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by aero142 10y ago
What?
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I would imagine in a libertarian world, these companies would all be sued in court. Why is this not happening now? Edit: I broke my own rule, and hadn't finished the article. They are being sued. Hopefully if the facts hold up, the cas
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by aero142 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to say we "want to lock people up". We need to believe that we can make ourselves safe from criminals. We need to believe can do some science magic and tell the difference between the criminals an
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by aero142 10y ago
I don't think so. Many of the fun things AIs do in games is attack at different stages of the game. They send a small force at the beginning, and then a little larger force a few minutes later, and then a big attack at the end. No AI t
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by aero142 10y ago
There isn't a domain where taste isn't personal. It's always a blend of art and science. Just because you can't define it exactly though, doesn't mean you can't get closer to it by working at it.
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When I was deciding on a career in high school, I liked playing music and programming but wasn't exceptional at either. The world pays mediocre programmers more than it pays mediocre guitarists. I think the same applies to being a game
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1) Civil asset forfeiture was created to seize the assets of drug cartels where the believed owner of the property in possession is in another country and has a modest army preventing extradition to stand trial. However, any government enti
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by aero142 10y ago
I definitely plan to be more involved in future elections. That doesn't change my opinion that Austin is headed towards being a rather dysfunctional large city instead of the unique interesting medium sized city I've lived in for
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Perhaps there are situations where this is true, and I'd be open to studies on this, but my experience says otherwise. I know people who did not own a car and instead mostly used buses and/or bikes to get around Austin. They knew
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by aero142 10y ago
As an Austinite, the whole think looked more like a childish pissing match rather than some real debate on regulation vs the free market. Austin City Council took up a fight where there wasn't a problem, and Uber paid 9 million to figh
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by aero142 11y ago
Imagine a new tax passed at the same time as basic income where anyone making more than the median income of $51,939 paid an additional $10000 in taxes. Now, lets tack on a dollar for dollar replacement for anyone receiving disability or s
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by aero142 11y ago
"When nuclear bombs are illegal, only the criminals will have nuclear bombs." I think your grand unifying theory needs more nuance.
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by aero142 11y ago
The original complain was about password boxes not allowing passwords longer than 15 characters. Another common complain is only a few special characters allowed and space is often not on the allowed list. This gets you most of the memora
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by aero142 11y ago
Which is why I use the method of making up a random sentence with a number in it and using the first letters of each word and the punctuation. I memorize the sentence. My favorite 7 beavers aren't taking to water! Password would be: Mf
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Giving the Poor Easy Access to Healthy Food Doesn’t Mean They’ll Buy It(nytimes.com)
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by aero142 11y ago
Really? Where? I've done several multi day backcountry backpacking trips in national parks recent years, and I can't think of a single piece of trash I've seen or person I've seen leaving trash at camp.
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by aero142 11y ago
Well, I had no doubt that I was interpreting it correctly, so I'll mark it down on my personal scorecard as well:)
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Or in a less jaded view, they decided to try a very low cost fix before pulling the trigger on a very expensive site navigation redesign. Or, even better, this showed a partial improvement while they worked on the navigation redesign since
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by aero142 11y ago
I've gone through the same transformation but I think you aren't appreciating the larger picture. Having the ability to specify both compile time and runtime invariants are both useful features. Java is good at expressing invari
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by aero142 12y ago
Thanks for the list!
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by aero142 12y ago
I've often thought I need a medical agent for negotiating with hospitals and navigating my insurance. Do you know of anyone doing this? Might be a company idea in there somewhere. Medical negotiation agent.
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by aero142 12y ago
He was ridiculed for talking about "unknown unknowns" because of the ridiculous phrasing. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk Interestingly, this ridicule became so common that now people know more abou
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by aero142 12y ago
Even just only taxing it once it is sellable stock would be a huge improvement. Getting stuck with a taxbill for something you can't actually sell is ridiculous.
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by aero142 12y ago
Yes, but there is a pattern of EA ruining previously good development houses. It's like expression, "The common element of all your failed relationships is you."
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Texas is also recovering from a 10 year drought and was growing rice up until last year. It's just crazy.
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I didn't take his comment to be about a learning curve. I think the complaint is that the abstraction on top is not as expressive as the thing it abstracts. This means that when you break the abstraction you have the complexity of th
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by aero142 12y ago
At some point, I think we just have to stop pretending that SS numbers are a secret piece of information. Maybe we should just publish them all and be done with it.
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by aero142 12y ago
This is someone who moved up the ranks in the CIA to a very high level. They are very adept politically.
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In your example, there is a person that is arrested and convicted of a crime. I don't believe this is changing. The part of civil asset forfeiture that people are upset about is when the property is seized without anyone being convict
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by aero142 12y ago
The word recession has a technical definition about a shrinking GDP, and a common usage that basically means, lots of people or companies have job/money problems more than normal. You have to figure out which one people are talking ab

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