JCzynski

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by JCzynski 9y ago
Source? Murder rates didn't drop below trend.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
False. In the UK and Australia it didn't even make mass killings go down.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
His first four claims (plus #11) are just wrong. He's not even addressing the points, let alone rebutting them.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
85% of Catalans wanted the vote to happen.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
It had 90% in favor instead of 80% like the previous one, and got modestly more votes than the separatist parties received in the last regional election. The result is eminently believable.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
I personally favor a weak federal government, somewhere in the vicinity of the Articles of Confederation or EU, which manages military and basic rights, supervening mainly on city-states and with special provision for a different local mode
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by JCzynski 9y ago
City-states are the closest to being self-contained economic units, and having the scope of government match the scope of people's economic lives is a good thing.[Citation Needed] The benefits of large governments - uniform currency, u
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by JCzynski 9y ago
The population of Catalonia has risen 0.1% since that vote (in 2014), and the raw number of Yes votes has risen 5%. If all the Yes voters vote for secessionist parties in the next regional election they will have a majority.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Catalan turnout for last year's national election was 61%. Turnout for the last regional election, two years ago, was 75%. Some of those against stayed home - and no wonder, since casting a vote for something you weren't passionat
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Free speech is not just the right to speak unimpeded by the government, but the right to speak so that you can be heard. (You don't have to be listened to. But people must have the option.) Systematically coordinating to keep speech of
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by JCzynski 9y ago
It is the consistent position of the United States Supreme Court that hate speech is protected free speech.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
>But few really oppose the basic predicate of these removals: that private companies can and should be arbiters of permissible speech on their platforms. I am proud to count myself among those few. Social media is the modern public squar
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by JCzynski 9y ago
No, that would be if P=NP. This is either a proof that P!=NP, or not a valid proof of anything.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Google will never figure out how to do social apps well. They have failed repeatedly to make anything resembling a good social platform, and the one that came anywhere close (Google Chat), they killed and replaced with a succession of morib
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Events is enough to keep people using it, though. Sometimes I think that the only features FB uses internally are events and groups. They're the only parts of the site that do what you want them to do well and intuitively.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Agreed, withdraw-only access is the obvious Right Thing. Could be hard to implement, I guess.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Give BTC a little credit, it's capable of giving you a solid rush and getting you(r bank balance) high. It doesn't always bankrupt you. That's a lot better than you can say of krokodil.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Surveys of the field consistently show a majority expecting less than a century, and people focused on the problem less than 50.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Yup, and it's still looking true about Bitcoin. See: next Tuesday.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Not very; about 10 hours is spent on that with instructors, plus more time practicing it in the form of whiteboard questions. Which means there was a wide variance from most knowledgable to least.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
And the bribes do very little to affect who wins or benefit the bribers when they do. Yawn.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
>Don't get me wrong, most of the skills gap is for capable engineers, and if you understand data structures, algorithms, architecture, memory management, etc. you'll get a job very quickly. We're talking within a week. Emp
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Yes, ICOs are structurally terrible and not sustainable. Ethereum will implode at some point, and some time down the line, three or four major blockchain iterations from now, we'll get something sustainable that can actually be used to
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Bet you $100 that, in 2035, >10% of the cars on the road are level-4 autonomous or higher, and >90% of new cars sold are level-4 autonomous or higher.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Capitalism won't change. It has no reason to; those changes don't affect the underlying processes of the economy, they just change the circumstances and incentives.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Not exactly. It says that "which strategy for growth is best?" has only one answer. Which is true.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
The spam filter is way overzealous. I switched back to unInboxed Gmail after the third time I never got shown an important email and missed an appointment; all three happened within the same month.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Not good. The codebase is a terrible monolith using frameworks long-dead everywhere else, there's poor coordination.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
False. Squelching reviews that are "not relevant" or otherwise flagged, making them not show up unless the list of reviews is expanded to include the described-as-low-quality reviews, and IIRC not being included in the star-rating

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