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by douche 11y ago
A truly universal basic income would probably allow a diaspora from the currently over-saturated, "the rent is too damn high" markets, into the surplus housing stock and land that sits vacant due to poor local economies throughout
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by douche 11y ago
I dunno if Europe is really recent, or just a bigger problem now. My experience of Berlin circa 2009 was that the natives were as racist towards Turkish immigrants as my hillbilly folk back in the states were towards Mexicans. There were
3483.
by douche 11y ago
Sure, you could be one of those that gets addicted to AA and goes to three meetings a day. Or you could just put it out of mind and not drink.
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by douche 11y ago
Strongly considering moving my private repos and dumping my paid GitHub subscription.
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by douche 11y ago
It's sad as hell what the alma mater is doing these days... Guess there was nothing offensive about the speech in the library a few months back. Outragism certainly pays a lot of salaries for mid-level administrators there, though.
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by douche 11y ago
He also got assassinated before he had the opportunity. He could have been Ghandi, or he could have been Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
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by douche 11y ago
Meritocracy is only good for you if you're better than most people. It's in most people's interest to dislike meritocracy.
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by douche 11y ago
It's a hard problem we've been working on for at least a couple thousand years. When we find the universal solution, the philosophers can pack it in. Meanwhile, I've got to live as best I can in the world as it exists, rathe
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by douche 11y ago
That seems to be humanity in a nutshell - fuck you, got mine. Most of us are not altruistic enough to put other people ahead of us and ours. Self > family > clan > tribe > race > everybody else. However you choose to segmen
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by douche 11y ago
Anybody use Microsoft's Team Services git hosting? Looks like they have unlimited free repos, although I don't know about public.
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by douche 11y ago
To be fair, there are a lot of sweeping theories and conclusions in history, archaeology and paleontology that rest on some very thin reeds. The further back in time you go, the more it's like trying to figure out what a 1000 piece pu
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by douche 11y ago
Around the time that Australia was founded as a penal colony, English property-defense laws were pretty insane, to the point that it became known as the Bloody Code[1]. Grand Larceny, a capital offense, was defined as theft of anything val
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by douche 11y ago
Interesting, but not particularly surprising. I think a more interesting finding would be a culture where the remains of wives, mothers and other female relations of leaders and high-status individuals were not treated with some level of p
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by douche 11y ago
MRIs also have issues if you happen to have ferrous metals in your body. Ignoring obvious things like surgical pins, plates and screws used in orthopedics, and piercings, people in certain occupations have a high likelihood of picking up t
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by douche 11y ago
A graphic I found very enlightening in the past year is here: http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/images/age_old_battle/virtu... from this blog post: http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/2013/12&#x2F
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by douche 11y ago
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone
3497.
by douche 11y ago
A rural coder's initiative wouldn't do much for the racial imbalance, though. The brain drain away from rural America is pretty alarming. The best and brightest leave for the cities, and they don't often come back. Throw in
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by douche 11y ago
Notepad++ is my light-weight text editor, for the stuff I don't already have in my Visual Studio solutions. It's free, it's good, it's fast, and you can run it portable if you want to. Windows only, but that's not
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by douche 11y ago
Fortunately, any kind of displacement-based tax on vehicles would have to be a state-run affair (A Federal Department of Motor Vehicles would be far, far too Kafkaesque or perhaps even Lovecraftian). So good luck, California, you seem to l
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by douche 11y ago
For somebody who is closer to the edge, that bump in fuel prices is going to trickle into everything they consume, and when the transit costs of the product are a bigger proportion of the total cost of the item, that's got real impact
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by douche 11y ago
Eh, you kill the resource extraction industries, and all you're going to have left will be the homesteaders and some tourist trade. It'll look like the coast of Maine, at best. People aren't going to freeze to death up there
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by douche 11y ago
Sure. That kind of infrastructure makes sense when you jam so many people into such tiny countries. Great Britain is just a tad bigger than New England, and it's got five times as many people in it.
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by douche 11y ago
You know what was awesome about $4 gasoline? $3.75 heating oil.
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by douche 11y ago
Yep. Let's implement possibly the most regressive tax possible on working-class people. Because every penny of that tax is going to come out of our pockets at the pump or at the grocery store.
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by douche 11y ago
3.) The ball of spaghetti rolls downhill, agglobulating ALL THE FEATURES , along with forty-seven hundred switches and configuration options controlling them, resulting in a combinatorial explosion of possible system states and code paths,
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by douche 11y ago
Does anyone other than slimy recruiters actually use LinkedIn? Actually curious - I've never had any interactions through the site other than randos endorsing me for things I know nothing about, and code-sausage-machine consultants and
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by douche 11y ago
Grr. You can always tell when somebody has been on the NAS or done any development work on a branch checked out of source control on a MacBook...
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by douche 11y ago
Microsoft's OAuth stuff is ridiculously buggy. I've tried half a dozen times to get my Office 365 Microsoft account properly linked with my (identical email address) MSDN Microsoft account, and it's always wrong. Every time
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by douche 11y ago
Maybe if these luxury crops can't be sold economically without resorting to illegal labor, they should be replaced with other products that are more economical. I can go pick my own strawberries in New England when they are in season
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by douche 11y ago
That comment might be in the context of Germany, where people generally don't seem to get wrapped up in religious identity to the extent that they do in the US. From what I saw living there, many Germans don't set foot in a church

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