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by dfilppi 6y ago
Except there is no right to medical care. However, there are actual rights to the other things.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
And they are wrong. It's most likely not going to kill them or anyone they know.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Killing off industries is not what free societies do.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
A slim minority of Americans have a 401k?
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by dfilppi 6y ago
"The world is flat" was "settled science" for 100000 years.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Technical debt is a sign of success in the best case. It means you had to rush out changes to satisfy possibly shifting customer demand. Few businesses have the resources to devote to technical debt reduction vs new features or new produ
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Xbox one version would be nice
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by dfilppi 6y ago
This is forbidden knowledge
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Alas the regulators, as arms of the government, represent the epitome of greed, self interest and mind boggling incompetence outstripping anything dreamt of by private industry.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Such is the nature of things. All systems develop vested interests which defend the status quo. They do it until it collapses. Rinse and repeat.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
They arent really defensible, so not suitable as a major source of power
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by dfilppi 6y ago
No, we aren't.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Nobody ever dies from their perspective.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Uber and Lyft drivers don't get paid wages, so the premise is silly.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
UBI really stands for Universal Basic Inflation
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Oh the humanity
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by dfilppi 6y ago
You had a good run
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Not sure there is a solution for this. To create a money machine like Cisco is extremely difficult and valuable. It is natural that the culture becomes more conservative, plus large orgs are conservative by necessity and bureaucratic. A
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by dfilppi 6y ago
It doesn't need to be created if you don't mind being dominated by an adversary that does create it.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Reads like a political hit piece
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by dfilppi 6y ago
The odd thing is to choose a certain path in life because other people would be interested in reading about it.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
I visually program using vi and have for decades. Graphical programming is cumbersome for anything but trivial applications.
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Oddly, the more real experience you have diminishes your chance of being hired. You might recall how to 'invert a binary tree' had you recently graduated from college. But since inverting binary trees is an extremely rare need in
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by dfilppi 6y ago
Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.
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by dfilppi 7y ago
There should only be one Manhattan style project now: figure out how to download consciousness into a machine. Besides conferring immorality, this would also make interstellar travel time scales irrelevant.
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by dfilppi 7y ago
You dont need a job to have access to health care in the US. All you need is the ability to pay for the services you use.
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by dfilppi 7y ago
Untaxed? Where? Got the car gassed up.
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by dfilppi 7y ago
No. Slavery isnt voluntary by definition, and that is it's most essential feature.
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by dfilppi 7y ago
The minimum wage merely sets the welfare level.
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by dfilppi 7y ago
The minimum wage is zero, and always will be.

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