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by badsock 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by badsock 10y ago
This, IMO, is a good reason to legalize and regulate all drugs, including hard drugs like heroin and meth. The user having the tools to regulate the potency and amount of the drug in order to use this taper-down strategy is not available v
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by badsock 10y ago
Agree 100%. I'm hoping that RISC-V will be a nice plateau where we can hang out for a long, long time. It's within spitting distance of a good as the current mode of thought is going to get, and there's no commercial entity
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by badsock 10y ago
The best one-liner I've heard: it's like one giant git repo that's inside of one giant bittorrent. My (imperfect) understanding is that it runs like a market: you temporarily store and forward blocks (<1MB) that are consid
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by badsock 10y ago
You raise a good point in your last paragraph. When you said "If you were familiar with Molyneux and his full line of reasoning", it sounded like you were making the argument that you have to get deep into an author before you ca
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by badsock 10y ago
The trouble is that we live in an increasingly interconnected world, and more and more of our actions impact other people - the more contact we have, the more rules there's going to need to be. So "regulatory inflation" is n
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by badsock 10y ago
Canadian, and it's similar to America's.
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by badsock 10y ago
There are literally millions of voices out there proposing different ways to look at the world. It's physically impossible to listen to more than a small proportion of that number in your lifetime, so it's reasonable to have your
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by badsock 10y ago
There isn't a big dial labelled "regulations" that when you turn it up, the "economy" needle goes down. Business requires trust. Just as more and better deals happen when both parties believe that contracts will b
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by badsock 10y ago
The taxation system is a man-made thing. If Americans wanted to raise the minimum wage, but redistribute the costs of it to the upper and not middle class, that is absolutely possible.
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by badsock 10y ago
Many contributions that people make to a functioning society can't, and never will be, quantified. One way around this is to assign a base value to a person because they are a member of the human race and a citizen of your country, and
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by badsock 10y ago
Your last paragraph is kind of to my point: in many other developed countries, your bread-winner _wouldn't have had to_ make such a huge sacrifice, just to make sure their dependants don't get stuck in poverty. There's countr
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by badsock 10y ago
When I say brutal, I'm not specifically talking about people working 50+ hours a week, I'm talking about the mindset that says that the singular number of how many bucks you can pull in should determine whether or not you're
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by badsock 10y ago
You Americans are so brutal to each other. Instead of trying to address the problem of why someone can't live on a 40-hour week, you just want to remove one of the staple worker-protection laws. 60-hour weeks basically means you live
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by badsock 10y ago
You use the word fraudulent too lightly.
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by badsock 10y ago
Has DigitalOcean gotten better for reliability? I took my company off of them about 2 years ago specifically because of their frequent downtime.
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by badsock 10y ago
I've seen this called "cave and commons", and yeah, it seems like a very good setup. I first saw it mentioned in Stewart Brand's (highly recommended) book How Buildings Learn.
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by badsock 10y ago
Not disagreeing with you (because it's definitely not just a simple webcam), but there's been progress in this area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgKkEnaaSDc
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by badsock 10y ago
With solar panels and LEDs you can shift the spectrum of incoming light into the ideal range for photosynthesis. My understanding is that this outweighs the conversion losses.
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by badsock 10y ago
If you're talking about the median American, and about essentials such as housing, education, medical care, and job security, I don't think you can claim that things are better than ever.
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by badsock 10y ago
I know VGA is on it's way out, but it's a sad thing. It's the last open-spec video monitor connector that we have. You need a annual licence to make anything that talks HDMI, and IIRC the org behind DVI closed the spec a fe
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by badsock 10y ago
Wait, you've got it backwards. At the risk of stating the obvious: the wealthy older generation are the ones who want the tax cuts for the wealthy. In a progressive taxation scheme the young and poor get more benefits from the govern
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by badsock 10y ago
I didn't forget. By your numbers blacks account for half of the murders. So take the US's 3.9 and divide it by half = 1.95. Compare that to Spain (which is full of hispanics, just to elimate that as a confounding variable) at 0
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by badsock 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
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by badsock 10y ago
Well, I think you hit the nail on the head: contemporary ethics are pretty down on things like stripping constitutional rights like the freedom of movement from a group of people based on race. A lot of people spent their lives bringing abo
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by badsock 10y ago
OK, so let's say people agree with you all the sudden. Now that you've framed it as a race thing, what sort of policy are you going to implement based on what you decide? If you're going to take any kind of punitive action a
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by badsock 10y ago
Sometimes it's hard to see the importance of racism for someone who isn't part of a minority group day-in-and-day-out. In terms of racial identification, are you part of the majority in your country?
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by badsock 10y ago
I remember the 90s, when it seemed like every time a CEO announced a big layoff, their company's stock price would jump. It struck me at the time as being fetishistic - it didn't seem based in the reality of the company's si
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by badsock 10y ago
I would argue that the FDA is that risk adverse because society is that risk adverse. And while I completely agree that those R&D billions should be compensated, when the go-to strategy for patents is to do a complete parallel re-invent
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by badsock 10y ago
There's already an FDA-approved, tried-and-tested method for delivering epinephrine: the one that Mylar has a patent on. It's stupid to force competitors to invent a completely different method to do the same thing, and then have

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