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If the US inspections of offshore oil rigs are any indication of our lack of ability to fix things obviously broken, I can't imagine nuclear power plants would be any different, except the risk in a nuclear scenario would be amplified.

Indeed, this does follow a global pattern.


Uh, the gender the person identifies with. That's all.


Then I hardly see how this law changes anything. Can't one identify one's gender fluidly, sometimes including both at times?


No, legally one can't. One can change their legal gender, but one has to decide.


Ah, of course. Thank you for helping me realize what should have been painfully obvious. (but seriously, though, thank you)


Because he can't being denied a position which wasn't legally available for him to have in the first place.


> which wasn't legally available for him to have

That's exactly the problem- you can't create a state law that trumps federal law. The law itself is illegal, it's existence violates gender discrimination laws already.


How about a law that requires a certain percentage of non-black, non-gay people?


Affirmative action what?


Why couldn't you store this in your Plex account, versus on the storage medium?

Everything is routed through Plex's services, seems like you could decouple those two things quite easily while still having full encryption on the cloud storage.

In fact, if Plex really wanted this to succeed, they should have a tool which encrypts the files, synchronizes the files with the cloud provider, and then releases the keys to Plex.


Yea sorry, what i meant was encryption keys should (generally / always) be stored client-side...


It seems this would be under the assumption that the "dark" network is simply disconnected from the "primary" network, if indeed such a thing exists.

One would assume, especially with the measurable loss in gray matter, that these networks are being destroyed and thus couldn't be reconnected even if stimulated to do so.

But perhaps pruning isn't such a binary process and it is these damaged -- but not destroyed -- networks which cause such severe dysfunction.

I'm excited and grateful to the brilliant minds which give hope to so many. A+, would science again.


"If a worker today is employed full time for a full 52-week year at a minimum wage job today, she or he is making $15,080. [...] The average age for these [76 million] workers is 36 years old and they have been in the labor force for an average of 17 years. Only 6 percent of the workers who would benefit from this minimum wage increase are teenagers; i.e., 94 percent are adults."

318M people in the US, 188M above the age of 30. Around 38% of adults (30+) are working for minimum wage and any prospect of having a family would put them below the federal poverty line.

Do we really believe in an environment where 38% of adults shouldn't be afforded the ability to spend time with their child, something every other major-industrialized nation guarantees as a human right?

McDonalds should bear the burden -- I think the $5B in profits last year should allow for a little human decency.

http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/201...


You should not have been voted down for this.

How we value people has a very serious impact on our economics. We wonder about tepid demand? This is one cause of that tepid demand. When people are valued low enough for them to require help to exist and do basic things, they really can't participate in the same economy that desires strong growth year over year.


While I appreciate everything in this list, in addition the the last item, I also want to voice support for your open sourcing this project.

The community would be grateful for your efforts, if that's an available option.

Thanks & all the best!


Can any company survive on their own anymore? Need every one of them be absorbed by already oversized entities?

Vine is nothing without a distribution method, so that kind of acquisition makes sense.

If Facebook turns to Shitbook, I really don't want SoundCloud impacted, because they're unassociated and can thrive independently.


Anybody else notice in their demo video, that the car is pulling to the side of the road to let semi-trucks pass?

Everything aside, that's quite a deceiving field test, considering they aren't simulating any type of normal driving pattern.


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