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This should have (1992) added to the title. Still interesting. What tipped me off was this observation: There are over 2300 typefaces available today.
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And Then They Came for Me – A Posthumus Letter from a Murdered Journalist (2009)(thesundayleader.lk)
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I don't see much support for these claims. He's been in office for two months, so we lack any real data and can't make claims about his impact. Almost certainly, the prior government (President and Congress) has much more imp
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@dang, @mods: I don't care about this one comment, and obviously HN is your forum and you can score things however you want. However, please let us know your policies so that commenters can willingly follow them and so that they don&#x
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Often discussed outside HN, but almost never heard here: Many are investing in his relationship with President Trump. At least two major investment banks [0][1][2] advised their clients of it and many other observers and investors think so
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> Mormons try harder to keep on the straight and narrow because their religion is less authentic - it's made up by a couple of PT Barnum types This would be outrageous to day about Jews, Lutherans, Muslims ... Mormons are not a spe
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> "Threatened US default over debt ceiling" as I recall both parties play chicken with the economy to get their stuff passed Can you name something similar the Democrats have done? As I remember it, nothing like it had ever bee
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Isn't the obvious solution to ban personal phones, or personal apps, at work? It's not hard.
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> A big reason more and more Wall Street types have turned to messaging apps is because they are tired of having every written word -- work-related or not -- ingested into vast, Big Brother-like databases ... I'm tired too.
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> don't know if that counts as "conviction." It does according to the standard I intended, FWIW. I don't think you can be sentenced if you aren't found guilty.
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Hey, that's a great page that I never imagined existed. I stand corrected; plenty of Cabinet secretaries were convicted, as well as 8 federal judges in 30 years (and therefore I assume many more in history). Still, only one VP (Agnew,
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It's a nice gotcha, but Flynn isn't an attorney and is known for saying many crazy things even in his field of expertise.
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Has the United States ever convicted someone on the level of National Security Advisor (i.e., effectively a member of the cabinet, such as Secretary of Defense), or even put them on trial? Petraeus got a slap on the wrist, but for actions w
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> Does SpaceX have any real competitors in the private sector? They do, such as Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and others I can't think of off the top of my head. However, Musk appears to have a major advantag
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Excellent reading about why you should consider Algo, the ideas behind it, and why commercial VPNs don't do what you hope: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/12/12/meet-algo-the-vpn-th... Note that Algo i
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Great point, though let's not assume 100% effectiveness for offsets.
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> The biggest externality of coal in particular is not carbon emissions but the massive health costs and human suffering The carbon emissions cause climate change, which causes human suffering at a scale, as I understand it, far beyond t
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> Microsoft did cut the price of Windows to get people to adopt it early on because they would be making so much money from Office If that's true (and that's not my understanding) they did it to gain marketshare and maximiz
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Agreed, but how do you see that applying in this situation? Privacy regulations apply either to all competitors or none.
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Agreed, and we should add the far greater costs of climate change.
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> the same thing (externalising the cost of their downsides) happens with nuclear energy. / So if anything, they're equally terrible in that regard. That isn't true. There are externalities for both, but the externalities
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I'm not sure what you mean. We do establish the costs for carbon. In some countries you (or major users) must buy a permit to emit carbon. Some establish the maximum carbon the environment can handle, then auction permits, establishing
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> pretty much every major builder of nuclear plants outside of China are in trouble and/or downsizing/restructuring in big ways. The proximate cause AFAIK is lack of demand, which depends on politics, which depends on public pe
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> Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable? It's a very important point; this false argument is often used. In truth, in the marketplace, go
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> How about ads with privacy? They are not mutually exclusive. Mozilla attempted this on the Firefox home page. Nobody understood the point (partly Mozilla's fault for poor messaging) and it was roundly criticized for putting advert
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> you could hack a personal history report out of Google Analytics It's interesting that many businesses (and probably governments) have better access to a user's browsing history than the user.
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"best" is relative; what is better, that can scale up sufficiently to meet the world's energy demand? Perhaps renewables can scale up, but last I heard that wasn't realistic on the time scale humanity needs. Does anyone
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The risks from fossil fuels are orders of magnitude greater.
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> it seems the real reason, as in all things, is economics The economics might be different if we paid for the real cost of carbon-based energy, instead of imposing that cost on the world as an externality.
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> nuclear power is possibly the most attacked form of energy that exists, and that includes coal and petroleum, both of which are still heavily used despite any public outcry It's interesting that the fossil fuels do far more harm,

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