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by afafsd 12y ago
If I were an employer who employed a lot of lower-class people of the sort who might use this service (say, Wal-Mart) I'd be looking at this article and wondering "Why don't we just pay our employees every day?" The extr
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by afafsd 12y ago
In which case how are we supposed to know that she did not consent?
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by afafsd 12y ago
Which is why my advice to anyone about to be raped is this: fucking fight back . You might not win, but you should at least ensure there's some injuries one way or the other. Make sure there's some injuries, so that the lack of c
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by afafsd 12y ago
It was more the moral outrage that happens when you do the right thing and see other people getting away with doing the wrong thing. It's like if you went to a supermarket and paid for your groceries and saw that you were the only pers
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by afafsd 12y ago
I wonder what US defamation law has to say about publicly accusing someone of being a rapist when: a) They're not a convicted rapist, and b) The reason they're not a convicted rapist is because you, personally, decided you couldn&
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by afafsd 12y ago
Whom should you select to let into your country? The same people you select as employees, only more so. We use "skilled migration" as a proxy for what we really want, which is people with good genes . If you have skills and good
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by afafsd 12y ago
>We should be giving more visas - not less or the same amount reclassified. True, but you should also be doing more to exclude the people who don't have visas, which is the main reason the US immigration system is currently broken
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by afafsd 12y ago
That's nice, mate. Be sure to get back to us when you've actually done something instead of blogging grandiosely about it.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Apart from political propaganda it's also just a function of the stuff people buy. I buy a lot of cheap consumer-grade merchandise and it's largely made in China. But I never buy an airliner.
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by afafsd 12y ago
>meh... a number of US airlines fly primarily/exclusively Airbus (JetBlue, Virgin America) and they don't don't seem to have suffered a lot of negative PR. Indeed. You can find a few people willing to complain about it, bu
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by afafsd 12y ago
>There are others, including myself, that believe low skill work is too cheap to be replaced in the near term Well, the vast majority of low-skill work has already been replaced by relatively simple machines -- harvesting wheat, diggin
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by afafsd 12y ago
The wonderful thing about the free market is that you don't have to use magical algorithms to determine the "correct" price of things, you just set the price you're willing to buy/sell at, see how many takers ther
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by afafsd 12y ago
There is an extremely long term trend, though, in which low-skilled labour which anyone can do is slowly replaced by high-skilled labour which requires intelligent people. A thousand years ago, perhaps even a hundred years ago, 90% of jobs
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by afafsd 12y ago
I think in the long term we're going to need a major demographic shift. High-capability people to rich countries and low-capability people to poor countries. If someone lives in the United States and isn't capable of any job beyon
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by afafsd 12y ago
At Macca's at least they no longer get flipped, but they are cooked from raw-and-frozen by a top-and-bottom grill thing, apparently in forty seconds. http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4616233_mcdonalds-make-burgers....
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by afafsd 12y ago
If they said that self-checkout lanes would fail frequently because they have a lot of moving parts then they must have misunderstood the concept. (Incidentally, I'm really tired of the "That's what people said about such-and
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by afafsd 12y ago
>I can also imagine a day where all your currently disposable plastic goods (cups, utensils, clips, etc) would be printed on demand and disposed in a hopper that would recycle them as raw material for the next round. Is this the killer a
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by afafsd 12y ago
Seems like a rather US-based perspective. It's true that no US-based airline has bought one. That's because the US has so many cities , that it makes sense for airlines to serve (say) SEA-NRT and SFO-NRT with separate smaller pla
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by afafsd 12y ago
So instead of paying some bozo minimum wage to flip burgers, you have to pay someone to fix the burger robot every time it screws up. Which it probably will, frequently, because it's got a zillion moving parts and a bunch of loose mess
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by afafsd 12y ago
I feel the same way about quantum mechanics.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Would you care to estimate the magnitude of this error, and how many steps you would need before it actually became relevant?
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by afafsd 12y ago
You're right, as a method for computing pi it's silly and inefficient. As a way of demonstrating the utility of Monte Carlo algorithms in general, though, it's a neat and easily visualisable example, which is why it's us
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by afafsd 12y ago
Here in Melbourne, water is priced on a tiered basis. 0.23 cents per litre for the first 440 litres per day (averaged over the quarter), 0.27 cents per litre for the next 440 litres a day, and 0.41 cents per litre beyond that. Plus a flat f
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by afafsd 12y ago
Well, there can't be all that big a shortage anyway. Last time I went to the US I found that supermarkets were stocked with food, gas stations with fuel, and lumber yards with lumber, so it seems that stuff is still getting from where
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by afafsd 12y ago
>True explosives (dynamite and all) was his thing... But on the moral side of things it's the same. Without getting into the morality of gun technology (since the morality of a gun rather depends on whose hands you put it into), I&#
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by afafsd 12y ago
I agree with you in my own experience, but let's face it, we were (I'm just gonna guess here) among the smart kids, and what works well for smart kids isn't necessarily what works well for the average or dumb kids. Maybe dumb
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by afafsd 12y ago
>But, in the end, we'll never be absolutely sure that one thing causes another. Maybe so, but in the same pedantic sense that we'll never be "absolutely sure" that the universe didn't pop into existence five seco
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by afafsd 12y ago
> A person who spent his life producing guns Explosives. >G. W. Bush run for it and came 2nd! You don't "run for it", and the information about who "came second" is never released, so I don't know where y
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by afafsd 12y ago
Maybe, but you're still walking around with a porn phone in your pocket or next to your ear, marking you out to everyone in the know as the sort of person who is so into internet porn that they're willing to invest money in a devi
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by afafsd 12y ago
That's "the promise", yes, but delivering stuff is very different to promising stuff. Planes are way ahead of trucks in this regard and could actually fly themselves from origin to destination most of the time, but we still

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