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by csense 8y ago
> suspends all pay for the legislative and executive branches until a new budget is passed That's a terrible idea. Not all lawmakers are independently wealthy. So the ones who actually need that salary to survive can effectively b
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by csense 8y ago
As soon as they do, those jobs will move overseas. Unless there's some kind of legal / regulatory block to prevent it (e.g. tariffs)
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Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers(theatlantic.com)
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by csense 8y ago
This is the second video in a series, first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs
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by csense 8y ago
My own personal answer to that question is that it's never ethical to end the life of a loved one. But in the case of animals, ultimately they are lower ethical status than humans. Murdering a suffering pet so you don't have to se
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by csense 8y ago
If I went to prison, I'd stay in my cell 24/7 and read books and math papers. Up to the point of refusing to eat unless guards brought food to my cell. I'd actually prefer to go into solitary confinement and completely stay
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by csense 8y ago
Sure, the high salt concentration kills sea life for a couple hundred meters around where the waste comes out, but compared to the total size of the ocean, I'd imagine the affected area would be TINY. Once you get to a larger area it&
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by csense 8y ago
The best thing for Britain would be to just give up, accept that there will be no deal, and spend the remaining time making as many preparations as possible, and piecemeal deals on smaller subjects.
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by csense 8y ago
The author seems to think there's a certain class of researchers with software backgrounds who want to cure cancer; have the hypothesis that cancer is, always and everywhere, a purely genetic phenomenon; and enshrine this hypothesis as
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by csense 8y ago
Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, moved the team to Baltimore right after the taxpayers built them a new stadium. Even though these events happened in the mid-90's and Modell died in 2012, his name is still considered a c
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by csense 8y ago
The author tried to give him a chance, and it almost worked. But then Daniel chose to do drugs. He chose to rob people. He chose to shoot a cop. I have zero sympathy for Daniel.
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by csense 8y ago
The reason expm1 exists is because that naive approach is numerically poor when x is small (then e^x is almost 1, and subtracting two almost equal values throws away significant digits and gives you an inaccurate result).
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by csense 8y ago
I'm thinking the solution will be political, not economic. Once there are enough people in enough pain that it turns them into single-issue voters on this issue, someone will create taxpayer-funded relief. If it's a Democratic-led
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by csense 8y ago
Microsoft Paint.
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by csense 8y ago
The US really helped China industrialize, they repaid the favor by screwing our economy by letting companies pay super-low wages and crap all over the environment, and stealing our tech to boot, so all the jobs moved there. US politicians
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by csense 8y ago
Someone needs to RTFC (Read The Fine Constitution)
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by csense 8y ago
Suppose I want to get into hacking UEFI firmware. Does this mean I can buy some Microsoft device, download the C++ code for the firmware, make some changes if I want to, compile it, and load it onto the device? If so, that's really co
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by csense 8y ago
China's arresting Canadians in revenge for the Huawei executive's arrest. Are those Canadians going to be murdered for their organs if the Huawei executive is extradited?
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by csense 8y ago
HN discussion of US Navy's collision issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077072 Somehow between the invention of ships in 10,000 BC or whatever and the modern day, we've lost the ability to keep them f
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by csense 8y ago
> Has anyone considered bootstrapping on completely different stacks and then diffing the results? Yes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12666923
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by csense 8y ago
> You're confusing the yield at market rates with the interest paid by the borrower This is true when you're talking about trading a bond in the secondary market. But for primary sales (i.e. Treasury auctions for brand-new bon
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by csense 8y ago
How does that protect you from false accusations?
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by csense 8y ago
I suspect you've hit the nail on the head of why the social taboo against divorce exists in the first place. Ceteris paribus, it's better for children if their parents stay together. Therefore we've raised the social cost of
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by csense 8y ago
If you build a new society where there will be no witch-hunts, you will attract a disproportionately high number of witches.
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by csense 8y ago
If dealers pull drugs that cause deaths, could we make progress in the War on Drugs by having government agents sneak poison into the illegal drug supply? The idea here is that dealers would stop selling drug after drug as the death toll mo
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by csense 8y ago
I'd think it's much less of a concern than in space. For one, space robots are far enough away that there's a big time delay to Earth communications, these robots will have control stations <1km away. So the only electro
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This isn't a surprise. Back in the day, a kid fresh out of high school in the US could get a job that supported a house with a yard, a car, children, and a non-working spouse. Factories were both directly paying good wages for non-hig
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Think about a police department or intelligence agency who can make you disappear anytime they want, without needing to devote manpower or risk lives at the task. Disturbingly dystopian. Think about a black-hat hacker who can have a side g
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I've recently been doing a fair amount of traveling to tech-heavy cities from my base in the Rust Belt. I see all the money and development going on in places like this, and it amazes me how growing and non-dysfunctional these economie
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by csense 8y ago
Idea: Every time the Chinese (or any other nation) steals technology, calculate its economic value, multiply it by a factor of 4 or something for punitive effect, and send the Chinese government a bill. If they ignore it, just raise some

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