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by yostrovs 7y ago
Crickets is what you'll get from Americans on this topic. Chances are they haven't seen it in a restaurant or anywhere else.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Humor? Really?
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Does the ADA really apply and enforced at all publicly available businesses? Does every Chinese restaurant in Chinatown have a Braille menu? If we really start enforcing this, only larger businesses will survive.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Since Harvard receives federal funds, it has to play by the same anti discrimination rules as the Federal government.
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"Nunavut’s [suicide] rate is 100 per 100,000, ten times higher than the rest of Canada and seven times higher than the US. When I visited Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit, in July, virtually every Inuit I met had lost at least one relative t
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Amazingly, when voting time comes, the country tends to appear center right. Could there polls be wrong?
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You didn't notice any other bias from NPR? I listen to it all the time and only for the bias to know what's in the minds of a certain slice of society.
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It's the double standard hypocrisy that's troubling many. You're either a publicly funded medium that doesn't run on ads or you're not. Currently, my impression is constant corporate sponsorship designed to make sai
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The 97% of us that didn't go remain ignored so that the 3% can have endless coverage.
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Perhaps the rise in cost of real estate will persuade the Bangladeshis to have fewer children? The effect can happen within one generation.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
You are aware that public unions demand things from the government, making things difficult for said government. They consume a great deal of public moneys and demand special working conditions, usually above those received by employees in
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Any idea why powerful bureaucrats are called Czars? Why not Dukes, for example? Drug Duke..
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I think you're going to get more cookie warnings with more bureaucrats running the internet.
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A typical flyer is not concerned about the pay of pilots. He's concerned about his price to fly. Those that are concerned about pay do so regardless of whether they're flying. They do it because they root for the little guy, or th
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by yostrovs 7y ago
The Westerners may well be aware of Mugabe's end of colonization. But, someone who has murdered is called a murderer. And should be treated as such. Stalin stopped Hitler and industrialized Russia, but he's a murderer. Lots of peo
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At Amazon, free shipping may be subsidized by the cloud storage business.
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What if the two events did actually happen and that these two events were critical in the neighborhood's development?
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Tianamen square and the surroundings are safe and peaceful, for decades now indeed.
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I could point to a capitalist society where customers demand and expect safety and are part of the process that brings forth regulations. I'm sorry I didn't imply we live in a pure capitalist society.
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Can you point to safer commercial airplanes built by non-capitalist enterprises?
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Unity among the public will prevent that I believe. The students are helping to point out the unity that exists.
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It's not exactly robotic. It's a flexible magnetically manipulatable wire. Robots require some kind of sensing and reacting loop.
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How are the fires encouraged? What does the different do exactly to promote them?
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Having attempted growing vegetables on the rooftop of a 6 story building, I discovered that preparing and cleaning the roof is incredibly energy intensive. You have to bring soil from some soil farm to the city and then onto the roof of a b
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Today you're the best. There might be a good argument for your opinion, but today yours is the best one.
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I have two cars between my wife and I. In Europe we'd have much smaller cars, but the train is there. But I'd rather travel point to point, on my schedule, even to places the train doesn't run. And I'd like to bring our
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Here on HN, how developed a country is is directly proportional to the quality of train service in that country. Other considerations are too marginal to matter.
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What about going back to China? Do you have to reacclimate to keeping your opinions to yourself?
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They had a smartphone with working GPS and they didn't know where they were...
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Though I did find my comment amusing, I do believe there may be something to it. It is a fact that redheads have higher pain tolerance and respond differently to anesthesia compared to the rest of the population. Considering these phenomena

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