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by crystalmeph 9y ago
To be upfront, I don't know this for a fact, but what I always hear when this topic is discussed is that corporations are buying a lot of properties as an investment and leaving them vacant or renting them out via AirBNB, etc., thereby
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
When that person is endangering lives by holding several helpless people in lethal conditions.
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
I would say they are all necessary, and none sufficient without the others. The fifth and fourth prevent the government from arbitrary prosecution, which they may be inclined to do if you exercise your rights under the first in some manner
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
It's interesting that while the S&P did beat these hedge funds, Buffet's own Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) seems to have beat the S&P handily[0], with an increase of ~130% from $77.93 in 2007 to $179.89 today. I know Berkshir
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
I've thought of systems like this as well. To be clear, I do not want James Comey, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or any "heroes" or "villains" of our power structures to be given any access to my encrypted data, whether
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
Define "professional services." Forget programming, can she pay him to help her build a shed in her backyard? It makes sense to require some sort of accreditation for systems that must be failsafe against significant financial, l
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
I think it could be a significant issue. 1) Quite simply, software is much easier to learn than medicine, so you have a larger supply of capable software engineers than doctors. If the market for their services is being artificially suppre
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
So if a teenager who is getting into programming has an aunt who is selling quilts on the side, he can't help her set up a custom website? Or he can, as long as he only writes static HTML and not a line of javascript, or he can do that
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
The problem here is really selling all seats for the same price. Airlines know that some customers are price-sensitive, e.g. those planning a trip months in advance, and some customers less so, e.g. business people flying out to a last-minu
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
Exactly, even when you add in the transfer fee proposed here. Any rational ticket holder wouldn't sell their ticket for less than [what they paid for it] + [the transfer fee], and that means the airline let someone else get money they
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
If you want people to fight inequality with you, you have to first prove to them it's actually a problem. It's a bit of a leap to convince somebody that just because Bill Gates is much richer than the typical person, somebody more
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
It's like a stream of consciousness piece that barely hangs on to the main thread of what it's supposed to be about.
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Filmmaker learns why she endured airport stops for years(wral.com)
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
"Looking to the future, experts on the region are focusing on what happens ... when North Korea inevitably collapses" I'm no fan of the DPRK regime, but isn't it naive to assume that any state, even a completely mismanag
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Bill Clinton raised taxes early in his first term, 24 years ago in 1993. "He raised taxes on higher income taxpayers"[0]. Did you mean that no Democratic president raised taxes on your family in your lifetime? [0] https:/&#
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, and I'm the one who put "bad guys" in quotes! I put it in quotes not because I believe in moral relativism, but because in the conflict against the USSR, official US policy
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
For certain values of "conquered." The "bad guys" never seem to be completely conquered, and still enjoy significant freedom of movement and access to supply lines.
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Forgive my ignorance. I don't understand the threat model being worried about here. If someone breaks into your CVS/SVN server and rewrites project history, how is that less bad than someone breaking into your remote git repo an
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Oh, you have a debugger you lucky sod. Currently working on a thing (approaching EOL thankfully, but still have to support and add new features until the manufacturer says "no seriously we're cutting you off") that uses a gcc
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
How much of them beating you was marketing and how much was customer service? World class customer service by itself can be a market beater, even when the product you are backing up is more expensive / lower quality for the same featur
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
"All Regions" "Browser Preferred Language" (English-US in my case) Safe Search "On" Instant Answers "On" Auto Suggest "On"
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Sure you got javascript enabled? Just asking.
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Really? Google gives me bland stuff like "..is how old" and "..is he dead." Bing gives me "..is so evil" and "..is a convicted felon." Duckduckgo "wins" with "..is the antichrist"
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
That's actually really interesting. I wonder how much of it is baked into the algorithm and how much reflects the demographics of each engine's users? Edit: Wow you got a lot of downvotes fast. I honestly don't know if you&
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
I am questioning the premise that making the taxpayers pay for English majors' apartments is worth the money you take from the taxpayers. Just because the money isn't being spent on bad idea "A" doesn't mean bad ide
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
We're venturing a little off-topic here, but I'll walk with you a bit: I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me here. My understanding of the current welfare system is that you get $Y from welfare as long a
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
I'm not sure why you think it should be a priority for the nation (meaning the taxpayers) to support those who devote their lives to the study of literature. Do those pursuits pay off in some tangible or intangible form down the line
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
The first two paragraphs were incomprehensible to this computer science graduate. Something about literature reflecting society reflecting literature? But the actual thrust of the article - that English departments are intentionally turnin
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
DHL says the package is already in USPS' hands stateside, so it's not on a ship.
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Facebook, Twitter, etc. should shut down DHS' and other TLAs' Facebook and Twitter pages if those organizations are purposefully violating the companies' TOS, including the accounts of the leadership who presumably know about

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