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by derleth 13y ago
> Don't worry, the bankruptcy system will catch up and find a way to make medical debts non-discharge-able just like it did for student debts. Inheritable, too, what with all the old people dying with medical debts their whole estat
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by derleth 13y ago
By "everyone" I meant "in a company", and "losing" to mean "down for a whole week, at least". I should have worded that a lot better. My apologies. If you're paying someone minimum wage, and they
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by derleth 13y ago
Does it still phone home by default?
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by derleth 13y ago
> As an aside, is there not some elasticity to medical care? Trivially true if you define 'medical care' to include cosmetic procedures, which then gets you into case-by-case debates on whether this or that orthodontic or derma
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by derleth 13y ago
> Until Soylent is proved unsafe, there is no basis for calling it unsafe. This is exactly backwards, and is precisely the reasoning scammers use to sell worthless treatments.
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by derleth 13y ago
> the completely artificial hamburger people get at McDonalds Define 'completely artificial' here. It's meat, it's bread, it's vegetables and condiments.
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by derleth 13y ago
Bill Gates is an aggressive man. When turned to business, this aggression leads to the creation and abuse of monopoly powers, especially if there's an IBM to abuse in the early days. When turned to Public Good, it is just as fearsome i
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by derleth 13y ago
I wonder how much Tesla paid the author to write this.
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by derleth 13y ago
The State goes after unregulated monopolies which abuse their powers.
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by derleth 13y ago
> they are required to deliver first-class mail to every mailing address in the United States (including very remote areas) Not even close. If you live out of town, you don't get a mailbox. You get a PO Box in the post office in the
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by derleth 13y ago
> * A box for its use at every residence in the United States Not even close. I've lived many places without a box. If you're too expensive to deliver to, you don't get a box and you have to drive to the nearest post offic
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by derleth 13y ago
> What if we start having well known brand logos like the ubiquitous golden arches as codepoints. I think trademark laws would stop that. I'm not sure, but I don't think anyone else is, either, so the uncertainty would prevent
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by derleth 13y ago
Unless you're blind, or trying to render the page on a different-sized browser and the tables are fixed size (because 640x480 is a Law Of Physics).
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by derleth 13y ago
That wasn't a technical commentary.
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by derleth 13y ago
Unicode should be easy to standardize. It's never going to be, but making arbitrary decisions on what's 'useful' or not just makes the process harder by making everyone's blood pressure go up every single time that
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by derleth 13y ago
Because their freedoms don't extend to harming others, and never have.
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The Gilded Age.
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by derleth 13y ago
Not in my experience: The lack of versioned libraries is still a problem and trying to dismiss it by calling me a fanboy is not logically sound.
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by derleth 13y ago
I'm saying that the Internet is defined by being an internet. An internet is a network composed of multiple independent networks with independent low-level protocols which share data using a higher-level protocol suite. The higher-
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by derleth 13y ago
Pollution happens just fine when there isn't a government to allow it; mostly, it happens when there isn't a government to stop it.
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by derleth 13y ago
The market place cannot stop pollution, because the damage done by pollution is very often too large for the polluting company to ever pay to fix, assuming the company even still exists when the damage is found. If the company is long gon
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by derleth 13y ago
Every business requires public resources to maintain. The police, to guard their warehouses? The trained fire department, to reduce their insurance rates to something manageable? The roads and water and power infrastructure? They didn
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by derleth 13y ago
> The central premise of geneticism is that these things are wrong Then I deny the existence of 'geneticism' as you apparently define it, and say it's a strawman argument against the notion that anything is determined or
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by derleth 13y ago
Hacker News is only 'news' in the Usenet news sense of the term.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Is TCP/IP really what makes the internet the internet Yes, because the Internet is the Internet because it's a network of networks, all sharing the same protocols, all routing data among each other via gateways using packets.
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by derleth 13y ago
That's what a halfway house is for.
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by derleth 13y ago
Actually, no: I've had a lot more luck getting old Linux software working than old Windows software, as the Windows software inevitably has DLL Hell written all over it.
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by derleth 13y ago
This is a lot more involved than magic numbers, and magic numbers are configurable.
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by derleth 13y ago
So it isn't a shell. It's more like xterm, then, right?
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by derleth 13y ago
> criticize your ideological opponents (who don't disagree with you on this matter) Yes, they do. The ones screaming about Socialism damned well do disagree with me on this issue.

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