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by ebiggs 2y ago
As a homeowner I see little benefit for me for the insane value of my home. Do I want to pay more in property taxes? No. If I sell it’s to just buy a different insanely priced home. I suppose I’m privileged in that I have other retirement p
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by ebiggs 8y ago
On a world scale this is interesting: Jews are only 0.2% of the World’s population, but 17.46% of the World’s billionaires. Thus their representation is 8,730% of their population share. Of course any non-idiot would see this as simply an
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by ebiggs 8y ago
As somebody who's just incapable of acknowledging group-identity diversity is a thing worth respecting (though, I find individual diversity beautiful and fascinating) This was something of a rollercoaster: Oh wow, a woman headed react?
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by ebiggs 8y ago
Nope, he never said so. He used the word "considering" - to interpret that to mean it's a done deal is stupid, and all the risk you take is your own.
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by ebiggs 8y ago
Unfortunately, Prop 13 passed with 62% :(
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by ebiggs 8y ago
The Prop 13 problem is easy to solve technically, if you see the problem as described in this piece... but that's not the problem that needs to be solved. The real problem is California's referendum system that allows such populi
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by ebiggs 9y ago
Sorry I can't answer your question, but I'd bet money it's not a coincidence.. Scheduled births (whether induced or c-section) are prevalent enough that people will just avoid "yucky" dates even if they're not
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by ebiggs 9y ago
> They made the first fully electric sports car (Roadster). Does the tZero from AC Propulsion that inspired the Tesla Roadster not get the credit because it was just a kit car?
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by ebiggs 9y ago
Soc sec. number is used as an immutable unique identifier for Americans since that's really the only piece of information that can be used in such a way. I'm not aware of anybody relying on it as a sole means of authentication...
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by ebiggs 9y ago
Even when there isn't a data breech I don't understand how all big 3 credit agencies survive doing their business as they currently do... which is to expose people to the injury of identify theft by default, and then tell them to
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by ebiggs 11y ago
I'll try and keep it simple. It helps make code more readable. When I see a bunch of Maybe monads, for example, I can instantly know that the programmer's intent was maybe to not just have a type safe null and avoid null pointer e
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by ebiggs 11y ago
At large airports most, if not all, domestic flights are not serviced in the international terminal for the very reason that once you're past security in the international terminal you are going to be subject to customs and border prot
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by ebiggs 11y ago
I don't know if this was meant to be a joke but it's rather preposterous. Justices do not make laws, they interpret and apply them, and must do so while being rationally bound and yes accountable to laws and precedent under the fr
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by ebiggs 11y ago
SCOTUS has far more than faith. It derives its powers from the constitution, and a constitutional amendment would be needed to destroy it, not merely a lack of faith, and until its destroyed it has the ability to set precedent and make ruli
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by ebiggs 11y ago
I used to think this was a good approach to take, to just eliminate marriage, but I eventually changed my mind, and here's why: This isn't a matter of state and religion it's a matter of state and CULTURE. You need to take it
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by ebiggs 12y ago
Debtors need to take control. They need to collectively seize the paper at the giant discount and then dismiss the debt. How to do such a thing? Seems impossible, but even a 4x or 5x overhead would be a giant bargain for the debtors next to
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by ebiggs 12y ago
Start up times could be a big deal to compete with iOS? Especially in similar app lifecycle models where apps could be stopped and restarted implicitly by the OS?
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by ebiggs 14y ago
Not only is this irrelevant to a hacker-entrepreneur it's also somewhat irrelevant to a simple programming career. The sheer dearth of good programming talent makes it a fairly easy field to break into if you're highly motivated. You will u
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by ebiggs 14y ago
Being a loser is a good thing. Every success I've had is just me failing a little less hard each time :)