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by expathacker 8y ago
Seeing as Russia has been a democracy for 25 years, isn't this just absolving the Russian populace of any guilt or responsibility over their choice in government, or the actions of said government?
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by expathacker 8y ago
Could it be that the "greatest generation" were just really bad parents? The men came back from WW2, and then again Korea, completely broken with PTSD"? The boomers didn't deal with nearly as much war as their parents. V
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by expathacker 8y ago
I used to live 2 blocks from Delancey. I had them move me into my apartment, move me out, hired them for two office moves, and they were the labor for the SF-end of a significant datacenter move. Great guys, hard workers. The professio
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by expathacker 8y ago
Sure .. As long as everybody who voted takes their receipt, and is willing to go to the government and demand proof that their vote was counted. Let's see, in the USA you get 54% voter turn-out .. a re-count requiring those receipts sh
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by expathacker 8y ago
> Why are tech billionaires buying up these companies? Just to push their political agenda? To support their political ambitions? To run for office? They obvious aren't doing it to make money. So that Trump supporters can speculate
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by expathacker 8y ago
Last year my iPhone 5 died while on a flight, so I stopped in duty free to buy a new one. I was about to pickup an iphone X when I realized that I couldn't stand it up on it's end and take videos, which I do on a daily basis when
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by expathacker 8y ago
I'm not sure you understood my point. I am actually in agreement with you that we should be looking to the rest of the world for a voting model that works, because I feel that ours is a failure. I am not advocating against voter-id la
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by expathacker 8y ago
> Google invented infantilism of their workers. They invented basic colors, office slides, and office ball pits. They make new employees wear propeller hats. In 1999/2000 I was riding office slides at excite@home[1], and jumping in
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by expathacker 8y ago
Do any of these other countries have the local / state / federal government separation nightmare of the United States, or do they have the same voting standard applied unilaterally for all citizens regardless of location? If not,
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by expathacker 8y ago
Then, can you please clarify for me the wording, "well-regulated militia"? Who does the regulation? How do you quantify "well-regulated" versus "poorly-regulated". Do you have to be part of a militia in order
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by expathacker 8y ago
At my last full-time job, I helped our infra team staged a revolt and some of us threatened to quit when HR announced they had signed up for Equifax's employee verification service about 2 months after Equifax's most recent breach
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by expathacker 8y ago
Fully agreed. I spent most of my life in San Francisco, and the past 5 years living abroad has been eye-opening. Many people move to SF from the 'burbs / New York / Dallas and think that the answer to the housing problem is