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by fipple 8y ago
I think they should pay rent and should be paid proper wages, to accelerate reintroduction to society. Don’t do any work? Get the worst cell, with rent written off. Work as a firefighter? Get $30/hour which you can use to get better li
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by fipple 8y ago
What is “useful”? Are humans useful?
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by fipple 8y ago
Why? If I store your height and weight for you as part of my app, but compute on the server-side the quotient of those for server-side features, why do I need to give you that intermediate value? Would you then be entitled to any intermedia
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by fipple 8y ago
Does improving performance require a rewrite? Is this the best you can get from Electron?
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by fipple 8y ago
But that has political consequences, so in a way it’s a political agenda. Like, if you drive 120mph on city streets, you have a collision agenda, whether that was your intent or not.
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by fipple 8y ago
Question: can SodaStream carbonate arbitrary liquids like orange juice, or just pure water? If it can only carbonate water, which you then mix with flavoring, what’s the advantage over bottled seltzer from the store?
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by fipple 8y ago
If it was much safer, I would.
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by fipple 8y ago
Not just immigration law but many types of laws and also benefits. It looks very bad to have worse health insurance for some employees than others, but you need good insurance to recruit top professionals. Solution: make all of the other pe
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by fipple 8y ago
This is one of the costs of diversity. People don’t work together towards shared goals anymore since they characterize the other people benefiting as un-American/unpersons.
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by fipple 8y ago
The privacy practices are part of the product.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s a lot simpler than this. Pad Thai is very sweet and Americans love sugar.
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by fipple 8y ago
In terms of people who accomplished great things but were never recognized for it in their lifetimes you can find a lot sadder stories than a man who won the Nobel Prize.
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by fipple 8y ago
Price fixing is a crime only when coordinated among multiple suppliers.
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by fipple 8y ago
It depends on how much you pay for the laptop. If you get the overpriced “enterprise” machines you get the on site support. I found it cheaper to just have extra hardware on hand.
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by fipple 8y ago
Doesn’t matter if you figure it out, you’ll never solve the problem unless you’ve seen it yourself. Imagine an app for plumbers, you’d probably need to know plumbing to make it. It’s like that.
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by fipple 8y ago
I basically have a shitty Rails app that solves a particular problem for a completely non tech industry (there are millions of such problems). It’s easy for me to find the people who need it. But if I ever had to compete with high quality s
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by fipple 8y ago
If organic ribeyes is saving this person’s life maybe they need to be in a hospital. How about if you need an organic ribeye you can get your doctor to prescribe you one and then your EBT card works for it. I sure as hell don’t think that
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by fipple 8y ago
I’ve seen a person buying organic ribeye steaks with EBT. I assume they were not going hungry because they were morbidly obese. And paternalistic is fine with me, that means like a father which is what buying someone’s food is, really.
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by fipple 8y ago
Great niche markets are valuable secrets. I bought a house in Silicon Valley with money that I make with a side project. It has no competitors because people don’t know how easy it is to make money in this space. Someone with a tech backgro
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by fipple 8y ago
The whole “food stamp recipients = crack addicts” is a lie created by tax cutting politicians. 44 MILLION people receive food stamps. There are not 44 million crack addicts in America. There aren’t even 4 million.
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by fipple 8y ago
Every few weeks I get a person approaching me in the grocery store offering to buy me $2x of my groceries for an $x cash payment.
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by fipple 8y ago
An unintended action can still cause huge amounts of harm.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s relevant to people who think that the world is basically a safe place. It isn’t — that’s an illusion held by people in particularly safe countries. It’s an illusion that people in say, Yemen, rarely hold.
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by fipple 8y ago
You’re not looking at this from the money supply side in a democratically chosen policy environment. I am a high taxpayer and I’d happily vote for increased EBT distributions at the expense of my own tax rate. I would not do the same for un
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by fipple 8y ago
Exhibit: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/asia/islamic-state-...
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by fipple 8y ago
The author seems to be saying “don’t sell imperfect produce to people... only sell them perfect produce so that you have to waste huge amounts of resources in overproduction so that the leftovers can be donated to the poor.” No. Feeding the
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by fipple 8y ago
Huh, cool to know. Congratulations and sorry for assuming.
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by fipple 8y ago
> Chips are not advancing at the rate they should. A weird interpretation of a singular event in the history of technology. No wheel maker complained because wood wasn’t getting twice as strong every 18 months.
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by fipple 8y ago
These valuations are driven by huge liquidation preferences which will totally wipe out common stockholders in any down round or distressed sale.
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by fipple 8y ago
I can't think of anyone who needs free tuition less than medical students. When they finish their residency they enter a highly protected, highly paid workforce and can easily pay back their loans. Yeah it sucks until you're a doc

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