gbacon

34 ms·

331.
by gbacon 8y ago
It must be one heck of a fun title to take someone who would — if not for that dratted game! — be a productive pillar of the community and make her a bump on a log. The far simpler, albeit non-egalitarian, explanation is some people are mor
332.
by gbacon 8y ago
Anything can be said to be “worthwhile,” a political rather than an economic characterization commonly followed by handwavy appeals to unidentified stakeholders, intangible dividends, and vague but supposedly urgent need. If customers are u
333.
by gbacon 8y ago
koboll is almost certainly familiar with the concept of zoning. Your reply is non-responsive to the question.
334.
by gbacon 8y ago
Public utilities manage residential trash pickup and incinerators. The state also owns and manages landfills. Yes, there are private or at least nominally private exceptions to both, but state-owned facilities have unavoidable economic calc
335.
by gbacon 8y ago
You accused someone else of brandishing tautology after having written a few sentences previous But then history gave us a ton of examples of contracts which are negotiated in the context of a power or informational asymmetry … No two peo
336.
by gbacon 8y ago
The economist must consider both the seen and the unseen. Let’s say a $15 minimum wage for custodians is instituted. Sure, it’s great for the “lucky” ones who remain employed. A moment’s reflection shows they aren’t lucky at all: they’re go
337.
by gbacon 8y ago
Everyone works on commission. If you don’t believe me, try not showing up for a few days. An employee’s stable, dependable paycheck is a comforting illusion. When hungry diners abandon a certain restaurant, the cook finds herself unemploy
338.
I struggle to understand Haskell’s Traversable(blog.plover.com)
3 points by gbacon 8y ago|0 comments
339.
by gbacon 8y ago
Some things should simply be left to Our Betters.
340.
by gbacon 8y ago
See "Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML!"[0] on Stack Overflow by Tom Christiansen. [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491/123109
341.
by gbacon 8y ago
Related content on Stack Overflow: "Regex: How to find and extract acronyms and corresponding definition of acronym from a text?"[0] that gives the nearly the same RFC 5322 parser. The reduction of 3CNF-SAT seems to be borrowed fr
342.
by gbacon 8y ago
If money were neutral, prices would rise uniformly, but this is in fact not what happens.
343.
A Minecraft mapmaking utility(blog.plover.com)
1 points by gbacon 8y ago|0 comments
344.
by gbacon 8y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of what you were attempting to do locally but with downstream effect: mark the blob itself as intentionally deleted rather than missing or corrupted. This would leave all hashes the same, which sidesteps
345.
by gbacon 8y ago
[ Addendum 20181009: A lot of people have unfortunately missed the point of this article, and have suggested that I use BFG or reposurgeon. I have a small problem and a large problem. The small problem is how to remove some files from the
346.
by gbacon 8y ago
Handling intentionally deleted objects does seem like a missing use case in git and not a huge leap in terms of the implementation.
347.
FAA to consider increasing Light Sport Aircraft weight limit to 3,600 pounds(avweb.com)
4 points by gbacon 8y ago|1 comments
348.
by gbacon 8y ago
You’re thinking of the fallacy of composition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
349.
by gbacon 8y ago
One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. — West Virginia State Board
350.
by gbacon 8y ago
This query really takes me back. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=figlet+doh+Hi+HN&t=h_&ia=answer
351.
by gbacon 8y ago
There is a difference in kind between fractional-reserve banking and propping up an entire system of banks with a central bank deemed the lender of last resort and that has the special privilege of issuing newly created fiat money and credi
352.
by gbacon 8y ago
There it is: Keynesianism is not just bad, wrong, and irrelevant but utopian.
353.
by gbacon 8y ago
There’s the old saw about the “repeal” of good ol’ Glass-Steagall again. The change in 1999 merely did away with restrictions on commercial banks and investment banks being controlled by the same holding company. There were enormous moral-h
354.
by gbacon 8y ago
It has been said that Americans speak the language of Jefferson but live in the system that Hamilton advocated. Likewise, Greenspan while at the Fed may have occasionally mouthed vaguely Objectivist sentiments that echoed his earlier associ
355.
by gbacon 8y ago
Sunk cost refers to whatever resources have already been spent. Where it becomes a fallacy is thinking along the lines of But I’ve already invested this much money or You know, I’ve been working on it for all these years, so I CAN’T quit
356.
by gbacon 8y ago
Please humor us with three examples where this actually occurred.
357.
by gbacon 8y ago
This is a well-known problem. Hypotheses must be continually verified anew by experience. In an experiment they can generally be subjected to a particular method of examination. Various hypotheses are linked together into a system, and eve
358.
by gbacon 8y ago
A4: http://4mhz.de/download.php?file=Cook1971_A4.pdf Letter: http://4mhz.de/download.php?file=Cook1971_Letter.pdf
359.
Cook’s 1971 Paper proving boolean satisfiability NP-Complete transcribed to TeX(4mhz.de)
1 points by gbacon 8y ago|1 comments
360.
by gbacon 8y ago
I remember reading that McCain picked Palin over his handlers’ strong objections. Was it the other way around?

More ›