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by ataggart 14y ago
Obviously, Uber doesn't prevent visitors from getting to the convention center directly; Uber isn't taking up spots at the cab stand at LGA. But if the "Uber way of doing business" effectively drives regulated cabs out of business, that's
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by ataggart 14y ago
Goldman Sachs is the extreme example of capitalism gone wrong. I find it interesting this sort of thing is rarely, if ever, presented as government gone wrong. Not everything based on self-interest falls within capitalism. When someone s
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by ataggart 14y ago
The notion that I am bound by whatever legalese someone happens to put on their publicly accessible website is absurd in the extreme; I am not the one checking the box to submit a post. CL is perfectly able to restrict read-access to those
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by ataggart 14y ago
The posts on CL are no more "Craigslist data" than videos on YouTube are "Google data". The data is submitted by the users for the express purpose of being seen by other people. Does anyone seriously argue that users listing flats on CL
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by ataggart 14y ago
On a related note, when is someone going to make The Moon is a Harsh Mistress into a movie?
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by ataggart 14y ago
Some types of the latter are subsets of the former.
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by ataggart 14y ago
> The value of one's life is infinite. That is demonstrably false. Everyone of us could, at a cost, reduce his chance of dying tomorrow.
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by ataggart 14y ago
I often get that feeling: "We're living in the future". It's not quite the future I imagined as a kid, but it's pretty damned cool.
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by ataggart 14y ago
According to the counter, they called orbit at about T+10 minutes. Solar arrays deployed at T+11:50! And the crowd goes wild!
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by ataggart 14y ago
As a hearing child of two deaf parents, I'm one data point against the notion that such a child's language skills are harmed. Sesame Street is a wonderful thing.
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by ataggart 14y ago
I'm not sure I buy your argument. It is certainly true that with MVCC "there is more than one legitimate answer the question of COUNT", but that's true for any query, not just COUNT. Given that we can maintain transactional correctness
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by ataggart 14y ago
>When someone says "there is a shortage of oil" Someone else should immediately retort with "At what price?" >It's a bit silly to say "there are no shortages! Only cheap consumers!" It's only silly insofar as shortages result despit
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by ataggart 15y ago
My compilers class was a nightmare (and we used the Dragon book). I had hoped a compilers course would actually teach about the full process by which a text file becomes executable 1s and 0s. Instead it was a months-long torture of parsin
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by ataggart 15y ago
The two may be less distinct in the face of some approaches to minimizing remote reads/writes, e.g., replication of pages across domains. Apart from ensuring the cost of such replication is warranted, the dominant pressure against replicat
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by ataggart 15y ago
An alternative approach is to avoid building systems that require you to keep the whole "huge system" in your head at once.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Tell that to the guys who are provably not the biological father, but are still forced by the courts to pay child support.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Which is semantically equivalent to "site doesn't understand security."
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by ataggart 15y ago
"The new thing here is that soon it will be legal..." The article fails to make any mention of what precisely is currently illegal . I'm still not clear on that. What crime would I be committing today that will soon not be a crime?
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by ataggart 15y ago
So it's not that something previously illegal was legalized, nor that something previously burdensome become less burdensome. Instead more bureaucratic overhead was added, barriers to entry were raised, and all that with a nice helping of
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by ataggart 15y ago
"They took the "ends will justify the means" policy long ago." To be fair, with negligible exception, everyone of every political bent takes that policy.
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by ataggart 15y ago
The poor state of car manufacturing and banking would seem to argue against inflicting "government investing" on new technology companies.
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by ataggart 15y ago
This reads as another argument about intentional systems versus emergent systems. The author wants to intentionally build a language which is provably "better". Instead we have an ecosystem where many languages (and libraries, and framewo
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by ataggart 15y ago
Relevant: http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/06/let-it-burn-or-not-fulton-...
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by ataggart 15y ago
Individuals should not be compelled to actively participate in their own prosecution. This is the spirit of the 5th Amendment.
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by ataggart 15y ago
I'd recommend reading The Road to Serfdom before continuing down that line of thought.
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by ataggart 15y ago
>And if there's nothing genetically wrong with black people, then blacks should be demographically represented in colleges. If they're not, then there's something wrong with admissions. Perhaps genetics and racism are not the only facto
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by ataggart 15y ago
And saying "states have the right to legalize drugs!" is tantamount to promoting drug use?
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by ataggart 15y ago
>Then elect legislators who will decriminalize marijuana. The problem is that politicians are elected on a package-deal of positions. Just imagine the kind of bad haircuts and/or crappy food we'd have if we all voted on which one bar
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by ataggart 15y ago
I'm curious at to what statistical facts inform that opinion. Police certainly may show up after being a victim of a crime, but being protected from crimes seems a harder case to make without resorting to unfalsifiable claims (sort of
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by ataggart 15y ago
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, we'll get government to fix it." Now they have two problems.

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