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by gbacon 9y ago
It’s a political issue, and politics robs words of their meanings.
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by gbacon 9y ago
It’s similar in the U.S. people going six figures in debt for degrees that qualify them for $30k jobs is a problem, but that is a dirt-simple ROI analysis. Forcing nearly everyone into the college-bound track is a huge problem. Politicall
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by gbacon 9y ago
It’s a sentimental attachment for Gen Xers.
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by gbacon 9y ago
They would have said you can go to the mall and stay out of trouble, which means the same thing.
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by gbacon 9y ago
For a much simpler threat model, the FAA is also deadly serious about laser illumination of aircraft and will involve local law enforcement and the FBI. Don’t let your buddy who got some crazy powerful laser pointer be stupid and point it t
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by gbacon 9y ago
This episode is a good demonstration of how the structure of production works: prices begin with what the consumer is willing to pay and work backward to higher-order goods or factors of production.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Roll Tide to that.
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by gbacon 9y ago
What figures do you have? How do you count those who leave early to compete professionally?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Compensation is a vector.
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by gbacon 9y ago
See also Rice’s theorem [0]: In computability theory, Rice's theorem states that all non-trivial, semantic properties of programs are undecidable. A semantic property is one about the program's behavior (for instance, does the pr
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by gbacon 9y ago
You have summarized logical positivism. It holds for the physical sciences where, say, dropping a stone from a certain height has repeatability. Social sciences involve people, and sometimes even the same person responds differently to simi
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by gbacon 9y ago
Invigorating the malady is not the cure.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Skeleton keys are a plot device in children's cartoons.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Why implement it in assembly language?
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by gbacon 9y ago
"Hey Mom, you have been complaining for years how expensive it is to live there. Why don't you move to a smaller town close to us where a fixed income will stretch a lot further, crime will be lower, and it'll be easier for y
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by gbacon 9y ago
It’s an interesting idea in principle, but how will you implement it in the real world?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Perhaps you should consider that you are not paying your fair share. You need to make more money so more can be taken from you in order to meet what is in your own words an existential threat.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Be specific. What is the problem? Whose money is it? What is your proposed solution?
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by gbacon 9y ago
This is a losing battle for would-be tax reformers. The flip side of a large tax bill is an equally large incentive to minimize the legally required, or at least defensible, liability. As revenue grows, finding the denizens of Hacker News f
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by gbacon 9y ago
Do you maximize the tax obligation on your personal return?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Reverse search with CTRL-r is a handy time saver that few of my technical colleagues seem to know.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Related, with emphasis in original: > Determining whether a given predicate has a set of valuations for its variables which make it true is an NP-complete problem; actually finding the set of valuations is an NP-hard problem. Therefore
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by gbacon 9y ago
A recent video called “Why The Kids Need Stranger Things”[0] made exactly this point about the nostalgia of the Netflix series and how malls were a symbol of free-range kids[1]. Circumstances have changed so much that the creators assert St
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by gbacon 9y ago
Everyone thinks he pays his fair share of taxes. It’s that guy down the road …
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Jean-Yves Girard’s the Blind Spot and the Cut Rule(blog.plover.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
The more open attitude you described seems to be on an upward trend in the generations born in the ’80s and beyond, but by and large we Americans do not talk money except with the closest family and of course one’s professionals. Even ask
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by gbacon 9y ago
Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Ego, pride, and little shots of endorphins.
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Counting increasing sequences with Burnside’s lemma(blog.plover.com)
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Gompertz’ law for wooden utility poles(blog.plover.com)
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