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by brbsix 10y ago
Just to spare anyone else the trouble, this is a service to send postcards with Democratic party talking points to prominent Republican politicians. Not cool.
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At the very least, ISIS would not have been armed to the same extent by fleeing Iraqi security forces.
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Some state intervention (e.g. drug prohibition) creates issues (in this case mass violations of civil liberties, militarization of police, vast numbers of incarcerated minorities, criminalization of medical conditions) that are measurably w
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by brbsix 10y ago
This still doesn't address new users, but you can use a third-party service like hnreplies.com.
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The UNICEF report on the pilot UBI in India: http://unicef.in/Uploads/Publications/Resources/pub_doc83.pd... Footage and notes from a conference talk discussing the aforementioned experiment: https:/&#x
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It also coincides with the end of the Bretton Woods system, the last remnants of a gold standard in 1971. From there it was fiat currency, adoption of the U.S. dollar as reserve currency to the world, and rapid globalization.
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There's a significant difference between wealthy Google millionaires who continue to work there and aristocrats, trust-fund babies, the idle rich. The former are largely self-made whereas the latter posses entirely unearned wealth an
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> Giving people more options (as in, unrestricted money to spend) is the opposite of coercion. The context is important. Are these "options" given willingly or taken by force? The distinction is pretty important. It's the
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> the creative and subtle ways that humans come up with to coerce other humans into doing their bidding without realizing that they are being coerced I think you've just described government in general (and the propaganda that propa
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Absolutely, though I'd argue that this is simply one consequence of the war on drugs rather than separate larger issue. The war on drugs is a masterful play. It's a free pass for law enforcement to circumvent your rights, to searc
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People are absolutely monitoring when a doctor prescribes tons of opiods. The State of California runs a PDMP (prescription drug monitoring program) known as CURES (Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System) [0]. It&#x27
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I've been trying to figure this out as well. I'm not familiar with the real estate market but this smells of rent-seeking (e.g. regulatory capture) or a price-fixing cartel.
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It has to be this. Otherwise newcomers would come in and compete the shit out of them. I can think of few other scenarios that would result in such a racket.
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It seems like you could set up a webhook to trigger a Travis CI rebuild upon a new star event [0] . I'm pretty iffy on this, any ideas?. You probably need some third-party service to trigger the rebuild [1]. Obviously running your own
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There's also a sunshine tax referring to the actual high taxes in California.
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I think Julia is probably the most enthusiastic developer I've ever encountered. Which is quite a statement considering a lot of the subject matter is (IMHO) pretty mundane.
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I've been in this same boat a few times (e.g. looking to replace a slow Python tool that has big dependencies like PyQt5). The quick and easy solution (even for someone with very little JS experience) was to rewrite the application in
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Just try pasting the following into the default interpreter, exactly as-is: class Sample: def __init__(self): print('hehe') s = Sample() IPython wouldn't flinch.
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You can still get tab to complete with the standard Python interpreter. python3 -ic "import readline; import rlcompleter; readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')" Admittedly, IPython's is better.
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For one, you can just paste in a bunch of code. Try doing that in the standard terminal! Another feature I end up using constantly is the documentation support. Say you want to read the docstring for an object, just prefix or append a &#x27
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This is going to take some getting used-to. The visuals (specifically the syntax highlighting and code completion) are very reminiscent of bpython. On the other hand, I'm really happy to say farewell to readline. I've been stuck w
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There appear to be two different sorts of "disruption": 1) There's disruption that's seen as impractical or insanely difficult (e.g. Tesla, SpaceX). Or technically feasible but with significant social or legal obstables
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I guess we had better immediately cease all legal action against Trump then.
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They won't have a medication in stock, they can only partially fill it (requiring you to forfeit the rest), you have to bring in a physical prescription (it cannot be called or faxed in), they say the wait time is 1 hour and it ends up
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I realize that sounds pretty reasonable and all, but I can assure you that no such checkup is being performed the vast majority of times a patient comes in to renew a script. It's just an excuse to get the patient in so that they can c
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It seems like every time I have to deal with a pharmacy, I am continually blown away. It's a uniquely terrible experience, more akin to the DMV than a retail store.
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Law enforcement in the U.S. is almost exclusively served by public agencies, so I'm not really sure what you mean when you bring up for-profit. They certainly aren't for-profit in any traditional sense (i.e. engaging in voluntary
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I'm not seeing anything different on the page after logging in with LetsAuth. I'm experiencing this on Chrome, both desktop and mobile. I supplied a gmail address and confirmed from Google's end that "Let's Auth&quo
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The way society is presently arranged, military personnel are absolved of (a great deal of) their moral agency. They have surrendered it to a higher authority, to the state. You can see it experientially in the Milgram experiment. It's
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It trivializes the initiation of force.

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