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by gascan 8y ago
I love these crossover rulings. They give me just the faintest confidence that the judiciary actually works, and isn't simply filled with a bunch of partisan hacks.
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by gascan 8y ago
The Constitution uses a fair amount of fuzzy language. "Undue burden", "excessive bail", "cruel & unusual punishment", "unreasonable search & seizure", etc. Thus our perception of what is undu
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by gascan 8y ago
We may discover the stagnant generation-to-generation performance uplift over the past ~10 years was mostly due to lack of competition in the market.
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by gascan 8y ago
There is a category of women whose life-plan is to go to university, meet a smart boy there, marry, and become a stay-at-home mom. There isn't really a category of men who go to university to find a spouse and then become a stay-at-hom
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by gascan 8y ago
FWIW, crossovers (the bulk of the "SUV" market) are morphing into station wagons with slightly higher rooflines. Have you ever seen the subaru outback? That's considered a SUV. The classic SUV, in other words a truck chassis,
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by gascan 8y ago
A reference to my favorite mad inventor: "Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we
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by gascan 8y ago
Nobody here is calling for a flat ban of all self-driving technology. You are tilting at strawmen. The blowback here is in reaction to what appears to be objectively bad software. Irresponsibly bad. Maybe even negligently bad. Look to drug
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by gascan 8y ago
I think people are in general becoming a little disillusioned with using market dynamics to allocate leisure. Nobody minds that only rich people can stay at fancy hotels. But if, hypothetically, only rich people can set foot in New Zealand?
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by gascan 8y ago
(Swamps are actually important ecosystems, and help protect human settlement from flooding & hurricanes)
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by gascan 8y ago
Backpacking through the poorest parts of the world is a very different experience than drinking margaritas on a beach. "Travel" is so vague.
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by gascan 8y ago
Before even worrying about what the game is like these days, I'd check out the local shops and see if you enjoy the company of the players in your area. The people you'll be spending your time with can make or break just about any
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by gascan 8y ago
See, what I hear you saying is "Other people will needlessly die, but their sacrifice is a chance I am willing to take" . The public takes risks every day, but it rarely gives companies a free pass to move fast and kill people.
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by gascan 8y ago
The hatred directed at police officers certainly doesn't help. The recent fury directed at the handful of police officers who did not enter this or that school with an active shooter comes to mind. People have the expectation that poli
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by gascan 8y ago
That includes preventing people from moving in if it comes to that. I'm not sure people contest that NYC can't do that, I think it's just considered a pretty bad idea that also runs against a lot of American ideals. For e
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by gascan 8y ago
You can turn down the TX power on your router...
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by gascan 8y ago
That's a good consideration, but you're forgetting about the part-timers & the unemployed. I'm not arguing that minimum wage should merit a 2br. I'm just challenging the notion that it shouldn't . There seems
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by gascan 8y ago
Because not all jobs are that valuable. No argument. But you seem to be making a value inference that low-value jobs aren't good enough to merit the worker a 2br place without two incomes. Why not? What level-sets what you "shou
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by gascan 8y ago
There still are places you could. Skimming Zillow, you can get a 2br in Ohio for ~$450/mo.
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by gascan 8y ago
It lends itself to social stability, and has a bunch of benefits for the people who are in those stable marriages. E.g., the life expectancy for men is significantly higher when they are married. It's also generally found to be better
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by gascan 8y ago
Fits right in with the bigger NIMBY picture. Also, from visiting the Bay Area, it's my opinion there's an overarching complete lack of investment in public infrastructure. It's not due to lack of money in the area; witness th
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by gascan 8y ago
It seems pretty clear municipal fiber is a reaction to poor quality of service, absent competition, and high pricing from the private copper, rather than a vital technological advancement. Though Longmont residents tell me it is fast. Rea
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by gascan 8y ago
With the cost of copper rising, who knows, maybe fiber isn't all that much more expensive, at least when you're buying a lot of it.
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by gascan 8y ago
The front range gets 100mph+ chinook winds, and late spring storms dump feet of heavy snow leading to what we affectionately call "treemageddon", during which town will be filled with the thunder of trees crashing down for hours a
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by gascan 8y ago
I live on glacial till, can confirm it's a huge pain to dig through, just in my own backyard. Drilling holes for anchors, I spend more time prying fist sized rocks than drilling. Which is incredibly difficult in a four foot deep, ten i
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by gascan 8y ago
In some parts of the world, a short flight is supposedly just as convenient as hopping on the bus or train. Hop over to the next city, the next state. At least where I live, a two hour flight becomes a six to seven hour ordeal, with ninety
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by gascan 8y ago
The only way they could is to have a very aggressive data cap, resulting in a large X% of your users not even having internet access due to being capped. The point of a data cap is to get users to self-manage their usage, not to block a l
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by gascan 8y ago
Basically we are tangoing around sparse provisioning. Users feel like, "Hey I paid for a 1Gbps link, I should be able to saturate 1Gbps 24/7". Providers know that 99% of users don't need 1Gbps 24/7, so to reduce the
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by gascan 8y ago
What kind of bear/where in the country was this? It's grizzlies & kodiaks that you'd want for breaking into bank vaults. Black bears are comparatively a little less adept at the whole can-opener thing, though I'm not
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by gascan 8y ago
Wish they had another pricing model. I use Photoshop a few times a year. Would happily pay a little to use it for a few days, and then let it sit cold on my disk for a few months before starting it up again for another small fee.
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by gascan 8y ago
Counterpoint, deferring maintenance is a classic way to make an unbalanced budget look balanced. A realistic accounting would show that you are steadily headed towards insolvency, and the budget needs to be fixed one way or another. That co

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