chimeracoder

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1951.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Lobbying as a term in the US is pretty synonymous with donating money. This is flat-out untrue, and repeating this incorrect meme ad nauseum simply makes it harder to address actual problems when they arise. Lobbying is simply the pr
1952.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> I wonder if the index treats lobbying and donation millions to support elections as corruption. Such activities are illegal and considered corruption in most countries. Lobbying has nothing to do with donating money, and lobbying elect
1953.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> That depends entirely on which unions you're looking at, the wobblies were organizing across racial lines and across industries. The pullman porters were black. I'm looking at the unions that were the strongest, the most powe
1954.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Organizing a labor union however is vilified in American society as it directly challenges the inherent class structure of capitalism. Workers in the past have been beaten, murdered, and imprisoned not because they sought better pay an
1955.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Well, it is on its way out, have you missed the news regarding vgo? Dep will have a clean migration path to vgo, and the latter isn't really production-ready yet. For now, I'd recommend using dep for daily use, until you have
1956.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Functional options are controversial in the Go community. I don't like them personally. The idea of having a bunch of functions that exist only to mutate internal state on init is... an odd choice. Google code is riddled with this
1957.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Do they allow you to set a destination area so that your fares are limited to this, or do you just get to review and accept fares so you can choose ones in the right direction? Uber didn't last I checked, but Lyft does.
1958.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> I would chalk it up to being unfamiliar with the Azure environment, but I'm working with a couple of Azure devs and even they were confused by the limitations of each version of AD and when you could use them. Honestly, if busines
1959.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> I already find Google's handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they already have a chat product called "Hangouts". Apparently this produ
1960.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them. Eh, not substantially or consistently more than in software. It's possible to cherry-pick examples where eng
1961.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Yeah...they used to be the good guys fighting against bs patents. Now they are ratting out their customers? I'm pretty sure the state of Connecticut is to blame here, not NewEgg. It's not NewEgg's job to violate tax law
1962.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
Which version and OS? It renders correctly for me on the Developer Edition on OS X.
1963.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> High stress, high pollution, rat race of a lifestyle, you are regulated and taxed on more things you even thought possible New York has incredibly low pollution compared to other cities of comparable size, especially in the US. As for
1964.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> What’s the relative cost of in-patient vs. out-patient care? They're not directly comparable, because the care delivered is fundamentally different, but inpatient care is about two orders of magnitude more expensive. That's n
1965.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Hospitals are obviously capable of accounting such that Medicare patients are money-losers on the margin, but they keep taking them for some reason. You seem to be under the impression that there's some deception going on here. Th
1966.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> The NHS does worse in treating cancer than other countries, but many of those countries (Germany, France, etc) have public health care also. It's not clear that the difference in performance is because of public, vs privately, fu
1967.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> But they very clearly do. A huge proportion of their income comes from government sources (Medicare/Medicaid/VA) Hospitals lose money on Medicare and Medicaid patients on the margin. They have to overcharge private insurers
1968.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> But if they are ordinary people why are they paid like the superhuman healers that they aren't and still hold themselves as such? They're not. The lifetime after-tax expected earnings of a person entering medical school today
1969.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> And this certainly isn't the case in the NHS in the UK where doctors have no financial incentives interfering with their clinical decisions (barring saving the service money) This meme really needs to die. The NHS has massive fi
1970.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> No wonder the USA is the best in the world at being a tax haven. The US could hardly be any less of a tax haven.
1971.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Because you didn't want to set an env var? You haven't needed to set a GOPATH since 1.8, which was released over a year ago (we're now at 1.10). Since 1.8, the Go toolchain will use a default GOPATH; the environment var
1972.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> The people I know in Boston/Somerville/Cambridge avoid having a car due to how irritating it is. Anecdotal stories notwithstanding, New York is the only city in the country in which the outright majority of people don't
1973.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> I am not sure if we even have subways elsewhere (which just may be my own ignorance showing). If we do, they wouldn't be as extensive. There are subways in other US cities, but nowhere near as extensive. One-third of all subway st
1974.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> But the democratically elected state senators do routinely cut the MTA's funding so that they can give their overrepresented rural constituents a tax cut. 1. New York is not a democracy in anything but name. Voters have basically
1975.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> And just shows the provincialism in a supposed "world capital" that is NYC. New York shouldn't be compared to San Francisco, it should be compared to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc. New York is compared to London and Ho
1976.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> The fact that Moscow's subway outperforms NYC in every metric despite rampant corruption and embezzlement (buddy of mine used to be an engineer there) Wait, are you talking about Moscow? Because the MTA/TWU in New York is ri
1977.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Moscow subway, while being very old, very deep and in supposed third world country Moscow is not in a third-world country, in either sense of the word. It's not in a developing nation (colloquial contemporary use of the word), and
1978.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> I think there have been two, maaaaybe three expansion sets in the multi-decade history of the game where the average price for selling all cards in a booster pack exceeded the price of the booster pack itself. Which sets are those? I w
1979.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> As an European, I can't understand this beancounting. Yes, technically it may not be gambling, but that does not heal the issue. The problem a predatory practices that ultimately harm the victim in any way e.g. money but also time
1980.
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> I'm complaining that the whole concept of lootboxes is predatory When there's no pay-to-win dynamic, it is literally the least predatory business model out of all games of that ilk. All of the alternatives for producing a rec

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