WildUtah

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by WildUtah 11y ago
" oligarchy makes all the money due to ties with the ruling family." Same as the Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, Cuba, and so forth. Some people[0] mistakenly say 'socialism' for Western Europe-style social insuran
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"one of the most oppressive regimes in the region " Oh, I forgot about all the liberal democratic regimes in the region. You must be talking about Saudi, Guitar, Jemen, ISIS, Quwait, Syria, Iran, Bahrayn.
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"nor with the input of democratic..." Really? The public and elected officials never decided to build and open public streets that everyone has a right to travel on? A republic isn't a place where every new decision and idea
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Stability, low taxes, relative openness, and easy work permits right in the center of one of the very wealthy regions of the world. And the rest of that gaudily rich region of the world is known for its nastiness toward foreigners, intensel
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You can do that in Haskell, but it takes a truly expert level grokking of monad category theory.
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"you can't get from the east side of that neighborhood to the west" Of course you can, just use your feet.
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"just can't direct traffic like this if your infrastructure can't handle the load to begin with; it's selfish beyond belief." This is the same thing the pedestrian, transit, and bicycle fans that make up the majorit
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This problem is solved in Berzerkeley and for cheap. [0] [0] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8633369,-122.2652156,3a,75y,...
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The first water fountain I've seen anywhere here in Mexico was just installed last year. It's in Chapultepec Park on the walk up to the Castle. The water comes out very cold. Outside that one, even airports and public offices don&
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"Gay marriage is an obvious one, (Australian) treatment of refugees, anything else?" I'm pretty sure gay marriage will be seen as just as normal and wholesome in 50 years as it is today or even more so. Though there will be f
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Alphabet's Google, as we say, was operating the car. And corporations are people, my friend.
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"Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico" They couldn't get access to the original site at the University of Chicago and Soldier Field, of course. It's interesting that nuclear weapons have
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A lot of people with no smoking experience don't get enough in the lungs the first few times. Actual unresponsiveness to THC is very rare if it exists at all.
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"an existing industry based on smoking" Nobody wants to be compared to an industry that kills millions, ruins lives, and addicts children. Weed dealers have a reputation to protect.
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"I think it would be an oversimplification to compare a vegetable (OK, technically a fruit) to a drug with nearly 500 known compounds with varying effects depending on levels in the plant and physiology of the individual ingesting the
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Well, at the current rate, it won't be too long before copyright extends 2000 years and then the Institute can claim it and demand a royalty from everyone who wants to know what they say.
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There are more countries in the world than the USA and India. Good programmers find it much easier to immigrate to Mexico or Canada and have a very good life there.
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The majority of the House voted to eliminate the DV lottery and release the H1-B cap on graduates of American grad schools. There's currently an extra 20k H1-Bs for foreign grads of American schools and that cap would be lifted. That w
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"All employers will be incentivized not to sponsor H1B visas" That's the ideal benefit. Skilled Americans should be employed when available and their salaries should be high and rising. The more incentives not to use H1-Bs, t
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"The auction is a solution to the problem that the cap creates." The cap is a solution to the problem the lack of other controls -- like an auction -- creates. With an auction to allocate the visas to companies that need foreigner
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"why not just do away with the cap?" Because there are far, far too many low wage foreign programmers driving down wages already. Why not abolish the program entirely? That's far more palatable.
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In the Eldred v. Ashcroft case the Supreme Court upheld infinitely extended copyright terms. The only two judges that dissented were Breyer (presently the best on intellectual property issues) and Stevens (previously the best before retirin
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Brings Chrome utterly to its knees. 24GB, i5-3 GHz.
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"some time right after WWII, people in US suddenly decided to live in a poorly built and ugly looking dwellings regardless of their income level. " We stopped living in walkable villages and cities and started living in motorway d
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China makes the aluminium case for the iPhone and the glass. The key chips and sensors come from Korea. The cameras, radios, and RAM from Japan. Some bits from Taipei. The software is written in California.
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"Steve Jobs was quite happy to allow dreadful products like OSX 1.0 or the original Retina MacBook to go to market" Original Retina MacBook Pro June 11, 2012 Steve Jobs 1955-2011 I believe you may have made a mistake in judging wh
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"A fanatical user running the company wouldn't have overlooked this." I love this subtle invocation of the principle of 'this never would have happened if Steve Jobs were still alive.'
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http://www.advancedfootballanalytics.com/index.php/home/rese...
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Lessig's agenda wasn't to overturn Citizens United, it was public financing of campaigns. Nobody --not Sanders nor Lessig -- is going to push that through Congress any time soon. Citizens United is probably doomed under Clinton if
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Programmers have to compete with doctors, lawyers, accountants, actuaries, nurses, dentists, schoolteachers, and pharmacists when we buy a house or seek to influence decisions of the companies where we work. We have to compete with them in

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