Nutmog

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by Nutmog 11y ago
Not everyone will benefit. Higher income earners will put in more in extra taxes than they get back in their basic income handout.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Yeah. The sweet spot moves closer to factory-made if the product can also appeal to regular people, like these oranges. Environmental consequences? What environmental consequences come from using a plastic container? That's a whole oth
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I think things should work OK if either the laws are reasonable so normal people don't accidentally break them or if we don't police them thoroughly. If neither condition is met, then we have some horror dystopia where everybody l
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Surely the logical conclusion of that line of reasoning is to peel the oranges and chop the veges in a centralized factory somewhere else and distribute them using a supermarket's existing efficient supply chain. Which is exactly what
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Is there any argument against autonomous guns, other than that they might go wild and cause a lot of unexpected deaths? We shouldn't mind them sometimes making mistakes and killing innocent people because human soldiers already do that
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by Nutmog 11y ago
All kinds of silly things are illegal in China, even copyright infringement, but that doesn't mean the police are breaking down people's doors and confiscating their computers. People flagrantly do many of the illegal things anywa
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Does that mean you only care about the inequality of people who vote for politicians who promise open boarders? Not having open boarders is also reinforcing inequality globally, which is even bigger (hence worse) than just in America. If yo
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Why are people still manually indenting in the first place? Just use an IDE that does it for you. It doesn't matter what convention it's applying because you don't have to do it. It'll automatically re-indent all your ol
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by Nutmog 11y ago
"He" used to be gender neutral [1]. If readers stop worrying about gender so much then it would still work. We tolerate it in old writing like the bible and little quotes of the form "He who ... shall ..." [1] https:&#x
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by Nutmog 11y ago
“the case for substantial genetic influence on g is stronger than for any other human characteristic.” How does that fit with the popular notion that intelligence is independent of race? Isn't the definition of race essentially just di
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That's nice for a perfectionist. But how many readers care at all or could tell the difference if they tried? Do you struggle to read stories on the web because they're not hand typeset? I personally find that the content of a boo
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by Nutmog 11y ago
The number of books in the world is monotonically increasing. The number of hours a person has available in their life to enjoy reading books is constant, or at least capped pretty close to where it's at now. There are already too many
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Presumably the two fake accounts had many friends but Joshua was the only common one that both Potaka and Thorne saw. Still quite a silly mistake, but not quite as bad as the fake accounts both having only one friend - the real Joshua.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I almost totally agree. If it wasn't for security fixes, there would be no value in updating almost any software. If it's already working OK, just leave it alone. 15 years ago when people had problems with their graphics cards, th
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by Nutmog 11y ago
There's a missing part in your reasoning. Why does a history of people understanding dogs imply that we shouldn't eat them? Should we never eat animals (or plants?) that people in many cultures and times could understand? What con
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by Nutmog 11y ago
With all efforts to preserve endangered languages, there's an implicit assumption that they should be preserved in the heads of human beings. What value does this language and being able to write it have? I've heard people say &qu
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Forests aren't sustainable unless you're also logging them and storing the wood permanently somewhere. They also consume valuable fertile land so it's not necessarily a worthwhile method. Perhaps in some post-oil economy they
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That's stretching the definition of free market a bit. You could apply it to real estate property rights too and argue that a corner shop isn't in a free market because the owner has paid for a monopoly on access to that building
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by Nutmog 11y ago
From your story, it sort of sounds like doctors are the villains. Isn't it their job to choose the best medicine for their patients. If an uninsured patient asks for a cheaper older one, then they should be prepared to find that. But t
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by Nutmog 11y ago
If the early 80's was good, then something else must be bad. Perhaps you meant it was good compared to what happened before, or compared to what it would have been if people didn't make games. But a reasonable guess is good compar
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by Nutmog 11y ago
In fairness, what else could they have done, given the time constraints? They even hired support staff to make sure he got fed! They surely didn't have source control or other systems to make it safe/easy for multiple programmers
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That's nice for people getting injured. Insurance then becomes something you get to protect yourself, not because you're required to have it to protect other people. If you crash into an expensive car, you're still on the hoo
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by Nutmog 11y ago
If the US changed the law so it could collect that tax money, couldn't you equally say that it's the US's short term greed that hurts everyone in the long run? Afterall, it would hurt Google's profits and perhaps how muc
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Using your argument, internet companies in every country are morally obligated to pay tax to the US government, at least if they claim not to do evil. Do you also agree that every company making cars should pay tax to the German government
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by Nutmog 11y ago
If your job is making predictions, then surely your performance can easily be measured by the outcomes of those predictions. That way, not saying what you think would hurt your bonus or your company's reputation through poor performanc
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I thought the same thing when I read it. If Apple can do this, then it's already a backdoor, and all the publicity of "Even Apple can't hack your phone" was false. But it turns out this is an older 5C, not the new 5S and
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Indoor offices also use artificial lights despite the workers usually only being there during the day. It's probably because the sun is unreliable and expensive to direct into all the spaces that aren't on the roof directly expose
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That sounds suspiciously like a political way of blaming some other group that no voter will be a member of so it's pretty safe for politicians. The fundamental problem is not enough houses, not that UK people aren't xenophobic en
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I think it's fair to put the blame for data loss on users as long as it isn't done maliciously. That's because users are the ones in the best position to protect against it by making backups in proportion to how valuable thei
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That definition doesn't work. If bread was 1 cent per loaf, I bet more people would buy it. So all those people who currently aren't buying bread because it costs a couple of dollars are people who want bread but there isn't

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