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by civilian 9y ago
It'd be funny if all these state governments end up having trouble getting internet. Let's say Comcast & all the others violate net neutrality in some small ways. (I.e. A plan where you normally have 100mbps, but youtube can g
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by civilian 9y ago
If you need a coder-friendly & graphical refresher on Fourier transforms, I highly recommend this: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
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by civilian 9y ago
Man. I really like that idea, but is giving a random "success" to a supposed credit card charge PCI compliant?
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by civilian 9y ago
It's important to have incentives to reward success. How would a business even grow if it could never keep profits? The working class does benefit from Apple, in the form of high-quality technology that even they can purchase.
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by civilian 9y ago
I think that private property can be easily derived from individual rights. The right to control my own life, the right to do what I want, the right not to be interfered with. Those set a pretty strong precedent for private property. If I c
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by civilian 9y ago
Dude I'm as libertarian as they come; taxation is theft. But you're doing stupid things with semantics here. The company has more money to operate with; we're just talking about this from a business-operation point of view.
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by civilian 9y ago
Tax breaks are pretty much the same as cash-over-time, come on.
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by civilian 9y ago
There's a handful of comments kind of getting tripped up here. Scott is relying on a 1-2 punch-- First, that openness to experience was decently different in the two groups (73rd percentile vs 69 percentile) and then that most Big5 tes
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by civilian 9y ago
why?
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by civilian 9y ago
I don't like the idea of residents of far-away cities having a say in housing policy in my city. But I'd also support a federal-level ban on rent control policies, based on the idea that it's a net-good if we encourage people
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by civilian 9y ago
Yes! Another thing you could do is including the reasoning for a law, and have the review address that. Like-- let's take on Oregon's statute banning self-pumping. Most of the reasons are safety related: https://www.or
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by civilian 9y ago
But rent control only benefits the renters already in place. It hurts new renters to the area, by driving up costs. You've got to address a moral judgement you've implicitly made: What makes the current renters of a city more dese
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by civilian 9y ago
Lol, you're using the opiod argument because you think it's a slam dunk. People who use drugs are not harming anyone with force or fraud. And if drugs were decriminalized, they'd be far cheaper, and drug addicts wouldn't
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by civilian 9y ago
Socialist governments killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century. They acquired power far more completely than any company has. Big companies come and go. They may have power, but it's temporary, and there's nothing vio
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by civilian 9y ago
And what would your solution be? Because I imagine it would be government control on what we're allowed to spend money on. You are a totalitarian, and while it might be a "good" thing in some situations, that kind of power is
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by civilian 9y ago
You might read this: http://www.americanteeth.org/2015/06/21/why-i-m-a-capitalist... When I think of the word capitalist, I think: "using markets to allocate resources & products". When you use
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by civilian 9y ago
Right. XLWings looks like a cool tool. But the point I'm making is that: It's still a good thing for Excel to be integrating more tightly with python. It'll help all of those non-developer normies get the magic of coding.
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by civilian 9y ago
Runaway capitalism, oh shit. So that does that mean: - Global poverty will continue to decrease - We'll get a variety of options to choose from whenever we want to buy something - We'll get to choose how to spend our own money - W
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by civilian 9y ago
But he's not donating to the church for "penance". He's helping save lives from malaria, and working on other projects to help the developing world! You can't dismiss that, and he's giving away so much of his m
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by civilian 9y ago
Why?
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by civilian 9y ago
Excel spreadsheets are cool because if you update data somewhere, it'll update all the formulas and products elsewhere. How do you get that kind of "watch" behavior with `xlrd` and `xlwt`? You don't, you have to re-run a
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by civilian 9y ago
Interesting. I think it could be argued that some small-ish amount could be paid for the brand. Developing relationships with buyers is not an insignificant part of ranching and farmers, and you could probably justify that as a 10k/yea
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by civilian 9y ago
From the article: > Aluminum is not a great conductor—it heats up when a lot of power is pushed through it—so a snack bag would potentially melt if it was used to try to block a strong radio signal from inside. But the signals from GPS
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by civilian 9y ago
Gawker was also getting away with using personal wealth as a way to defer justice. Gawker also buried people suing them with legal fees. I agree we should move towards a costless or more efficient legal system, but in the meantime, the Hoga
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by civilian 9y ago
I think you're asking a rhetorical question where the answer is in the affirmative. But I would actually like to know how much damage Peter Thiel has done to free speech. Gawker broke the law. It's great they got ended.
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by civilian 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You walked the line between "being okay with Peter Thiel destroying gawker" and "being okay with a billionaire destroying press", so you're probably getting downvoted from b
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by civilian 9y ago
Exactly. The only downside I imagine is that it could give false-positives to retarded people. Reaction speed is pretty well correlated with intelligence. I suppose the system could compare your current score with your baseline / sobe
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by civilian 9y ago
Laws don't always motivate action. It seems fine to use a multi-pronged strategy.
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by civilian 9y ago
So, what makes newspaper exempt from this? They can publish opinion pieces on who to support, and they are spending a lot of money in producing newspaper. Surely that _should_ violate McCain-Feingold? Except it didn't, because there wa
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by civilian 9y ago
Ah, the second definition isn't one I've ever seen used? A factoid may be used inappropriately to support an unrelated argument, ("the last pirates were seen in the 1800s, right as climate change started") but they'

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