gpawl

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by gpawl 10y ago
Is Conservatism the same as the classic Snake game? That makes sense, but it would be interesting to see it contrasted against a Progressivism or Liberalism version.
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by gpawl 10y ago
The author is apparently unaware that his "new" idea was standard practice for statistically-validates tests (like the SAT) for decades?
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by gpawl 10y ago
His most famous book his named after his father's most famous book. His father clearly sets the context for his work.
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by gpawl 10y ago
They are both taxes. All else equal, taxpayers would happily pay 1pts more income tax and 2pt less social security, or vice versa. All my tax dollars are the same color.
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by gpawl 10y ago
The US Military leadership has publicly lobbied against raising military spending at the expense of other government activities. They know that national security depends on a comprehensive international relations investments. The White Ho
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by gpawl 10y ago
You are confusing your goals with their goals. Their goal is to stop environmentalism from interfering with near-term business performance, not "fix the environment".
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by gpawl 10y ago
and how would competitors get funding? by making each member of the public individually pay for a subscription? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
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by gpawl 10y ago
Palantir is a data analysis system, not a data collection system.
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by gpawl 10y ago
It's a glue language, but it's still painful when you write a shell script.
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by gpawl 10y ago
that's so weird -- how could an adult intrude into a kid's snapchat conversation with other kids?
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by gpawl 10y ago
non-profit just means there is no corporate owner. A non-profit can still be run in a way that enriches management and employees, and a for-profit can have a strong social contribution.
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by gpawl 10y ago
The Catholic Church is a nonprofit. Would you be OK with them having a monopoly on zero-rated spiritual information?
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by gpawl 10y ago
If Netflix just pays for bandwidth, that's net neutrality. If Comcast discriminates pricing based on anything besides byte delivery cost, that's not neutrality.
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by gpawl 10y ago
I see nothing on the libraries.io website that explains how it would be used to solve the problem described in the OP.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Bill Gates has dedicated >90% of his lifetime income to poverty relief projects, and hasn't cured poverty yet.
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by gpawl 10y ago
unless that AI relies on an energy source that is fenced off by capitalists
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by gpawl 10y ago
and now is finally energy efficient enough for practical usage.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Weaving is clearly a mechanical task that required a mind to control the hardware. Problem-solving is not a mechanical task.
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by gpawl 10y ago
automation creates jobs when there's aggregate demand for more products and services. When people reach their finite limit of consumption (Example: boredom is obsoleted by digital media tech), and wages are depressed to subsistence by
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by gpawl 10y ago
What do you do if you've had symptoms for weeks/months? Until you've been diagnosed with a heart attack, the word "mild" does mean much. People over the age of 35-40 have many chronic mild pains
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by gpawl 10y ago
higher than average for people with similar wealth, education and medical history, or higher than average nationwide, including people in poverty with poor health care and nutrition?
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by gpawl 10y ago
motivation doesn't imply correctness. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1373373/Study-show...
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by gpawl 10y ago
Why would the inside of a vehicle not be private? https://www.quora.com/Are-Uber-drivers-allowed-to-have-a-cam... > A California appellate court has ruled that the Penal Code statute applies to the use of hidden video ca
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by gpawl 10y ago
It's a good tactic -- blow off all the worse things you do, then apologize for the one time you weren't at fault, people notice and give you sympathy, and start to forget those worse things.
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by gpawl 10y ago
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A37&... "Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil."
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by gpawl 10y ago
do you usually have electric pumps on the side not front of your car?
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by gpawl 10y ago
chuck is saying that the links are there because Google disincentivized putting (some) ads directly on the landing page.
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by gpawl 10y ago
What proofs? Axiom of Choice cannot matter to humanity in concrete ways (except as an artistic activity), because the Axiom of Choice only applies to uncountably-large sets, which have no realizable physical meaning in the Universe.
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by gpawl 10y ago
He's loose with his wording, but he makes a clear distinction between "borrow and invest in infrastructure" vs "borrow and refund wealthy people" > Now, government borrowing can still be justified if it serves an
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by gpawl 10y ago
a witch hunt in an accusation going looking for someone to accuse, not an accusation doggedly following the accused.

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