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KekDemaga

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    Comment #15568868

    Why is this flagged wrong narrative HN mods?

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    Comment #15556132

    Do you find it the least bit ironic that you learned that from a admittedly liberal talk show host who's videos are pushed on YouTube while conservatives who create similar content…

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    Comment #15529576

    I disagree A database for 1.3 million users? You can use off the shelf software. 350 million? You need a entirely different class of solution.

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    Comment #15510902

    The reason the government doesn't do that is talented people don't want to work for them. Virtually all the government jobs are union and pay is primarily based on time served. You…

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    Comment #15509771

    >The government is also not operated on a for-profit basis incentivizing doing the bare minimum level of security to shield yourself from liability. No instead they hire contractor…

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    Comment #15509668

    >And you long for the day when it's your particular brand of racism and sexism that wins? Beautifully put, the solution to sexism isn't more sexism.

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    Comment #15508307

    The government is at least equally incompetent if not more so, at least if a private entity screws up you can sue.

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    Comment #15502439

    "Ignoring your completely made up percentiles" You are right, I didn't know the median income moved so much last year. US Median income = 59,039[0] = the top .2% globally[3] Averag…

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    Comment #15502115

    You know in movies where the villain rich kid goes to a nice upper middle class home and calls the place a dump? That's what the global poor (as in virtually everyone on the planet…

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    Comment #15501694

    That perception becomes even more laughable when you realize that the 51 year old female in question is in the top .3% of income globally, while the "permanent underclass" are in t…

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    Comment #15501553

    "No check, no tech." is something I use often.

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    Comment #15498696

    Wouldn't that mean it's less of a capitalism problem and more of a problem generally since it hasn't been solved in any other economic system in practice?

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    Comment #15498536

    >It really is remarkable how efficient capitalism is at ensuring that proles are born with nothing and die with nothing. Compared to what?

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    Comment #15494510

    An objective test removes the power of picking winners and losers from the academics, they will never allow that to happen.

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    Comment #15490371

    Free proxy and CGI proxy alone used to generate lots of fake results. As "start using cgiproxy" is the title of a cgiproxy page you'd typically get less false positives.

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    Comment #15487964

    "start using cgiproxy" used to be all you needed back in my day.

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    Comment #15485822

    I never thought about it before but wouldn't bringing more people into the first world increase global carbon output?

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    Comment #15484931

    I had no idea facebook was operating in that space.

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    Comment #15484785

    Hospitals are forced to provide services in emergencies like the situation you described, so it's more like "fuck you, don't pay any of the bills we send you and it will be off of …

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    Comment #15484655

    >It would be nice if we went back to business models where companies sell products to their end users and not sell their end users to others. If you include services in that you ar…

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    Comment #15484632

    Don't want to remind the states that they have the option, they might vote in term limits or remove money from politics.

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    Comment #15482953

    How did your wife and kids take it when you lost your house and you all had in move in with your mother?

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    Comment #15482852

    "What myopic lives they had 1000 years ago" - Future historians reading this blog post

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    Comment #15472657

    Flood insurance can be revoked in the way you describe but it is a federal matter not a Texas one.