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by jbooth 9y ago
Why should they? Corporations are licensed sociopaths. That's by design, it's not a bug, we get a lot of value out of the regulated sociopathy. If you're against regulation yet expect companies to work towards the higher so
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by jbooth 9y ago
Respectfully, if you're going to play the "I'm a back-end systems guy but I can learn this front-end JS stuff" card, you can't choke on some SQL queries. We're all here stroking our gray beards about how kids t
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by jbooth 9y ago
Norway's doing something very similar to Venezuela as far as nationalized oil going to the public purse, and it's working out great for them. When social-democratic countries screw up due to authoritarianism and corruption, it&#x2
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by jbooth 9y ago
Yeah, but they're new, and there's still a culture of food preservation that we lost here at some point. US fish buying: Buy a pleasant-looking filet off a bed of ice, get it into refrigeration asap China fish buying: Bring a pl
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by jbooth 9y ago
I'm not sure what that even means, knights have moved the same way for thousands of years and we're just discovering how internet society works in real time. Having the hyper-free-speech internet that we created turned against us
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by jbooth 9y ago
Why not both? If she were a dude with an unfitted black tee, it seems a lot less likely that she'd be accused of being 'fake'.
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by jbooth 9y ago
So, is that confirmation on 'unwilling'?
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's outrageous to the extent we're completely unprepared and maybe unwilling to deal with it. Radio Free Europe was at least just using the airwaves. These efforts are using US corporations against the US.
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by jbooth 9y ago
If you want to get conspiratorial about it, SpaceX is a huge threat to both the Russian space launch industry and to Boeing/Lockheed. More seriously, in the 2017 conservative pathology, the Russian government are 'good guys'
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by jbooth 9y ago
We're coming up on a full decade of people saying hyperinflation is "just around the corner". How many years can it be around the corner?
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by jbooth 9y ago
Sure it is. Both in larger program design and in affording several different ways to accomplish the subscripting into the giant nd-array Vec<f64>. Maybe Rust should also provide language support for the ndarray type, but lack of suc
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by jbooth 9y ago
If the author wanted to write his own, he could very easily write an nd-array-alike wrapping a really long double[] in Rust, right? From the author: You can work around it by using a Vec (arbitrary sized sequence/list) but then your
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by jbooth 9y ago
Floating points compress poorly, though.
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by jbooth 9y ago
I get where you're coming from but you don't seem to get that other people have different priorities. The set of people living in the burbs with families are generally living for their kids first and themselves a distant second.
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by jbooth 9y ago
Chain restaurants?? We cook at home. Occasionally hit up our local pub in our cultural wasteland suburb. People with kids and responsibilities have different concerns from those who don't. Whether what I ate or what entertainment I
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by jbooth 9y ago
Cultural wasteland? Wait till you have kids. Turns out it doesn't matter whether you can see a post-alt-rock band in a small venue, it's past bedtime anyways, and spongebob on youtube works everywhere.
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by jbooth 9y ago
But in Putin's Russia, the operating principle is "l'etat c'est moi". It's not some idealized state vs an idealized private sector -- it was very personal and personalized all the way through.
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by jbooth 9y ago
Are you aware of how we got there the first time?
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's not just the stigma that labor's gotten, it's the language that's infiltrated our thoughts. Giving a generous maternity leave is "leaving value on the table". Evading taxes via the double-irish or contrac
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by jbooth 9y ago
At the end of the day, a salesperson not making quota is going to be fired. The best salesperson in the world could maybe buy themselves an extra year, at best. But eventually, if they're so great, where are the numbers? And their n
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by jbooth 9y ago
The idea is lots and lots of low orbit satellites with cell-phone-like handoffs as they zip across the horizon. LEO is only 200 miles high or so, which is ~1ms for light to travel if they can make it work. Existing satellite internet goes
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by jbooth 9y ago
That's different, the SC isn't an executive body. An executive changing policy and then throwing up their hands, "I have no choice, it's the policy!" is dishonest and doesn't fool anybody.
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's better than if they had reverse engineered the policy. Do it or don't do it, but either way, stand by your actions and get outta here with the mealy mouthed BS. IMHO.
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by jbooth 9y ago
In addition to the clarification of intentions, military spending is in fact 54% of federal discretionary spending. Entitlement programs like SS and Medicare/Medicaid are raised on a separate tax (you can see it on your paystub), and h
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by jbooth 9y ago
Statistically, a lot of items from the test could be very highly correlated with demographics. And it doesn't have to be intentional. Goldman MD with yacht and golf club membership signs off on test that selects for people like him.
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by jbooth 9y ago
I did some nodejs work the other month, pinch-hitting in a product crunch, we're using grunt. `grunt test`.. ooh, so pretty and creative! `grunt test > test.out`, wtf, why is my file full of control character bullshit?
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by jbooth 9y ago
Well, there's an argument to be made that captains of industry shouldn't own newspapers, full stop. That argument can be made without evidence, and there's some credence to it.
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by jbooth 9y ago
So, if the WaPo doesn't criticize Bezos, it's because they're owned by him, but if they do, it's because of a 'reverse submarine'? Quite the box they're in there. Let me throw occam's razor out there
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by jbooth 9y ago
The takeaway is that the math used in econ obscures the truth while lending a fake gravitas to pure opinion. At least sociology is honest that they're going pure opinion.
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by jbooth 9y ago
He calls that bubble every single year. He was bound to be right eventually.

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