30%.
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by viridian 10y ago
Good to hear. I think the whole event was a net good for everyone, based on how many HN commenters responded to the news by offloading as much of their data off google servers as possible. Glad to see google doing good by undoing their own
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by viridian 10y ago
This seems like a problem that appears everywhere in science, not just in the case of economics. There is a known phenomena of science results agreeing with the organizations that fund the science, and this seems to be an extension to that.
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by viridian 10y ago
League of Legends has over 100 million active players a month. Dota 2 has around 39 million. Steam has over 125 million active, with 9 million concurrent users during peak hours. The free to play games market is enormous.