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by bmelton 8y ago
I honestly don't know what they might have other than early mover advantage, but in this case, that could be huge. I was in a DC suburb last week looking for parking, and found two parking lots across the street from each other. They
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by bmelton 8y ago
I mean, I can answer those questions, but the OP comment was a critique of the policy, not the policy makers. Yes, I understand that perhaps OP's comment might have been influenced by the policy maker, but nothing in their post makes a
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by bmelton 8y ago
Does that materially change whether or not it does or doesn't make it more expensive to build products in America that rely on Chinese components?
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by bmelton 8y ago
To be fair, it's probably more likely that they saw this thread[1] yesterday at some point after React 'won' than that they were dutifully monitoring competing product's star counts. [1] - https://news.ycombin
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by bmelton 8y ago
There are Republicans who agree with you on healthcare. Let's not forget that Obama's ACA was a rehash of Romneycare. There are Republicans in favor of gay marriage. The attorneys in US v Windsor, which overturned the Defense o
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by bmelton 8y ago
There's some good (and other) advice already posted in here, and I can't think of anything to add to that, so I won't belabor the point... but if you run out of other options, and can find your way to the Annapolis, Maryland
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by bmelton 8y ago
> half this country can't remember what empathy is Not that I disagree with your overall point, but while I might be being overly sensitive here, I think it's implicit that 9 times out of 10, when someone refers to "half t
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by bmelton 8y ago
I agree that they're very different, but at the same time, there's a non-trivial base of users who earnestly believe that when you're picking a JS framework to use for <insert whatever>, momentum is a meaningful factor
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by bmelton 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Like I said, I know very little about the region. While I certainly laud WMATA for upgrading the cars, I definitely agree that service quality is declining enough that if I need to be in DC for something promptl
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by bmelton 8y ago
On what grounds do they sue? Clearly local governments have the ability to build/own things like buses, metros, recycling centers, etc. Do you have any citations?
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by bmelton 8y ago
Not that I disagree with your premise, but as someone who's never livd in America's most corrupt city, what is it about Chicago that inspires so much confidence with regard to municipal broadband?
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by bmelton 8y ago
> What would they have to lose? Their professional reputations.
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by bmelton 8y ago
I think my point stands, which is that not every possibility is an eventuality, and we shouldn't assume that to be true without a willingness to accept a very bad panoply of preventative measures masquerading as corrective measures. Th
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by bmelton 8y ago
> if the edge case is possible, it will happen By that argument, you will: * beat your wife * murder an enemy * shoot up a school full of children * commit arson * jump bail * evade arrest * die in a hail of bullets So, assuming all thos
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by bmelton 8y ago
You point out that I made a misrepresentation, which I did do by exclusion of a better example and citation. In Harris v Quinn, the plaintiff quit work to care for a sick relative. Finding out that Illinois had a program to assist home heal
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by bmelton 8y ago
Negative assertion doesn't imply tacit vs. explicitly stated, it implies whether the government is obligated to provide you with it to ensure your right is served. In America, for example, the right to legal counsel is positively asser
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by bmelton 8y ago
Not that it's on-topic, but both are rights, and to be more specific, both are negatively asserted rights; which are (at least in America) rights to which nobody else has the obligation to assist you with, but to which nobody in the go
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by bmelton 8y ago
Considering Microsoft is (and has been for some time) one of Github's most prolific users, I'd say if it's going to be open sourced, we should expect it soon.
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by bmelton 8y ago
I agree, but the problem is that if the MBP can't be considered 'reliable', then none of that really matters. I've been a happy Mac user for years now, and historically, on the very rare occasion that I had a problem, it
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by bmelton 8y ago
> But then you're need a person who believes in women's rights to believe they stop at some arbitrary line on a map Not so. I'm not advocating the elimination of the federal government, nor am I advocating for a reduction
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by bmelton 8y ago
There's a reason that governments created by the imperial English tend to last well after it's been divested as a colony. They put in a government that really, only the government needs to know the mechanics of.
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by bmelton 8y ago
Also full-time remote worker. We solve the problem by letting people know when you will and won't be available. It can be super informal (e.g. "Hey guys, gonna be out of pocket this afternoon") or entered into a shared cale
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by bmelton 8y ago
If Kevin broke the site, it's a process problem. Kevin didn't break the site, he introduced code that might have broken the site, and the lack of tests to have detected the it broke the site. Jane then peer reviewed the code tha
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by bmelton 8y ago
I've worked exclusively remotely for a number of years, and while I tend to prefer it, there are times where I miss the hustle and bustle of an office place. For those occasions, I've always just relocated to either a coffee shop
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by bmelton 8y ago
> has the same effect as saying that you don't want those things regulated at all Not liking how something is done doesn't mean it doesn't need to be done. I'd be a big fan of DACA, for example, or even more open bo
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by bmelton 8y ago
To be fair, the "national level" money would likely have to be split 50 ways anyway, as any national level events worth lobbying for would likely affect all the states, to varying degrees of reception. Past that, voter engagement
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by bmelton 8y ago
> No one is coerced or forced into an involuntary association That is provably false in at least some states, because joining some professions in certain states required you to pay agency fees whether or not you chose to be a member of
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by bmelton 8y ago
You have better representation. Federally, my Senator represents ~3 million constituents, while my House representative represents ~800k. At the state level, those numbers shrink from 3 million to 120,000, and from 800k to 40k. If you liv
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by bmelton 8y ago
> it assumes that if it's bad when the federal government gets involved with something, it's equally bad when the state government gets involved Which in my opinion is a broadly false assumption, and ignores the very point of a
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by bmelton 8y ago
Your response assumes that without the federal government doing something, nobody will do it, but that misses the fact that we have 50 state governments and DC perfectly capable of regulating themselves. Past that, local elections already m

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