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by badsock 10y ago
In BC, Canada the provision of electricity and water are by provincial/municipal governments, have very similiar requirements in terms of running wires/pipes, and in my experience have delivered much better services. They don&#x27
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by badsock 10y ago
The point I'm making is that it could grow 100 times and it still pales against other risks.
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by badsock 10y ago
Really? That's your nightmare scenario? A bunch of immigrants, and some of them will turn to terrorism - a threat that kills less people per year than, say, automobile accidents or medical mistakes. How about climate change? Meteors
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by badsock 10y ago
An up-to-date QT FireFox port would make me so happy :)
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by badsock 10y ago
I would make the exact opposite argument. I set things up the way I want them many years ago, and because everything's a text file, my configs have followed me across many machines and OS installs by just copying some files. With more
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by badsock 10y ago
It made me so sad when Firefox switched over to GTK3, and now I'm stuck with their foolish attempt at improving the file browser. For whatever reason by default it tries (and fails) to open a network connection, and they broke the abi
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by badsock 10y ago
Sending streaming lightfields for viewing in VR (for live sports etc.) Is going to take every bit of bandwidth we can throw at it.
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by badsock 10y ago
If any generation had the power to change things how things ended up today, it was yours. To pick one example: all the supreme court justices who presided over the Citizens United case were appointed during your prime years. If a generatio
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by badsock 10y ago
My point isn't that there's always new things to discover, it's that nature has so routinely made fools of us that the argument of "it's obvious" should carry little weight.
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by badsock 10y ago
Flossing can drive bacteria deeper into your gums, even causing them to be enter the bloodstream, which then (there's been some evidence) can have an influence on heart disease. Public policy needs research. Human history is absolutel
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by badsock 10y ago
That belief is widespread in America, but is unsupported by data. If you look at how hard it is for an American to rise out of the conditions they were born in, they're worse off than if they'd been born in (for example) France,
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by badsock 10y ago
I'm saying that I wouldn't argue that communism (in the sense that all value produced is publicly owned) is a good economic system.
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by badsock 10y ago
Evidence is the standard that I think that statements like Mr. Bright's should be held to - not vaguely remembered economic theories.
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by badsock 10y ago
You are 100% correct, and I'm wrong. Thanks for the correction!
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by badsock 10y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but I think it's important to note that if you make the reductio ad absurdum argument that a tax rate of 100% has strongly negative effects, sure I'll go with that, but if there&#x
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by badsock 10y ago
Bernie Sanders is a social democrat, not a socialist. It's insane that social democrats haven't rebranded considering how common the confusion is.
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by badsock 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that increased government spending harms economic growth? It seems like an a priori certainty in right wing thought, but what evidence I've seen suggests that the effect is minimal or even beneficial (within t
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by badsock 10y ago
You're right. However, VR-native tools for creating 3D environments are going to be vastly easier to use than desktop based ones (so much of the specialize skills required for using e.g. Maya are just because you're using a 2D mou
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by badsock 10y ago
You're right; still costs $1-5k though: http://monster6502.com/
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by badsock 10y ago
One big thing for me is that I trust the FreeBSD devs to not completely reinvent things unless they're sure it's an improvement. I got sick of the churn in Linux, having to relearn things all the time and then find out when I&#x27
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by badsock 10y ago
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Back then Microsoft was an abusive monopoly in many more ways than that (e.g. punishing their OEM customers by refusing to sell them Windows if they offered any other OS as an option).
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by badsock 10y ago
What I find disappointing is that the left, who used to represent the working class, is missing this opportunity to address that class's needs explicitly. The fact that this huge amount of dissatisfaction is being channelled into squab
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by badsock 10y ago
First let me say I really appreciate your comment. The flip side is that using evidence is immediately dismissed as elitist. Studies performed by governments and universities are either corrupt or ivory-tower nonsense. How are you suppose
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by badsock 10y ago
Exactly, it's a classic tragedy of the commons situation. The most rational move is to maximize your own gain, despite the obvious collective result. There are conditions that can cause the rational action to switch to self-moderation
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by badsock 10y ago
As a Canadian, I want nothing to do with a country where a party like UKIP has the kind of sway they demonstrated yesterday.
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by badsock 10y ago
What I found surprising is how close it was in places that are being cast as representing one side or the other. Scotland, which is portayed as wanting to remain in the EU so much that independance is now likely, still had 38% wanting to l
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by badsock 10y ago
Seriously, I don't think they realize that most of their problems with government are actually problems with just their government, which from an outsiders perspective seems very poorly run. They outspend nearly everyone on public he
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by badsock 10y ago
In different cultures (e.g. Russia), and different time periods (e.g. the 80's), the level of interest and participation from women is/was much, much higher. I would say that's a pretty objective reason for believing that it
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by badsock 10y ago
What I don't get is how you consider this such an important crusade to go on. Is collecting the opinions of under-represented groups such an objectively damaging thing that you're going to spent your limited energy and time on ea
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by badsock 10y ago
This project is awesome, but I'd be worried about my hand brushing up against all that lead every day for years. Or am I being too paranoid? In any case, easily solved with some casting epoxy.

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