caseydurfee

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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Most people pay more into insurance programs than they get out. That's how all forms of insurance works. Sheesh. Ayn Rand ended up taking government benefits because she had to, not because she was trying to get back what she paid in.
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
Why are you conflating Obamacare with progressive taxation? Incredibly misleading. Hayek was clearly fine with social insurance programs. "Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor th
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by caseydurfee 13y ago
"If I have to change my viewpoint, or choose not to express it, because someone finds it upsetting, then that is not freedom of speech." I don't think you really understand that "freedom of speech" refers to the actions of the government.
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Reminds me of Steven Jay Gould's classic "The Median Isn't the Message": "If the median is the reality and variation around the median just a device for its calculation, the "I will probably be dead in eight months" may pass as a reasonable
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
If funky and homemade is your thing, there's always librarything (which also has a real business model, so not likely to get swallowed up any time soon.)
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Seattle, WA. Full stack LAMP engineers. Full time. RealSelf.com gives people the real story about cosmetic surgery treatments through unbiased reviews from patients and answers from the top plastic surgeons in the world. We are the 8th f
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Is there a legitimate use case for being able to recursively define entities like that?
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Hey, it worked just fine in The Mosquito Coast, Fitzcarraldo, Into The Wild and Apocalypse Now!
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
"Inter-universal Geometer" is a pretty badass job title.
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Here are some resources I've found helpful: http://whiletruecode.com/post/7-handy-text-manipulation-tric... http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/subl/ http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/essential-s...
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Yeah, before the Federal Reserve came along, we never had these sorts of problems... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893 http://en.wikipedia
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Indeed, how do you say "cruise control for cool" in Latin?
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Original version of the license: "Lamson is licensed BSD or GPLv3, whichever you want. This basically means you shitheads who like using software without giving credit can go on being leeches on the world and tell everyone that you're fucki
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
Just curious, has that aspect of the GPL ever successfully been held up in court?
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
A software engineer drafting up his own crazy license is on as solid footing as a lawyer drafting up his own crazy email server software. This is yet another example of engineers' disease. Having experience in a narrow technical domain doe
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
I'm surprised to see no mention of postrelational/multivalue databases. Postrelational DBs played in the 80's and 90's, and are still widely used in the world of big iron. It's historically inaccurate to state we went from file-based datab
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by caseydurfee 14y ago
"The right to private variables is not the right to a common good. It’s a me-centered right, that obviously started in the sexual revolution with contraception and obviously quickly evolved to abortion, and now has found its way into the ma