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by brownbat 9y ago
> For anything non-trivial, 95% of the value is in the library ecosystem. Toy programs and rapid scripting and prototyping... FWIW I love my trivial use of python.
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by brownbat 9y ago
This is an ancient argument because no one can convince you that you need 3 for your use case. All I can do is say why I like it, and list reasons that probably don't apply to you or you would have switched already. For example, print
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by brownbat 9y ago
I'm just saying determination of market is hard, it is responsible for endless arguments in trade and tax law. I used to think we should have a form of progressive taxation based on market power. Incent, but do not mandate, smaller fi
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Monopolies are inherently bad Yeah but is Tesla a tiny car company or a monopoly electric car company?
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by brownbat 9y ago
Are you arguing slavery prevents industrial resolutions? Didn't they coexist in some parts of the world? Or is it the way slaves were used? Can you clarify to contrast Roman and US experiences?
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by brownbat 9y ago
Basically: “There were two big reasons people threw out edible food,” Gunders said. “They thought it had spoiled, or they just didn’t like leftovers.” Also, food has gotten very inexpensive. That lets people pay for variety. I'm not su
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by brownbat 9y ago
"My younger siblings had seen the animated adaptation and had told me there was a lot of blood." I too always associated this story with violence before I read it. The violence in the adaptation has really shaped the reputation of
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by brownbat 9y ago
Seconded. I'd add Wittgenstein and Quine to the list. Two Dogmas would be a good place to end up.
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by brownbat 9y ago
Uncanny. My last comment, immediately prior to this one, was a link to Real Engineering, and yet somehow I had never put it together that these were the same voice, which they so obviously are in retrospect. Thanks!
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by brownbat 9y ago
Fair point. I found Brennan's memo fascinating. He says there were clear intel gains from EIT, but... I was initially tempted to dismiss him as protecting his agency or preserving some authority, but the memo subtly trashes the agency,
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by brownbat 9y ago
Simulated phone interviews with volunteer participants? British police being aggressive short of torture? These all assume we can learn something about torture by studying interviewers that are a bit standoffish. Some might not find that co
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by brownbat 9y ago
There is a video with great analysis on this. Ultimately argues that Simpsons was a great piece of counter culture, then it just won and became culture, losing its ability to skewer mainstream comedy. Along with an upheaval in the writer&#x
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by brownbat 9y ago
Real Engineering had an episode on simulated gravity through rotation. It's a great channel, though I was a little disappointed this episode talked more about fictional examples than proposals like Nautilus-X. Great watch either way th
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by brownbat 9y ago
I was worried about that too. Scheduled republication is my best answer so far. If you promised to sign and republish the same file every day with a new timestamp, then people would know when they had the latest, and when they didn't..
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Who the hell are you to cause such a death rate? You said Saddam was just "minding his own business" and merely "painted as a dictator." I point out Saddam was a dictator, according to incontrovertible video evidenc
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Haven't we learned anything from Iraq War? If a country is not submitting your requests and taking care of their own business is enough to be painted as dictatorship. You can watch the moment Saddam seized power on YouTube. He wal
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by brownbat 9y ago
My dream phone would have a small e-ink display that can maybe read wikipedia or text based websites, simple physical buttons, and a 5000 mAh battery, maybe even some low discharge chemistry instead of lion, shooting for a charge maybe once
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by brownbat 9y ago
I would like to see major disaster relief specials try a tagline at the bottom: Text ##### to donate $5 to GiveWell, which will channel your funds to the charity measurably best equipped to alleviate human suffering like (but not exactly li
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by brownbat 9y ago
A bit of googling and it's really unsatisfying to try to get a clear answer to this question. I think you're right the US "wins," just... that may not mean anything. One might argue the country distinction is a bit arbit
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by brownbat 9y ago
Wages are growing dramatically, just not near Bloomberg HQ. https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages https://tradingeconomics.com/south-africa/wages
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by brownbat 9y ago
It's along the lines of: internet plus sufficient crypto[1] makes speech free everywhere. It seems theoretically true, but not in practice. While I have several hunches,[2] I admit I don't fully understand why it shakes out this w
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by brownbat 9y ago
Coins could be useful for many ends, some dubious and some benign. Criminal purchases, inflation hedging, remittances, tax avoidance, online transactions, payments between friends, store of value / speculation. Any one of these could b
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Why wouldn't psychics get caught? Psychic powers would impede apprehension by authorities. See The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick. And you'd get some weird paradoxes too, or weird implications for information theory anyway. See
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by brownbat 9y ago
These sort of analyses really need to baseline against the opportunity cost of simply buying and holding. > "If the price goes around $400, we should be at break-even in the next 75 days..." Yeah, but if the price goes to $400
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by brownbat 9y ago
Some historians think for a few hundred years Hadrian's Wall was a megastructure where the locals had no solid understanding of who built it, how they managed it, or why. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkr42 I
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by brownbat 9y ago
> The company has asked for very specific information on all the state, regional and local incentives communities are willing to offer, and the timelines for how long it would take to approve them. Amazon concludes its proposal by stress
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Yet somehow this study leaves out how much China is adding solar and wind energy to it's supply. Ahem... > The good news is that China has shown a firm commit- ment to prompt renewable energy use, improving energy efficiency an
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by brownbat 9y ago
EVs in China produce two to five times the amount of smog as gas vehicles, because the supporting energy mix is so dirty. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-coal-powered-c... Should be good long term, if Chi
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by brownbat 9y ago
> "I have mountains of money, why would I need credit?" is something which is often said by people who operate meth labs. Eh, this can get overstated on all those guides to hack your score. My wife and I are both, to put it mil
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by brownbat 9y ago
More info from WashPo, "Agriculture is 80 percent of water use in California. Why aren’t farmers being forced to cut back?": https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/03/

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