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by gwright 7y ago
High prices are exactly how the free market attracts additional resources to solve capacity problems. Legislative efforts to limit prices pretty much guarantees that additional capacity will not be forthcoming and that shortages and high
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by gwright 7y ago
Sure markets can be affected by private actors, but I still think "broken" isn't a helpful way to think about market conditions. High and low prices are examples of the market working exactly as needed by signaling that there
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by gwright 7y ago
This is a terse comment with not a lot of context, but I think it is misleading to say the "market is broken" as it suggests that the market mechanism is at fault but in reading these comments it sounds like the government regulat
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by gwright 7y ago
I think this situation is somewhat different from your characterization. It isn't really a "public channel" that somehow belongs to the city/state. It is privately provided service that is just mandated as a side-effect
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by gwright 7y ago
You have to add in a lot of other ideas though to come close to the basket of ideas associated with "western values". For example: limited government, representative government, scientific inquiry, equality of women, due process,
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by gwright 7y ago
At one level I understand what you area saying but at another level I think your statement undermines what it means to relinquish one set of ideas in favor of another. It is perhaps a hindrance that we don't have an ethnic-neutral term
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by gwright 7y ago
I don't think it is fair to toss all infrastructure in the same bucket but for infrastructure projects where there are US federal dollars involved, the Davis-Bacon act is one reason why costs are high. TL;DR Labor rates are above marke
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by gwright 7y ago
I don't think you need to pass closures between machines but you do need to use "sticky sessions" so that your load balancers deliver all requests for a particular session back to the same app instance. I haven't seen mu
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by gwright 7y ago
Don't forget all the interruptions that occur when the staff is visiting your room mate also.
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by gwright 7y ago
Why would someone already authenticating via an existing identity provider be affected by you adding an additional identity provider? If you support FB login now and decided to add Google, for example, that doesn't require your existin
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by gwright 7y ago
I'm speculating here, but Apple Sign-In for Android would work just fine if the sign-in process was based on an OAuth flow where the credentials are entered into a web form. From the limited details I've seen that sounds like how
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by gwright 7y ago
Cable franchises are legal monopolies. What could go wrong?
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by gwright 7y ago
If the two parties could take a breath and not automatically reject ideas from each other they might find that there is some common ground here.
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by gwright 7y ago
I am very interested in multi-platform Kotlin. I'm not sure how far it will get but on the surface I think it is more likely for Kotlin to work on iOS than Swift on Android. Still learning about compose.
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by gwright 7y ago
That is exactly what I said when I saw the code on the screen. Now if they released a development environment for Android also.... (wishful thinking)
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by gwright 7y ago
Arguable some portion of the cut that Apple gets from app sales is to pay for the inherent "marketing" that the app store provides.
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by gwright 7y ago
You are seeing a path through the graph. If you want the entire graph: git log --all --graph --oneline
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by gwright 7y ago
I see what you are saying but I don't think that addresses my point that the higher minimum wage, which by your example causes some of the welfare benefits to stay with the recipient and not the employer, also results in unemployment f
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by gwright 7y ago
I tried to make it clear that there is a difference between taxation to further a legitimate government role (e.g. National Defense) and viewing redistribution itself as a goal (it isn't fair that some people have more money than other
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by gwright 7y ago
I really don't like where you are going with this. It is too close to an anti-intellectualism theory for my comfort.
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by gwright 7y ago
I'm seeing that here in the first message I replied to: > And start demanding that our government do what it's supposed to do: ensure that the wealth generated by corporations is adequately shared by all.
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by gwright 7y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing your comment. You seem to be equating "redistributing wealth" with "any government action". It is certainly true that almost any government action changes something and thus can aff
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by gwright 7y ago
Well, I do apologize for my sloppy writing that made you think I was telling you to shut up. That wasn't my intent. I was just trying to say that your argument wasn't persuasive to me. We'll just have to agree to disagree re
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by gwright 7y ago
You are misinterpreting my very terse "Just stop". If I were to expand it: "Just stop trying to convince me that people who make 'mistakes' can only be incompetent, malicious, or idiots" That is not the same t
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by gwright 7y ago
Huh? You were labeling people as incompetent and supporting the OP's idea they were idiots. I was asking for empathy and understanding that people can make mistakes. And when I tell you to stop, I'm the rude one?
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by gwright 7y ago
Just stop. Is it really hard to understand that normal people can make mistakes without being malicious or incompetent? Imperfect and incompetent are not synonyms. And my response to the OP was to push back on the idea that only "idio
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by gwright 7y ago
I think there is some ambiguity here as to whether you are defending redistribution as a means to an end or as an end unto itself. To clarify, if you assert that a proper role of government is to provide a basic safety net for all citizens,
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by gwright 7y ago
Disheartening that my comment has drawn some negative reactions. A public policy of forced "sharing" of wealth has an absolutely abysmal track record. Any supporters of that idea willing to explain why they think it will work this
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by gwright 7y ago
And often neither.
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by gwright 7y ago
> And start demanding that our government do what it's supposed to do: ensure that the wealth generated by corporations is adequately shared by all. On what basis do you think this is the proper role for government?

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