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by CamTin 8y ago
Yeah, and we can all hope that those indicators are things like "% of population with secure housing, healthcare, community, and income" and other actual measures of wellbeing, followed closely by actual government policies to pro
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by CamTin 8y ago
It's tough politics for state legislatures to say "fuck you, cities, we're centralizing control in {Austin,Springfield,Albany}". They will essentially only do it if they are fearful of challenges in the next election by
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by CamTin 8y ago
Most state constitutions are relatively simple to amend. Certainly much easier than the U.S. Constitution.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Fun! I highly recommend watching Dan Friedman and William Byrd give their miniKanren conference talk (they've done it a number of times slightly differently) e.g. this one at the "Conj" Clojure convention: https://
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by CamTin 8y ago
Trust in this context means "If I loan you money, how skeptical am I that you'll pay it back?" I can be skeptical for a number of reasons, from the simple notion that I think you are just a crook and have no intention of payi
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by CamTin 8y ago
Another thing to think about with LE at scale, especially if you plan to renew your certs around the same time (rather than staggering them), is to make sure you don't run into rate-limiting problems. In fact, if you have a REALLY majo
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by CamTin 8y ago
This is fantastic! I'll be flashing this on one of my Wemoses tonight!
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by CamTin 8y ago
I mean that I would like the running image I am building in Forth to persist in non-volatile storage (so if I power the device off and back on, the program remains). Is this possible?
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by CamTin 8y ago
One thing I really want for the ESP8266 is REPL-over-WiFi with persistence. MicroPython doesn't seem to have this AFAICT and from the docs Forth doesn't either. Does anybody know of an environment for the 8266 that has a feature l
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by CamTin 8y ago
Outside marketized relationships like boss-underling, employer-employee, and salesman-customer? Pretty much no one who isn't an Adam Sandler villain.
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by CamTin 8y ago
It would be very difficult to wirewrap a board that could support a 486, starting with the fact that I'm not sure wire-wrap sockets exist for it, so you'd either need a breakout or to get one custom-machined. Once you have that, y
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by CamTin 8y ago
This will have 0 effect on baseball, unless you count slightly changing the way baseball video games are produced. It's still a crazy of copyright maximalism at work. It's hard to get worked up about with so many more pressing iss
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. This is what we want to do. If you're currently 18 though, it's too late for you to wait for systemic change. You have to start adult life under the current system, and under that system you have to look out for y
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by CamTin 8y ago
Sure, we all want to be well-educated and conversant in all the sciences, arts, and humanities. Even more than that, we want to be able to feed ourselves and start a family. From an individual perspective, it makes sense to take care of the
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by CamTin 8y ago
IME the idea of "tracks" is totally foreign to most urban school districts. We know about "honors classes" and the "vocational students" from movies, but the whole school system only exists to get students to p
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by CamTin 8y ago
But people don't want "professional services" at all: they want justice for the vendor who ripped them off and skipped town. They want a divorce. They want to make sure that, when they die, their daughter gets the house. They
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by CamTin 8y ago
Right, and this model is itself monstrously inefficient and a result of 19th century (and earlier) modes of production persisting due to the presence of a guild and the absence any reform in the legal system. This is how furniture making an
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by CamTin 8y ago
I should add that this "overhead" is, IMO, a good bit of the reason why other "professional" industries are so intractable to cost reductions, so long term the "professionalization" of programmers is probably b
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by CamTin 8y ago
This. The dominant way software teams are managed seems incredibly bonkers and is not the norm in any other industry I know about. In the "real world", you have a boss, and probably he has a boss and so on. In the software world,
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by CamTin 8y ago
For those that missed it, Infowars' podcast was also recently dropped from iTunes, and several of Jones' pages dropped from Facebook as well. I'm sure there are many people who are looking to see how successful Jones is in su
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by CamTin 8y ago
They're becoming less common, but mechanical automobile (and bicycle) odometers are little mechanical computers of a sort. Baseball and softball umpires (especially for rec leagues, not sure about professional games) often use a "
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by CamTin 8y ago
Except it just makes it more difficult for people to actually own their home. Instead, it raises home prices by forcing people who would otherwise be happy renting in modest apartments or {du,quad}plexes into buying detached single-family h
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by CamTin 8y ago
It was an ad for a bank, not a housing development.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Just today (in Austin) I saw a banner by the road outside a bank offering "100% financing" for homebuyers. If banks breathlessly pitching to lend buyers the entirety of a home's price is not a sign of an overheated debt-led h
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by CamTin 8y ago
I created the not-so-imaginativel-named org-blog ( https://github.com/ctindall/org-blog ), which is not a static generator -- it's a Python daemon that builds pages on the fly -- but it allows you to put all your po
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by CamTin 8y ago
Bake yourself, your pets, and your belongings during the day, and freeze at night, so that the average temperature, which you will experience roughly twice in a day-night cycle, is comfortable?
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by CamTin 8y ago
The actual prosecutor/district attorney often is, but they all have lawyers working for them, except in the tiniest jurisdictions. U.S. Jurisdictions also often have elected judges, so some of the same pressures would apply to them.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Prosecutors might only take those cases, but they're not the ones making arrests. Police are. Once you are already in jail then, under the proposed scheme, the prosecutor's options become 1) let you out (drop charges) and expose t
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by CamTin 8y ago
This has its own potential problems. Prosecutors might be under even more pressure to get convictions or plea bargains, since the alternative, if somebody is already arrested and awaiting trial, is that their bosses (ultimately elected offi
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by CamTin 8y ago
It would discourage people from taking loans, but why would it discourage banks from making them? In fact, higher interest rates would mean that the cost of liquid capital, a bank's main equipment for making money, were suddenly more p

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