bmelton

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901.
by bmelton 10y ago
To put a more fine point on it, generally speaking, an action that is subject to an adversarial system, is debated upon in plain view, is subject to pressure by consistuents, and is voted upon by the body populace, especially where the bar
902.
by bmelton 10y ago
> And if they're wrong and they fail Fair point, but worth noting that they could fail for many reasons that have nothing to do with your central thesis.
903.
by bmelton 10y ago
TIL that the 13th amendment is a regulation. It's ironic, since you're explaining to others in a post above this one the very difference between "laws" and "rules", so it's pretty clear that you understan
904.
by bmelton 10y ago
The only assumption that I made was that when erichocean said something that began with a social buzzword and ended parroting the theory that reflects the definition of that social buzzword, that he was referring to the actual theory define
905.
by bmelton 10y ago
I'm not who you were replying to, but he wasn't necessarily making an assumption. There is a philosophical theory named "effective altruism" which includes tenets such as cause prioritization, cost effectiveness and com
906.
by bmelton 10y ago
Man... just wow. My immediate impression of this was how great the divide is on media between the left and the right. I don't know how much of this is attributable to standard ad targeting, some facebook interest algorithm or what, b
907.
by bmelton 10y ago
Wouldn't it be dramatically easier to just allow Americans to buy their drugs from other first world countries at the prices they pay? If American drug companies have to compete with extra-national pricing, I'm guessing they&#x27
908.
by bmelton 10y ago
Token based auth is stateless, so your first assumption stands true -- no need to join them at the hip. I've tried working with tools like Djangular and whatnot, and no matter how many times I've tried working within that ecosyste
909.
by bmelton 10y ago
I see that you've been downvoted, and while I can sort of see why, your thoughts somewhat echo my own, which earned you an upvote. Everybody's tripping over themselves to praise Gitlab here, and while I agree that they probably ma
910.
by bmelton 10y ago
And the fix for either is peer review. Obviously, a forefront-expert in a given field may not have the luxury of peers, making peer review more difficult, but as sub-peers attempt to dissect the work, they learn, and the more that attempt
911.
by bmelton 10y ago
I've known a number of folks who have done "read more" challenges, whether 50 books a year was the target or some other number, and while this is surely anecdotal, the real goal wasn't hitting some arbitrary number, bu
912.
by bmelton 10y ago
I mean, sure, and of course that's right -- but you can do that and still easily read a book a week at the same time.
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by bmelton 10y ago
The only takeaway for me is the wondering whether or not the author really thinks you can't read a book a week. I mean, yeah, you have to make time to read the books, but an average length book takes something like 6-8 hours to read,
914.
by bmelton 10y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that nano is a valid replacement for vim?
915.
by bmelton 10y ago
I'm trying to figure out how "The city should be building affordable housing" is considered a libertarian ideal, and I can't get there from here. Can you help me understand why you feel that it is? I'm having an eq
916.
by bmelton 10y ago
Curious as to whether you went with the 3.8 because it was what would have been OE, or if there was an advantage to it over the 3.6. Unlike most others in here, I'm not trying to second-guess you -- everybody's choices are persona
917.
by bmelton 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not suggesting that every scrap of paper needs to get released if it isn't practicable, but secret, billion-dollar plus programs should simply not exist, ever; this includes (in my opinion) NSA surveillance, the Manhatt
918.
by bmelton 10y ago
If the government is able to keep secrets from us, then we cannot give informed consent on whether their governance is appropriate or not for our nation's citizenry. Uninformed consent is hardly consent at all, and our elected class ou
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by bmelton 10y ago
Possibly not, but you would be in violation of trespass, which is somewhat ironic given the article's failure to prevail on a trespass claim.
920.
by bmelton 10y ago
What specifically did you find problematic in the Citizens United decision?
921.
by bmelton 10y ago
I agree with your characterization of vandalism, but to > Why should anyone on HN argue with a qualified legal opinion by suggesting alternative legal strategies? there are a long list of reasons why we might want to: - some of us have q
922.
by bmelton 10y ago
According to Wal-Mart, they get 260 million visitors to their stores each week. I assume the 260 million figure includes stores outside of the United States. According to statista[1], walmart.com does 91.6 million unique visitors per month
923.
by bmelton 10y ago
... and then be subjected to their new crappy rules of what they think the perfect neighborhood looks like.
924.
by bmelton 10y ago
I refused to move to a neighborhood with a compulsory HOA, and instead landed in an area with a voluntary HOA. We moved to an older suburban neighborhood that is just filled with community pride, and just exudes a neighborly feeling. We f
925.
by bmelton 10y ago
Exactly. I don't know much about olive oil, but in the world of bourbon, it's fairly common for bourbon-makers to win awards with recipes that they bottled years ago, and leverage those awards to sell sub-standard distillate that
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by bmelton 10y ago
Because I feel it's necessary to challenge this... > 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
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by bmelton 10y ago
> Just because it isn't 50/50 doesn't mean it's a problem. I completely agree with that statement in isolation, however it doesn't address that there are women who feel that breaking into tech is hard, or at leas
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by bmelton 10y ago
From my reading, the article in question gives me a complimentary view of the author, and a less complimentary view of those who reviled him.
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by bmelton 10y ago
You may be right overall, but that's a particularly bad example, as Frozen simply eliminates the "flask" portion that gets deployed to the server in lieu of static files, ergo obviating the need for WSGI altogether. Serving a
930.
by bmelton 10y ago
But then they get to tack on "court costs" as increased fines.

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