cderwin

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by cderwin 10y ago
Well, it's nearly half of the voting population and I think it's fair to extrapolate that to the entire population. Even taking the approval poll numbers, that's more than one in three, so I don't really think it change
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Honest question: how do you think a country where nearly half of its population are "bad people" should be governed? I can't imagine you'll actually be successful in pushing away one out of every two Americans. What do
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I wonder how much calling actually matters, because I feel like whether they receive 10 calls or 10,000, it's always going to be one-sided. Conservatives aren't going to call their reps and they don't have the propensity to
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by cderwin 10y ago
For what it's worth, when I wrote "progressive causes" in my original comment, I wasn't refer to things as black and white as the science on GMOs. I was referring to scientists using their scientific authority to make p
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Its the weirdos who gave us the Apple // and the Mac. Not the button down conservative culture Thiel represents. I don't think that's fair. First of all, in some sense Thiel is one of those "weirdos" you
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by cderwin 10y ago
I guess it's not a surprise, but apparently gitlab does this too. kudos to both!
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by cderwin 10y ago
Or a Trump victory was already priced into the market -- it doesn't necessarily mean people weren't bearish on Trump.
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by cderwin 10y ago
Even if you don't expect any scientists to want to be on a Republican ticket, why refuse to support prospective scientists who would do so? There might not be many conservative scientists, but I'm sure they exist. The only answer
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by cderwin 10y ago
You say that, but take a look at the HN thread on Peter Thiel's prospective gubernatorial campaign[0]. It's needless to say the idea of a Thiel governorship was not very popular. This isn't to say the criticism found there i
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think of late one of the problems is that there is a certain dogma within political circles and the media that the body of facts produced by scientists is absolute and irrefutable, when the truth is somewhat the opposite: the body of know
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by cderwin 10y ago
Here's a more in-depth record of some things that have been inaccurately and widely reported[0], and interestingly enough, from a right-wing magazine that refused to support Trump's nomination. [0] http://thefederalist.
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by cderwin 10y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think so. Citizens United didn't rule that money was literally speech, but instead that laws prohibiting the expenditure of money on speech (i.e. a political ad) are impermissible impediments on pro
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by cderwin 10y ago
I'm mostly talking about moving between different machines. I would like to be able to tar up my source code and venv, distribute it to multiple machines, untar it and run it. However that's not possible with virtualenv unless y
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by cderwin 10y ago
Oh cool, I actually hadn't seen pyenv before. Looks like it does indeed solve my problems (from a glance anyway, though I didn't see anything about pip in the readme).
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by cderwin 10y ago
I would look at this comment[0] by sametmax for a critique of pip. My main gripe with virtualenv is that it's required at all: other interpreted languages, like node and elixir for example, have figured out how to handle non-global de
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by cderwin 10y ago
This is great, but sometimes I think that python needs a new package manager from scratch instead of more tools trying to mix and mash a bunch of flawed tools together in a way that's palatable by most of us. Python packaging sucks, t
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by cderwin 10y ago
Most countries would still have bans on post ex facto law.
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by cderwin 10y ago
I don't really think people in general being bad at math is a problem. The real problem is that it's somewhat socially unacceptable -- particularly among less academic people -- to be good at math.
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by cderwin 10y ago
From a grammatical perspective it should be noted that "they" is plural. It is gender-neutral, but should only be used when referring to multiple people. The correct gender-neutral singular pronoun is "he or she".
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by cderwin 10y ago
There is no POV of "the people". A bunch of individuals comprise the people, and some of those individuals also comprise the government. But "the people" as a group do not have a POV.
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by cderwin 10y ago
With all due respect, OP did note this: "And don't get me wrong, India has their share of talented and brilliant guys, but the average case is rather bad".
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by cderwin 10y ago
Interestingly Charles Murray's universal basic income proposal mandates that $3,000 of the $13,000 annual basic income be payed on health care. http://www.fljs.org/files/publications/Murray.pdf
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by cderwin 10y ago
There are certainly UBI proposals in which at some point UBI does scale back. I don't see a good reason why it scaling back would disqualify it from being a UBI, and I certainly see little likeness to unemployment insurance.
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by cderwin 10y ago
I mean it's been the primary campaign issue in 2010, 2012, 2014, and the non-presidential 2016 races. Not repealing Obamacare would be a political catastrophe for them. If you haven't noticed, it's also the very first item o
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by cderwin 10y ago
Very true, I really mean that Democrats have zero incentive to negotiate until after Obamacare is repealed.
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I imagine at that point the cause and effect would become mightily, mightily mixed up. Maybe race is a cause of political affiliation (it certainly isn't an effect), but surely certain factors, like donations, would be an effect of po
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I don't think either the California National Party or the Texas secession movement want to secede because they are comprised of neoreactionaries. That article doesn't provide a shred of evidence that neoreactionaries are involved
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As a side note, it's interesting to note that either California or Texas seceding would be irreparably damaging to the country because the political scales would tip so greatly.
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> Or maybe just corporations, like people, get more conservative when they're richer. Possibly out of cynical self-interest. In the case of people, this is a popular misconception. Democrats are funded by more billionaires than Rep
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by cderwin 10y ago
Part of me wonders if the whole deal with Brendan Eich is a problem with tech or a problem with California. Would the same thing have happened if Mozilla operated out of New York or Seattle (let alone Denver or Austin)? And if not, at wha

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