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by whyenot 10y ago
The article doesn't back up your claim. People in the US on H1B visas don't have their passport taken away and are prevented from leaving. They aren't arrested and imprisoned when they are gang raped. They aren't forced
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by whyenot 10y ago
It would probably be more efficient to make predatory pricing illegal.
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The Robot Revolution Will Be the Quietest One(nytimes.com)
1 points by whyenot 10y ago|0 comments
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by whyenot 10y ago
Much of that coastal land is protected from development. What this proposed law will likely do is increase density in areas that are already developed. Having said that, I think you have a point: there are benefits to more housing, but ther
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GoPro, the Action Camera Maker, Plans 200 Layoffs(nytimes.com)
1 points by whyenot 10y ago|0 comments
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by whyenot 10y ago
Provide a link or a direct quote. something, that supports your assertion. Your unwillingness to do so comes off as intellectual dishonesty.
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by whyenot 10y ago
> It's NET sales aka profit Their website states the following: "100% of purchases made in Patagonia® stores and online at patagonia.com and patagoniaprovisions.com". If you have different information, please share your so
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by whyenot 10y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that it is alive but largely forgotten. Perl6 is very cool, but has not gained much traction.
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by whyenot 10y ago
> The truth is that higher-ed is getting about the same percent GDP it's been getting since the 70's Isn't it true that many more students attend college than was the case in the 1970's? For example, between 2003 and
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by whyenot 10y ago
He has been publicly and actively in favor of marriage equality at least going back to 2010, if not earlier.
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by whyenot 10y ago
He seems to believe that climate change is "more pseudoscience" [than science], at least that was his opinion when Glenn Beck interviewed him in 2014.
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by whyenot 10y ago
That may work with (fictional) iocane powder in The Princess Bride, but almost all real poisons don't work that way. For example, you aren't going to become immune to the amatoxins in death cap mushrooms by having a nibble everyon
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by whyenot 10y ago
Do you have any further information on this? Having opened up an IBM PC keyboard, and knowing that Z80 CPUs were still fairly expensive in 1982, I'm a little surprised.
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by whyenot 10y ago
You seem to be mis-remembering the facts a little. The Think Different campaign was nearly 20 years ago (1997). If you look at the list of celebrities[1], almost all are/were not "anti materialist socialists." 1. https:&#x2F
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by whyenot 10y ago
I had a lot more sympathy for Assange and Wikileaks before the recent releases that seem to have been timed to influence the US elections. Also, why has it taken so long for him to agree to an interview on the rape allegations? Yes, it&#x27
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by whyenot 10y ago
> Viruses are the enigma of evolution. Are they just chemicals, or living? Biology is full of edge cases like this. For a few more examples, google "species problem". Human beings often like to classify things into discrete gro
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by whyenot 10y ago
Are you familiar with Amy's Baking Company? Sometimes disappointing one customer can have catastrophic consequences. http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/dining/2015/12/... https:&#x2F
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by whyenot 10y ago
> As far as nuclear bombs, we don't really seem to be using them much anymore. On the contrary, I think 'we' (the US) use them every day as leverage and a deterrent. We just don't need to detonate them anymore. I thin
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by whyenot 10y ago
land that currently provides enough rice to feed 27 people will need to support 43 by 2050 if there were fewer mouths, you would need less rice. I realize it isn't an area the Gates Foundation is active in, but there is quite a bit o
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by whyenot 10y ago
"Some people" in this care are the Competitive Space Task Force, a "coalition of leading conservative and libertarian thinkers from organizations committed to creating a free and competitive market for U.S. spaceflight"
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by whyenot 10y ago
Apple's won't catch fire.
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by whyenot 10y ago
> Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.[1] I don't think you should be dismissive, but you still should be aware that the magazine does promote a particular political point of view, a
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by whyenot 10y ago
The minimum prison sentence for manslaughter in the first degree in New York is 10 years, not a $2 million dollar fine. [My point being that there are some problems with equating lives to money.]
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by whyenot 10y ago
> Please do some reading on this. I really wish people wouldn't use this line in HN comments. It shuts down meaningful discussion by implying that someone would see things your way if only they were more well informed. Maybe they ha
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by whyenot 10y ago
I think you meant to say " I don't want to be coding by age 50. "
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by whyenot 10y ago
I don't see it. Academia already has this money. It was paid to them as tuition. If loans are forgiven, the money will be "moved" (so to speak) to the bank accounts of the indebted, not academia. In the case of state schools,
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by whyenot 10y ago
> it is not worth $100k and there are many other ways to have that experience that do not cost that much You can get an excellent education at a state school for less than $6k per year. The person who gets a degree in music theory, philo
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by whyenot 10y ago
The entry level Canon and Nikon FF cameras do not have most of the higher end features the K-1 has. It competes pretty well with D810 and has some features the D810 lacks such as a GPS, wifi, a screen that can be moved or flipped up and pos
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by whyenot 10y ago
The cameras on the list you linked to with built in wifi are the Nikon D750, Nikon D5, Pentax K-1, Canon 6D. That's 4/10, which is better than I expected, but still pretty poor.
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by whyenot 10y ago
Most full frame DSLRs don't have wireless.

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