YokoZar

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by YokoZar 12y ago
I suppose it's only a matter of time until a company finds a person with an obscure real name (say, "Kentucky"), asks them to comment on a negative article about the company (say, a CNN article critical of the chicken industr
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The 65% home ownership rate includes a lot of people who recently bought a house that was much more expensive because of housing policy deliberately designed to increase the price of homes. It seems a stretch to claim they benefited from i
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The common man rents. The better off common man buys a house in a market with now reinflated prices. If you're a buyer, low prices are better than lower interest rates. The winners were the narrower subset of Americans who skewed old
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I'd always thought eMule would have been much more successful if it answered the queue randomly, but weighting people who had uploaded with a much greater likelihood of going first. As it was written eMule had a soft-cap of 10x "l
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Drainage and sewage make all the difference in turning monsoon weather into "just rain".
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Yes, this is the ultimate solution. Fines and forfeitures should never go to the local government responsible for crafting them, or worse, directly to the police department enforcing them. Remove that incentive, and suddenly the darker mot
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by YokoZar 12y ago
That so, Youtube's policies would be vastly different in a world with a different DMCA.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The threat of someone looking through ancient emails aside, there really is no reason not to store old messages forever. They're incredibly small, and you never know when you'll want to reference an old discussion because someone
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Ubuntu also issues stable release updates (particularly to the latest LTS version) to fix regressions, major bugs, or occasionally update minor release versions. Some applications known to have good release procedures are also allowed upda
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Still, snarkiness aside, it's worth asking every once in a while if the problem you're solving is something that actually merits an app at all (or, for that matter, a computer). That said, there does seem to be promise here, as th
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Some of these games use data files for user save data - what's the story with them? Do they migrate with, say, Firefox sync?
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Once you actually explain them to people, it's hard to argue that Arrow's theorem still lists desirable criteria. Some are surely reasonable sounding (eg non-dictatorship), but the "independence of irrelevant alternatives&qu
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I will note that a Smith Set Condorcet loop can occur even among 100% rational, wholly informed voters. It's not an aberration due to irrationality, it's just a fact of politics not being one-dimensional (quite literally -- if vo
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Happier in terms of a higher rate of "satisfaction with current living situation"
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by YokoZar 12y ago
If you're going to wait a few months to update, you are much better off on an actual non-rolling release distro than Arch. Arch frequently does not test upgrades for packages more than several versions out of date, whereas distros wit
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Arrow's theorem has to be one of the most overhyped and overplayed theorems in existence. Here, for instance, are three major things what it doesn't say: 1) That all voting systems are equivalent in any sort of meaningful sense 2
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The main advantage to smart meters is it becomes possible to implement time-of-day pricing. That way you can run your dishwasher/laundry before bed and have it actually be cheaper than if you just turned it on during peak hours.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Are there any wireless keyboards like this? I am the unfortunate owner of a cat who really really likes chomping through smaller cables.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
This line of reasoning still works even if it's only a few people buying things (think excessively rich people buying ever increasing numbers of luxury goods). In reality the marginal propensity to consume is greater the less money you
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by YokoZar 12y ago
6% industrial automation hasn't been resulting in 6% productivity gains because most work is not industrial.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
This criticism of unemployment statistics is parroted whenever an unemployment discussion is had. But those discouraged worker numbers are tracked too. They tend to go together, and the recent news about hiring increases is not due to a m
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by YokoZar 12y ago
As a brief summary, as of 2012 the decline in labor force participation rate was about 1/3 due to demographic shifts and 2/3 due to the business cycle. The paper notes it was expected to fall even further, however individual &quo
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by YokoZar 12y ago
If you get out of rent controlled areas like San Francisco, you'll find it's actually quite common for landlords to foot utility bills (except electricity), or at the least charge a flat fee per month that doesn't vary with u
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by YokoZar 12y ago
As an aside, if after one weekend 0.02% of people's iphones have bent, then within one year we would expect a good million bent iphones out there.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The big items are also probabilistic events likely related to a lot of underlying health circumstances. If cancer or heart surgery can be merely delayed a year through the wellness program, then that may just be the year the employee retir
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The state is not just suing for breach of contract to recover some money here -- the Attorney General is seeking a permanent ban on Oracle selling anything to the state. "On page 119: (c) A permanent injunction prohibiting Oracle from
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by YokoZar 12y ago
FarmLogs is in the right market. Agriculture is a growth industry.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
If health is a human right, how is prohibiting someone from paying to be healthier productive? Note that prohibition even includes purchase of organs from the estates of dead donors. If you want funds to come from a communal pot to reduce
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I think a missing part of the story here is what happened to WordPerfect after it was sold off to Corel. Corel realized that Microsoft would be one hell of a competitor with Office, and (correctly) feared that Microsoft would abuse their W
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Eh it's a bit more complicated than that. Marijuana cultivars vary tremendously, but not in a way that's particularly amenable to "here try a bite and see" like when you see strange fruits at a farmer's market. As

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