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1) I believe free speech has it's limits, like shouting "fire" in a theater. I was rejecting your statement that "telling people not to swear" is morally equivalent to "swearing". …

I encourage you to read the wikipedia article on the settlement of the Americas, mostly because it's fun[0]. The landbridge theory has its supporters, but what's really interesting…

1) put another way, people against profanity are trying to control what other individuals say. People into the right to be profane are expressing their freedom to swear. 2) I canno…

This is good! It sucks as a learner. But for science and progress of knowledge, it provides an inefficient but lacks-false-positives mechanism. It sucks for Liebniz, but was a posi…

They have banners, search ads, content ads, and native advertising. Some of their inventory is served by bing, so if you use both bing adcenter and yahoo/gemini, you may be competi…

You are correct. However, the sites that do the overkill of a sticky header tend to also have poorly thought out site navigation and user experiences. Let's say on a normal site, k…

The cost of the skimmer is insignificant, but the labor to replace it adds friction and is going to reduce the number of active skimmers. To replace the removed skimmer will also e…

Ensuring that skimmers need to evolve frequently is a valid counter-strategy because it increases their cost of goods stolen.

This assumes the police have competency, concern, and resources.

It's not necessarily punitive (although it could be), but they will unlikely receive similar negotiating advantages as they did before.

Except previously it was negotiating with a number of smaller entities. Now it will be negotiating with a block of them. The UK just willingly decreased their leverage so they had …

Exactly. It's leverage, not abuse. What's the difference? Eye of the beholder. Regardless of judgement, you have to look at leverage. That's what really matters in terms of outcome…

Sorry to jump in uninvited... but that's what HN is. I think you're mischaracterizing the situation. Perspective 1: UK is breaking up with the EU, not vice-versa. P2: EU gets some …

I have no idea what your original comment is referring to, but from my perspective you just lost the game of "let's not appear completely insane in front of strangers." That's an i…

Parent's "a few cents" and what I pay in SoCal for a can of beans ($1.40 regular price; $0.99 on sale) indicate a different scope. You project a 1:3 ratio. Cheaper estimates of chi…

If you are not a US immigration attorney, which your profile does not seem to indicate once I traced through a couple github profiles, you should probably resist the urge to be a t…

You have repeatedly c/p this answer in this thread. I apologize if this comes off as rude, but why are you doing that? What is your experience or qualifications to provide such adv…

As a US citizen an HN community member, this super sucks. What is the likelihood that someone is deported within a 5-10 year period for having an app on the iOS/Android stores, pro…

I'm not sure if you saw this other thread, but I thought it answered one of your questions so was worth sharing. Sounds like Aurora wasn't stable when this migration began, so they…

FWIW, the US Government's regulations for civil service workers (civilians working for the federal gov't) are pretty strict, and are often used as a basis for private companies. (E…

That's a pretty specific set of situational criteria by which to evaluate the head of a company that does a whole lot of different things.

IANAL but suspect disparagement is defined in such a way that a corporation's attorneys could prove this type of comment caused harm to the company, and thus meets the definition.

How do you see the timeframe effecting wear and tear on a car? (In a general situation, I mean; not necessarily down a dirt road every day.) Take 2 cars. They each drove 70k miles;…

isnt age a protected class?

Seems reasonable, seeing as age is a protected class.