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drivingmissm

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    Comment #7188644

    Sony would have passed because of iTunes, Sony isn't going to sell hardware that plays songs from Sony Music and pays Apple as the middle man.

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    Comment #7188621

    This is awesome! You should seriously add PHP. Our community is probably the largest and has many inexperienced programmers who would really benefit from Codewars.

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    Comment #7188494

    I'm in the advocacy space and you aren't collecting enough information to deliver the emails to Congress, the web forms require many other pieces of information like a title (Mr./M…

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    Comment #7165880

    Landlords don't care but the neighbors and the city might

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    Comment #7153307

    Google image search the user images

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    Comment #7101973

    They aren't a natural monopoly-- in the U.S. telecom and video cable (cable internet) are heavily regulated government-granted monopolies. Most U.S. local governments, for example,…

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    Comment #7053183

    Bounty hunting has been around forever and is a very dynamic and effective part of the law enforcement system.

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    Comment #7037452

    GoDaddy actively pushed terrible SOPA legislation http://godaddyboycott.org/ Their past ad campaigns have been very trashy and sexist as well. Their pricing is higher than other re…

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    Comment #6974771

    Actually most advanced societies are not producing enough children to keep the population stable.

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    Comment #6974762

    Yeah it is just a tricked out mobile home.

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    Comment #6971008

    Charter schools are, in fact, public schools. They just aren't administered by the centralized government system.

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    Comment #6964873

    Children ingesting magnets is growing problem that can be fatal. For use in a household setting, it is irresponsible to sell smooth, shiny magnets that are of a size that can be sw…

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    Comment #6964843

    IP and patents are not "unregulated capitalism" they are actually political creations enforced by a legal regime.

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    Comment #6946384

    Yes, Iran's totalitarian leadership is a threat to its neighbors, particularly Israel.

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    Comment #6945404

    Single parent households are the single biggest cause of child poverty...there are cultural and lifestyle factors at play.

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    Comment #6886076

    Update: Just got through to tech, they are working late. Apparently our issue is an edge case but there are a bunch of problems with their OS update and automatic rollback. Here's …

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    Tell HN: Nest Software Update Failed and Now We're Freezing

    I have a Nest learning thermostat and a house with two infants. We're on the east coast and the outside temperature is 26 degrees with seven inches of snow on the ground. Several h…

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    Comment #6868295

    COPPA compliance includes no marketing to children, even with parental consent. So they'd have to operate a completely different platform for children. Plus their business model is…

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    Comment #6868289

    It isn't a belief. Even if Google obtained parental consent by law it still can't market to children-- since Google's services are a giant marketing engine, it is reasonable for th…

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    Comment #6868278

    The law goes a lot further than that, the law prevents Google from marketing to children, so it would have to disable ALL of its marketing and tracking programs for children's acco…

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    Comment #6828574

    The problem in the U.S. is that the labor unions control rail, and stifle all innovation.

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    Comment #6827825

    The problem is that socialism and totalitarianism are separated only by degree. Socialism, by definition, uses government force to take resources/freedom/time/opportunity from some…

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    Comment #6815300

    The growth in the divide is caused by changes in CEO compensation that reward CEOs of public companies with large stock option rewards. In theory this is a reform-- only CEOs with …