devdas

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   by devdas 10y ago

   The colour of skin is relevant in the case of racially motivated crimes. Not recording this just leads to a society which pushes racism under the rug.
2. 302.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   Taxes. Externalities can be factored into the price. Build the price of recycling into the product, and make the vendor liable.
3. 303.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   Taxing wealth would be the most efficient form of taxation. It would hit the poor the least, and the rich the most. Hell, a flat wealth tax proposal might even get the support of economists.
4. 304.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   Ideas are extremely valuable. They just aren't short term commercialisable. Good ideas prove their worth over generations, by establishing entire industries and not single companies. If you have an idea which will found an industry (or
5. 305.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   Metrics. A metric has a known source, a timestamp, a name and a value. It can also ship with any arbitrary number of descriptive fields. Similarly, events.
6. 306.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   > If you're instead politically aligned with most people living in Kashmir That should really read as most Muslims in the Kashmir Valley (Jammu and Ladakh have clearly opted to stay in India, and the Kashmiri Pandits have been dri
7. 307.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   It is fairly easy to introduce a proxy for IPv4 only networks. Like a NAT gateway, but even easier since you can do this at the application level (and get real firewalling).
8. 308.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   The same, usually along a great circle route, and a multiplier based on your fare bucket.
9. 309.▲
   by devdas 10y ago

   Are you trying to write Pythonic Perl?
10. 310.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Less Stockholm syndrome, more necessity in technical fields.
11. 311.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Refugees are not immigrants.
12. 312.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Have you thought about working in a shared screen session for code editing, with a parallel chat client for interactivity. Voice is just too low SNR for code.
13. 313.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Which is why everyone needs to spend time in communicating. IRL communication is accidental rather than deliberate. Distributed teams need deliberate communication.
14. 314.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Or a few drones?
15. 315.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    No one is preventing the UK from adding exceptions for Indians.
16. 316.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    The problem with being in the EEA is that you get all the negatives of being in the EU (free movement of people and paying into EU funds), but have no votes on how the money is spent.
17. 317.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    And then those people would repatriate funds, raising the quality of life in poorer countries and reducing the need to emigrate. Labour is a tradable good, and as such the labour market must be an open as for any other goods (or services).
18. 318.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    You might avoid lights between cities, but within cities, highways may have pedestrians.
19. 319.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    So like the HN darling Uber?
20. 320.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    There were laws restricting immigration from non-white countries.
21. 321.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    It depends on what the organisation has standardised on. If there are people who know PostgreSQL already and they have the tooling for it, then they want to reuse that stack. If the organisation has standardised on MySQL/Oracle/SQ
22. 322.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    You could also have just read the books :).
23. 323.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    But coding is non work fun stuff.
24. 324.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Quite a bit of the crime rate comes from suburban development, and the highway system.
25. 325.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Demand.
26. 326.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    There's a lag between higher incomes, a stabler higher quality of life and having fewer children. About three or four generations at least.
27. 327.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    No, it depends on the institutions setup by the invaders. In the US, the British never managed to setup an exploitative set of systems, designed to funnel money to corrupt individuals. In the third world, they did. Those systems are what dr
28. 328.▲
    by devdas 10y ago

    Regexp.
29. 329.▲
    by devdas 11y ago

    The 1% is a question of wealth, not income. If you make most of your financial returns from capital gains, rather than income, you are in the 1%
30. 330.▲
    by devdas 11y ago

    http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2011/07/21/monitoring-sucks-watch...