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by ataggart 13y ago
The problem with option 3 is people don't really want to pay for what they consume, and the state is happy to oblige by placing itself as the middle-man between concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
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by ataggart 13y ago
The rule of law does boil down to men with guns. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
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by ataggart 13y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why is San Marino in that list?
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by ataggart 13y ago
If the point is to perform dead code elimination, why would you declare it as an extern? It seems reasonable to me to just treat it as another of your javascript files to be included in the compilation run.
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by ataggart 13y ago
Isn't this a tooling issue, namely using something like Google's Closure Compiler to perform dead-code elimination? https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto...
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by ataggart 13y ago
>Which is funny because most people in power are not libertarians. A profound understatement.
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by ataggart 13y ago
>That's exactly what AOL provided when you accessed the 'internet' through an AOL dialup account. And where is AOL now?
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by ataggart 13y ago
Why is this a good thing?
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by ataggart 13y ago
>Some of us consider privacy a fundamental value that must be defended The severity of a punishment can be tuned separately from the form of punishment. Imprisonment is not appropriate merely by dint of your emotional reaction to the
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by ataggart 13y ago
Taking a sentient human being and throwing them in a cage is a profoundly violent act. I find it troubling that you guys so casually reach for it as a punitive tool, particularly when the subject has neither committed physical violence nor
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by ataggart 13y ago
Strange how articles like this aren't taken as an argument against the utility of "inequality". Does anyone think that the poor of today would be better off in Czarist Russia? [1] I also find it interesting that "inequa
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by ataggart 13y ago
>I don't understand the trend from these last years of trying to copy successful model by importing just the emergent part and ignoring all which is hidden. It's not a recent trend. Frédéric Bastiat wrote about it in 1850 [1].
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by ataggart 13y ago
Curious that every insurance firm would rather not have you as a customer at all than simply offer to charge a higher premium or offer to exempt the consequences of a food allergy.
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by ataggart 13y ago
If this[1] is what "increasing inequality" looks like, I welcome it. [1] http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/~/media/Annual%20Let...
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by ataggart 13y ago
>In the event that you're covered by any sort of public health insurance ... then the effects on your own health become a problem for everyone else. A vile argument. The idea that the state is empowered to curtail people's pers
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by ataggart 13y ago
I think it's important to distinguish frameworks from libraries. With libraries, your code is the caller; you can compose things as you like, including with your own code for cases not covered by the library. But with frameworks, your
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by ataggart 13y ago
And his talk on the subject of larger scale clojure programs: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Large-scale-patte...
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by ataggart 13y ago
Side-by-side diffs would be superior.
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by ataggart 13y ago
Whatever the economic effect, I have a hard time imagining the political class giving up the power that comes from being the middle men between dispersed costs and concentrated benefits.
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by ataggart 13y ago
There's a "Download MP3" link directly under the video.
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by ataggart 13y ago
From the context, I gathered that the missing slide is just the subsequent slide[1] without the blue oval. [1] http://www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/clojure-core-asy...
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by ataggart 13y ago
Because this is just mathematical cargo-cult scientism. If the basis for deciding "the model itself may require tweaking or redesign" is that "you still think the results look wrong", you're not doing science.
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by ataggart 13y ago
That wouldn't help either. If something as explicit as the Seventh Amendment's "twenty dollars" requirement can be argued away, anything can. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.ht
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by ataggart 13y ago
>We [sic] should just make it flat out illegal to... >We [sic] should also fine doctors for... Why is violence an appropriate response to these non-violent issues?
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by ataggart 13y ago
Compare this: >The government shouldn't have the right... to this: >The US Government absolutely has the right... You can't refute a normative claim with a positive claim. ---- >Are you really suggesting that our laws sho
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by ataggart 13y ago
Many people, from Thomas Aquinas to Martin Luther King, would disagree with that principle. Further, I disagree with the notion that a violent response to a non-violent act is justified simply because you can't think of a non-violent w
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by ataggart 13y ago
Of course it uses violence; try declining the "non-violent" penalties. Even criminals don't immediately resort to physical violence, but you still know precisely why you should hand over your wallet.
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by ataggart 13y ago
What do you imagine the state uses to compel obedience to its laws, if not threats of violence? Sometimes that violence might be appropriate, but some firm sending you an unwanted email falls short of the mark.
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by ataggart 13y ago
Violence is not an appropriate response. The first two are sufficient.
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by ataggart 13y ago
The US Constitution doesn't "protect" anyone except insofar as it mandates/prohibits actions of the Federal and State governments , and those mandates/prohibitions apply wherever agents of the state act under const

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