BearGoesChirp

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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
There is a dead comment here that I think raises an interesting question (even if perhaps not in the most appropriate way). When dealing with electronic goods, where do we draw the line with theft. Even in video games, electronic goods do
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Should be pretty easy to do in C# as well. private int _a; public int a { get { _a++; return _a;}}
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
People are going to goof at a certain rate. We need to design systems to withstand at least some rate of goofing. We wouldn't get rid of seat belts and just tell people to not goof. Sometimes the goofing is criminally negligent, som
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>Unless you can tell at a glance that a firearm is not in a ready-to-fire state Chance you are actually able to say that vs. chance you made a mistake in reasoning that conclusion? Still not a bet worth taking.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
> In what world is this ethical? How many people would be willing to let someone else do their job for them when the cost is adding a little extra bias, something that isn't even a big deal in a single case (but which adds up over t
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Should I be ashamed of how quickly I considered this solution? It would be quite wasteful, but oh so lazy.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Why are we so certain it does? It has certain properties that give it some value. Maybe that value is much much less than the current price and maybe there will be competition that is better in every way, but is there not some small intri
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>They can either accept the fees that are available or not. Couldn't the same be said of a brick and mortar store? They either accept the offers they are given or they don't. That for some item they only accept offers of exac
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>If something is a rule then the majority decided it should be that way. Few systems are direct democracies. Isn't it more likely the people decided the rule maker should be who the rule maker is (or makers are) and the rule maker(
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I was more just thinking about how political actions/will/impacts can be simulated as a second resource in an economy much like how we simulate money. Think simulation/exploration/explanation of the idea, not recommenda
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>They're not "lowering their fee". So a miner will never reduce the cost to include a transaction into their block, even when they aren't getting enough to fill up the block? >They might stop mining altogether Mayb
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
And economics can easily account for that. Instead of saying the cost needed to product some number of blocks changes over time by 0, you instead say it changes over time by f(t). You then subtract f(t) (or add, depending upon how you tre
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
When energy becomes cheaper, miners can do more mining, leading to an increase in blocks. Given that people are only willing to pay so much for a transaction to complete, there is only so much demand at a certain price point. Once the sup
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I wonder, if you count agents in a market economy as having not just money to spend making rational purchases, but also political power as a sort of alternate currency (represented by a vote each), is NIMBY really a rational market reaction
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Then allow me to fill in the gaps. >What masses of historical evidence? This is a question in response to the GPs post that: >>masses of historical evidence >The ones that show that being a male has long been a major disadvantag
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
We seem to be making distinctions based on some concept of free will. What happens if we view ill people as having no free will? Is it really any more wrong to deny the alcoholic high priority on the liver transplant list than to deny som
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I find the best way to explain it is to apply the concepts to something other than classical wealth. Do it to something like relationships, and people insist that for anything that isn't classical wealth the market should be strongly
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Oh, I thought it was something depending upon getting a certain rep and I hadn't hit it yet. Thanks.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Grandparent has been deleted and I can't see it, so I'm not sure what their post was, so I'm aiming this response in more at the terms being used and their underlying meaning. >When people try to explain why you're co
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>The same problem exists with children. I feel like the problem is worse with children due to them having a developing brain, where the impacts of medication can have impacts into changing the very person taking them. I am especially co
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>You can’t keep them around and feed them fake intel on drug deals so they waste their time. Any relevant case law on this? Lying to the police isn't allowed, but lying to some new guy at the bar is legal, regardless of your suspic
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>how much morality versus how much immorality Morality and legality are both very subjective, either to the person or to the legal system.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
When a lawyer tells someone to not talk to the cops, are they doing anything wrong? Because the lawyer is basically asking 'what can I do to stop a lawful interrogation'. Does this change if the person is suspected of having pot
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>choosing to avoid adding people to your team who have expressed opinions that make the workplace hostile to other employees But are you adding other people making other statements which make the workplace hostile to other individuals?
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>I've heard smart people say bitcoin will plummet because it has no intrinsic value. Well of course it doesn't! It's a currency. Currencies are an abstraction for value. Currencies have certain values as currency. This in
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>people whom fate is much worse, IMHO This is such a hard call to make, because the more severe the autism, the harder it is to know how happy they are. Perhaps the person who is totally into trains who spends their entire day playing w
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I feel like autistic adults are never given similar attention to autistic children. My person (and poorly informed) opinion is that the main driving factor is that autistic adults don't have advocates for themselves like autistic chil
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>When has this ever not been true? In the past before child abuse became seen as a big deal. Granted, if you hurt the child of some wealthy/powerful individual it was considered bad, but children of the poor, and especially childre
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
65 years ago is after the change happened. Part of the problem is I'm talking so long ago that everyone who only knew that reality. Maybe we could look at some place overall isolated from the rest of the world where child mortality t
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
All the people talking about being unable to handle/comprehend the death of their child, and especially the one line of conversations about the impact of losing one child when you have many more, made me think about something. For mos

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