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oh well. downvote shadow banned this comment for saying government should be out of propaganda business. whatev. The stuff dey downvote on hacker news.

ICC has no jurisdiction in the United States. U.S. did not ratify the treaty. No point in letting them pretend they do. Imagine European idealists prosecuting Clinton, Bush and Oba…

India started developing nuclear weapons in the 1950s and first tested a nuclear bomb in 1974.

"non major liberal cities" I think the "me too" thing proved the coastal elite were part of the problem.

This provides access to hundreds of public and tens of thousands of restricted access cancer genomes (and often the matching "normal" samples): so you can see and visually verify m…

NCI Chromatic - Cancer Genomes with WebAssembly: https://chromatic.nci.nih.gov/

We did. We had American Express, Diner's Club, Discover (the old Sears) ,department store cards, gas station cards, Bankamericard (Visa) and Interbank (Mastercard). In the 1960s th…

Key phrase from the article is "modern generation of insulin". A good overview of the design and effects of the new insulins are here : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.…

http://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-projected-gd... US: $62,152 Japan : $40,849

Fair enough, we should adjust for inflation. From Brookings : "Real median household income grew roughly 1.6 percent in 2018" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/01/31/hou…

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/nonfarm-payrolls-january-201... : On a year-over-year basis, though, [wages] still amounted to a 3.2 percent increase, consistent with the past few …

U.S definitely is not in a recession. https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2019/02/bls-job-openings-... : BLS: Job Openings Increased to Series High 7.3 Million in December . "Profes…