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by fiatmoney 10y ago
WinAmp - still around, but basically abandonware. Still haven't found anything on the Linux side that comes close to it for managing huge media libraries.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Yeah, Buffett prefers buying high free cash flow assets, ideally backed by some kind of monopoly or other barrier to entry, and then using the cheap money to offer exactly this kind of financing. Buying Yahoo assets themselves wouldn'
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I would love a system where private businesses were responsible & empowered to enforce sovereignty over their own premises. Is that what they're advocating? Oh wait, no. They're advocating a sort of anarcho-tyranny where d
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The supposed beliefs are not the best way to look at the distinction, especially sociologically - that's like examining Catholic / Protestant split through the lens of their position on transubstantiation. Far more interesting is
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Look at the shift in law over time, which should be evidence enough. For instance, from Bowers v. Hardwick to Lawrence v. Texas, or Roe v Wade to Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in < 20 years. As I said, it is usually the case that precede
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Certainly, precedent helps. Who sets precedent? Higher courts. How do they decide how to rule? See parent. Who enforces their precedents against themselves? Well, no one. A precedent goes against what you wish to conclude? Distinguis
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
You're missing the point. "Too attenuated" presumably does have case law, as do things like "substantially related to a compelling government interest" or "probable cause". Those have magnificent, overfl
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Whatever they want it to.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"Redlining" is a specific practice that has been banned for decades.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Literal elemental lead. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure...
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Bingo. Look at the re-conquest of New York City, which follows pretty exactly the pattern you mentioned. "All private schools" isn't even necessary de jure if you can do it de facto via magnet or charter schools and theoret
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Suburbia allows you to ensure that your neighbors are able to afford to buy, rather than rent, a minimum quantity of land & construction (and usually therefore have a large amount of their net worth locked up in the value of that proper
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I would never trust a single podcast provider. Many of the more interesting podcasts I listen to have been kicked off of one platform or another.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"Ditto in the height of the Civil Rights era there was a massive market opportunity for restaurants that were willing to serve people of color - yet this largely didn't happen." That's untrue. Black areas had high densi
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Why do you think they're unrelated?
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Is it acceptable for women renting single rooms in their apartments to refuse to rent to men?
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It's not even necessarily about "easier to find"; it's about "more convenient to keep track of".
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Bin Laden hanging out for years in the Pakistani equivalent of a McMansion in Falls Church should raise some pretty major suspicions of everyone involved.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Oh, agree. But "just to chat" is not a legal reason, and the FBI in particular would have a fun time justifying hanging around watching for "furtive movements". That's why the first question out of their mouth whe
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The police cannot legally "stop" you absent cause to detain you.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"For official use only" or similar verbiage is not equivalent to "classification". Field manuals are generally more-or-less public domain knowledge, you can download most of them eg http://www.apd.army.mil&#x
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Similarly, under Italian law, beating the shit out of a bum isn't a crime if they're trying to steal your panino.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The politics are a bit more complicated. The DoD would be willing to export to, eg, the UK & Canada, but any exports at all would trigger calls by lobbying organizations to send it to "allies" like Israel & Saudi Arabia,
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
There are very few functional requirements on that kind of a system that are linearly improved by a faster computer - it's not like they're mining bitcoins in flight. "Doing X in real time" is usually the goal and any f
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Guns have many uses besides killing people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
You don't know what you're talking about and I'm guessing you may have never actually shot a semi automatic rifle before. This is a rifle with no scary barrel shroud, pistol grip, or vertical foregrip. If you google "bu
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
That's absolutely false. The NRA's membership drives their policy, not the other way around - manufacturers have historically been perfectly content to give into things like the assault weapons ban or magazine capacity limits (th
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Multiplayer games are a completely different genre than a professional-level API like a stock exchange. You absolutely must trust that a client's business logic is sound; as long as their credentials validate it's simply out of sc
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Wow, this is really surprising. Atom chips were steadily increasing their value from generation to generation and were within spitting distance of ARM in terms of mojo / watt and power consumption. Intel's process advantage shou
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Stock exchanges really cannot be expected to track numbers of outstanding shares. One puts in a bid or an ask, indicating that one is willing to purchase or sell the given number at the given price, and an order type, indicating the manner

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