cwhiz

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by cwhiz 6y ago
I’m fine with anything that damages China. The entire western world should be grouping together to fight the Chinese state. Their behavior the last couple of decades is obscene. Right now, in 2020, China is operating Muslim concentration ca
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by cwhiz 6y ago
What I’ve learned from giving and receiving technical challenges over the years. Don’t. The only thing these challenges do is determine whether someone can do your coding challenge. No indicator at all about their ability to actually solve
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Like I said... my city is more expensive than the average, my number is for two kids, and I included funding for college. I am not here to defend the USDA report. Take it up with them if you disagree.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I didn't make those numbers up. They came straight from the USDA and include actual estimated costs that actual Americans paid to raise their children. My numbers were adjusted for my city which is more expensive than average. The $
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Your argument here is basically that Apple charges a lot so they must be a monopoly. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it true. Apple's share of the smartphone market is shrinking, not growing. The basic premise of your
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by cwhiz 6y ago
That isn't how monopolies work or are defined or classified. Revenue has nothing to do with market control. Even if we rewrite the dictionary and legal texts, Apple would be part of a duopoly, not a monopoly. If you try to redefine m
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement. What monopoly? Apple controls maybe 8% of the desktop/notebook market and ~13% of the smartphone market. They don't
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I don't need the media to tell me either of those things. I can do arithmetic. Our economy relies on consumerism expanding infinitely. If people are having fewer babies that means fewer consumers. The easiest solution is to increas
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I know you’re saying this as if it should be something scary that I should oppose. But I am not even remotely concerned about nuclear safety. If noise and traffic were no concern I would live right next to a nuclear power plant.
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If we could transmit power across vast distances like that then we wouldn't even need to bother with solar. We could build a thousand nuclear power plants in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, power transmission suffers from line l
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I would like to see some models on how solar power could work in northern cities, or honestly any city. The NYC metro area has over 23 million residents and there is essentially zero space for a solar farm. In the winter it's cloudy
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by cwhiz 6y ago
If your scientific paper doesn’t adhere to what the mob believes, you must retract. This is America! It’s funny that “people of color” has been altered to remove Asians. I guess Asians have achieved too much success in racist America? I won
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by cwhiz 6y ago
“Could” is a pretty important word here. This estimate is from a survey of how people feel about their ability to pay rent. It’s not an actual estimate of the number of distressed tenants or the number of landlords looking to evict. I would
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You can buy or build a laser that can cause permanent blindness. There is ample evidence of protesters using lasers. Where is your evidence of federal agents using lasers?
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It's only a war crime if it is intentional and the weapon has no other function except to cause blindness.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Social security is not underfunded. It is only underfunded due to these two reasons. Well, which is it? If it were simple to make social security solvent at full promised benefits then surely we would?
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It's ironic that you cite social security, which is a giant unfunded liability. Pensions don't actually have to be funded by the next generation. That's just the asinine way we have it set up here in the US. It relies on a
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I'm not angry about either. I am in favor of giving people what they want. Look at who supports the postal service and who doesn't. There will be no downsides for me if the postal service goes away. The people who want it to g
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Would you rather have bankrupt cities and states? Because that is where we are headed and we are stomping on the accelerator just as fast as we can.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
> USPS delivers to anyone in the extended U.S. with sane prices. They are able to do this by overcharging for local mail and absurdly undercharging for rural mail. Just another in the never ending list of ways that dense areas subsidize
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I don’t find it onerous at all. The USPS pension will ultimately be one of the few fully funded public pensions. Head to your favorite search engine, pick any city or state in the US, and then follow it with “pension crisis.” USPS retirees
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Maybe all cities and states should have to do this? We have a massive pension crisis in the US. Many cities and states are not even 50% funded. It’s a looming disaster.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Well that is actually a pretty tough one. How are they supposed to predict how long the delivery will take or whether the mother will need a c-section? Even if the hospital were able to perfectly predict all of the procedures and line ite
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I don’t think there is a single viable climate model that doesn’t rely on massive carbon capture. Carbon capture is one of many things we will have to do to avoid mass extinction.
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Contact tracing apps were NEVER going to work. There are numerous fundamental technical problems but those aren’t even worth getting into, because people won’t use this shit. Smartphone contact tracing is an absurd silver bullet pipe dream
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Uh huh. Sure it does. And who is auditing that?
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I agree to an extent. AWS is beginning to feel like a duct taped spaghetti mess. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do things “right” without getting deep into their confusing documentation. However, I’m not necessarily sure that it i
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I can imagine a future without the USPS. A future where I don’t have a weekly chore of sorting through the spam to decide which to throw away and which to recycle. And a future where I don’t have giant boxes “delivered” into my tiny mailbox
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They’re wearing uniforms, arresting people suspected of crimes, and then releasing them. That is not even remotely similar to “secret police disappearing people.” Let’s be reasonable and honest about what is going on here.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
“Protests.” Let’s be honest on both sides. What’s going on in Portland is violent rioting. “Demonstrators” don’t burn cars in the street, but rioters do.

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