ctdonath

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721.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Individual liberty. Individuals choosing to engage in mutually beneficial activities, rather than being told at implied gunpoint to do what a bunch of ignorant strangers, or a tyrannical dictator, decided.
722.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Most of Bezos' money is invested in Amazon, investing in growth to create more jobs and better/cheaper goods & services. What he actually spends, funds jobs that exist because rich people exist and buy things others don't
723.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Pedantic. He created a job opening, they accepted it. Ask NYC how terrible those 30,000 new Amazon jobs are ... oh right, they don't exist there because the "Bezos is a meanie" people drove them away. A job is better than no
724.
by ctdonath 7y ago
He's also giving thousands of people jobs, making necessities available to millions at low prices, and paying enormous amounts in total taxes. Can gov't really do more with his money than he can? Do you really want to disincentivi
725.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Why the notion that gov't should be the provider & arbiter of all? Why do none of the "they don't pay enough taxes" crowd not realize the rich do so much of, and more efficiently, what the gov't purports to with
726.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Stop adding qualifiers. Armed citizens, be they ineffective & disorganized, were enough to dissuade heavy handed gov't tactics for a long time - lest effective & organized arise.
727.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Gov’t was dissuaded from such tactics for long after those & similar instances.
728.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Actually not. Don't be a deep-urban criminal, and you'll enjoy great peace.
729.
by ctdonath 7y ago
I didn't say successfully foiled. Gov't usually "wins" these cases, but at great cost & deterred for long after. Pyrrhic victories. I didn't say regularly. I said "rare". Sometimes decades between them
730.
by ctdonath 7y ago
May your chains rest upon you lightly. It's peaceful here because guns are so common. The gov't tries shows of force on rare occasion, and is reminded that's a bad idea.
731.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Capitalism at work, saving the environment. Increasing profits necessitates reducing one's demand for supply. Using less steel, paper, fertilizer, and energy to achieve same/better results while tautologically using less resources
732.
by ctdonath 7y ago
0.5W/m² is amusing, as my rule of thumb for solar power is 10W/m² (24/7/365, all degradation considered).
733.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Does the person in question spend 30min-2hrs a day watching TV?
734.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Adobe chose to link operation of paid copies to the say-so of a remote server, rather than allow independent operation of paid copies. Had they chosen the latter, the gov't order would have been largely moot; what they chose proved dev
735.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Adobe had a choice, and opted for the one where a single point of failure could cripple an entire nation of users. "Failure" in this case is legal, not technical (distinction without a difference to users).
736.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Most people want to work You grossly underestimate how many people would be content watching cheap entertainment, copulating without concern for consequences, and otherwise enjoying a life of mundane leisure. The US poverty line is 80th p
737.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Industries shift, new jobs appear. It happens. It's normal. Socially engineering on the assumption "the end of work is near" has proven disastrous.
738.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Training people to expect sustenance for nothing is a disaster in the making.
739.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Self driving is big. Like digital photography replacing film, once people see the value they'll switch to it seemingly overnight instead of decades. (Long drives go from painful to trivial.) Rental is overrated. When I need to drive, t
740.
by ctdonath 7y ago
No, we’re objecting to conflating categories which demonstrably exhibit radically different behaviors and outcomes. To overstate the point: You can’t conflate “bought a black market gun, keeps it illegally, has no training, and engages in f
741.
by ctdonath 7y ago
Yes. “I paid $37M to get you into that position, I expect you will produce >$37M in results.”
742.
by ctdonath 7y ago
You can’t just hire more top talent. “Elite” is “best”, not “more”.
743.
by ctdonath 7y ago
It’s straight statistics. You’re completely ignoring the harm done by human drivers; quantify that vs self driving and you’ll reconsider which is more reckless.
744.
by ctdonath 7y ago
We went from Kitty Hawk to Falcon Heavy in 100 years.
745.
by ctdonath 7y ago
A white paper on ... black.
746.
by ctdonath 7y ago
If you can prove it won’t be nil, normal IBOutlet included, fine.
747.
by ctdonath 7y ago
That's why you use it only when you can prove it won't fail. I'm ok with that, and said so at the start.
748.
by ctdonath 7y ago
"Nothing to do but bail" is very rare, orders of magnitude below the frequency of misused force-unwrap.
749.
by ctdonath 7y ago
That's why force-unwrap is so bad: the compiler is telling you there's a risk, at a time you can do something sensible about it, and force-unwrap puts solving the problem off to the worst possible scenario. My production user bas
750.
by ctdonath 7y ago
So nobody is dying from this. Are you doing something, personally, about this? My office is 100% solar, home about 20%, telecommute 100%; you?

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