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iff it's a higher salary in exchange for #2 and 3 i suspect the employer / (healthcareinsurer if in US) imbalance is really the core issue. In medical research ethics, informed con…

old/new money suffices without an indicating your opinion whether people worked hard, or not.

To start, I agree with what you're saying. What I struggle to reconcile in my own life is the difference between this logic, and the logic of a businessman who believes he cannot c…

heart disease vs. terrorism. it seems to be an unfortunate emergent behavior of groups of humans.

We are in agreement. My comment was to the effect of "the author took literary license, most (native speakers) probably knew that, don't beat a dead horse."

In America, you are 100% allowed to do these things to your own house because you have to live with the consequences. The trades are here to protect other people from me asserting …

Short pithy statements, are worth the electrons written on.

OK, I would encourage you to reread the conversation. The HN consensus is clearly different than how you perceive it. You may be absolutely correct. The HN Hivemind is frequently w…

It is acceptable and logical for someone to not be directly or indirectly affected by an incident, yet it still is not bullshit. Suppose Mars gets destroyed by an unseen cosmic eve…

You are speaking of basically an IP-based version of the spamhaus blacklist. For general http or TCP protocol. I, for one, would be fine with a general internet citizen losing acce…

Do you perceive that your sarcasm was effective? Did it convey your point clearly and concisely, so that you can share your perspective and point of view? Or did it do more harm to…

This is a meaningless statement. "Those who are not hopeful, who do not believe in a better future, are not paying attention." --me Same amount of authority.

IMO, the most American of traits is a deep seated disbelief that their own government has private citizens' best interests at heart. Many people do not agree, believing that their …

In the US, many states require the consumer pay a deposit upon purchase of a Coke bottle. On return, this is refunded.

Because once your government is the arbiter of "journalism", anyone who disagrees will be marginalized? Even the threat of it can affect what is / is not covered. Once the governme…

I'd be fine paying for it to cover the cost of SMS. Like parent, I'm not willing to use facebook to get access, even for free. One option would be to re-enable the SMS option for p…

It seems like attendant readers understands what the author was doing. They didn't say the definition explicitly, which would violate pep20 (explicit is better than implicit), but,…

Not at all. A low probabilty does not make the prediction invalid because of the result.

I live in California. My neighbors are disabled and got blue curb for handicap in front of their place when they moved in.