calvinmorrison

And at the same time doctors have accepted a code of ethics and have used thier better knowledge to help the people they serve At some point science and the doctoral profession separates, you're …

I would love to be a test case on it, I am not in a position. I'd be extremely interested for a company who doesn't operate in the EUs being brought to court and what other countries are wi…

Has the EU sued and won against any company who is not located in the EU?

If my city were owned by its residents, were its shareholders, it would be an abysmal stock to hold. Philadelphia is 400+ years old. If we had just put away 1% a year of our budget into a endowment, w…

Right, it's a corporation worried about market share, not some open source project that random hackers contribute to.

I own a Saab with a Ford engine! It's actually a V-4, two on each side, and it was most widely used to power skidsteers and industrial water pumps and the like. Saab didn't have the engineer…

How much do you think the Debian non-profit makes per year? What about ArchLinux? How many full time developers are paid by the Linux Foundation? It's funny, their budget is much smaller than fi…

> Revenue (per year) >2014 $420 million >2015 $420 million >2016 $520 million >2017 $562 million >2018 $436 million I'm sorry, it's just laughable that you need $500 m…

Why is that a tinfoil hat? https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/u-s-still-hasn-t-... …

unfortunately HN, reddit, etc fill those pleasure centers of the brain that also are rewarded by doing work. Or as my grandmother reflected on her first husband, who she divorced upon realizing he was…

"Some of this bias may be for good intentions (allowing less fertile couples to conceive) while some may have questionable outcomes (selection based purely on socioeconomic status)." First l…

I rented a U-Haul recently to pick up furniture. I reserved a 1/2 truck online. Upon arriving I entered the office and said I had a reservation. He then asked me to fill out a form on my phone. T…

The benefit of the internet is that for niche subjects you can always find friends. The stupid part of social media is that many of those niche groups ended up using facebook/twitter/etc as …

I ditched all my social media after being a lifelong user. The biggest noticeable change for me is I suddenly forgot most of these random 'online' friends and don't think about them at …

The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat.

Remember when microsoft had antitrust suits for the mere bundling of explorer? And how how much less nefarious that was!

This is absolutely the coolest thing I have seen so far this year. They have more videos where individual works explain how the work from a call center operator to a machinist journeyman!

And differences can be a magnitude apart living in different parts of the state! I live in a major east coast city, where a small rowhome in my neighborhood is 200k+ in good condition. new houses in t…

> The other side believes government cannot be improved because government itself is per se bad. I agree - it's clear that the social democrats and other leftists would clearly like to remove …

The less effective the status quo is, the more willing people are to try radical approaches, be it technology, politics, dieting, etc. In my own small world of political banter, the number of people w…

Well met > Franklin Roosevelt’s words of November 4,1938, are worth recalling:I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move for-ward as a living force, seeking day a…

A giant submarine lair would be rather cool, I suppose. Turns out the real 'Bond Villians' in our world prefer to get stuff done through legal and boring channels like market manipulation (M…

> I think the EU would have loved that. "The EU" entirely depended on Google not doing that. And by that I mean the bureaucracy and other apparatjik - not the people. Had Google literally…

I have always promised myself that if I become a billionare, I will simply stop providing services to municipalities or countries that create arbitrary laws that make it hard or difficult to do busine…

I think something similar existed in Alaska. I had relatives up in south east Alaska ( the chain of islands that hang down, with cities like Juneau, Ketchican. While visiting we were shepherded around…

"lethal weapon loaded with the most damaging kind of ammunition on other people." I mean clearly you though it mattered, so I was telling you why people prefer scary sounding hollow point am…

I think you're misinformed. People use hollow points to reduce over-penetration that occurs with a FMJ bullet

My home town and my cohort. AMA.

The #1 all time human tool has got to be a piece of software called "Microsoft Excel". Not to far down that list is probably Lotus Notes

except, Twitter?