Evbn

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by Evbn 14y ago
Define "merit" and whether such a thing is desirable to me. I don't have much love for a cockroach's merit.
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by Evbn 14y ago
How about democracy ? Meritocracy doesn't mean merit gets paid (that's free markets or whatever), it means merit rules .
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by Evbn 14y ago
Hedge fund managers are heavily overlapping with the upper middle class.
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by Evbn 14y ago
POI: UWisc has 4x the population of Harvard, so it isn't really on par on an odds ratio. I expect similar class size differences for the other state vs Ivy schools.
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by Evbn 14y ago
That is why you should spend $15/yr for a domain name for yourself or your family.
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by Evbn 14y ago
That is neither dishonest nor down standing, that is them annoyingly not doing business with someone.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Aka, the <fuckyou> tag, which is the standard for declaring that the designer cares more about how it looks on their own machine than letting readers consume the content
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by Evbn 14y ago
Too many nested critiques of refutations of theories for a novice to make sense of that article.
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by Evbn 14y ago
People will find plenty of ways to kill each other before the Earth's resources are exhausted. We have a billion year energy supply and raw materials are never lost, only converted from one form to more annoying forms.
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by Evbn 14y ago
That is backwards. Inflation helps debtors, punished capital holders, and is irrelevant to hand-to-mouth wage earners. Price inflation only hurts wage earners when it is coupled with flat nominal wages-- but that is merely a (too powerful)
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by Evbn 14y ago
Yeah, there is nothing stopping "bytecoins" if early bitcoin holders hoard too much. Same as with dollars and bankers. As long as the system produces more value than the barons seize, people will get value from the system.
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by Evbn 14y ago
On a macro scale, hoarding money stops the economy, as people no longer produce and consume. If you thing sitting in an empty room counting bit coins is better than buying caviar or plane travel or curing malaria or whatever, then hoarding
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by Evbn 14y ago
It separates (theoretically, as it can't be measured) the price change due to faith-in-currency from price change due to market forces on the products. That is, the price of good may fluctuate as function of how much current labor you need
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by Evbn 14y ago
Eventually, those suppliers of unwanted goods will stop supplying, and prices will start to rise as demand drops, reversing the deflation.
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by Evbn 14y ago
You are severely miscategorizing real estate. Look at what happened in the 2000s bubble. Property was flipping with no value adds, and even with added wear and tear. Buying desert property today and selling it for profit in 10 years when th
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by Evbn 14y ago
That rules of thumb is arbitrary attempt to make code more like fancy English. Why is "connection" OK but "connecter" bad?
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by Evbn 14y ago
Yeah, Manager is a "code smell", but not a showstopper. Good workers don't need much managers.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Unambiguous syntax is also a hard problem, it now appears.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Specifically, what is the class doing with those pools? "Managing" is vague.
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by Evbn 14y ago
You mean "pool connections" not "manage connections".
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by Evbn 14y ago
Don't give that coder a Manager class. Coders hate managers.
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by Evbn 14y ago
FYI it is a Maps app feature, no an iOS Maps app feature.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Right, but sometimes the fingers rotate unintentionally before zooming (or separate on an arc)
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by Evbn 14y ago
Don't know if you were just playing, but that is great.
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by Evbn 14y ago
What is the value of sharing articles that repeat the obvious without explanation?
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by Evbn 14y ago
The headline explicitly states causation.
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by Evbn 14y ago
And this is why debating words is idiotic, when we should be debating ideas.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Sshh. Benefits that I get are human rights. Benefits that other people get care socialism.
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by Evbn 14y ago
The article makes the plausible claim (but perhaps incorrect) that Dakota is tapping less than 1% of the addressable market, and has shown a sustainable MVP. The cancer example does not have these qualities.
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by Evbn 14y ago
Not quite, socialism has been redefined to mean state involvement in the general public's consumers' economic lives at economy at all. (Shoveling money to small private organizatons is the "non-socialist" economic function of government. Th

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