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by crusso 10y ago
I would happily spend a thousand years contemplating whether or not you're right.
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by crusso 10y ago
But where corporate power with labor is scoped to each specific corporation, union power often crosses to many corporations, often even crossing to different industries. Many industries have needlessly suffered and died at the hands of ove
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by crusso 10y ago
We could also pass a law that said that lawmakers should be prosecuted for corruption for creating laws that supported rent-seeking behaviors. Businesses just do what they're expected to do, protect their business opportunities - but w
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by crusso 10y ago
But by the time you are CPU-bound, it's too late to change your programming language and your whole development methodology. There's an easy case to be made that starting with a functional programming, easily parallelizable langua
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by crusso 10y ago
For computers built in the late 80's and subsequent couple of decades, OOP was a fine abstraction that furthered software development in many ways. When you had one thread running your whole program, it was okay to have mutable data a
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by crusso 10y ago
What is distortion of democratic process, specifically? Most political processes are distortion. Political ads are never basic presentations of fact. At best, they're just exercises in cherry picking, but typically they're spin
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by crusso 10y ago
No, my observation that the officers were tools is vitally dependent upon the fact that jMyles did and said nothing wrong. Nothing at all. The only way that you could think that he was saturating the patience of that officer is if you c
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by crusso 10y ago
You have a big assumption in there that the "quieter more moderate voices" would exist at all in a society that didn't allow for "the grossest: the loudest, most attention grabbing, least useful speech". What people
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by crusso 10y ago
It always boils down to what Milton Friedman said regarding capitalism vs statism: Just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us?
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by crusso 10y ago
That's amazing. Did you lodge a complaint? They detained you without giving one single reason. They insisted upon ID. The officers lied about the ordinance. These officers gave the impression that they didn't even halfway unde
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by crusso 10y ago
I totally disagree. I'm a law and order type of libertarian and I was ready to see jMyles being obnoxious in the video based upon your comment, but he wasn't at all. That police officer was totally out of line. I'm surprise
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by crusso 10y ago
How often are you in confrontational encounters with the police?
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by crusso 10y ago
I don't know. Maybe the red flag goes up at 20. Maybe at 30. Maybe at 40. Maybe you're a terrorist. I can guarantee, however, that no one using that document cares about your terrorism likelihood just because one answer matche
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by crusso 10y ago
To throw a curve ball ... I actually use Elixir/Phoenix for all my new web projects. It's new, a bit Ruby/Railsish, functional, high performance. Combine it with Elm on the front end and you have a lot of power as well as p
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by crusso 10y ago
It's really not that hard. First decide what kind of stuff you want to do, find some people currently doing it, use whatever tools they're using.
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by crusso 10y ago
Learn a language you can immediately do something fun with. If you're excited about desktop 3D video games, pick up C++ and, say, the Unreal Engine. If you're excited about web servers, pick up Ruby/Rails - or if you think y
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by crusso 10y ago
... which conclusion would mean that you'd have to ignore everything I said after "Additionally".
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by crusso 10y ago
Those people did exist, but were largely ignored because the medical bureaucracy and Federal government got into the food pyramid and dietary guidelines business. The real money for the food industry then became pursuing the low-fat diet.
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by crusso 10y ago
Sugar was the default super food for decades as a result of the 70's and 80's push to lower dietary fat. It's only been recently that the medical community has realized that sugar is actually the number one hidden danger in t
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by crusso 10y ago
I'm pretty sure they mean sites that only allow approved members to see their content. Additionally, one positive answer on a list of 48 questions doesn't equal "terrorism".
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by crusso 10y ago
A widely acknowledged function of law enforcement is the anticipation of and prevention of crime. Courts provide some restraint upon information gathering, such as the approval of search warrants - but mostly courts are only involved after
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by crusso 10y ago
I was just looking around yesterday for a programmatic way to encrypt/decrypt a file with a USB fob. I used an Aladdin fob a while back for a similar project. The encryption was symmetric but the fob kept the key and it couldn't
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by crusso 10y ago
The reality is that raw money (number?) crunching is rarely the problem for modern sites. Even when it is, the number crunching code is often easily isolated and can be modularized using another more performant language and then Elixir can
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by crusso 10y ago
Musk created a company that gives around 15,000 workers a job. The company he created is not just a capitalist endeavor, but an attempt to start an environmental movement aimed at making electric cars viable in the world market. At multip
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by crusso 10y ago
And that's how echo chambers of thought develop. Only listen to the sources of information that you wish to and disregard others without evaluating what they are providing. Sorry, but Spolsky is normally extremely insightful and if yo
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by crusso 10y ago
I'm not disputing your accepted meaning of random. I actually was trying to make common ground with the poster to whom I was responding who was using "random" in a non-standard way.
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by crusso 10y ago
Casinos can forbid all they want, but the teeth in the deal is that lawmakers back up the Casinos' rights to set the rules and force you to play by them.
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by crusso 10y ago
Casinos make no representations that the odds are "random", and by that I assume that you mean that you have an even chance of winning a given bet. Casinos are in the business of providing entertainment through games that sometime
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by crusso 10y ago
Yeah, that's the part that had me scratching my head. Any study that makes no attempt to smooth out dramatic outlier time periods is highly suspect.
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by crusso 10y ago
Joel Spolsky makes important points in the article. Disregarding them because you don't like the web site that they're posted on is fallacious reasoning.

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