cderwin

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by cderwin 10y ago
> because far too many people vote against their own interest You don't get to decide what other people's interests are, and you certainly cannot make an empirical case that the interests of all individuals would be better serv
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by cderwin 10y ago
HR Block is free if you just file a 1040, the "professional" version is $40. If you're paying $100, either you are seeing a tax professional in person or you are vastly overpaying. Presumably you would only meet with a tax
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by cderwin 10y ago
Development tools often are, but almost never exclusively using ruby gems and it's certainly not a universal practice. ANd of course non-dev tools can't be distributed this way.
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by cderwin 10y ago
Sure it is. If you (or anybody else) wants to count casualties, approximately 8 million Chinese dies in the Chinese Civil Wars. Surely the life of a Vietnamese person is not more valuable to America than a life of a Chinese person is to Ch
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by cderwin 10y ago
Not parent, but it seems irresponsible to call someone that is ignorant about the domestic policies of a country half the world away "dangerous." It's not dangerous until national policy is based on that ignorance, which is
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by cderwin 10y ago
Why would you think that any particularly intrusive forced medical practive is ethical? Is such a policy really all that much more acceptable than mandating abortions?
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by cderwin 10y ago
There is good and bad, but you certainly must be blind if you think the progress of technology has been relatively stagnant since the introduction of unix. Just a couple things that come to mind: * The internet (early 90s) * Wireless netw
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by cderwin 10y ago
It certainly ought to be uncontroversial to suggest that the general arc of progress tends upward, and that software is no exception. That has been a constant refrain for millenia. Saying that they lacked imagination is diminuitive and sel
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by cderwin 10y ago
You're right that non-scientific pressures existing isn't sufficient to support the position that scientific research is inaccurate. However, it certainly is solid ground for exercising a bit of skepticism about scientific resear
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think the problem is that the introduction of the p-adic metric was poorly motivated. It's not clear why we would want 1+p+p^2+p^3+... to converge to -1, and introducing the p-adic metric to do so doesn't show why the p-adic nu
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by cderwin 10y ago
Perhaps it's internal tooling/libraries? I wouldn't be surprised if derivatives of projects from back then were used in more recent games.
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by cderwin 10y ago
This case already happened, specifically in reference to immigration, 70 years ago: see Knauff v. Shaughnessy[0] (1950). > The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty. The right to do so stems not alone from legislative p
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by cderwin 10y ago
I definitely wouldn't say gitlab is slow in the empirical sense, but browsing repos is definitely a bit more sluggish than github. Maybe it's just more noticeable since it's an SPA. I say that as a someone who uses gitlab f
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by cderwin 10y ago
Presumably America? Almost everyone I know regularly eats dinner between 5:30 and 7:30.
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by cderwin 10y ago
Is LaTeX actually impressive to the average business client (i.e. someone without technical knowledge)?
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by cderwin 10y ago
I would wager a solid 3 minutes.
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by cderwin 10y ago
It's a significant possibility that Github the company will die, but github the site will not, at least not immediately. For example, github could be bought, in which case there would be no immediate reason to think the site would cea
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by cderwin 10y ago
It is most certainly not contradictory. For example, one could make the argument that the allied effort against the Nazis in WWII was tantamount to "saving the world", yet the allied forces certainly didn't treat everyone in
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by cderwin 10y ago
I don't think this is true. Of course, most students do just memorize equations and follow orders. But in my experience the most successful students are always the ones who understand the material on a fundamental level and memorize v
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by cderwin 10y ago
Honestly I don't think you'd see a partisan ruling on this. There is an originalist argument that Congress has no power to regulate immigration and that it is the sole duty of the executive, but there are myriad ways the justices
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by cderwin 10y ago
In that case, no injunction would be necessary. The orders would be utterly powerless if they relied upon bits that the court previously found unconstitutional.
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by cderwin 10y ago
Those orders would not hold an legal water. Any court that saw them would throw them out on precedent. As an equivalent example of this, if the court rules a particular law unconstitutional and congress passes the same law under a differen
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by cderwin 10y ago
Moreover, because this strike was inherently political, should taxi drivers who actually support the immigration EO (or at least don't feel compelled to protest) be forced to partake in the strike? That sounds like an utterly indefens
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by cderwin 10y ago
It's lonely to consider the other side these days. Dare to consider Trump's side? You're a fascist. Dare to consider the progressive side? You're a communist. It's no wonder nobody does it anymore.
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by cderwin 10y ago
To be clear, Uber did not break the strike. Uber drivers, who apparently did not feel compelled to take part in the strike, broke it. Strikes are not composed of companies, they are composed of workers. Would you expect Uber to have refu
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by cderwin 10y ago
It's important to remember that no part of the order has been deemed illegal yet. The NY court just granted a stay so that people affected would be able to proceed with the case on American soil.
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by cderwin 10y ago
Executive. It is part of the Department of Justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service
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by cderwin 10y ago
Such an injunction would be without any basis in law whatsoever, the constitution instructs the President to "take care that laws be faithfully executed". Individual executive orders need to have their own constitutional reasonin
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by cderwin 10y ago
It certainly would not get to the Supreme Court unless a lower court ruled against Trump and Trump decided to appeal. However, that's probably the most likely scenario anyway.
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by cderwin 10y ago
I don't personally know anything about Uber, but I would be very surprised if it wasn't against company policy to provide such a figure (if it's even internally available) given the divisive and intense political climate that

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