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by wooter 9y ago
i think we're pretty much done with USB-A given any form factor besides desktop(-replacement?) these days. I'd rather not sacrifice the space for the next 3+ years when its basically relegated to phone charging duties - and barely
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by wooter 9y ago
> But hey, there's no money in that so why bother, right? What are you talking about? Waste Management is a phenomenally successful ($15B) company. I invest in several companies in water treatment. You're just getting worked up
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by wooter 9y ago
> Why are people assuming that that's the case and putting all their hopes on space travel? is anyone doing that? the relative market values/investment in tesla (solar/electric sustainability) vs spacex strongly suggests o
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by wooter 9y ago
Its also compulsory. I can't opt out and as you noted, the returns are shrinking drastically. It also passed as a savings program regardless of the horrible bookkeeping that the government is doing to keep an crappy system afloat. In f
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by wooter 10y ago
> But if we're going talk about the old classics like racism, homophobia, and sexism -- the conservative side knows the art better than any. Lincoln, a Republican, abolished slavery. And Roosevelt, a Democrat, interned Japanese Ame
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by wooter 10y ago
This is not even remotely true at all. Have you ever looked at a health insurance plan in the US?
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by wooter 10y ago
Just cause i like playing with analogies, should mcD have to sell any and all soda?
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by wooter 10y ago
I find NYT to be absurdly biased.
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by wooter 10y ago
Seriously. Clapper lied directly to congress under oath on TV. The whole "they know whats best for us and our only choice is blind faith" attitude is really disturbing.
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by wooter 10y ago
The last 300 years during which capitalism and tech have done more for the common man than any other ststem in the last 30,000.
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by wooter 10y ago
I'm a cuban american and I don't see how people don't understand the most obvious viewpoint. You can condemn both the evil actions by the US and by Fidel. The fact that they've both committed atrocities doesn't mean
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by wooter 10y ago
> Socialism is simply a philosophy that puts people before money That is a platitude that doesn't mean anything. Abolishing a pricing mechanism doesn't put people ahead - it destroys resources. Capitalism has done more for the
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by wooter 10y ago
Sanders praised it. As a Venezuelan in SF, I've had my fair share of arguments where I've had to defend the perspective that Venezuela isn't a socialist paradise. "These days, the American dream is more apt to be realize
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by wooter 10y ago
I hope you're being facetious. If not, thats a rather foolish and ignorant "refutation." By the way, your non-pencil doesn't erase. Also, are you going to mine that lead yourself?
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by wooter 10y ago
having done ML R&D for a few years, they're docs are great for orienting newcomers to the field
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by wooter 10y ago
Remarkable that simple application of the yet-to-be-disproven (or even seriously contested) theory of supply and demand to the price of labor is downvoted where you'd expect to find rational people. https://fee.org/arti
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by wooter 10y ago
Claiming everything is morally ambiguous and thus we need the CIA, which has real examples of unambiguous harm, seems more like sticking one's head in the sand to me.
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by wooter 10y ago
the luddites never learn
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by wooter 10y ago
This is apologism. I expect an expensive organization, that I pay for, to make their the case to the public without dirty tricks and intimidation. And I expect the news sources that I am intelligent enough to pick to investigate and report
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by wooter 10y ago
As an independent/libertarian, I find this distinction lost on most democrats. Sadly, it seems they define people by income - thus the income inequality debate - which, among other confounding variables, completely ignores things like
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by wooter 10y ago
Seriously. I feel the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" has just been thrown out the window. Parent comment is literally advocating "guilty even if you're innocent because someone else might potentially be convin
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by wooter 10y ago
define "dumped." He tried internal channels, which unsurprisingly failed (as several legitimate whistle-blowers and even just employees have expressed) and then went to well-reputed journalists in the most professional, transparen
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by wooter 10y ago
No, it definitely does not.
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by wooter 10y ago
so mob rule? no. we are a constitutional republic
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by wooter 10y ago
you really don't understand what a free market is then. i would suggest any econ 101 book
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by wooter 11y ago
Because the USSR had no pollution or poor people... /s
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by wooter 11y ago
http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com
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by wooter 11y ago
what kind of ridiculous ad-hominem to a random "founder" is this? Do you even know under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment was signed into law?
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by wooter 11y ago
> besides, gun regulation works fairly well almost everywhere in the world source? doesn't work in venezuela and didn't work in maoist china or hitler's germany
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by wooter 11y ago
or how about clapper? http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com

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