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by caseydurfee 12y ago
This reminds me of the old joke about the two economists and the pile of dog poop: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000466.html
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
The prerequisite to purchasing government actions instead of purchasing mercenaries to enforce ones' will directly is the government having the power/authority to take action. Getting rid of government doesn't change the abil
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
"when you willingly, nigh joyfully, watch as they take over your healthcare you cannot then truly expect privacy can you?" I have no idea what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
"Tomatoland", by Barry Estabrook, is an engaging (if depressing) look at how the tomato biz got that way.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
"84.4% of mothers are the custodial parents" The vast majority of custodial arrangements are not decided by the courts, but between the parents, so I'm not sure how you can blame this ratio on our legal system. Only 4% of fat
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
It's feminism's fault that this guy couldn't think of a coherent way to blame feminism for this. Ever notice how "mean" is an anagram for "a men" (an abbreviation for "all men")? After all, the
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
Does anyone have a link for Step 5? Or step 6, for that matter? I don't know what he's referring to here.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
Awesome, thanks for this. Do you know if there are any good sources of historical betting line info for baseball? It would be fun to put together a quantopian-type site for sports betting.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/10/18/paul-elam-of-a-voic... Regardless of your thoughts on feminism, describing the content on avoiceformen as being 'very reasonable' is absurd.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
How does somebody saying "I'm outraged" silence your point of view? It sounds like you feel oppressed or offended by people disagreeing with your beliefs, and that by doing so, others are censoring or silencing you. If your
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
This article reads like it was written by a sociopath. Unless you are a sociopath, there are many reasons to treat other people with dignity and respect that aren't about gaining some sort of power. I'm respectful of other people
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
I refuse to run any software that's not hipstergraphically secure.
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
How does this project fit in with the web components standard? Seems like you would want your nomenclature/long term direction to be in line with that. This is an interesting project, but as far as the battle for mindshare goes, I&#x
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
This describes many, many translation attempts of the Voynich Manuscript, though. At this point it's hard for me to consider another one of these attempts worth reading, because they all seem to follow the same pattern. Try and identi
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Why don't we just call Mt.Gox what it is, a bucket shop?
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Fat models are slightly better than having that crud in your views, but they're still an antipattern. Models should describe the relationships between entities in your business, not be the junk drawer for stuff that doesn't go an
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
My reason would be that donating makes you feel richer. It's not about the amount but making a habit of feeling like you have at least some resources to help other people. You say you don't donate because you don't feel rich
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
What would this do for you that a current CGM wouldn't?
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Continuous glucose monitors have been around for a while. I'm not sure who this would help. The fundamental problem is that glucose levels in non-blood fluids do not exactly match blood glucose. The current monitor solutions use inte
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Likewise. For example, salaries for all City of Seattle employees are here: http://lbloom.net/xsea11.html
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
That's a good idea. I think a lot of people have that trepidation about switching to flask. Just a quick "instead of this in django, use this in flask" section would go a long way. I think there's a great book to be wr
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
How did the government create the derivatives bubble? Seems like the exact opposite happened: the government massively deregulated things, then just a few years later there was a bubble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Why the contempt for professional sports? Given that geeks are more likely to fix this stuff, why not talk about blocking hacker news, twitch.tv and reddit? What about political sites Politico, Huffington Post, Slate, that treat politics l
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Better yet: appoint a goat to be CEO and then ritually sacrifice it. Maybe write "Google Cares" on the side of the goat before killing it. I guarantee that would spark some interesting debate!
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
That's not a new development, though. OP makes it sound like it is. Rabies has always been that way.
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
failrock.com is available...
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
This is a neat idea, however, I ended up avoiding this approach myself on the last big project I did because my personal bugaboo is mixing metadata (requirements) with data (code). Hardcoded dependencies between JS modules leads to front-e
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Provo, Utah is a hotbed for startups despite being made up of at least 90% people who don't curse or drink beer. There's your counterexample. What's with the "we"? Are you attempting to speak for developers as a w
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
It says "New York Times: The Opinion Pages" at the top. The headline of the article is "OP-ED COLUMNIST/Hitting China’s Wall." At the bottom of the article it says "A version of this op-ed appeared in print on
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Taxonomy is hard, especially if you don't want it to be a collection of poorly-aging cultural biases. Even professional librarians have problems creating and maintaining future-proof ones. Why does the Dewey Decimal System still have 10x a

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