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direfungasaur

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    Comment #16780620

    > The simplified executive line of reasoning, why to rather trust an external entity over their own people, goes usually along these lines: "We do not take advice from our employee…

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    Comment #16475200

    With respect to the 'change one law' phrasing - I don't think a repeal of the 2nd immediately leads to confiscation. It only removes the federal restrictions, but several state con…

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    Comment #16473744

    I just don't understand the generality of the assertion. Law-abiding folks are suddenly going to become violent because the government changed one law? I can certainly believe that…

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    Comment #16473284

    Are you implying that gun-owners would suddenly wage war on the nation if they were told to hand over (some portion of) their guns in the next year or face civil penalties? Doesn't…

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    Comment #16151223

    An Individual Contributor - someone with no direct reports.

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    Comment #15066091

    There's no reason that a bright student with a biology background couldn't be a perfect fit for these sorts of things if they have some contact with a computer science class or two…

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    Comment #15065101

    There are arbitrary, unambiguous, agreed upon standards of politeness. You don't curse people out. This are unambiguous when you are interacting with people before you have establi…

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    Comment #15064997

    obvious and unobjectionable steps like "recruit junior devs from the ranks of biology grads I don't follow how this is an obvious decision. Would you please elaborate? If the targe…

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    Comment #13796819

    I haven't researched the rationales behind taxi protectionism laws, so I can only offer conjecture. Two two reasons I can imagine we have such laws are traffic congestion control a…

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    Comment #13790794

    You are arbitrarily assigning Uber's disruption a positive social outcome, which appears to be the lynchpin of your argument. Your argument could be applied to many outcomes that w…