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by aneth4 14y ago
We need something for all the TSA employees when they leave our airports. They can stand around in hospitals making sure nobody gets a deal.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'd take these points on one by one if that weren't just a rat hole. Based on your responses, I think you need to spend some time gaining a basic understanding of the meaning of "free market," "market distortion," and how markets develop an
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by aneth4 14y ago
"ideological bandwagon" is precisely correct. It's people blaming their golf clubs for not being good enough, when the real problem is they need to learn to swing properly.
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by aneth4 14y ago
"It is the very definition of a healthy capitalist market." I didn't realize heavy handed, unnecessary regulation bound to cause massive market distortions was "healthy" for capitalism. Employer health insurance is the current method of dis
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by aneth4 14y ago
Yes, that's not exception safe. Writing this error safe without exceptions requires nearly identical discipline. How much non-exception code have you seen checking every return value and restoring state? There are alternative more safe ways
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by aneth4 14y ago
The rule of law is not mutually exclusive with a "military-industrial complex." Anyway, where did you move that's so much better? Somewhere else you can organize a petition against the interest of major corporations and receive a phone call
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by aneth4 14y ago
This guy looks amazing, though he can hardly lament that lessons were not learned if be did not participate in the commercialization of the technology. Why is this guy not consulting for Google? And I'm not sure if I'm more astounded or tha
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by aneth4 14y ago
The most interesting part of the story lies here: "coca-leaf which comes from South America and is processed in a unique US government authorized factory in New Jersey to remove its addictive stimulant cocaine" Consider the implications of
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by aneth4 14y ago
Amazing how we the more we advance civilization, the better we are at ignoring 10,000 years of human wisdom. I suppose it's never a bad thing when someone rediscovers these tidbits for themselves.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I think the same thing, and yet after asking around - and as you can see from the comments here - it happens far more often than you would expect. It's amazing to me that this is not a futile exercise. Regardless, even if it were, it serves
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by aneth4 14y ago
This is a horribly inadequate response. Prices for hardware have dropped 30% over the last 3 years and heroku is admitting their performance has degraded by many orders of magnitude. It's completely unacceptable to simply say, "yeah there's
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by aneth4 14y ago
Would love to see some more perspectives on this. We also spend a lot of resources on heroku. I'm not sure if this change by heroku is worse than the intermediary popups on all the links on this blog.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Not so complex, but I prefer a helpful employee to reading through account brochures and figuring things out myself. Basically I just needed certain types of accounts that reflected the level of transactions I was doing, and to make sure my
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by aneth4 14y ago
They are not useless fees. They are how the bank generates revenue so it can at least break even on tiny accounts. Just the regulatory burden of an empty bank account is $100-$200/year, so they need a way to recover that. In general, if you
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by aneth4 14y ago
So heroku doesn't want these $20,000/mo accounts, just technically understaffed startups paying $1000/mo? I think heroku does want to be a long-term technology choice.
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by aneth4 14y ago
My personal and business banking is done at Chase. I've found them to be fantastic and managed to avoid pretty much any fees by following the guidance of very helpful employees. I know everyone loves to bag on big banks, but Chase has been
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by aneth4 14y ago
There seems to be the usual disconnect here between the meaning of sexism and sexual. Sexual references and images can make people uncomfortable and may be inappropriate, but they are not sexist. It's not surprising that in a male dominated
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by aneth4 14y ago
Your phone is freely salable. You are not locked in.
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by aneth4 14y ago
You can however sell your phone and buy one for a different network. iPhones in particularly have a very high resale value, and regardless the phone you bought maintains its market value and is resalable. Telecom networks are extremely expe
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by aneth4 14y ago
You have a choice. Switch to T-Mobile. Regardless, calling AT&T scum is out of line. You are not mandated to purchase their services.
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by aneth4 14y ago
There are thousands of people each day signing up for NEW 2 year contracts. The telcos compete for those new and renewing customers.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Except you can switch to a different provider. You are not forced to do anything. If AT&T wants to have this requirement, that's their choice, just as it's your choice to use T-Mobile, Verizon, or Sprint.
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by aneth4 14y ago
There are at least 3 major nationwide providers competing against each other on service and price. There are also many secondary local providers and providers renting networks from the national providers. How is that not competitive?
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by aneth4 14y ago
That AT&T changed their policy due to competitive pressures? Not very dissonant.
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by aneth4 14y ago
AT&T is a company providing a service for a price. They are not scum. I've used AT&T for many years. I'm not always delighted with every policy - the now changed policy of refusing to unlock out of contract iPhones was a particular
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by aneth4 14y ago
This doesn't seem to work. It returns the OK for apps I know I have not patched (simple stuff I've thrown up on heroku). It's possible heroku is filtering the headers...
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by aneth4 14y ago
My iPhone does a pretty darn good job of serving me. In fact, that's why I own it. If it happens to server others collaterally, well, I'm not the jealous type.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I've always been shocked at how wealthy people fly around in small private planes. At least once a year, I hear of a tragedy involving such a person, often wiping out all or most of their family. While large aircraft are extremely safe, sma
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by aneth4 14y ago
There is probably not much evidence because that which would constitute evidence is held effectively in secret. There is no way for the scientific community to look for flaws in methodology. Flaws in research methodologies are often found,
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by aneth4 14y ago
Because how can you have peer review of a study if an essential and complicated part of the study is not published. If only the pharmaceutical company and the FDA review placebo technique, then the study has not really been peer reviewed an

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