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by clavalle 11y ago
There is no way to enforce data integrity between related tables by virtue of the data model for one thing.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Great post and great advice for anyone studying anything difficult. We are trained to get everything right and be embarrassed if we don't know something. This makes it hard to practice pushing the boundaries of our own knowledge. It
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by clavalle 11y ago
Furries? Bronies? What are you referring to?
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> One person can't lay claim to all private property through voluntary exchange. What was he exchanging for "all" the property? Yet, that is what is how things are currently trending if you change one person to one group.
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by clavalle 11y ago
It is a bit of a non-question but it illustrates a point. So let's say that person acquires all of the property through voluntary exchange. Ok. Now, what about the next generation who now live under that person's (or their desce
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by clavalle 11y ago
> The basic foundation of liberty is the ability to own private property. The foundation of liberty is the freedom to make your own decisions and exercise your own will. If the ability to own private property was the base what happens wh
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by clavalle 11y ago
Prologic Technology Systems | Austin | Contract | Part time (~20-30 hrs/wk) | REMOTE ok (in an overlapping timezone) Need a Angular dev with some experience dealing with a Java/Spring backend. Pretty straightforward gig but I need
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by clavalle 11y ago
> Ubers and airbnb's Uber and airbnb were not profitable right away but their mechanism for making money couldn't have been clearer. Uber -- sell rides, get a cut. Airbnb -- sell places to stay, get a cut. These were not &#x
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by clavalle 11y ago
If you don't have an ironclad way to make money, you will not get funded in Austin. No one in Austin cares about growth of users if those users are not actively contributing to the bottom line. Relying on some sort of soft advertisin
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by clavalle 11y ago
>You can make 20k flipping burgers at McDonalds. 20k is enough to build up a safety cushion. If you are single with no dependents, live in a cheap area, and live close to work, maybe. We are having a general discussion (thank you for the
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by clavalle 11y ago
>If we were to impose some cap on income (say $1B/year) would it suddenly be "exploitative" to charge any income tax? Maybe not at $1B/year (that marginal dollar is damn near infinitesimal at that point). But maybe i
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by clavalle 11y ago
>without work I'd probably be screwed in a year or two Yeah, a year or two. That is a much different situation than the poor are in. And this is the problem...you think the situation is the same. So do a lot of other well meaning
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by clavalle 11y ago
>hunger pain and risk of homelessness are what motivate many people to drag themselves to work. Without that threat, many people choose to be unproductive That, in my view, smacks of rationalization of widespread exploitation of an enti
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by clavalle 11y ago
>What about the marginal utility of time? Everyone gets 24 hours in a day. The 'copious amounts' of free time of welfare recipients is capped. The same cannot be said of monetary wealth. Therefore the marginal utility of tim
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by clavalle 11y ago
>They build human capital by demonstrating an ability/willingness to create value for other humans. Are you willing to create value for other humans at less than your time is worth? Because that is what you are asking them to do.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Absolutely horrifying point of view. I get it, we don't like leeches. But forcing people to work or else not get benefits meant for the poorest (i.e. let them starve or go homeless)? Wow. It's work camps without fences. Driving
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by clavalle 11y ago
I wouldn't say bespoke (which implies written from the ground up from scratch), but with possibly different environment and other configuration variables and, occasionally, slightly different shared library files. And while there is no
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by clavalle 11y ago
Is this the New Feudalism? The super wealthy buying property from all over the world literally for rent seeking? Will the world become a Company Town? Is this desirable? Inevitable?
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by clavalle 11y ago
The Democrats have everything to win by trying to get a nominee through. If they get through, great! A Democratic appointment on the Court! If they don't, it can be a call to arms and a constant rallying cry showing how different the
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by clavalle 11y ago
There are all kinds of savings in a single payer system. You eliminate the overhead of dealing with disparate billing systems. You can more easily find waste and fraud since all data is flowing into one place in a single comparable format.
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by clavalle 11y ago
The uninsured rate has been cut in half under Obamacare. >According to an ongoing NHIS / CDC study the current uninsured rate of 9.2% for 2015 is the lowest in over 50 years. It started at 18%.
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by clavalle 11y ago
People who are paying insurance premiums and taxes currently put money in two areas we'll call 'insurance' and 'tax' for convenience sake (and because it accurately reflects reality). The money in the 'insuran
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by clavalle 11y ago
I am a Sander's supporter so I say this more theoretically than as a criticism of his plan: It scares me that in our political structure that we feel like we need to experiment with the whole country. I understand that if we don'
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by clavalle 11y ago
I guess my problem with studies that show the other effects of poverty is that they seem to paint the poor as just hapless, irrational, creatures; subhuman and deserving of their plight since they can't reason their way out of it. And,
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by clavalle 11y ago
That is interesting but seems to put too much onus on the poor individual. >poverty makes people feel powerless and blunts their aspirations What if it is more than a feeling? What if they are not irrational but seeing quite rationally
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>Finally, he says, it may be that where the Nash equilibrium is hard to calculate, some approximation of it — where the players’ strategies are almost the best responses to their opponents’ strategies — might not be. In those cases, the
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We went from a general question to discussing specifics...that is progress. It is a complicated issue so I am not surprised or dismayed that when getting to specifics things get a bit complicated. And yes, there should be some flex based o
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Now we've gotten past the definition of categories and into levels -- that's progress. That's where Basic Income or something like it shines. You don't have to micromanage -- you look at averages for the area and give a
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by clavalle 11y ago
>Nobody in Silicon Valley has basic income. Savings, financial support structures through their family, direct funding, and skills they can easily turn into funds. These are not basic income but they have the same effect: they allow th
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by clavalle 11y ago
Easy: anything someone needs to avoid imminent or near imminent avoidable physical pain or death. Food, Shelter, Clothing, Healthcare.

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