cderwin

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by cderwin 10y ago
For what its worth, I think most people who agree with your first to sentences would have no problem with cutting the things you list in the third.
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by cderwin 10y ago
You might want a redistribution program, just like I don't want healthcare to be a right, but none of that changes that no politician will speak about their support for some healthcare policy in those terms. It would be electoral suic
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by cderwin 10y ago
I don't think it's true that "details can't be shared(because they don't exist)". It is a political imperative for Republicans to repeal the ACA now, and worry about replacing it after the positive PR. Withou
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by cderwin 10y ago
Presumably the repeal wouldn't take effect for some time, allowing an alternative to be put in place before hitting that point.
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by cderwin 10y ago
But that doesn't mean the ACA saved their lives, it means ACA allowed them to continue with their startups rather than find coverage working for any of a plethora of big businesses. That is obviously still a good thing, but to claim t
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by cderwin 10y ago
It certainly could, and in fact Massachusetts implemented a similar program in the mid 2000s
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by cderwin 10y ago
Obviously there's a non-zero chance it will blow up, but isn't that risk worth it if reform would: * Preserve some form of protection for people with pre-existing conditions (this covers the "save my life" part) * Lower
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by cderwin 10y ago
Not according to the dictionary (maybe some, but it's clearly not a consensus): http://www.dictionary.com/browse/contrarian
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by cderwin 10y ago
Perhaps, but isn't it just as reasonable that they didn't want to change it? Presumably changing the date would actually censor the vote, with it being nearly impossible to get word of the date change to the entire electorate.
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by cderwin 10y ago
He can be entirely and uniformly contrarian throughout his entire life without being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. We have no idea beyond wild guesses why he is contrarian.
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by cderwin 10y ago
This sounds like evidence that his knowledge is wide, not narrow
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by cderwin 10y ago
If she had known the answer, would that make the question any better? I remember back when I was in high school, I always sort of assumed that the authors of the poems we were tested on wouldn't be able to answer the ridiculous questio
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by cderwin 10y ago
Sure. It's not a fair comparison. But dynamically linking rust's std isn't an option. If you are optimizing for executable size, c wins because dynamically linking libc is possible. This is even true controlling for gli
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by cderwin 10y ago
On my system (2015 MBP running Ubuntu 16.04) Rust's hello world compiles to a nearly 3.5 MB executable. Compiling the equivalent C program with clang results in an executable under 9 KB. Rust may not have a GC, but its executables ar
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by cderwin 10y ago
> If there's anything we've learned on HN, IoT software is complete shit when it comes to security. Yes, but I think most people here will till you it's not because of a lack of engineering talent. Rather security takes t
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by cderwin 10y ago
That's interesting, thanks
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think this is a rather elementary (and Randian) view of capitalism. I don't know of any serious proponents of capitalism who claim that pure greed and self-interest is desirable. It is also a mistake to equate the existence of priv
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by cderwin 10y ago
I agree, at least in part, that the progress of the modern era was indeed due to both modern science and the principles of the enlightenment. However, I do believe that the success of both modern ethics and science can ultimately be attrib
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by cderwin 10y ago
The honest truth is that almost everyone will have the same exact experience in neovim as in vim, and that the differences right now (this could always change) are mostly for developers hoping to use vim in a creative way. For example, nvi
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by cderwin 10y ago
FWIW, I recently jumped ship and installed Ubuntu over MacOs on my Macbook Pro (not dual booting), and it was as easy as can be reasonably expected. The worst side effect so far is that a strange red light is emitted from the headphone jac
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by cderwin 10y ago
In a) and c), corruption is inescapable. It is an unavoidable consequence of centralized power, not something that can be fixed with endless (corruptible) oversight committees or particularly prescient design. It is cot an implementation
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by cderwin 10y ago
Replying to myself because parent was flagged: why was it flagged? It didn't say anything outright offensive or disturbing, and even though its tone was bordering on rude, it certainly raised a valid point (just look at the civil disc
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by cderwin 10y ago
Sorry about that! I didn't mean to single you out, I've just seen people substitute "but [blank] isn't the gov't" for an actual justifiable reason to ban speech that I wanted to say something.
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by cderwin 10y ago
First off, it's not practical to ban all speech supporting censorship, because then all speech supporting that specific policy (including your own comment) would also have to be banned. I'm not aware of other countries suppressing
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by cderwin 10y ago
But does Uber really have a competitive advantage here? In the multiple cities I have lived in in the past couple years (Boston, Austin, Dallas) I have never noticed Uber's range being greater than any particular taxi. I do prefer ub
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by cderwin 10y ago
The two are fundamentally different platforms. Twitter is an open space provided as a free service to the public at large, while a lecture is a fundamentally closed platform (only the lecturer speaks) only open to those enrolled in a speci
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think a notable exception to this is comments on the wall street journal. They are typically well-informed professionals having reasonable opinions who take the time to write in-depth comments -- not unlike this site, I suppose. And of
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by cderwin 10y ago
Before someone comments noting that the 1st amendment only restricts government and is not binding on twitter: please note that free speech is a valuable community principle for the same reasons it is a valuable legal principle. The "
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by cderwin 10y ago
Most people use Uber almost entirely in a single city. This is obviously not true for those who travel a lot, but for most people they only need a single app (whether or not it be Uber) for their home city. The real advantage Uber has is b
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by cderwin 10y ago
For what it's worth, Rust has both Null (for unsafe null pointers) and None (wrapping a type that may or may not exist at any given point). None is used far, far more frequently in my experience than null in rust though.

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