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by fche 11y ago
"designed around getting you addicted" This seems to want to incriminate someone's thoughts, based only on some other people's optional responses. Can you imagine a whole legal framework for divining and arguing "de
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by fche 11y ago
"This seems like a salient point that is worthy of proper discussion and analysis." It may be salient but is also rather pedestrian. Yes, companies vie for attention and favourable habits. See also the whole non-online world: br
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by fche 11y ago
We'll know this only once government scientists speak out against the government.
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by fche 11y ago
FWIW, just recently read Sagan's Contact book, and found it really disappointing in terms of fiction-writing technique. The game idea sounds more like a screen-saver ... alas. In his home nonfiction niche, like Cosmos, he was great.
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by fche 11y ago
C+= was hounded off many other public git hosting services, and even a few days ago when one reappeared, is was hounded anew. Much hard feeling amongst the parodied.
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by fche 11y ago
It sounds like the same tune to me.
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by fche 11y ago
"we simply cannot watch the less fortunate suffer" ... as though that was what the bulk of taxes were about. (If you define "less fortunate" and "suffer" to cover everyone and everything who happens to have a
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by fche 11y ago
At least you're not even pretending that taxation is supposed to be good for him (by virtue of services or whatever). No, simply "you owe" the mob, however much they demand.
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by fche 11y ago
"to get productivity growing again, labour has to become more expensive" Productivity is the saleable value of the work, not the cost of the work. The latter is only a floor for the former (since work that cannot be sold at least
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by fche 11y ago
It was not "doing nothing" I was proposing, but "giving nothing", in the specific sense of donating (vs. paying for a service).
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by fche 11y ago
c+equality was "implemented" as a macro package. (The response-to-parody hyperventilation went well beyond github.)
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by fche 11y ago
It's not general X and Y in play here. It's government overriding the efficiency that normally results from competitive allocation of resources.
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by fche 11y ago
c+equality
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by fche 11y ago
... or how about "none of the above".
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by fche 11y ago
... and in any case, evolution stops at the neck.
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by fche 11y ago
Don't forget opportunity cost. Sure they may be investing, but if government weren't imposing a distortion, they could be investing better.
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by fche 11y ago
"If it is, then you must understand that the credit for that on-paper increase in value is to be completely given to the local government" No. The value assessments are made by potential customers and suppliers in the area. Sure
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by fche 11y ago
See also Postgres multi-version concurrency control. Doesn't solve the problem of merging incompatible inatomic-concurrent changes.
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by fche 11y ago
the salt is strong
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by fche 11y ago
"[can't claim ...] property owner is adding value to a property" The property's mere continued existence is adding that value. "Do you now understand what I mean when I say "$CURRENT_LANDLORD has done nothing t
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by fche 11y ago
"Frankly, we can play the "No, you're using the power of the state" I don't wish to defend zoning laws, nor humour a "tu quoque" contest. Not necessary for my point. "My previous landlords did nothin
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by fche 11y ago
"Am lucky to have rent control." You are (party to) using the state to withhold justly earned economic value from your landlord.
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by fche 11y ago
Given that the bytecode system can at least read arbitrary kernel memory, it better be CAP_SYS_ADMIN due to information disclosure alone.
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by fche 11y ago
Can you outline how bcc translates that req->rq_disk->disk_name expression to bytecode? AIUI, there are no pointer-dereferencing bytecodes. Is it using the BPF_FUNC_probe_read?
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by fche 11y ago
(and not just "secure" as in security, but also "secure" as in fixed-interface)
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by fche 11y ago
That degree of risk-eliminating subsidy should indeed light a fire under entrepreneurship (while the gravy train can keep moving). Do you suppose the benefits are commesurate with the costs? IOW, are there enough new companies thusly incu
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by fche 11y ago
Yes, it discriminates against dirt-fluid trans-cleanists.
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by fche 11y ago
There is no need to judge negatively or positively. It's the business' own business.
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by fche 11y ago
Clearly a True Programmer would believe what the original poster says. You're not a True Programmer.
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by fche 11y ago
For a moment, I thought we were talking about the videos.

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