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by Lazare 7y ago
> The tone of the article was very much about the 5k being a ridiculous expense. I did not detect that tone at all. Rather, I interpreted it as surprise that Reitz spent $5k of a fundraiser very explicitly earmarked as being "to su
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by Lazare 7y ago
Someone very close to me has been diagnosed with a similar condition. I have a world of sympathy and compassion for people going through that sort of challenge. However...she would be the first to agree that a diagnosis is not an excus
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by Lazare 7y ago
I don't think this is about the amount . Allegedly, Reitz: 1) Knew about a feature a volunteer was working on 2) Started a fundraiser for the feature 3) Kept all the money Maybe $30k is peanute, but I'd have grave con
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by Lazare 7y ago
It wasn't really mentioned in the linked article, but at the start of the year there was a lot of very heated discussion about Python, packaging, Pipenv, what was (and wasn't) an "official" packaging tool, etc. See, for
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by Lazare 8y ago
It's amazing that there's typhus cases in the US at all, but it's hardly an epidemic outside of fevered media reports. Meanwhile in Venezuela: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb
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by Lazare 8y ago
> By your snipping Puerto Rico, I presume you agree with that one. Absolutely not; I'm just less familiar with it, and so less able to judge arguments about it. As for your links, that's not remotely on the same scale as what
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by Lazare 8y ago
> I also see worse images of greater desperation coming from Los Angeles, San Francisco I...don't really think you do, no.
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by Lazare 8y ago
I mean, it's great that you thrived and didn't cause any huge issues as you got up to speed but uh... ...surely we can all agree that this is highly sub-optimal right? > My team races at a million miles per hour, and frankly
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Didn't Liberace sue a newspaper for libel when they said he was gay... and then win. Yes. However, then as now, the truth is an absolute defence to a claim of defamation. Had they shown that Liberace was gay, they'd have wo
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by Lazare 8y ago
A lot of places have a tax on houses, but that doesn't mean the house is paying the tax. :) Ultimately corporate taxes come out of the pockets of owners (via lower profits), workers (via lower wages), and customers (via higher price
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by Lazare 8y ago
> With respect to Matt Levine, the exact opposite is true. You may want to re-read what he wrote then, because you're literally just restating what he said. He even covered the history of the tax break, noting, as you did, that the
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by Lazare 8y ago
The US police system has, and expects, a high degree of police militarisation. It's simple expected that, in the case of a report of violence, weapons, or drugs, that the police department will dispatch a large group of very heavily
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by Lazare 8y ago
> You're missing the point, people from middle class housing wont be able to move into luxury housing, most people don't have the means to do so. By the time they move into it, it won't be "luxury housing". Chan
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by Lazare 8y ago
On the face of that, this seems like a nonsensical objection. In my view, obviously "middle class housing" is just "average quality housing"; as more luxury homes are built, existing housing stock will start to be consid
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by Lazare 8y ago
> But it has little to do with the main concerns that the students tried to voice (without being listened to). I mean, they certainly seem to have been listened to by Christakis. And it certainly seems like their concern is, in fact, ad
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by Lazare 8y ago
Driving it through FDA trials does though. We've set up a system where we don't let new drugs hit the market unless someone spends billions on testing. That's...mostly good? I guess? But there's no way ketamine will e
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by Lazare 8y ago
Some studies suggested that the enantiomer they chose was slightly better at driving the effect people thought was causing the anti-depressive effect. Unfortunately, newer studies suggest that 1) that effect isn't responsible for the
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Elastic [...] started developing new features under a proprietary license [...]. The idea was to prevent their work from benefiting a competitor. [...] Elastic is the rare company that truly is committed to open source (at least at the
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by Lazare 8y ago
The title does this post a misservice. This is way, way more interesting than you might think, and I highly recommend following the link and reading the whole thing.
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by Lazare 8y ago
My impression is the community is mostly accepting, but some are taking a wait and see attitude until they can see it in production. I don't think there's a lot of concern about hook ordering; it's hard to see that being a se
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by Lazare 8y ago
It was puzzling. I suppose the argument isn't that the assumption was factually wrong, but morally wrong?
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Shouldn't the burden of proof should be on Forrester's model to prove that it is true? That's not really how models work. A model is a prediction about how the world works; you can't prove them true. Even if my mo
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yes. Models are basically programs, and GIGO absolutely applies: Garbage In = Garbage Out. :)
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by Lazare 8y ago
The article was interesting; I'd never heard of Forrester before. What I found interesting though, is the fact that the article never seemed to get into the question of whether he was right . Is that because the author considered it
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by Lazare 8y ago
Good theory. That totally could be an issue. Maybe sex work is like ivory, and not like, I dunno, all the other jobs human beings do! Or maybe not. Luckily, we can check NZ, since they legalised sex work, and research has since been do
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by Lazare 8y ago
Decriminalisation means relaxing the penalties so you get a civil fine, not a criminal charge. Jaywalking may get you a ticket, but it doesn't make you a criminal. Many people advocate for the decriminalisation of many drugs, includi
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Consensual sex work is mentioned, my perception is I would be more interested in data than one person's subjecting perception. > I hear of no stories where people have found happy and fulfilled lives as prostitutes One of the m
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yeah. The article is accurate, and it's horrifying. It's nonsensical, harmful, and is, literally, killing people. Worse, I don't really...see...a fix? The people being hurt by this are the least powerful and most vulnerabl
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by Lazare 8y ago
A procedural win would be if Musk can convince a court that they don't have jurisdiction (eg, the diver should have sued somewhere else), or that there's some other reason to throw the suit out. I believe his lawyers were recently
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by Lazare 8y ago
The amusing thing about Musk is, assuming he loses and has to pay a couple millions in a settlement... ...it still won't be the most expensive time he ran his mouth on twitter, said false things, and had to pay a big settlement that y

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