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by cderwin 10y ago
True, but neither should be a job requirement. I don't need to be a domain expert in marketing to write a relatively simple SPA and API over your "big data" idea, and whether or not I know Go or ES6 (or any other "bleed
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by cderwin 10y ago
There's another option (though scantily mentioned and likely unpopular): not voting at all. At least then you won't bare any responsible for putting a Trump or Clinton in the White House.
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by cderwin 10y ago
> colleges say all the time that they're looking for a specific ratio of races and genders and nothing happens to them. This was specifically found unconstitutional in Bakke (1979)[1] and had very real consequences for UC Davis. Wh
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by cderwin 10y ago
It also ought not be done, for its moral consequences are quite grave. While it's not an argument made above, I suspect the moral consequences of "candy-coat[ing] ... gender ratios" are equally grave, and the just solution i
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by cderwin 10y ago
"The Citizens of America, placed in the most evitable conditions, as the Sole Lords and Proprietors of a vast tract of Continent,comprehending all the various Soils and climates of the World, and abounding with all the necessaries and
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by cderwin 10y ago
2008 didn't happen because of a lack of regulation, it happened because of absolutely awful regulation. You don't need more regulation, you need smarter regulation. It is absolutely absurd that the federal government subsidized
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think debtors will far more often be middle and upper class than lower class. The most indebted of the poor might have tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt, but that doesn't really stack up against a $600,000 mortgage.
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by cderwin 10y ago
Won't the poor have to share the tax burden to service the interest rates on the Fed's increased liabilities?
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by cderwin 10y ago
I'm no economist, but my understanding is that QE subsidizes capital for banks (by lowering interest rates) with the intent to lower interest rates set by those banks and encourage investment. This first most benefits banks, which are
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by cderwin 10y ago
What about the 10 million people that died during the Holocaust, or the 30 million people that died in the Great Famine (or, for that matter, oppress and enslave African-Americans for 300+ years)? Obviously too little/poor regulation
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by cderwin 10y ago
> We accept the unbounded authority of law to dictate the terms of the internet, or we accept the unbounded authority of Comcast to dictate the terms of the internet. Ahh, but we accept the unbounded authority of law to dictate far more
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Your lack of faith in human nature should extend to all humans, not just ones who are the apparatus of the state. It's not that there's some reason to preternaturally trust corporations and to distrust the state, it's th
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by cderwin 10y ago
In the case of python (not sure about the other package managers) if a valid package requires the hacked package, each project that requires that valid package will download and install the hacked package separately if you're using vir
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by cderwin 10y ago
You forget, Facebook's customers are not its users; they are assets whose access they are selling to their actual customers, ad agencies and marketers. Advertising made up nearly 97% of Facebook's revenue in Q1 2016[0]. Messenge
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by cderwin 10y ago
Not OP, but it's just a giant false dichotomy. The author is trying to say that because SV can't solve literally every problem on the face of the earth that no one from SV should try to solve this one. Also, I'm not reall
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think there ought to be two different classes of BI proposals. One would be a cash disbursement, like an actual paycheck. The other would be a single, orchestrated way to get food and housing -- basically a single, unifies program that
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Or we could hustle it out and have everyone desperately seek work to save their lives. Our choice. One leads to greater inequality. This is a total non sequitur. Machines have been taking human jobs since the late 1800s and adding rob
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by cderwin 10y ago
Or it could go the way of math, hated but all but the very most talented at it and generally considered boring. This has very real effects on the discipline, including a more exaggerated gender problem that CS has already inherited, and a
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by cderwin 10y ago
Wow. I've been flirting around with learning C for awhile now (coming from a couple dynamic languages, including python), and this is by far the most helpful read about pointers I've ever come across. Thanks a ton.
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by cderwin 10y ago
For anyone curious the idea that we make slow, discrete progress and that the idea that a few brilliant souls are responsible for most of the advances in human hostory is a bunch of hogwash, Matt Ridley has written an excellent book on the
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by cderwin 10y ago
It's also worth noting that the Pakistani military/ISI are not under the control of the democratic government, even today (and much more so in the mid-to-late 90's)
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by cderwin 10y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, the decorator @asyncio.coroutine() is equivalent to async def and yield from is functionally a drop-in for await, so you should be able to use it with at least 3.4, maybe 3.3. Not that that's much better thou
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by cderwin 10y ago
Actually this microservices approach has existed for decades in erlang/otp and can maintain quite excellent speed. You're not going to beat raw c speed-wise, but typically you will beat comparable dynamic languages -- and you don
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by cderwin 10y ago
The other difference is that as far as I know, computer science is the only discipline for which industry has solved the problem of reproducibility; it's one thing to be asked to design a method to run reproducible studies of humans, i
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by cderwin 10y ago
I actually don't think this is true. Multiplication isn't some natural phenomenon that humans just stumbled upon, like gravity or nuclear energy, even if it does help to explain some observable phenomena. Multiplication is entir
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by cderwin 10y ago
yep, my comment was directly responding to the notion (in the above comment) that this fee being passed on to the homeowner was somehow unfair because the developer is the one using the local infrastructure, which is obviously incorrect on
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by cderwin 10y ago
Because the impact is not that of the developer; it's not the developer's kids that will be going to the local school, it's not the developer who will be using the local infrastructure to commute to work everyday. It's
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by cderwin 10y ago
The problem is Congress and the FCC bear just as much culpability for the anti-competitive telecom markets as the state governments. It's naive to think that a group that created these monopolies have any interest in the sort of deregu
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by cderwin 11y ago
Yes why don't we incentivize companies to keep more software closed source than already is
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by cderwin 11y ago
The actual text of the Constitution is "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech", so I guess a first amendment argument comes down to the interpretation of "abridge" -- I would certainly think outl

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