YokoZar

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by YokoZar 8y ago
Indeed, the right of an American to enter America is "absolute, unconditional, and irrevocable". They can arrest you immediately, or quarantine you for whatever disease, but they can never turn you away if you insist on coming in
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by YokoZar 8y ago
This is a ridiculous hypothetical to begin with, fear over stuff like this is how we end up with nonsense farm policy.
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China is much more obviously polluted such that ordinary citizens have to deal with it every day. Most parts of the west aren't so visibly polluted anymore, but that doesn't mean the air is clean.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
More relevant than the equipment cost is the fees. For the price of golf club memberships you could make a lot of magic decks and enter a lot of tournaments.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
> Are you going to tell them they have no right to their own work anymore 20 years after they had one of their most successful releases? Are you claiming they wouldn't have made the music otherwise? It's hard to imagine such m
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Isn't part of the problem that judges face a lot of pressures to be extra harsh when deciding bail? A board seems less likely to face political blowback when the rare out on bail person commits a serious crime. That sounds like the so
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by YokoZar 8y ago
A vanity metric is a metric that doesn't mean anything but sounds impressive. "Number of free trial downloads" is a vanity metric when what matters to the business is paying customers. "Pounds of produce produced by a p
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by YokoZar 8y ago
In such cases the court would determine the arbiter, not the company.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Netflix originals are a form of bundling too. There are many in completely different genres now, with very different budgets. It's unlikely a particular netflix viewer will want to watch most of them, nevermind the back catalog. And
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by YokoZar 8y ago
While true, they get paid substantially more than people with the same salary and no benefits.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
We were comfortable calling slavery by what it was back then, and we shouldn't shy away from the term if that's what's still happening. The constitution defining slavery doesn't make it right. But it does imply we shou
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by YokoZar 8y ago
840k is also not 22% of 125 million
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by YokoZar 8y ago
This isn't a critique of social security payouts -- other than political expediency, there is no particular need to couple the payments with the current payroll tax source.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
If policy makers are concerned about potential regressive effects, they could take the revenue earned and apply it towards helping the poor. One "easy" method is lowering the bottom tax bracket - in the US they could cut the expl
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Said trap would hit any former returning customer who saved the wifi password.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Or any other reason why Apple might delay dividend payments. Other companies could have hit a trillion sooner if they hoarded cash like a dragon or only did buybacks.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Yes, but patents expire. A patent on the KitKat would have expired long ago.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
In American law Trademarks cannot be "functional" -- you can't trademark the fact that your wheels are round, since wheels have to be round. In Europe their priorities are...different.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Firefox has had different default search engines in the past. At one point Yahoo was the default, and I believe it varied by continent. Ubuntu once switched from Google to Yahoo in its Firefox as the default search engine, citing higher pa
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by YokoZar 8y ago
> Given the size of a monrepo, is it possible to run the entire test suite in one's development environment, or do they have another endpoint to push to to run tests on a dedicated server? Eventually you hit a point where you need s
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by YokoZar 8y ago
> Someone makes a commit to library code and production magically breaks? How does that happen? With insufficient tests and broken release processes.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Can we observe this effect among heavy mushroom eaters?
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by YokoZar 8y ago
If you're willing to dilute pork you can also use a much more flavorful and fatty cut than you would otherwise.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
This logic doesn't square with what we observe in voting patterns. When high rent cities go from majority homeowner to majority renter, the laws start to change to legalize more housing. That doesn't mean renters didn't care
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Sticking with a major brand won't protect you from literal counterfeit goods, only from shady brands. Amazon also has a counterfeit branded goods problem.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
The larger point is that if you're willing to pay a la carte for individual shows/films (rather than a subscription service), basically all content is acceptable from a lot of providers.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Or streamed it from Google Play for $2
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Brightness too should be done this way.
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by YokoZar 8y ago
Property taxes in California are at most 1% of the assessed value. If your property immediately doubled in value, you'd have to be in it 200 years before being underwater on it from taxes. If we let that debt accrue interest the timel
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by YokoZar 8y ago
This is a secured debt, the state can collect it from the sale value. The tax is on property value, so if the house sells for too little the tax wasn't owed to begin with.

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