Randgalt

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by Randgalt 10y ago
"you'd never get a super majority to agree to such a stupid bigoted rule and it conflicts with other parts of the constitution" - oh really? Please open a US history book.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
"You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic" - of course you can. This is the role of philosophy.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
How can you logically have a right to the services of someone else? Health care is a product - doctors, hospitals, medicine, etc. These must all be produced by people.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
"Do you have an example in mind of when and where we've come especially close to this ideal?" The USA of course - though it's quickly moving away. Hong Kong (though China is ruining it). England before the Fabians took o
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by Randgalt 10y ago
"I'm having trouble figuring out how this doesn't still boil down to people making judgement calls on what is and isn't a right" - at the end of the day we're ruled by people. But, there should be a standard by
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by Randgalt 10y ago
It depends where you live. I know many Canadians who've had different experiences. This points to a major problem with socialized products - how they perform depend not on merit or ability to pay, but where you live, how good your repr
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by Randgalt 10y ago
"What is the alternative?" - a system of rights based on the nature of human beings. Human beings survive by producing the things we need to survive. We need governments to protect others from initiating force against us in opposi
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by Randgalt 10y ago
So, if the majority votes to take away the rights of, oh I don't know, Japanese citizens -- that's a world you want to live in? You're not thinking clearly about the issue.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
"'Rights' are basically just freedoms we've decided we like a whole lot and want the government to guarantee" - as I said below, the logical conclusion of that argument is not a world you'd want to live in. --
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by Randgalt 10y ago
"The purpose of government is about whatever the governed of the current day decide that purpose is" - I believe you can see that the logical conclusion of that point of view is not a world you'd want to live in. In the US, a
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by Randgalt 10y ago
That's an excellent point. Medicare and SSI are equally bad programs that should be phased out.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Where's your evidence that most private school is paid for by rich people? Anecdotally, the people that I know that use private schools are middle class. Also, if there weren't public schools there would be more varieties of priva
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by Randgalt 10y ago
1. Try getting an MRI in Canada. Canada rations care via wait lists. 2. Your argument implies that there wouldn't be low cost schools in the absence of public schools. The evidence is overwhelming that the opposite is true. 3. I live i
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by Randgalt 10y ago
The purpose of government is not to require the most efficient option. Government isn't capable of it anyway. Government is force - nothing more. The purpose of government is to protect our rights. "Single payer" (a euphemism
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by Randgalt 10y ago
That's a fair point. Ant's XML usage is closer to a DSL than not. But, it's still much simpler than the various Gradle DSLs I've seen.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
My view on the subject, FWIW: https://rule1.quora.com/Use-Maven-Not-Gradle
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by Randgalt 10y ago
I'm actually a bit worried about this. Function keys had better be "functional". :D
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Developers use Function keys - yes.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and they still failed. That's a special kind of insanity.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Failed at what exactly? Killing people? Various forms of Socialism are responsible for approx 100 million deaths in the 20th Century. Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other system in human history. After all, Capit
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Socialism - the plague that keeps on killing. They'll keep trying it until they kill everyone. I remember when hipsters were praising Chavez's miracle. Where's Sean Penn now? Disgusting.
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[ANN] Halva 0.2.0 – Idiomatic Scala in Java
2 points by Randgalt 10y ago|0 comments
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by Randgalt 10y ago
I assume there's a Java API for etcd? If so, it would be interesting to try to port Curator.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Are there high level APIs for etcd like there are for ZooKeeper? I'm the main author of Apache Curator and I know that writing "recipes" is not trivial.
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by Randgalt 10y ago
ZK is zab - similar to Paxos but not Paxos
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by Randgalt 10y ago
etcd is a key value store that has features of ZK. ZooKeeper is strictly distributed coordination. Apples and oranges, no?
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[ANN] Halva 0.1.3 – Scala Idioms in Java
4 points by Randgalt 10y ago|0 comments
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by Randgalt 10y ago
I had a number of problems doing it - which took about 3-4 weeks: * Erasure/generics - it's a huge burden working around this * Scala documentation - trying to understand how Scala does things is very difficult. You can find tutor
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by Randgalt 10y ago
Javascript is fine. It's the fact that the ecosystem changes every few months and devs post things like "look how ridiculous this old way of doing things is" when the old way was just last year (or 6 months ago) when _it_ was
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by Randgalt 10y ago
The real joke is how screwed up client side programming is. Here's a library that's an insider/hipster joke but it's only obviously a joke to hipster/insiders.

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