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by everdev 8y ago
If this 3x return is legal, imagine the rush on home loans like this. Mortgage Company A is feeling virtuous and really wants people who can't afford down payments to be able to afford houses too. So, they offer up $300k and simply tak
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The company that hires you pays it, not you.
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> After the program graduates pay 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000, capped at $30,000 total paid back to Modern Labor. Something about taking a cut of someone's salary doesn't feel right to me. I
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Corporate law has lots of grey area, robbing a bank doesn't.
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> "Sorry, but you can't be trusted to make good choices about what you put in your body, so we will make laws that force you to make better choices" How about extending this to ending the war on drugs?
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OK, following that logic then there isn't much money in anything besides business.
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I think the forum matters. Want to insult people and get praised for it? Twitter and Reddit are the place to be. Just like in the real world, some language is appropriate at the library and some is better saved for the bar.
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by everdev 8y ago
> Open Source Doesn't Make Money Because It Isn't Designed to Make Money What? RedHat - $34B MuleSoft - $6.5B Elastic - $5B Cloudera + Hortonworks - $5B Pivotal Software - $4.7B MongoDB - $3.5B
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by everdev 8y ago
No real estate agent I've ever worked with or heard of encourages holding out for a better price. They try to talk you into accepting the fastest close. Time is money and the faster they close on your house the faster they can start se
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I think the down votes are for spouting nonsense instead of having a rational discussion about the article.
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> That level of wealth and success relative to others can only possibly be achieved by luck I bet if you were sitting next to Gates in the 80s and 90s and got to see how many decisions he had to make to achieve what we did, I'd doub
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> Who focuses on cognitive biases in arguments? In poorly written news articles and most social media arguments, there's a trend of identifying the person you disagree with by a catgory like rich / poor, white / black, rad
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> Studying and treating the brain by developing methods to alter conscious states is, I think, going to be a major achievement of the 21st century There's a great book called "Stealing Fire" by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wh
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> Unless it is AGW That's the catch is that even things that have overwhelming scientific consensus are not "settled science". There's always more data to collect and more theories to test. I'm not saying that we
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This is the dirty secret of tech. We're almost all self-learning all the time. By the time it becomes more of a formula than an art, it'll be automated.
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> nobody really knows what they're talking about, paradigms shift, and further study is required People so often miss this. Science is a slow, evolving and never ending process. The day a new study comes out, people want to use it
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> no reason to homeschool in Italy unless you are in a cult or neglect your child heavily Doubling down? I know plenty of kind, loving people who are actively involved in home schooling and are not affiliated with any cult or religion. I
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I don't think HN is the place for judging people you've probably never met.
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Ethiopia minister: ‘Clear similarities’ in Boeing crashes(apnews.com)
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Social media coverage might be plausible, but no way NY Times article today cause an attack half way around the world within 24hrs. Correlation != Causation
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Because it implies that receiving information affects the material world. And communication isn't infallible. What if you kind of hear me and are pretty sure I said 'positive' but not 100% sure? What if you're 50% sure?
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> Wigner can even perform an experiment to determine whether this superposition exists or not. This is a kind of interference experiment showing that the photon and the measurement are indeed in a superposition. From Wigner’s point of vi
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> Abnormally Dry: * Short-term dryness slowing planting, growth of crops * Some lingering water deficits * Pastures or crops not fully recovered Maybe it's a confusing use of the word. I think they might just mean that th
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Timezones can be tricky if you need to interface with US stake holders or customers.
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That by itself is a complex question. Most people consider violent self defense to be OK. People's ability to buy alcohol is a safety risk. Many crimes and fatal accidents involve alcohol. Do we force everyone to stop drinking alcohol?
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There are tons of exceptions though. Most applicably to this conversation speech that can threaten or cause physical harm is not protected. There's the famous example that yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is not protected
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And we used to think Newton knew everything there was to know about gravity until Einstein proposed a new theory. In the marketplace of ideas, some are going to be really, really bad, just like products. But over time they go out of busines
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> Not vaccinating your kids should be classified as a child protection offence (unless there is medical basis from a panel, not one quack). Kids are confiscated, vaccinated and put into state care after one warning Great, once you pass t
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I think a reasonable argument can be made that the books they pulled are entirely about unscientific cures and the Bible is about much more than just the line you quoted.
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Exponentially easier than polling 1% nationally.

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