whyaduck

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by whyaduck 8y ago
That's a remarkably confident statement that's completely unprovable. I could just as easily posit easy international travel, world trade, mass media, democracy, and many other things as more effective than h-bombs for bringing ab
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Lockheed's involved in the maintenance (and previously, manufacture) of thermonuclear weapons. I'm pretty comfortable with my comparison.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Allowing businesses to divorce themselves from responsibility for the effects of what they produce, regardless of consumer choice, is too easy. I have no idea what the equivalent of "Saturday morning cartoons" is today, but 20 yea
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by whyaduck 8y ago
"Organized crime" is an exceptionally poor example since the premise involves the legality of the activity/product. Edited. Regarding Coca-Cola vs guns - the list wasn't comprehensive :).
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by whyaduck 8y ago
My thought experiment for considering the moral limits of capitalism: If producing Soylent Green were legal and profitable, would there be actors willing to produce and sell it? If you answer no, see: Philip Morris, Lockheed, Beretta, etc.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
This. It's the same reason American hotels are expanding and increasing "resort fees", and auto dealerships try to charge as much as possible for "doc fees". Businesses have essentially added their OWN taxes on tran
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by whyaduck 8y ago
The consequences if US citizens or residents get caught engaging in espionage for a foreign government are go-to-jail-for-years serious.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
I rented a car in Bilbao recently - reserved a manual, got an automatic (presumably because I'm an American, and they assumed I'd ruin the clutch on a manual transmission). So, that's one way to see an automatic :). When you
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by whyaduck 8y ago
The adjustment they make on income is opaque. It's hard to judge what those values actually represent. I can't believe that the median salary in San Francisco before adjustment is anywhere near $55k.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Exactly. Add interaction with highly complex custom hardware and you're looking at more like 2 years rather than 2 weeks to get to the point where anyone can claim expert level knowledge.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
If you're in the US, then, at a minimum, you've agreed to one for every credit card in your wallet, as well as every other financial account you have.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
"and thus very vulnerable to strikes or arbitrary price hikes" If they have professional supply chain and commercial departments they'll have contingencies in place for situations like this.
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by whyaduck 9y ago
Some Levis have stretch fabric - I buy 514s, there may be others. Make sure that the label calls out the stretch material.
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by whyaduck 9y ago
Will your schedule support working day trips? Meaning, a flight leaving early enough to be wheels down by 9 AM at the destination, then a flight out around 4-5 PM on the same day? Do you have plans for working with a rental car service at t
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by whyaduck 9y ago
This article? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-cri... In no way, shape or form does that "bemoan" efforts to fight _serious_ crime in changing neighborhoods. It DOES tak
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by whyaduck 9y ago
I believe in my case, the population would be people who can make it to the store - unchanged from what it was before the store started limiting quantities. I'm having a hard time not getting snarky here because, to be honest, you don&
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by whyaduck 9y ago
It's the store's unwillingness to do the obvious thing and limit sales of water given the sharp rise in demand in the face of a life threatening disaster. Resources aren't rushed to disaster areas in response to profits - the
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by whyaduck 9y ago
Given the existing laws, stores engaging in price gouging essentially are a black market. You don't stop trying to manage a disaster just because there's no perfect solution.
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by whyaduck 9y ago
This is just deification of capitalism and conflating decency in the face of a life threatening situation with "socialism". Others have already answered the question of what to do, but I'll repeat. Don't raise prices and
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by whyaduck 9y ago
I'm familiar with the culture of the company I work for, I see the hires, I'm part of the hiring process, the goals and results are all public - as in available to anyone with an internet connection. All due respect I'm abso
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by whyaduck 9y ago
I can't speak for Google, but I work for a large SV company with an aggressive diversity program, and the goal is to hire to match the demographics of the pipeline of qualified candidates, not the population at large.
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by whyaduck 10y ago
You've skipped over a key part of the argument for taking action to reduce climate change: we've proven man is responsible for global warming, our models show devastating things a, b and c happening due to warming, therefore we mu
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by whyaduck 10y ago
I'll be shocked if marriage equality survives his SCOTUS picks.
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by whyaduck 10y ago
Actually, I think it's the ability to translate the state of a project into risks, rewards and trade-offs. It's not necessarily an innately understood skill for technical individual contributors.
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by whyaduck 10y ago
In practice, companies that are attempting to address the "gender gap" seriously are well aware of what the labor market looks like. Realistic goals are set to attempt to have the company's workers mirror the market - and no
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by whyaduck 10y ago
Slice and dice how you like. Your implication that "more guns" == "less crime" is, at best, unproven, and your citation of incorrect trends doesn't change that. Conversely, the rest of the large, highly industriali
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by whyaduck 10y ago
You're looking at the wrong statistic - the number of guns Americans own has increased significantly, but today only about 32% of American households have guns present compared to close to 50% in the late 1970s[0]. The same poll found
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Wildlife are definitely a danger for drivers in the more remote parts of the U.S. Personally, I survived an elk collision unscathed, and with minimal damage to my car because she was trying to jump down from a cut in the side of a mountain
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by whyaduck 11y ago
The numbers in that article (fatalities per vehicle model over a year) aren't terribly useful - fatalities per vehicle mile would have more value. In the end, though, there's little doubt that the U.S. roads are the host of a vehi
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by whyaduck 11y ago
"a space he envisions as a dorm for Millennials" - he's pretty much over the line from the start if that's an accurate representation of his goals.

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