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by hueving 8y ago
If you subscribe to postmodernism then there is no such thing as an 'irrational' claim. All of the observations and logic another person may be using to make the claim are all equally likely to be valid/invalid and claiming o
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by hueving 8y ago
Large government ideology doesn't help the tax code either. Complex tax codes are a result of special tax breaks for any purpose.
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How long did you wait on hold? Was it before the recent filing deadline?
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Gmail would not be a multi-billion dollar company. It doesn't make money (remember they don't target ads on email content anymore). You'd have to roll in Google apps for business to get to the money making part. Chrome defini
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by hueving 8y ago
"rolling the dice" on taking on more subprime loans in Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/hey-bar...
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by hueving 8y ago
"In 2006, Fannie and Freddie insured 70% of all subprime loans so they needed to keep these loans viable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_takeover_of_Fannie_Mae...
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by hueving 8y ago
Once the framework was in place to give out garbage loans, people across all income levels leveraged the opportunity to get houses they shouldn't have. This just shows how poisonous it is when the government screws up a market by essen
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by hueving 8y ago
Lehman went bankrupt. It seems they got precisely what they deserved. If the only problem were the bad actors it wouldn't have been a systemic collapse.
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by hueving 8y ago
No, for international flights the airline additionally checks your passport at the gate (at least in the US).
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by hueving 8y ago
But you are comparing with fledgling/emerging markets. Samples of failures at this point to scare people should be declines of economies established for more than a hundred years. The falls of empires, etc. Those are what are relevant
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by hueving 8y ago
If people are stupid enough to enter into mortgages with payments they can't afford then they shouldn't be allowed to enter into any kind of legal contract. No credit cards, no payment plans, no cell phone plans, no insurance, not
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by hueving 8y ago
Individual loan applicants weren't defrauded though (in most cases). They knew what the monthly payments were and what would happen during possible interest rate adjustments. It shouldn't have been a shocker to anyone making 2k a
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by hueving 8y ago
>algorithmic complexity of a shuffling algorithm is going to be a challenge, why even have a degree!? Because complexity analysis is a tiny part of a CS degree. A huge wing of our CS grad department focused on type theory and PL in gener
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by hueving 8y ago
It's definitely not hyperbole, that's literally how companies like Google hire. Do an algorithm dance and get rejected/accepted based on that.
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Asshole is mainly just a word for someone who doesn't fit your culture though. Being direct is seen as being an asshole in some cultures and being indirect is seen as being an asshole in others. Despite the vagueness of it, "cultu
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by hueving 8y ago
East to west US coast doesn't fly over unpopulated for substantial periods. Despite popular belief, people still live in the middle of the US. The only places in between with enough space to get up to supersonic and subsequently drop o
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by hueving 8y ago
Sorry, I wasn't being clear enough. I'm sure the wealth density is there, I'm just suggesting that the regulatory costs of building in Chicago suburbs are higher enough that it made more sense to start in Nashville. Cynicism:
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by hueving 8y ago
>But the whiskey was ok with you? Should CEO's have to hide their recreational drug (of which alcohol is a subset) use? Yes, given the fact that weed isn't federally legal and the fact that it could compromise SpaceX contracts
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by hueving 8y ago
Only if it's cheaper to build in Chicago suburbs than Nashville suburbs. There isn't a lot of pricing power for consumer Internet with alternatives available so Google fiber can't charge twice as much even if it costs twice a
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Visual feedback is not the same thing as a placebo effect though. A placebo would be adding a button that says "accelerate droplet launch speed" that does nothing. It's something that the user takes action on that is irreleva
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by hueving 8y ago
>Children can not defend themselves and they are separated from the people who do protect them: their parents Apparently you have never heard of what happens to every child initially separated from parents arrested for a felony. I sugges
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by hueving 8y ago
Moore's law (or the exponential effect in general) hasn't applied to any other modern fields (last 200 years) and had finally failed in semiconductors. It's not an actual law, it's just an observation of a manufacturing
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by hueving 8y ago
Consider for a second that we aren't making lots of incremental improvements though. We're making negligible improvements that are highly visible for marketing and feel good reasons. This is even worse than doing nothing at all be
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by hueving 8y ago
Nuclear is only expensive because the current climate from anti-nuclear movements buries each plant in red tape and makes them all one off designs. Windmills would be extremely expensive as well if each one was designed with a custom genera
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by hueving 8y ago
Appeal to irrational fear. Are you comfortable with radio towers blasting you with radiation?
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Yes, when you phrase something without context it's easy to make it sound insane. When you include the context where they need to verify that it's not human trafficking and that children are separated from their parents every day
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UBI doesn't work because it depends on people working to fund it. The amount of money required for poverty level UBI in the US (one of the richest countries) is more than all of the federal current tax revenue, which comes from working
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by hueving 8y ago
>It's not a very valid comparison to say that something that was cutting edge technology in 1959 is cheaper now than it was 60 years ago Of course it's valid in the context of comparing how workers are doing today vs 60 years a
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by hueving 8y ago
Uh, no. As the company uses cash to buy stock it simultaneously reduces the cash hoard of the company. Anyone targeting a specific PE for a company will sell the stock to counter the increase as the cash balance (and PE) decreases.
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by hueving 8y ago
Worker pay will not go up with unionization if there is not a somewhat tight labor market with that skillset. Otherwise the employer can just layoff everyone in the union and start with unencumbered employees elsewhere.

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