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by crusso 10y ago
Top marks for: 1. Showing a diversity of maker skills 2. Making something that actually works 3. Industrial design savvy 4. Entertaining video You've given me some motivation to get off of HN and work on one of my side projects for the
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As you say, it's a diagnosis app. It shouldn't be judged on the same slippery slope as a treatment technique.
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You wrote rationalizations for the policies you mentioned, but you didn't address my point that the real world example of the economic dominance of the USA would be evidence that you're incorrect. You'd think that if your pol
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"Until workers can share equally in the profits of a business" Sharing equally in the productivity of the society is just communism. It fails every time because people have varying levels of productivity but when you compensate e
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Government jobs are paid for through taxation. Taxation is a form of theft and at best should be considered a necessary evil for running the government that everyone agreed to - as outlined in the Constitution. The Constitution never allo
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I agree. I dipped both feet in those and other Java technologies and I really had trouble enjoying programming. It always felt like I was fighting with configuration, JAR versions, and other useless complexity. I don't even want to
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It's ironic to see so many people posting about how the Dow and stock market mean nothing. If so, why did such noted liberal economists (like Krugman) make such dire predictions about where the market was going after Trump won the elec
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The pipeline will create jobs and decrease fuel costs (pro business and worker). Freezing federal hiring will decrease the tax and regulatory load shouldered by everyone (pro business and worker). The ACA was shown to have been sold to th
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Your list is largely comparable to what one would see as a list of goals from someone sympathetic to European style socialism. And yet the USA is the dominant economy in the world. How do you square that reality with your claim of what a &
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I agree that there was a bird flu effect that you describe. Likewise, I always point people at Y2K as being a case in point where a lot of hype created the work that deflated the danger - but lay people could only see the hype. That said,
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Even then, some policies take years to show an impact - often with amplification or diminution based upon other events that occur long after a President is gone. Look at how long it took for the housing market bubble to grow before bursting
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I would differ with your use of the word "guess". The underlying dynamics of the market have supported the people who have been long on it.
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Being forced to work for others against your will is slavery.
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Sure, UBI doesn't completely negate the value of work, but UBI decreases the value of hard work because everyone gets something without having to do any work.
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Over-reward? By what measure? If capital amplifies negotiating power then it means that capital is more important. One who can acquire capital to use in negotiation is using the most leverage to create value. Labor's value is exactl
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While I agree that luck vs work is a key distinction between people that seems to drive political differences. I think that desires regarding the future are even more fundamental. Looking to the future, I would like to see cancer cured in
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Well, I guess if "simultaneous" means that different parts of the government with different programs can have opposite effects, okay. But I'm talking about a program that mitigates the effects of luck while (in the same progr
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That's a direct example where government power rewarded a crony. Reward for value creation is something that the free market does every day in trillions of transactions.
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Examples?
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Apart from the other individual language/framework differences others will no doubt give you - Uncle Bob makes some great points on why we should be moving to functional languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zlp9
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You see the lack of honesty on both sides of the aisle. You're right in that Republicans don't just come out and admit that they believe that healthcare is not a right and that people should have to deal with their own health iss
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vi isn't very intuitive either, but there's no better way to learn something difficult than to learn it when you're young. I've been using vi professionally for 30 years thanks to my early GT classes. It's probabl
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And if you learned SVN, you would have had a solid base for understanding GIT. Would you expect students to learn source code control in the abstract or not at all? You have to do programming assignments anyway. Why wouldn't you requ
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I disagree. The role of a university CS degree is to bridge the gap between high school student and software development professional. That's going to include some theory but a lot of hands-on experience with modern development tools
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Charles Isbell is still at GT? Holy cow. I think he was the teaching assistant when I was taking VAX assembly back in the late 80's when I was there. Seemed like a nice guy. It's amazing how you don't think of someone for
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I find myself increasingly disenchanted with Apple's products. The removal of the iPhone7 headphone jack was an absolute disaster from my perspective. The new MBPs with their 16GB memory limit, their removal of the esc key, and their
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Maybe I'm up too early, but I have an idea: Where will you be in your life when those stars collide? Write down (briefly) where you are in your life right now, on a blog, Facebook, or even some tweets. Then write down where you think
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The headset jack issues on the iPhone 7 make me more angry about a product I own than anything I can recall in recent memory. Utterly frustrating.
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I've played around with the Edison. It's nice to have wifi and bluetooth if you can get it working, but the platform doesn't seem to be very well supported by Intel. Despite being around for a couple of years, I had a lot o
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The announcements of new treatments and new discoveries in various healthcare fields astronomically outstrips the real ones that you can actually make use of. The easy money is in the hyping of potential cures, and it's easy to see why

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