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by bhickey 10y ago
https://thevotingnews.com/team-at-rice-builds-machine-to-tra...
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by bhickey 10y ago
dpeg is probably the original author of the manifesto. Some of it is undoubtedly formed by accretion. He is also one of the originators of the contentious [Berlin Interpretation]( http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=B
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by bhickey 10y ago
crawl dev here! I'm generally pretty dumbstruck by the rest of the team. They're as good or better than professional groups I've worked with. A handful of super devs really drive the project along and we've had a fairly
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by bhickey 10y ago
> [I]t should be more like a last resort rather than a first port of call. The obvious retort is that if all spending were deficit spending, people would stop lending us money. Rather than attaching unnecessary ideological baggage to tax
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by bhickey 10y ago
Companies aren't just groups of people. They're groups of people that are specially organized and granted limited liability and other privileges. I don't mean to claim that companies should or shouldn't have political
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by bhickey 10y ago
This presumes that deficit spending is necessarily bad. When your borrowing rate is sub-inflationary, you'd have to be a dope to spend today dollars. The UK is still servicing debt on perpetual bonds from the 17th or 18th century. They
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by bhickey 10y ago
Folks might be downvoting because it isn't a valid point. If you incorporate you're required to pay yourself. The IRS will come down on your like a ton of bricks if they believe you're underpaying yourself. Unless you're
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by bhickey 10y ago
Apple's cash pile includes a lot of overseas holdings. There simply aren't enough things for them to spend $60bn on. They don't want to repatriate the money because they'd get hit with (wait for it) taxes. If we eliminat
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by bhickey 10y ago
I disagree. I think there's a multi-pronged, not-necessarily-partisan critique of corporate income taxes. These taxes are inefficient: They're difficult to collect. They disadvantage small companies that can't afford costly t
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Not to mention core strength! Tiny little holds are often at inconvenient angles. To pull on those features his entire body is engaged.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Bill Shockley won the Nobel Prize in Physics ( https://www.mountainproject.com/v/shockleys-ceiling/10579968... ) Hans Kraus was JFK's back doctor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kraus )
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by bhickey 10y ago
Has the attitude here changed? Nixing TPP is probably one of the few things I agree with Trump on, albeit for different reasons. (Hey Adam!)
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by bhickey 10y ago
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-pens-fi... Back in July he wrote to a dying Marianne Ihlen, "Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mi
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by bhickey 10y ago
He also joined with Theodore Olson, opposing counsel in Bush v Gore, to argue Hollingsworth v Perry.
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by bhickey 10y ago
There are projects that are teetering on the edge of profitability (in terms of cap rate.) Increase permitting times, shave off a few stories, force more units to be below market rate, and all of a sudden those projects evaporate. Suppose y
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by bhickey 10y ago
Sure, but in practice I think we'd be hard pressed to find someone with such stringent requirements. For all practical purposes, using your entropy stream to seed ChaCha is more than good enough. Want something with a proof? Seed a Blu
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by bhickey 10y ago
The site seems to portray it like TempleOS meets 4chan.
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by bhickey 10y ago
> pulling out leading "digits" in arbitrary bases of this value Generally this bookkeeping isn't worth the complexity. Modern PRNGs are super efficient: PCG is about 3x faster than Mersenne Twister.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Yes. Corporal punishment in public schools is legal in 19 states. It's actually carried out in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Note that I didn't say "You have absolute privacy in postal mail." The two have different legal protections, and those on snail mail are incontrovertibly stronger.
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by bhickey 10y ago
> because While it's reasonable to bring up issues of moral hazard, blaming the national debt on startups has no relationship with reality.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Mail and e-mail are legally distinct.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Estimates put their artillery deployment at 13,000. Even assuming they fire for a minute before being completely destroyed by counter battery fire, we're still talking 65,000 shells coming over the border. Push it out to 30 minutes and
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by bhickey 10y ago
What about the artillery that the DPRK has trained on Seoul? A conventional strike means the complete destruction of a city of 10m. On top of that, where does a conventional strike leave China? Any intervention that isn't Chinese led w
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by bhickey 10y ago
Today a huge portion of H1Bs are get assigned to body shops who then provide labor to large companies. I'm more concerned with worker exploitation than I am with a few startups who as missing out today, potentially missing out tomorrow
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by bhickey 10y ago
> reversing that process is physically a negative yield. How energetically costly is direct atmospheric gas capture? Does sequestering flue gases look much better?
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by bhickey 10y ago
> While some trigger warning like the ones you mentioned are valid, the term has been perverted to include all sorts of things[0] where you could get in trouble for talking in public about insects or needles. This is going to sound like
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by bhickey 10y ago
> Earth has still millions of years of habitability The lower bound is probably 600m to 1bn years. By then the sun's luminosity will have increased enough to eventually boil off the oceans. To get over this hump we'd need to se
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by bhickey 10y ago
What would you like techsupporter to do? Drive down to the prisons and personally tear down the bars? "So long as Texas keeps executing people, I don't see what difference it makes how many [Americans] are in favor of it."
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by bhickey 10y ago
Hypothetical timeline: An agent born in 1904 tainted a Soviet cipher in 1926. That agent then recruited other assets before retiring in 1973. Unlikely? Sure. Outlandish? Nah.

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