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by abtinf 8y ago
It is that simple. Here is a Nobel Prize winning economist agreeing with you: “See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.” ―
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by abtinf 8y ago
> It's not just two buddies hanging out on TV. I think this may depends a lot on the guest - search youtube for clips of Norm Macdonald on Conan. Then again, maybe Norm is just that good at faking it?
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by abtinf 8y ago
While I disagree that oil subsidies equate to ICE subsidies, I’d appreciate a link if you think it has good information. I’ve attempted to research this issue before, but the information I’ve found is very poor. A common problem is grossly
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by abtinf 8y ago
What are the externalities of the renewables?
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by abtinf 8y ago
What subsidies do ICE cars have that electrics don’t?
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by abtinf 8y ago
> The difference between the ancient way of working a lifetime for a salary, perks and a gold watch on retirement and the new one of building a breakout company in tech lies in a wholly changed business environment by which super-talente
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by abtinf 8y ago
Thank you - this explanation is much more clear and I understand now. I’m generally familiar with AWS but haven’t used GCP, so I didn’t have the “Cloud Project” concept.
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by abtinf 8y ago
I still don’t get it. What is a “project” and how does it differ from a “repo”? If they are the same thing, isn’t every project/repo going to cost at least a $1?
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by abtinf 8y ago
I find the pricing of this service to be incomprehensible, as well as contradictory to “Unlimited private Git repositories for free”. Can anyone explain it?
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by abtinf 8y ago
> "if only there was one universal audio port they both could use" Bluetooth?
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by abtinf 8y ago
> That’s why we created Apple Entrepreneur Camp, for organizations founded and led by women.* I had no idea what that asterisk could imply, since the statement seemed legally innocuous. > * Apple believes that gender expression is a f
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by abtinf 8y ago
> If WinAMP still had support A company bought Winamp and is supporting/developing it again. A version supporting Windows 10 "leaked" just a few weeks ago. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/w
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by abtinf 8y ago
Even if it doesn't result in executable code, there are dangers - browser-based ransomware attacks.
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by abtinf 8y ago
My thought was that maybe this was a difference between British English and American English, so I looked up the word "fertility" in the Cambridge Dictionary. It turns out that while the dialects share roughly the same first defin
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by abtinf 8y ago
Who decides which organizations are part of the fourth estate? Is the NYT part of it? Bloggers? CNN? Breitbart? The Daily Stormer?
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by abtinf 8y ago
There has always been a discrepancy in capability between win32 file-related APIs and GUI tools. Even in Windows 10, it is possible to use the APIs (as simply as through, say, git bash) to create files and directories inaccessible (even for
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by abtinf 8y ago
The only buyers for voting machines are governments, and they can use whatever purchase criteria they want. Thus, the market is effectively completely regulated in every aspect. The difficulty is that building a secure voting machine is a p
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by abtinf 8y ago
> It's not like we don't know how to design reasonably secure electronic voting mechanisms[1] It’s exactly like that. No one knows how to solve this problem. The link you added are merely class notes and assume away fundamental
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by abtinf 8y ago
I left IBM a few months ago, but I led a bunch of developer advocacy efforts for a couple years. There are several internal programs at IBM that enable employees to make contributions to open source with very little bureaucracy. Go to the i
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by abtinf 8y ago
This is a wonderful, subversive attack on now-pervasive Codes of Conduct. Most Codes of Conduct I've read are self-contradictory documents that have nothing to do with software. I love that a major free software project is calling them
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by abtinf 8y ago
I also once (and only once) had a positive experience with an open office. At the first startup I worked at, the entire team of about 10 people sat in a ~700sqft "war room." Computers and desks lined two of the walls, whiteboards
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by abtinf 8y ago
> They found a [recidivism] rate of 14 percent over a period averaging five to six years. Recidivism rates increased over time, reaching 24 percent by 15 years That paragraph supports its own opposite conclusion, and actually makes me re
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by abtinf 8y ago
I'll accept your apology if you share how you came to that conclusion.
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by abtinf 8y ago
The latter is an expression of the former. To say an object is worth $10 is not a claim of the object's intrinsic value - it is to say that it is worth $10 to someone . That person assesses the worth of the object based on their princ
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by abtinf 8y ago
The author of this paper, Tara Smith, did an interview on the subject of "Achieving Happiness". It has a lot of additional concrete advice for making decisions in life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eok34BJwIm4
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by abtinf 8y ago
If you'd like a quick introduction to Rand's complete philosophical system, check out Leonard Peikoff's video "Introduction to Objectivism". It will help clarify a lot of the difficult statements you pointed out. St
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Money Can Buy Happiness [pdf](reasonpapers.com)
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by abtinf 8y ago
Wasn’t PG’s original, pre-yahoo-acquisition e-commerce site written in Lisp?
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by abtinf 8y ago
From what I have read about Japan, it is a deeply tribalist and racist country with extensive government controls that has led to nearly 3 decades of continuous stagnation. I would not move there. I could be completely wrong and do not have
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by abtinf 8y ago
Their claim is that everyone affected by this is getting a net raise. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

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