kghose

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by kghose 11y ago
Hey angrybits! My original plan was to spin my HN score counter down to zero by making true and blunt statements about the drivel posted on this site (which would, natch, be down voted). Communication to me from a person identifying as a mo
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by kghose 11y ago
Aww, you took a news item about Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh and put in a comment about gender politics in the US south. This is sure to get up-voted, because you know, Amerika is bad. But just to be sure, you put in 'I may get
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by kghose 11y ago
I always thought Buddhism was an off-shoot of Hinduism - a kind of cleaned up version by the Buddha, who was born Hindu.
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by kghose 11y ago
But it serves to show Amerika in a bad light, which pays the bills. The rest is just detail.
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by kghose 11y ago
They are all at least a generation behind the US technologies.
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by kghose 11y ago
Are there any French companies worth spying on?
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by kghose 11y ago
How do we know its not a fake?
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by kghose 11y ago
"Rich people in the West, they have not touched dead bodies, fresh wounds, rotten things" 1. Grandma's funeral. You stole her glasses. Tee Hee. Boy was she cold. 2. Soccer. But you bit the other guy too. 3. That sandwich in t
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by kghose 11y ago
Yes, as far as I know the lottery is independent of anything else, but you should check the USCIS website and consult an immigration lawyer. Be careful with the lawyer: try and get one through a recommendation of someone you trust who has u
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by kghose 11y ago
1. You can apply for permanent residency under the extraordinary individual or highly qualified individual (if you have a specialty profession e.g. STEM) 2. Academic and non-profit jobs don't have a cap. You could take such a position
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by kghose 11y ago
Superman can do it.
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by kghose 11y ago
I think it is too low, for a person of your experience and past salary history and the responsibilities that you will be taking on.
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by kghose 11y ago
I doubt all Europeans are as sanctimonious.
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by kghose 11y ago
Use FedEx Kinko's. Wear a baseball cap and sunglasses when you go in.
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by kghose 12y ago
If you have a competent lawyer, not even a high powered one, a jury of your peers will be convinced that is indeed bullshit. The problem, of course, is all the other shit you've done, which HN types think is ok, like running a drug sit
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by kghose 12y ago
Because, as we all know, politics plays no part in faculty hiring, and who you know, who your advisor was, who your drinking buddies were, have no bearing on those decisions, and it is all dependent solely on the objective merits of your wo
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by kghose 12y ago
Is there a pointer to the other algorithms?
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by kghose 12y ago
I find that owning a house gives me my weekly fix of wanting to build and fix things.
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by kghose 12y ago
We have those in the US. They are called good school districts.
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by kghose 12y ago
>Many males as they get older become more lovable and more pleasent to be around because of natural hormone declines. Is your medical practice anecdote based too?
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by kghose 12y ago
My view would be to tone down the media hype. To get the message out in proportion to the evidence for it rather than in proportion to the size of the PR department of the university.
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by kghose 12y ago
Welcome to Democracy! :) As long as you can make fun of the politicians and not go to jail, things are nominal.
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by kghose 12y ago
Please don't feed the trolls.
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by kghose 12y ago
So, my solution to this has been to go back to paper. I switched to a text file for a few years thinking that it would be more convenient, backup-able and I would be encouraged to write more. After I switched to the paper journal I remember
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by kghose 12y ago
They did it first! :)
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by kghose 12y ago
Also has a song about it (kind of) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvTv-I2Y390
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by kghose 12y ago
> I can't think of a single argument as to why you would want to hide this valuable learning experience from your kids. To avoid financial information being compared between families. This already happens via secondary signals, like
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by kghose 12y ago
And I made the same argument as you! :) Practically speaking, whenever communism or some flavor of it was tried in scale they ended up running a large monopolar corporation, which they called "the state". It was state capitalism b
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by kghose 12y ago
That, sir, is a grown up attitude, and has no place here on Hackernews.
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by kghose 12y ago
I'm not sure anyone tried a really Marxist society on any scale. I think the hippie communes were getting there. Any communist/marxist country (basically any country with the word "Democratic" in its name) was basically

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