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by danjayh 11y ago
If the vast majority were employed, then the proposal to require able-bodied individuals to work as a precondition for receiving welfare should only affect a small minority of people who have chosen to live off the system. Why is that ridic
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> Are you willing to create value for other humans at less than your time is worth? Because that is what you are asking them to do. If it was worth their time we wouldn't have to threaten them with pain or death to incentivise them
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As much as I love the idea, it is fairly impractical for the reasons that other commentors have noted. Call me greedy, but within the constraints of a balanced budget, I would like to see an increased portion dedicated to science (be it a &
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I would actually strongly recommend that he not list google on his resume. Unless Google has a policy against sharing whether a candidate was fired or left on good terms, it might not be beneficial for him to have potential employers call
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Being off contract, you save the most money by the fact that you aren't forced to continually upgrade your phone to get your subsidy. I'm on a ~$25 USD/month plan with unlimited talk/text + 2.5GB LTE, and I typically kee
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by danjayh 11y ago
Your battery life is great now, but what about 3 years from now? The current ~2 year phone refresh cycle should not last forever, and I think that both the S7 and the nexus have it wrong when it comes to batteries. Even at a gentle 50% Dept
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by danjayh 11y ago
Marissa Mayer's been at the top for 2012, and really is responsible for the direction that Yahoo has taken in the past four years. I have to wonder -- will Yahoo's sale (and inevitable downsizing) play out worse for her, or the pe
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by danjayh 11y ago
Even though Alibaba is Chinese owned, and based in a country whose attitude toward free speech is not something I'd like to spread, somehow I'm more comfortable with them as a suitor for Yahoo than I am with Comcast or Verizon (sh
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by danjayh 11y ago
This article is fascinating, and having done board bringup work, I understand the challenges that the author faced. He did absolutely top-notch work. Getting a board that does nothing , has no debugger, no output of any kind going is reall
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by danjayh 11y ago
As a native English speaker who has never learned another language beyond high school Spanish, I often feel sympathy for the plight of those who are forced to learn English later in life. I see many native English speakers with a tenuous gr
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by danjayh 11y ago
I realized the irony of complaining about Engadget going inappropriately off-topic and then doing so myself, and edited that out. Trying my best to stay on the rails :). I do stand by my opinion that even their tech-focused articles are hor
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by danjayh 11y ago
Interesting phone, horrible article. Typical of the modern Engadget, the article is light on facts and heavy on superlatives. For instance, I had to head over to some random Android website (androidHeadlines) to find out that yes, it does h
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100% agree. It's incomplete & disorganized, a very sad state of affairs. They need to assign someone to go through and fix it.
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by danjayh 11y ago
I can tell you with great certainty that the cat presently sitting in my lap has feelings. When she's angry, she turns into a total bitch and knows just how to press my wife's buttons :) Example - after getting upset about being p
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by danjayh 11y ago
Every time I see Linux used in a project like this, it feels like hitting a trim nail with a sledgehammer. I hadn't seen mbed OS prior to this article, and after perusing the documentation and checking license (apache), I have to say I
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by danjayh 11y ago
I took a look at the mbed os socket API, and it supports opening a socket in 'listen' mode. With a few lines of code, you should be able to build this into a basic server. What functionality is missing that would be required for t
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by danjayh 11y ago
Agreed. I've done that in the past and done quite well, but when I got married I dumped all my non-retirement portfolio. 6% guaranteed return paying down student debt (plus getting rid of payments, which hadn't been something I&#x
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by danjayh 11y ago
Assuming continuous inflation, the absolute price of housing will always increase. However, affordability decreases as the ratio of housing price : income increases. There is a limit above which a vast swath of the population can't aff
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by danjayh 11y ago
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/11/daily-c... EDIT: I am specifically referring to the "Price to Income" chart in my comment below, not the one that shows up by default. Sorry
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I was referring specifically to the cheap debt. Yes, the much of the spent money under Bush went to the Iraq war, and under Obama much of it went to 'stimulus', and both items hurt us all (through inefficient use of resources) whi
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by danjayh 11y ago
I'll nail it down a little for you. I think it's going to be within two years, based purely on asset valuation : income ... which isn't a particularly sophisticated way to analyze it, but when people can't afford things
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Yes and no. With regard to spreading, just prior observation that adjustments tend to spread. With regard to housing, the observation that the median home price : median income ratio is now above 5.2x, while at the last peak it was only at
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by danjayh 11y ago
I think that this is just the beginning. In my opinion, we're heading for a tech bust that's going to spread to the rest of the economy, and deflate additional bubbles (housing, for one). The government has been pushing cheap mone
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by danjayh 11y ago
Protip: The note 4 has a wonderful camera and quite often goes on bargain basement sales. If you're OK with used, you can pick them up for a song on Swappa. Personally I wanted a note 4 since it came out, and I waited until after the N
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by danjayh 11y ago
I find myself a bit bemused that the article specifically mentions student debt as an example of something that people can refinance but don't. I hadn't ever had any student debt until marriage, but since then (and until recently)
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by danjayh 11y ago
I haven't done any VHDL in about 9 years. Anyone know of a good site/tutorial to run through that starts out relatively basic and goes through to advanced topics? (bonus points if it has step-by-step instructions for a low cost &#
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by danjayh 11y ago
He says it works, but I say that at a pay rate of 1.5-5.0c/word, you'd have to be crazy to do it. Take this with a grain of salt; I'm probably a bit biased because the pay per "word" for software development is so m
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Quite to the contrary - I feel that we should strive to provide excellent opportunities to all. I feel no need to provide a comfortable life straight-away, though - if we've provided the opportunity, the walk between being poor and liv
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I don't think that inequality in itself is a problem - it really doesn't matter how rich the super-rich are, as long as the vast majority of the people can afford basic housing, food, and transportation with an entry level job. Cu
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by danjayh 11y ago
"the idea of a negative income tax is to treat people who are poor the same way we treat people who are rich" ... BS ... There is nothing the same about taking a significant amount of money from one group and giving a significan

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