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drakonandoron India has a hole where its middle class should be

I think the whole point of cooking for yourself is so you can get better at it.. The first few times you cook an omelette, it might suck, the Denny's $4 breakfast might be better, but it won't take long for you to surpass that point.

drakonandoron Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily

There's always a big looter/violence problem during disasters like this, and it's difficult for police/security to do their jobs at normal efficiency.

drakonandoron The new study suggesting sitting will kill you is kind of a raging dumpster fire

Does the author think people usually stand to drink soda?

drakonandoron How do self-taught developers get jobs? (2016)

You wouldn't wonder what he's been doing for the last 5 years?

drakonandoron Lessons from last week’s cyberattack

How many times do people need to be told that XP machines should not be connected to the internet, especially if they're not keeping up with patches?

drakonandoron Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

They've been told for years to get off XP. They weren't paying MS to keep it updated. The exploit was patched months ago. Why were these machines even on the internet?

I'd say the NHS is far more at fault than anyone else here.

drakonandoron The Boring Company [video]

Learning what strategies don't work well is being a productive member of society.

drakonandoron Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal

Taking the job leading a sinking ship was a pretty big risk.

drakonandoron McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)

Does trash really have a $ value? ;)

drakonandoron Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

You are wrong. The law permits denial of boarding in the event of oversold flights, however, the passenger was already boarded and the flight was not actually oversold.

drakonandoron Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents

Is Seneff an expert on whatever sub-field of biology this is?

drakonandoron Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident

Except we have tons of video, witness statements, responses from UA PR, and the CEO doing the old public "very sorry!, trying to contact the victim now and make ammends"/private "this guy is immature and beligerant!" positions.

drakonandoron Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

How about the one whom he was banned for "harassing"?

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/463074782205190144 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/440339119239991296 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/504060745026637825 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/169001733417213952 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352

drakonandoron Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say

> What is the right-wing equivalent of SNL?

Bullied off the air long ago. Remember people tried to get people like Thiel fired from FB for daring to donate campaign funds to a mainstream candidate.

drakonandoron Ask HN: Has anyone at Google worked on Google Finance in the past 7 years?

Someone has as they did close down the app at some point a few years ago.

drakonandoron Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber

WSJ definitely has the power to ruin your reputation overnight, even if you don't deserve it. You could not do the same to them.

drakonandoron Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber

His content has always been on the "R rating" side and is not intended for children. If showing some people holding up a silly side is the first thing that offended your sensibilities, you haven't been paying attention.

drakonandoron How Peter Thiel Got New Zealand Citizenship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_refugee_p...

NZ is small I know, but it's not like they're some refugee haven standing bright.

drakonandoron How Peter Thiel Got New Zealand Citizenship

Billionaires are people too. It shouldn't be any surprise that countries let in people who are an asset financially faster than they would let in people who are a burden.

drakonandoron LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft

Getting punched in the face or losing your wallet is a bit less traumatizing than sexual assault perhaps...

drakonandoron Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits

Less than 25% of Hawaii is ethnically native.

drakonandoron How Deutsche Bank Made a $462M Loss Disappear

Everyone does the same thing in their personal lives.

"% chance of getting in trouble if I punch this asshole in the face?"

"% chance of getting a speeding ticket if I go 15 above?"

drakonandoron Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

Might not be explicitly legal, but chances are it'd go like this:

Police: Sir, do you know what speed you were going?

Driver: Yes, my wife is in the back and she's about to go into labor.

Police: Let me turn on my lights and escort you to the hospital!

drakonandoron Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims

and, you know, the US Tourist / Student / Work Visa system..

drakonandoron Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims

> * to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.

We already have this, as the foreigners Trump is referring to have to get US Travel Visas. Obviously we know their country of origin. Anyone paying attention at all knows Trump's current plan is keeping a close eye on all visitors and immigrants (allowed in) from countries with large anti-western terrorism contributions - which happens to of course coincide with some Islamic-majority countries.

The whole article and 'pledge' is anti-Trump fluff.

drakonandoron Waymo: Google's self-driving car company

Manual overrides (or 'defensive' mode) needs to be available. Or carjackers will simply be able to stand in the road and wait.

drakonandoron Waymo: Google's self-driving car company

Who says it has to?

drakonandoron Latin America is set to become a leader in alternative energy

Don't wind turbines have minor effects on climate because of the wind they slow down?

drakonandoron Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters

They were abusing what system? Having a popular sub that people like to upvote posts on?

drakonandoron Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

Lithuania, another NATO country which contributes about half of what they're supposed to to the collective defense.