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by cobrausn 13y ago
Proprietary software does nothing as drastic as 'take away your rights'. There is no inherent right to browse source code. At best, you entered into an agreement when you started using it that doesn't grant you as many bene
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Well, I will say this as an advocate of nuclear power - the more important thing that it does is just get the cars to charge from the grid, which means the car user does not have to worry about where the grid gets its power.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I don't think most people consider a fedora and skinny jeans dressing 'too well', and those are the fashion items that come to mind when I hear the word 'hipster'. Then again, the word hipster seems to be context-s
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by cobrausn 13y ago
IIRC, real banks trade imaginary dollars all the time by operating as a fractional reserve. The average person probably doesn't know nor care, but FDIC insurance prevents the bank run from causing people without a lot of assets from
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by cobrausn 13y ago
A bit, but I was just quoting Jim Morrison to a friend, so there's that. :-D At the risk of pushing this thread well past the point of usefulness and too far into the abstract, you know the building could be used to quarter troops, st
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Most of the reason money is spent on defense is deterrent. Some people gain more value out of that than others. Hopefully it never gets used, although if you need it eventually, it's much harder to build a warship and train a crew to
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Wait, so the goal of the ACA is to get young, 'healthy' people to buy insurance to subsidize the rest of us as we get older and less healthy. Geeks who launch startups pretty regularly end up without any income for a while, and a
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by cobrausn 13y ago
An empty building, used by nobody but costing the government money, is not useful to anyone except the people receiving the money. So I guess in that respect, if the money is going into the local economy, it's a really poor form of st
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, you would rather cut a feature from your application than multiple lines of code that simply allocates memory, waits a long time, and then frees it for no reason? In other words, at least the boat is actually potentially useful. The em
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, that is an interesting point you brought up regarding the psychological factor of knowing that your well-being is tied completely to your job that prevents you from making rational decisions. But we are speaking about this from the per
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, what happens if the unconditional basic income becomes 'the new poverty' as the economy adjusts and the price of basic goods and services change? We'd end up in the same spot - they can treat you like crap, because you a
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Yes, it is difficult to bring oneself to turn off the magic money machine once it starts printing, but keep in mind how much money he made and how much the existing installed copies still make for him. It certainly made the decision easier
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by cobrausn 13y ago
My last retail job was a decade ago, but yeah, I'm getting the same impression. I think it is because the margins are getting even smaller thanks to a variety of factors (the prevalence of online shopping being the biggest influence,
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by cobrausn 13y ago
My first job was retail, and I worked it for about four years total, including during college and after service in the Navy. At the time I had skills that translated into being valuable enough to not work in retail that didn't involve
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Nobody is really ignoring the reality of it. These are weapons of war. Not everyone reading HN shares the same outlook on the morality of war. I am personally an anti-war veteran, but that's a personal outlook that comes from some c
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by cobrausn 13y ago
If you're going to view the world through such a simple-minded lens, I've always preferred hearing us called 'The Great Satan'. At least that acknowledges our greatness. :-D
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I'll be honest, I'm kind of enjoying 'Aviation Week' here on HN. This is the kind of stuff that got me interested in math and science to begin with. Too bad my vision is so awful.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I typically drink one glass of red wine a night, occasionally two if dinner is particularly good. Feel free to be impressed.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Well, the article answers the question later on. Cosmin Laslau, Lux’s energy storage specialist, said there are profound differences between the past failures and Tesla’s new lithium-ion production effort. “Most importantly, the likes of A1
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by cobrausn 13y ago
2. Making it Rain
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Calling it a requirement and then saying it is self-evident because it's something you require and imagine other people do as well doesn't actually make it a requirement. A lot of people are perfectly comfortable with some amount
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by cobrausn 13y ago
This looks like a duplicate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312442
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, it's because its the digital equivalent of a 'digital gold standard' that is hard to track and tax (by design). I guess that explains why it rustles many jimmies, even moreso when it keeps gaining value and marketshare.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Well, I never said moderates. I guess I primarily meant 'pro-regulation', specifically when it comes to currency, who tend to inhabit the left side of the political spectrum. I've seen quite a few others who find the whole
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Since you probably know, why do liberals / progressives / whatever seem to hate on what essentially amounts to an opt-in currency that is not legally backed and regulated? Is it only because people propose that it replace legal t
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I do not agree with the first statement - it supposes that men and women will, given an option and without external pressures, always choose the same thing in equal amounts. I don't think that is a settled question. But it is worth l
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by cobrausn 13y ago
How do you actually determine what is 'over-represented' and not just the result of individual agency en masse?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I don't disagree. I fall in the DINK category, but even we cannot afford many of the places that are inside the loop, or even near there. I know some people who do live in the Montrose area (rapidly rising price), and they do so by p
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Density is returning to American cities, seemingly because the roads could not keep up with what they promised. Houston has typically been a perfect example of urban sprawl, but as of late it has been rapidly getting denser and land values
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You probably already know this, but that was snobbish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBV7yKWhWE

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