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by jacalata 10y ago
Interesting, I've seen criticism of well projects in Africa but more about having them run dry/break with no funds for maintenance. Do you have any sources I could read for disease/problems caused by working wells?
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by jacalata 10y ago
I think it would be easy to DDOS the proposed system and yes, I think that would be bad. Feel free to explain why either that would not happen or why it would not be bad.
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by jacalata 10y ago
>In 2014, the most recent year for which vehicle miles traveled data are available, the rate of crash deaths per 100 million miles traveled was 2.4 times higher in rural areas than in urban areas (1.81 in rural areas compared with 0.74 i
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by jacalata 10y ago
Buy some property where? A nice half acre block in downtown San Francisco 50 years ago?
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by jacalata 10y ago
It will come as part of a bundle that nobody expects any Republicans to reject - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/back-to-the-auction-hous... > Now, here's the good part, as it was with the DeLay Rule, the v
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by jacalata 10y ago
Then you want a safe incremental process that allows you to run unchecked code and annotate which code has been upgraded to meet the type checking standard - this is already done for javascript projects, you can introduce Flow to typecheck
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by jacalata 10y ago
This sounds like a process for giving any citizen standing to challenge a law, which I think would be a very significant change to the way the system works today. It naively sounds like a good change, but I suspect there would be some ill e
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by jacalata 10y ago
According to Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, this will "better safeguard the exercise of due process rights of both subject and witness". Have not seen this
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by jacalata 10y ago
Australia raised the income tax threshold to AU$18,000 IN 2012 - https://www.ato.gov.au/Rates/Individual-income-tax-for-prior... It solves a completely different problem to a basic income. If I break both legs and can&
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by jacalata 10y ago
Injuries by drivers whose personal insurance doesn't cover their commercial activity is something I think you can lay on Uber.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Possibly the construction choices you make change when you know that you won't be able to spend a few hours on maintenance each day?
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by jacalata 10y ago
It should make it harder because you have to run the attack based on the user interaction timing, you can't just capture and hold credentials for later.
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by jacalata 10y ago
A friend told me about their time in a New York finance company, where people showed up to the office on Saturday and watched TV on their computer because even if there wasn't any work to do you had to be seen putting the time in.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Presumably they think pensions should be funded and aren't stupid enough to think the money can just be invented from nowhere for it.
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by jacalata 10y ago
That's why PayPal was invented, and has competition like Venmo.
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by jacalata 10y ago
From the article >In 2006, at the 82 schools rated “most competitive” by Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges, 14 percent of American undergraduates came from the poorer half of the nation That doesn't sound like 'tons&#x
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by jacalata 10y ago
It takes me several days to set up permissions so I can transfer money from my account at Chase to my account at a local credit union. Except that Chase gave me an error saying that my credit union account was already associated with anothe
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by jacalata 10y ago
I suspect that what you are seeing is not a change in the market but a change in what your friends are interested in. Many of my friends who play board games regularly no longer want to play the simpler games available.
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by jacalata 10y ago
http://metafilter.com
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by jacalata 10y ago
I interpreted the claim as "penetration of famous people" - same percentage of people are famous but the percentage of the population that has heard of each one goes up.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Well distributed for what metric? Their backgrounds clearly don't match the normal population, since the normal population isn't 7% billionaires.
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by jacalata 10y ago
The article explains that they rank the level of "self-made-ness" out of 10, with 10 being from a poor family with no advantages. Then it says " A total of 34 billionaires, or 8.5%, scored as 10s".
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by jacalata 10y ago
I haven't heard this before either, but I found this reference to millions of dollars: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
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by jacalata 10y ago
Diminishing returns for your personal enjoyment, sure. But there are plenty of ways any extra money you had could be spent to make a huge impact for other people: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs&#x2
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by jacalata 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/technology/uber-investment...
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by jacalata 10y ago
It's not frustrating at all. Source: I am a legal immigrant.
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by jacalata 10y ago
A significant number of undocumented workers use a fake SSN for their job so they do pay income taxes and FICA - but can never claim tax refunds, earned income credit, or their social security credits - http://www.politifact.com&
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by jacalata 10y ago
I thought there was some caveat like you can join but you can't be sent off to combat until 18? And his point was that if your army is composed of people who aren't allowed to vote you are setting yourself up for higher risk.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't think Australia is a good example of "problems Canada will see when they are older".
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by jacalata 10y ago
Do you have an example of an OEM or insurance company that will provide that policy?

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