ZachPruckowski

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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
But most of that money couldn't be put towards a program like ORCA. The one saving grace of Citizen's United is the limitation on PAC-campaign coordination.
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
> "So combinatorially, it's very likely my ballot will be utterly unique within my precinct." I don't think this is true, since there's a massive correlation between ballot positions and they're not randomly distributed. Since the part
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Not that I agree with patrickzgill's evidence-less assertions, but in his scenario, the fabricated votes wouldn't be the percentage over 100%, but the percentage over the real turnout rate (which might be 70% or so).
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
There is no way to disaggregate all the hundreds of factors that went into the 2012 election. So we'll probably never be able to say "X% of Obama's victory came from data mining and Y% came from hiring an addition Z Field Organizers". But
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Because we want them to have a level of understanding of those fields, even if it's shallow. It's good for society if as many people as possible understand algebra or World War I or how to read and write at a high level. If for no other r
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
AP Calculus isn't a good example of the "teach to the test" problem. Most elementary/middle and even high school tests aren't nearly as good as AP tests, and most subjects aren't best taught through rote - the best way to learn US history
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
If you think that those are good ideas, I think you should (a) vote for extension, and (b) upvote those suggestions so that The Powers That Be see them. If they see those suggestions, but also see significant vote opposition to extending d
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
While I agree that stronger is better (and thus someone founding a contracts bureau for this should use the latest/greatest hash), I'm not sure collisions are a real risk here, since my understanding is that a collision is going to include
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
>Plenty of trust fund babies face no risks and accomplish nothing. Because they face low monetary returns. You or I taking a risk and succeeding means the monetary difference between affording a comfortable lifestyle and a lavish lifes
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
OK, but that's not viable for everyone. The only applications where the vast majority of the userbase is going to have Server or Enterprise editions are business applications, and even then, to use your application, your customers have to
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Which is fine now, but what happens when Windows 9 and DX12 drop in 2015, and all the new features and APIs only work with Metro UI apps? Suddenly all those desktop applications are second class citizens. By Windows 10 or so, non-Metro ap
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Either of those would work, or just pay a homeless guy $10 to drop it in the mailbox for you.
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
It's a 10 or 20 year term and the rate goes up when you're in your 50s. It's dirt-cheap now for those of us in our 20s and 30s without occupational death risks because the odds that we'll die are pretty low. But term life insurance when y
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
I know I've bought several games because I watched or read Let's Plays on Something Awful or YouTube and enjoyed them, and so bought the game or its successor. Three examples that come to mind are Arkham City (watched the Arkham Asylum LP)
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
OK, I think I see my confusion here - in 2011, it would have been profitable if not for the trust fund prepay, but that's not the case in FY2012 (though I wonder how it got $9 billion worse in a year)
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Do you have a source for the post office losing "many billions" yearly aside from the pensions? Because everything I've read says the opposite - that it'd still be breaking even but for that. And while I agree that pay-as-you-go pensions a
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
That would break screenreaders, some touchscreen mobile devices, and probably other things I'm not thinking of.
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
But if 20-30% failed in the first few months of an expected 5+ year life cycle, that's indicative of a >50% failure rate in the medium to long term. You'll probably come out a loser in monitor-years/dollar.
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
OK, but there's like 20 million planets in the Star Wars galaxy or something. Plus large moons orbiting gas giants, etc. All you need is a few dozen solid-core planets that it's too much effort to terraform and you're making your money ba
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
It could take months or years for an asteroid strike to render a planet fully uninhabitable, and in a universe with large spaceships and hyperdrives, that means a reasonable survival rate via evacuation. So now you've committed to months a
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
>"Two working people earning $200k together isn't what I would describe as particularly wealthy" You probably should, since the median household income is something like $50k or so, a quarter of what they make.
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
I wonder where in the 1% those doctors and lawyers fall? You only need to make $350k to be considered "1%", but then it goes all the way up to Zuckerberg/Gates/Buffett levels. It's the 0.1% who are the millionaires and billionaires.
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
>"Aside: WTF? Everyone produces "IP". These are not a separate class of people." I think he meant "people who produce IP professionally" or "people who earn a living off their IP". Certainly between here and reddit and other sites I've
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
It's sort of unsurprising that "thedroidguy" like the Droid better than the iPhone. Also, his chart seems to only highlight (literally, in blue) the places where the Galaxy S II wins - notice how the Galaxy win in screen size is highlighted
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
IANAL, but (2) seems pretty standard in terms of DMCA compliance. As a service provider hoping to remain in the "safe harbor", you generally fulfill all takedown requests and you leave contesting the takedowns on the grounds of error or fa
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
Right (I blame 1AM posting for my error), but counting on $DISTRICT_JUDGE to bring down the hammer is equally over-optimistic. If one can barely get a judge to wade in on "a clearly fraudulent document was submitted to your court" when it
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
Look at how hard it is to get traction on investigations into the current foreclosure/securitization boondoggle - it's taken 3 years for judges to actually start looking, the federal regulators are completely uninterested, and maybe 4 state
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
I've learned about a fair few local services via Groupon and Living Social. They don't work for all products, but for the products they work for, I suspect they're more effective than advertising. I walked RIGHT BY a restaurant near my of
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
Many of the users on Digg considered V4 to be about monetizing the site at the expense of a lot of features they really liked.
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by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
>Progressive is a word that seems to mean different things to the left and the right, I notice you didn't define it. "Progressive" has a very specific meaning when you're discussing tax structure, independent of its political meaning.

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