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by jbooth 13y ago
Health insurance has been increasing by ~9% a year since the late 1990s. Obamacare is predicted by the CBO to bend the cost curve in the right direction but it's not going to 0% or sub-inflation anytime soon. Anybody blaming their co
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by jbooth 13y ago
The gap is covered in about half the states. The other half don't like Obama so they refused the free money from the feds to cover the gap for their citizens. Can't make this stuff up.
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by jbooth 13y ago
If you're working there, it would be a case of the 6th worker, you, replacing 4/5 of his peers with a shell script. Would you deserve a raise? If you're being anecdotal, you can justify whatever you want. In the aggregate,
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by jbooth 13y ago
You can slice it any way you want, the preponderance of evidence points to median and average wages both trailing productivity in the long run. Arguments about short-run volatility that don't address this fact are hand-wavy.
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by jbooth 13y ago
There's a graph out there, or several, showing annual real median income plotted against productivity gains. Income has lagged in the aggregate, significantly. It's also lagged when plotted against GDP. Both since the early 80
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by jbooth 13y ago
Why would there be a very suspicious "lying about wearing a condom" charge leveled at Assange with multiple super-powers demanding justice for an unnamed swedish woman, coincidentally right when he's pissing off those super-p
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by jbooth 13y ago
We've sent you a new EULA, it's 5,000 pages, please sign it to continue to receive internet service.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Or the ability to write collections in the first place, as enabled by generics. You can't even write a collection in Go unless you're dealing with interface{} or unsafe.Pointer and casting a lot. I really like the language, enoug
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by jbooth 13y ago
Even if your data doesn't all fit in page cache with cdb, the 8 bytes per entry (hashcode & offset) of overhead in the main hashtable absolutely will, so even if you're too big for memory, you get single-seek-per-lookup. The o
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by jbooth 13y ago
Ha, fair enough.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, the only gotcha I've ever had with Go was being confused about why I couldn't pass a pointer to an interface. Then I grokked what interfaces are in Go (a pointer to an implementation satisfies an interface, a pointer to a
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by jbooth 13y ago
238 years is actually decently long for a continuous system of government. Older countries like the UK, France, Russia or China tend to actually be a series of constitutions/monarchies/dynasties that rarely last longer than 300 y
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by jbooth 13y ago
I would be seriously fascinated to hear Obama's honest reasoning on this topic. He's got a history all the way back to law school of public statements that are diametrically opposed to what he's authorizing the NSA to do. Y
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by jbooth 13y ago
Those are all good reasons not to do this. But "nobody smart would do that" doesn't refute the reporting. You could come up with a similar list of common-sense reasons not to start wars in the middle east but in the US we d
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by jbooth 13y ago
My problem with a lot of these competitions, particularly the high-reward ones, is you've got people duking it out at the 4th or 5th decimal point for the top few spots. At that point, you're not even competing for best generali
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by jbooth 13y ago
It was a breakdown of various ways the incredibly distorted healthcare market fails. The word 'free' is so politically overloaded that using it in multiple ways isn't a contradiction, although you could call it sloppy if y
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by jbooth 13y ago
No conspiracy necessary. Just lots of little biases.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Not everything is about your libertarian hobby horse. California and NYC are 2 of the "least economically free" areas of the US. Shouldn't they be getting outcompeted by Idaho or something? Or maybe the world exists on mor
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by jbooth 13y ago
Touche, sir
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by jbooth 13y ago
How do merchants even price things to sell using bitcoin when it has volatility like this? Do they dynamically change the price of goods based on the bitcoin/$ exchange rate? Or do they actually sell the same goods for 1$ one day, $3
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by jbooth 13y ago
There are as many reasons as there are other things in the world besides bitcoin why you can't look at it that way. $/yuan, $/euro, $/big mac, $/potted plants, $/dinner at applebees...
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, sorry, I read it like you were the one injecting politics about 'government hostility' into it, regardless of Tor or SSL, ssh keys or whatever methods are involved. You seemed to be attributing motives to the previous poste
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by jbooth 13y ago
Oh, for god's sake. First off, don't put words in the anigbrowl's mouth. Second off, it's not government hostility to investigate a bomb hoax that costs a lot of people money and inconveniences a ton of people. This guy
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by jbooth 13y ago
They steer clear of walking down the street while black? Maybe it works different in Wilmington than in Brooklyn or the Bronx, but being teenaged and black is plenty to get hassled by police in NYC. Just one minor detail you hear from peop
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by jbooth 13y ago
I don't think you're the majority in your neighborhood, from what you described. I lived in the hood for a few years once, I knew what I was doing, minded my own business, and I didn't want police to crack other people'
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but this all makes sense as long as it's someone else. "I don't care if there's gross miscarriage of justice for hundreds or thousands of other people as long as I feel safe" is what you're saying.
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by jbooth 13y ago
The prosecutor recommended the standard dismissal before noticing the sticky attached to his/her file that presumably said something like "troublemaking asshole - smash this guy".
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by jbooth 13y ago
Oh come on, you think the taxpayer dollars are the biggest issue on the judge's mind? So he throws 10x the taxpayer dollars at the problem by putting him on probation for 3 years? Have you ever met real people? Ever seen someone make
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by jbooth 13y ago
Teenage boys are idiots. I was one, most of us were, if you never raised any hell then good for you, I guess. What are you going to do, prosecute black/brown teenagers with extreme prejudice while giving white teenagers a ride home an
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by jbooth 13y ago
And the old sexy. Back in the day, UNIX was a piece of garbage and the future was LISP machines, if you asked a lot of people. Nowadays, to similar people, C/Go/Java are garbage and the future is, I dunno, Haskell or something.

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