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by fleitz 12y ago
I'm well aware of that, which is why I was pointing out the pointlessness of punishing people but not reforming their behaviour. So lets pretend you know of a fool proof way to figure out who is making honest mistakes, and who is being
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by fleitz 12y ago
It's a pretty well solved problem, you look around the world find out which justice systems produce low recidivism rates and implement those policies. You'll find that there's little correlation between recidivism rate and le
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by fleitz 12y ago
This is a good idea, life sentences for smoking pot in California have drastically reduced the incidence of pot smoking.
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by fleitz 12y ago
That's pretty much how negotiation works. If a company doesn't give me the raise I want, I accept an offer from a company that does give me the raise I want: "Taking my toys and going home" If you say "Well, I don&#
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by fleitz 12y ago
I think you're missing the point, I wasn't talking about whether one should or shouldn't be a rational economic agent. Rather that an argument advanced based on rational economic thinking is invalid when talking about writers
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by fleitz 12y ago
Most broadly, write heavy and read heavy, and then OLTP vs. OLAP. Implement them as sliders, people will think it's great that they can have custom tuning based on what percent read/write and OLTP/OLAP they think their worklo
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by fleitz 12y ago
Estimates are always inaccurate, that's why it's called an estimate. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
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by fleitz 12y ago
> dissuading authors from writing by suppressing their earnings. I take it you do not know what the median author makes from writing a book. Lets just say if an author was also a rational economic agent they would flip burgers rather tha
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by fleitz 12y ago
Excellent points, whenever I read Krugman I always get the feeling that he wants everyone to be a victim so they'll support whatever government intervention he wants this week. Hachette is a major company that has no problem fighting b
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yes, I have my own company, I only have contractors right now, and yes I pay for it, in my taxes. Here's a better question since the 'government' is paying for it, what's your top corporate tax rate? IIRC it's 35%,
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by fleitz 12y ago
I'd suggest familiarizing yourself with Henry Ford. Also, there are tonnes of stupid companies in Vancouver that want you to work insane hours, by law they don't even have to pay the tech industry overtime, yet every company that
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by fleitz 12y ago
They are adverse because your tax rate is to use a legal term: fucking insane. Did you know that before Obamacare / Bushcare, America spent more on medicaid as a percentage of GDP than Canada did for its entire healthcare system? P
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by fleitz 12y ago
Well, if by freedom of expression you mean the right walk around in a Nazi uniform then yes. If by freedom of expression you mean the right to be a woman and take off her shirt in the same places men can take off their shirt, then no.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Actually I'm not. Sexism isn't a weird term to use when women are discriminated against for having kids, when men are not. I have heard from a former bosses mouth that women are less productive having kids, despite myself and my f
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by fleitz 12y ago
Which wage gap? The 30% one from 30 years ago that doesn't account for job type? The 2% one from a few years ago that accounts for job type? Or the -2% from last year that shows that women under 30 actually make more than men when you
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by fleitz 12y ago
Taking a year off is not a big deal. Also, I've quit places which leaves them without my services for a lot a lot longer with significantly shorter notice. No one ever questions my ability to get the job done despite having kids. I als
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by fleitz 12y ago
It is, I had kids at 22. Protip: Don't work at companies where they can't get their shit together enough to accomplish a days work in 8 hours, preferably 6.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Wow, thats like almost what everyone is entitled to in most industrialized countries! What a great company to work for!
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by fleitz 12y ago
Most reasonable countries have paternity leave that gives the exact same benefits as maternity leave.
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by fleitz 12y ago
> He is taking a bunch of things and putting them in a nice shiny box with almost zero end user configuration required. In the product world this is generally known as every product ever. iPod : a bunch of things and putting them in a ni
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by fleitz 12y ago
Knock knock. Who's there? Google.com. whois Google.com? 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4
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by fleitz 12y ago
I've never really understood what life time risk means... Does 50% mean I'll get a heart attack in my 40s, or mean I'll get one in my 80s instead of getting cancer, etc. What I'm getting at is that if nothing else kills
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by fleitz 12y ago
Now you know why MSFT has the largest developer community in the world. There are endless lists of technologies that do the exact same thing.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Ok, so lets take podunk town out of the equation... How about all the laws the FBI breaks? How about when the FBI uses the exact same laws podunk town uses to seize money for their officers' personal gain? How about the ATF selling gun
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by fleitz 12y ago
Carl: Hmm... I think I should sell my apple shares... but who would buy them all...? Carl: I know, I'll get apple to buy my shares!
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yup, most video code has serious bug smell.
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by fleitz 12y ago
"but who cares, apart from the so-called cultural connotations?" About 8 billion people, culture is everything to people compared to file format specifications. Acts like a GIF, talks like a GIFs, it's a GIF(V)!
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by fleitz 12y ago
Oh does my iPhone have a VP9 chip in it? Not so superior...
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by fleitz 12y ago
LOL, exactly why do you think we need so many licenses, etc. If we don't have racketeering right now, how come individual police officers are allowed to keep the proceeds of any drug money they 'find'? Also, don't most p
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by fleitz 12y ago
He went to jail for something he shouldn't have because he didn't go to jail for something he should have. That's karma for ya.

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