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by gwright 7y ago
I wasn't trying to take a position on what Congress should or shouldn't have done. Just pointing out that it was the Commerce Clause powers that enabled Congress to pass the referenced law. I find your choice of "abdicate&quo
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by gwright 7y ago
I understand what you are saying regarding the relationship between income and benefits. I think it is actually somewhat worse than you suggest due to the various step functions in the benefit calculations -- an increase in wage income can
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by gwright 7y ago
More likely they are just imperfect humans.
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by gwright 7y ago
A bit of googling leads to: > Insurance firms in each state are protected from interstate competition by the federal McCarran-Ferguson Act (1945) Basically this is Congress using its interstate commerce power, in this case to prohibit ce
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by gwright 7y ago
Here is an ngram analysis with a British corpus https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2C... And here is one with an American corpus: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?conten
906.
by gwright 7y ago
Well, I think you may be right. See my edit above. I suspect this is a regional usage pattern and I've just always been in places where "next to last" would be used and not "second to last" so I was thinking they w
907.
by gwright 7y ago
[Edit: It seems that I was mistaken but I'm leaving this up to illustrate the confusion. In my experience "second to last" isn't common and "next to last" is much more common, which I think is why I was confus
908.
by gwright 7y ago
How could it be any other way? To the extent that government benefits increase I would expect hourly wages to go down for those beneficiaries. This would be the nature result of a competitive market place.
909.
by gwright 7y ago
It depends on what period of time you are trying to cover for. Yes there are solutions today that work for short periods of time, but as renewables increase as a percentage of generation capacity, the more storage you need. Grid-level batt
910.
by gwright 7y ago
In your analysis, have you included the required base-load generation systems required when renewables aren't generating (night time, no wind) or the required storage systems (which actually don't exist) to time shift the energy s
911.
by gwright 7y ago
I can't help but feel like you don't understand a work flow that utilizes rebase in a responsible way. In particular you seem to think that the rebase is going to affect the history of a released version of your software (When did
912.
by gwright 7y ago
I really don't understand why you are choosing to use the word "lying". Us mere humans make mistakes all the time. Typos, omissions, false starts, and so on. What is the value of throwing that raw set of events at a reviewer
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by gwright 7y ago
Or you could just rebase component2 when you learn that component1 has been updated on master: * F: (master) Merge branch 'component2' |\ | * E: (component2) Implemented component 2 (now with updated component1
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by gwright 7y ago
Let me try again. I'm advocating that you use rebase to improve the quality of your changes that will be reviewed before merging or even before being reviewed at all. If I make three commits and then realize that I should have included
915.
by gwright 7y ago
It isn't lying. Advocates of rebase are always talking about a work flow where you are curating a set of proposed changes before merging into your "public" branches (.e.g, development or master). No one is advocating that you
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by gwright 7y ago
This ("free markets are an illusion") is reductionist language that makes it difficult to communicate and understand one another. Your use of "extort" is another example of language abuse. It is hyperbolic language that
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by gwright 7y ago
Nope. It doesn't 'rewrite' commits. You are using the language I was calling out as confusing. It creates new commits and moves the branch to the tip of the new sequence of commits. No existing commits are changed or delet
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by gwright 7y ago
Worthwhile if you anticipate something going wrong, but usually things are just fine or a `git rebase --abort` will get you back to a safe place (if you are using an interactive rebase).
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by gwright 7y ago
You seem to have a misunderstanding of how markets work. The high prices are caused by the artificial restrictions on satisfying the demand, not by developers not wanting to build. Another way to think about this is that if a developer is g
920.
by gwright 7y ago
About 99.9% of the time when people talk about rebase they talk about ‘editing’ history or ‘rewriting’ history as in the first sentence of the article. I find that terminology terribly misleading and when I was learning git and rebase it co
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by gwright 7y ago
What free market are you talking about? Do you think the housing market in these cities is unencumbered by government regulation? The shortage isn't created by lack of interest by developers, the law is preventing them from creating mo
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by gwright 7y ago
"All" the evidence? I don't think that is true. https://foodinstitute.com/blog/nyc-restaurants-feel-the-sque...
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by gwright 7y ago
It is just confusing to use the same word to suggest explicit assistance (cash, tax breaks, etc) and "failure to penalize". I guess mathematically they both represent a reduction in cost when compared to an alternative scenario (
924.
by gwright 7y ago
You have a point about the negative externalities, but insisting on using the word "subsidy" for that concept is just going to confuse people. That isn't the accepted meaning of "subsidy", in casual conversation at
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by gwright 8y ago
Maybe "ignorant" was the wrong word choice. To the extent that they were aware why didn't they intervene? Shouldn't have all the campaigns been briefed/warned about Russian actions? Why was a special prosecutor requ
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by gwright 8y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that the USSR and Russia have a long and continuous history of engaging in disinformation campaigns and covert actions of all kinds. But based on the way the Russian election meddling story has been reporte
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by gwright 8y ago
There is so much to disagree with here, but #1 is the disparaging attitude towards manual labor.
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by gwright 8y ago
> As a society we have already decided that minimum wage is necessary I'm suggesting that the laws are misguided. You can't counter my argument by simply stating "but those are the laws". In particular there is a move
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by gwright 8y ago
The primary reason that some people push back against this notion of health care as a "basic human right" is that it is an example of a "right" that can only be provided by force. And by force I mean that the only way it
930.
by gwright 8y ago
It isn't worship. It is gratitude for their service. Your implication that military service should only be valued during wartime seems odd to me but I'm guessing that your perspective on the proper role of the military in society

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