rickyplouis

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by rickyplouis 6y ago
Slightly tangential, but in Brave New World they trained future embryos to be rocket-plane engineers altering oxygen levels based on their vertical orientation. > The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embyronic rocket-place engin
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
The Block Club is a local non-profit news organization, it seems a bit disingenuous to delegitimize them by calling them a "blog with a pretty transparent agenda". The fact that the mayor is black and lesbian has little to do with
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
For some some petty crimes (running red lights, not socially distancing, etc..), all neighborhoods actually commit them at a fairly consistent rate, but it is not enforced consistently. For instance, here in Chicago it is common to find peo
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
Thought it would be relevant but a few years back California was also in the news for building a gang database of children as young as one year old (for which they've since acknowledged as a mistake). https://www.cbsnews.com
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
These types of tools seem excellent for prototyping, but always fall short in addressing the real world issues of increasing scope and maintainability. No code web development (Wordpress, and Squarespace) has largely thrived due to blogs an
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
If this were a chrome extension, I'd be down.
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
Does end to end encryption help when it's known that much of the traffic is routed through China? Genuine question.
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
I agree, he does not believe it to be dangerous. That's kind of my point. He does not believe it to be dangerous, but many of his readers and even black journalists have acknowledged it is. At this point you either accept that black jo
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
Before reading this I had a feeling it was related to the James Bennet situation at the Times. I've been following the narratives unfolding around news rooms and I would offer this article as a counter narrative to the one being portra
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
I agree to an extent. I'm one of those people that believes corporations are more likely to function and government intervention is likely to deepen disfunction. However, I don't share the same laissez faire attitude that many sha
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
I often see many people show immediate solidarity with Amazon as soon as the ideas of anti-trust or monopoly are brought up. If the government is allowed to break up a large corporation then where does it stop? Will they come after my small
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Show HN: Carrot – Lightweight Dividend Tracking App(thecarrot.app)
2 points by rickyplouis 6y ago|1 comments
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
Hey Y'all, my name's Ricardo and I spent the past couple of months building The Carrot App. Like many others I started off with a spreadsheet for tracking dividend income, but soon found it too cumbersome to keep up with. I looked
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Ask HN: Is the omission of politics a political stance?
6 points by rickyplouis 6y ago|12 comments
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
As already repeated here, unionize or find someone with the leadership capable of leading one. As an individual you may not have much power, but a group of AWS engineers collectively unionizing and protesting within the company is a powerfu
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
The industrial revolution was a period of unprecedented growth for our country and the world as a whole. It ushered in a new era, built immense fortunes, and led to the creation of critical infrastructure that we still use hundreds of years
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by rickyplouis 6y ago
Credit is due to anyone willing to sacrifice, no matter how small, for the voiceless and underrepresented.