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by ataggart 16y ago
>However, Lisp has a big problem: it’s not intuitive. Something about nipples comes to mind.
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by ataggart 16y ago
GitX is nice, but there's a fork of it that's so much nicer: http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/11/experimental-gitx-update...
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. Does O2 have a monopoly on wireless internet access?
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by ataggart 16y ago
Does O2 have a monopoly on wireless internet access?
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Because using the police power of the state against otherwise peaceful organizations is more convenient than taking your business elsewhere, and allows you to substitute your preferences for the revealed preferences of other consumers.
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First, firefighters and police were not excluded from the bill; they were explicitly included under the rubric of "public safety employees" (as opposed to general municipal employees). Second, the difference in treatment contained in the bi
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Could someone please provide some context?
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by ataggart 16y ago
>they're using a monopoly in one area Then it would be the regulations granting monopoly that are anti-competitive. Again, removing restrictions on extant and would-be competitors cannot be anti-competitive; words mean things.
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>- UBB is anti-competitive So far as I am aware, for something to be "anti-competitive" it must restrict the (otherwise non-criminal) actions of extant or would-be competitors in a market. From what I've been able to glean about the UB
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>They are as socially liberal as the libertarians in congress like Ron Paul. I think you have been misinformed. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/sorry_four_loko_chuck_s...
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>I think it generally is in the public interest that people actually representing themselves as engineers have a sound understanding of what they're actually doing It's not clear to me what calculus should be used to decide "the public
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That the Constitution grants Congress a power (e.g., taxation) does not mean the states are forbidden from exercising similar power (see Amendment 10). Absent a Federal law prohibiting such taxes, the states would be acting within their so
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>My concern about for-profit [services] is that its interest is focused more on the investor and less on the [customer]. Funny how elsewhere the profit motive aligns suppliers' actions to the demands of their extant and would-be custome
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The hash is the anonymous function form. In the example, presumably the unless function calls and returns the value of the passed-in function when the test is logical true, otherwise returns nil.
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Filburn's wheat. Wickard was the Secretary of Agriculture.
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Stop Worrying About the Trade Deficit(ideasinactiontv.com)
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>Because of our balance of payments crisis. We need to stop our country's net outflow of dollars. I think you've been misinformed: http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2006/02/stop-worryi...
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>telecoms form natural monopolies. Perhaps, though the it's of little relevance given all the government-granted monopolies. It would be nice to see "net neutrality" legislation advocates first look at what extant legislation interfe
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So, what's the over-under for the percentage change in the quantity of spam Canadians see due to this act of politicians? I'd wager about 0%.
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>Isn't governance what governments are for? All As do B, but not everyone that does B is an A. I don't need an organization with a geographic monopoly on police powers to run my son's little league. >There is no guarantee that comp
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>conservative/libertarian 1. That's an ignorant conjoining 2. Libertarians are well aware they're members of a vanishingly small minority
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Perhaps we would instead be asking under which of the "few and defined" Constitutionally-granted powers is the Federal government basing its demand that one private entity retain the personal communications of another private entity.
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> ... acedemia promotes people and the govt gives grants based on a formula: sum(journal_prestige .* number_articles). Take away the current system and there is no way to evaluate anybody. Neal Stephenson made a similar argument with re
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by ataggart 16y ago
How are you defining "public goods"? Most people don't mean anything so precise as "goods which are, by their nature, both non-rivalrous and non-excludable." Nor do they simply mean "goods which are presently provided by the government." R
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It will be interesting to see the overlap between those decrying this government pressure to infringe upon the free speech rights of an organization, and those decrying the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United that such organizations
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In an ideal world: say -v joshua Shall we play a game?
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The argument that California's policies produced the strongest private sector in the country is equally fallacious.
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Note, I wasn't criticizing the python implementation. It's a perfectly reasonable way to model the problem. You brought up list comprehensions, and something about being "blasé about using map". I wanted to show how a different way of mod
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The debt (read: accumulated past deficits) isn't the only, or even main, issue; rather it's the future liabilities that are killers. For example, California has unfunded pension liabilities of over $500 billion [1]. To put that number in
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It's clojure. As for preference, given that map, filter, etc., are lazy, I like the clear visibility of each step working on each element of the sequence. Clojure has a list comprehension, for, though using it here is more trouble than it's

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