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by ataggart 13y ago
Except that in the Monty Hall problem something has changed after the initial choice: one of the previous options is proven to be a goat. No such change occurs with the two envelopes, no new information is made available, thus no basis for
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by ataggart 13y ago
+1 for not calling it a "REST API".
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by ataggart 13y ago
I don't see the utility in using "government" to mean something other than "the state". We have other words that can work just as well without introducing confusion about the intent of the speaker.
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by ataggart 13y ago
As Orwell wrote, "the English language ... becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." Considering that patents are entirely
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by ataggart 13y ago
I bring it up because there are downsides to coupling essential services to whoever happens to be your employer at the time. The upsides are mostly a consequence of the market adapting to decades-long tax policy. There's nothing speci
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by ataggart 13y ago
I'm not clear on what the argument is here other than "X is good, therefore X should be provided by one's employer."
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by ataggart 13y ago
>there is no reasonable way in which Schedule 7 could have been legally used for this purpose. And yet it was used, for neither "reasonable" nor "legally" have any objective meaning. Both are convenient fictions to
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by ataggart 13y ago
In my experience, these take home projects are woefully underspecified. Do they know this and expect me to email them with "good questions"? Or want me to not email them and "fill in the blanks" on my own? Do they w
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by ataggart 13y ago
>Please educate yourself about the history of successful social movements like labor rights, civil rights, environmental protection, etc. Given that the current context involves opposing government power, I'm not sure labour rights
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by ataggart 13y ago
Lacking any analysis of the costs of the patent system, the above is not "economic justification", but rather just heaping assumption upon assumption. Stephan Kinsella has written extensively in opposition to the state's inte
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by ataggart 13y ago
>If the Constitution said: "people in France owe us taxes" would that be valid and binding? Yes, because the text would be a grant of power to the US federal government to try and collect taxes from the people of France. Suc
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by ataggart 13y ago
I look forward to the day when code reviewing a pull request with a significant number of commits across a significant number of files is possible for a human. The top/bottom diff format may be useful for machines, but it's terrib
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by ataggart 13y ago
It doesn't, at least not for those loathsome individuals who diligently bootlick for the total state...
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by ataggart 13y ago
Five year olds do not have the capacity to understand such choices, thus should not be compelled into making them.
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by ataggart 13y ago
Given that the political (un)likelihood of the death penalty was already addressed by GabrielF00, it's not clear to me how "slippery slope fallacy" is a valid dismissal when espionage is punishable by death and has been a
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by ataggart 13y ago
Few men want to be free; most just want fair masters.
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by ataggart 13y ago
>I enjoy how your response is not to engage with any of Rayiner's actual arguments True, though in precisely the same way his response was not to engage with any of Spooner's actual arguments. I am perfectly willing to yield e
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by ataggart 13y ago
>Seems to be a very good reason why persuasion based around "constitutionality" is not a waste of time. Perhaps, but it's not a very good reason to engage in an argument with someone making positive claims about "co
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by ataggart 13y ago
>The fact that the actions are "invasive" doesn't mean they're unconstitutional. Perhaps, though that only reinforces Spooner's point. Given the repeated attempts to frame this as only an issue of explicit prohi
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by ataggart 13y ago
I enjoy how your response to Spooner's criticism of the Constitution is to declare that the Constitution permits these invasive acts. >If the Constitution said: "Congress shall pass no law... abridging the right of privacy&quot
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by ataggart 13y ago
I am reminded of the words of Lysander Spooner [1]: "[T]he Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the government has been made in practice a
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by ataggart 13y ago
If a foreign country is willing to force their citizens to subsidize our purchases of their sugar, steel, etc., I see little reason to object.
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by ataggart 13y ago
To my mind research is fundamentally different from (and antecedent to) application. I assume (perhaps mistakenly) that there are areas of knowledge that are both potentially useful to solve problems and difficult to access/learn on ones o
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by ataggart 13y ago
The consensus here seems to be that, unless you want to do research and publish papers, a Bachelors in CS is a terminal degree. Is there really no room for formal exposure to advanced application of what the researchers are researching? If
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by ataggart 13y ago
To me, the far more interesting thing is how he lets the mask slip regarding the Constitution itself, namely that they are not bound to go through the amendment process, nor even the judicial facade of interpreting how to apply the Constitu
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by ataggart 13y ago
>I don't think it's unreasonable. Given that laws mean whatever those in power say they mean, the test is not whether you find the text reasonable, but rather whether they can find the text to mean something you would find un reaso
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by ataggart 14y ago
I'm not clear on why that matters. She's been explicit about her opposition to legalization: http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/elizabeth-warren-flunks-mari...
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by ataggart 14y ago
That's the same GOP candidate that Elizabeth Warren slighted for supporting marijuana legalization: http://blog.norml.org/2013/03/19/sen-elizabeth-warren-takes-...
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by ataggart 14y ago
The law means whatever judges say it means. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
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by ataggart 14y ago
You might not want to write parser from scratch, but you might want a new syntactic abstraction, and that usually requires a language change. For example, Python's "with" statement. If Clojure did not already provide the analogous `with-op

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