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Comment · 9 years ago
> I don't believe > bunch of primates

Wow these primates are now at the cognitive level of belief? They are evolving much more rapidly than we expected.

Comment · 9 years ago
if you take out alcohol and cell phones, you've reduced 70-80% of driving related fatalities with those two alone.
Comment · 9 years ago
for one, getting your license could be more than just a formality, and be more rigorous.
Comment · 9 years ago
It was Pfizer that pioneered that, and it's cataloged wonderfully in the book "Overdosed America"
Comment · 9 years ago
don't worry about the downvotes, those of us outside the Valley bubble agree.
Comment · 9 years ago
How do we justify pulling a fetus out of a womb, piece by piece, or by submerging it in poison and then sucking it out, a fetus who without this intervention, 99% of the time would have been a life.

We don't think about it.

Comment · 9 years ago
Ok, we are taxed for the roads and there are some roads that do require you to pay such as toll lanes. Think of Google and facebook as the restaurants and gas stations along the way.
Comment · 9 years ago
Basic income is a pipe dream. We need a new economy.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think he was making a passing joke at the anti-vax crowd
Comment · 9 years ago
If you are going to ask someone to find evidence, I would hope you ask them to find evidence that can even exist.
Comment · 9 years ago
concur on a short term keto diet. I lost basically all my excess body fat. I struggled a little more with the brain fog, buy after doing it for about a month, I was able to get back into healthier habits. I wouldn't recommend it long term unless you have a medical condition that requires it. My nephew had seizures and he switched to ketogenic diet and his epilepsy calmed from multiple episodes a day to maybe one a day.
Comment · 10 years ago
4th law of HN: Whenever Rust is brought up, Go inevitably follows, and vice versa.
Comment · 10 years ago
There are entire mini economies in small rural towns off major interstates that are dependent on the inflow of truck drivers - gas stations, restaurants and diners, parts and tool shops. All these jobs would probably go, too.
Comment · 10 years ago
Putting aside what s ridiculous, downright asinine comparison that was in comparison with our economy now -- what an extremely cold, unempathetic comment. People, lots of people, with families are going to lose their livelihood. Many are advanced in age, and have only known one thing their whole life. We have a responsibility to our fellow neighbor. A 50 year old truck driver is not going to pick up a coding boot camp and get hired as a tech worker, maybe a small handful but it's unrealistic.
Comment · 10 years ago
You just literally said "LUL but Andrew Jackson!" and it sums up basically every Hillary Supporter's defense. It's always "Yeah but _____" and that blank ranges from anything Bush, Colin Powell, Trump, and apparently Andrew Jackson related.

If you could step back and re-read that comment from an objective stance, you can see just how ridiculous it is. How Andrew Jackson has anything to do with anything a modern president would have to face is beyond me. The president today has many more obligations, decisions, power at the push of a button, etc.

Also the irony of your comment as you try to use a president from centuries ago as a reason why Clinton "ain't so bad" -- she too has literally sold a position of power with security clerance to her foundation donor, a man that had absolutely zero business having that sort of security clearance.

I hate to break it to ya my friend, not only is she in the top 10, she's the training model of how to do it. She makes Watergate not look so bad, afterall.

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