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by alexqgb 10y ago
In general this true, but California is unique among American states in that its got an economy and a population bigger than most other nations in the OECD. That is to say, we've reached a scale where we absolutely can start thinking
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by alexqgb 10y ago
The problem with this frame is that it assumes costs under a more socialized system wouldn't budge, making a single-payer system nothing more that simple wealth-transfer. The thing to recognize is that the every-person-for-themselves a
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by alexqgb 10y ago
The Dems won a clear majority of votes for the Presidency and enough votes to take the House as well. The GOP holds both because of unrepresentative electoral systems (the electoral college and gerrymandering) rendered a decisive number of
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by alexqgb 10y ago
No, this is not what you "should better" do, largely because your approach is so demonstrably inefficient when applied to multiple problems. After all, what you propose is a a particular solution to a particular problem. UBI is a
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Consider reading "On Bullshit" by Princeton's Harry Frankfurt. A distinguished moral philosopher, he regards bullshit itself as evidence of disrespect, not calling it out as such. https://www.stoa.org.uk/topic
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Yes, but it's been managed as a separate product, in a separate category (mobile VR), and now — after the recent reorg at Oculus — in a separate division. It's also the one that Carmack has been focused on exclusively for well ove
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Russia's GLONASS too, antennas for which have been built into iPhones since the 4S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
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by alexqgb 10y ago
That's a meaningless goal without a specific time frame. And of course, the moment you do specify a time frame, you also define the range of what you'll actually do in ways that flatly contradict what you'd do with different
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Pragmatically it might be the best way forward, but in principle it goes against free market resource optimizations This is a pretty good argument the absolute value of principle, tbh For what it's worth, I tend to see principles lik
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by alexqgb 10y ago
What the free-market crowd can never account for - here, or anywhere - is how the market is supposed to resolve issues that are not of direct, immediate interest to self-serving buyers or sellers, but which are of massive and justifiable in
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Serious money is rarely thrown at anyone - no matter how buzzy their language - without some sign of a defensible offering that has product / market fit in a sector with healthy prospects + a team that can clearly execute against the o
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Per Mike Podwal, PM at Google, the team is entirely focused on the Vive (via Kent Bye's Voices of VR podcast https://player.fm/series/76331/165981404 )
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by alexqgb 10y ago
As a title, sure, but that's about it. As a product, it would be a fundamentally different thing. That's inevitable when one system offers full position tracking and 300 watts of power while the other tracks rotational motion only
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Actual graphics and design pros (as opposed to Apple 'Pros') absolutely care about specs. Come hang out in VR developer land for a while, where interest in specs extends to system architecture choices.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Except that you are paying for it. If it costs money (which is does) and you pay (which you do) then you are very much paying for it. And that's the problem. Not only are the 9 series GPUs a generation behind, the shift to the Pascal a
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by alexqgb 10y ago
If facts could speak for themselves you wouldn't need journalists to put them into words, photojournalists to render them in pictures, editors to package stories, and publishers to deliver them to millions. Of course it's importan
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by alexqgb 10y ago
The differences in maturity between 19 and 31 are tremendous, while those between 60 and 70 are virtually non existent, so no, these cases are not quite similar at all. For what it's worth, rental car companies won't allow drivers
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Alternately, it reflects the tenor of the story and the facts it contains. You could say this is inappropriate editorializing, but that makes the obviously absurd implication that fraud is a neutral thing, and that there are many good kinds
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by alexqgb 10y ago
The fact that Madoff's intent was criminal from the outset and that Holmes' probably wasn't is irrelevant. The point is that it became criminal. And that's why she's in the firing line today.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
For better or worse, the giveaway has already happened. The colleges have already been paid and they now have massively over-staffed administrations housed in remarkably nice offices to show for it. The point of a move this move is twofold.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Not really. You can't be put in jail without due process, but the law in question explicitly (and arguably, unconstitutionally) suspends due process. You could also argue that the accused "should" be the one to risk convictio
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by alexqgb 10y ago
As others have noted, the issue is that so many political terms are relative (e.g., the way 'terrorist' is applied to Middle-Easterners far more swiftly and casually than Americans who are equally violent for very similar reasons.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
I wish I could upvote this 100 times because this is the absolute honest to goodness truth. It's not that talent is over-rated so much as really well-run places are underrated. Perhaps that's because talent is actually a lot more
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Dev. here, and in it daily, sometimes for hours at a time. It's true that the initial wow does wear off fairly quickly, but there is way more to the platform than that. Indeed, the fact that the depth isn't immediately obvious is
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by alexqgb 10y ago
If you're honestly interested, start with Google.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Which only goes to show that the rich in America are far richer than their counterparts in other well-developed countries. In terms of inequality, American ratios are closer to those found in straight-up kleptocracies. When people talk abou
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by alexqgb 10y ago
I'v got a hard time calling this piracy when the "owners" have next to nothing invested in the material's production, and provide even less in return to those who do. What Elsevier is doing is more like kidnapping.
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by alexqgb 10y ago
Given that officialchicken has a sense of entitlement so misplaced that even the minimal effort to work around the paywall is more than he feels he "should" provide, it's safe to say the guy is just an asshole and idiot. An a
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by alexqgb 11y ago
No silver lining there. This is just pro for a bullshit to keep the pitchforks at bay. To see just how seriously these "deferred judgements" are taken by parties on either side of the table, see HSBC (found guilty of massive and v
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Except they won't even pay the $5 billion. After "qualifying" for various deductions listed in the fine print and taking advantage of the tax benefits (no, I'm not kidding), the final payment will be closer to $2-3 billi

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