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by jbooth 13y ago
Get back into that shit next semester, no excuses. You're a freshman, I take it? If you start giving up on shit as "too hard" now, everything's going to be too hard in the future. Learning only gets harder when you get
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's worth noting that Ruby's metaprogramming model goes a bit beyond the mere appearance of risk, in many people's opinions. Maybe we're wrong, but it's not like we're avoiding it because it's got a smal
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's not "just" price discrimination, there are plenty of rich dumb kids out there that could have taken his spot.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think it's a lack of confidence or guts if you'd rather. There's a short window to fill in another class in your schedule so if a person thinks they'll drop later, may as well drop now.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's true, however the US has a huge interest and 65 year track record supporting global free trade, which is a system that other countries can get on board with. Certain oil-producing nations aside, this isn't mercantilism, and
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by jbooth 13y ago
So you're a lawyer, right? Politically I get what you're saying but legally, with the 14th amendment and all, he has to either illegally prioritize or illegally ignore the debt limit. Maybe ignoring the debt limit has more const
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's been spelled out like 6 times in this thread that this crisis creates contradictory legal obligations for the executive branch that are logically impossible to fulfill. If you're really not understanding that, perhaps you sho
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by jbooth 13y ago
Brought to you by the Committee in support of Not Learning Things and Repeating Mistakes.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Of course it's incredibly different. I won't trivialize how shitty life in the ghetto is if you don't trivialize how shitty life as a subsistence farmer surrounded by simmering ethnic conflicts.
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by jbooth 13y ago
So McAfee outlined that someone could spearphish with sites like obamacare.com.myurl.com. It doesn't seem that he outlined any actual vulnerability that doesn't go for every site on the web. Fox News, needless to say, is breathle
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by jbooth 13y ago
No, how the world works is that you satisfy your users or your users go someplace else. Microsoft gets this. Linus gets this. FSF and GNU, while I love their ideals, are apparently a bit too ivory tower to actually get it on things like t
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by jbooth 13y ago
There's actually a whole science to this that you're completely disregarding (which, generally speaking, is the cause of a lot of dumb thinking in this world). Look up BLS inflation measures and the 'basket of goods'. Y
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by jbooth 13y ago
On your point 1), I'm obligated to point out that over the last 20 years, inflation has been very low by historical standards. We were only above 4% (historical average) for a couple years in the late 90s and from about 2006-2008, if
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by jbooth 13y ago
I don't disagree, but the definition of "clearly unfair" floats on the whims of Justice Kennedy.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Because he's a white male at a non-physical job, presumably. Pretty brave of him.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Hanlon's razor seems to be knocking on the door here. They made their best effort to shut down the sites they're supposed to shut down, by law, whether it's good business or not. They were doing this in a bit of a challengi
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by jbooth 13y ago
Ok, fine, we'll never know the proportions. But you can get a confidential informant to say whatever you want for $100, and that can be enough for a search warrant. Then you don't call the shady CI at trial and work from the bus
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, Amazon's French competitors have to comply with French labor law. So there's a mismatch and market distortion there. If they don't want to change their labor law, you can see why they'd take other, ameliorative m
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by jbooth 13y ago
But better at cost control than private insurance in America, with much better cohorts. They're in America, medicare can't get you british-cost healthcare.
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're right, it seems they pay $11. I had gotten that info about the day-contracting centers from other places that they staff, at some point. And I personally agree with raising the minimum wage, although not any higher than $11, p
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by jbooth 13y ago
As a happy Amazon customer: That line is bullshit. Employment law exists for a reason, we don't just accept "oh, that's what the market will bear" for things like unsafe working conditions or workplace sexual harrassme
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's not Amazon employees, actually, their warehouses are staffed by those terrible day-labor contract places where people show up and wait for hours unpaid to find out if they get to work for minimum wage later in the day. I've s
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by jbooth 13y ago
If we're being completely fair, Amazon's willingness to run in the red for almost 20 years and continually sacrifice profits for market share probably has a lot to do with their prices, too. But your points are worth noting, and A
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by jbooth 13y ago
Also, two words: Confidential Informant.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Medicare is only for 65yo+. Of course it's going to be more expensive, with worse health outcomes, than a general population pool. That's how aging works.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yup, fruit of a poisonous tree can be worked around if the DA wants busts enough.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Stories I heard on the matter were not on the internet -- next you'll tell me that police would never lie on the stand? (really not hating on police here, I know it's a tough job)
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah. The second hand things I've heard about drug busts tell me that the steps are generally: 1) Cops have a pretty good suspicion who it is 2) Cops falsify evidence to get search warrant 3) Search warrant executed, they have the dru
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by jbooth 13y ago
Especially considering, in hindsight, the entire episode seems to have been a masterful Bad Cop impression by Obama. I thought he looked like an idiot during it, but somehow we got more than we could have expected from a coercive cruise-mi
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but they have some unique characteristics related to inserting/deleting from the middle or beginning of the list. They're actually used in a few places in the linux kernel, for performance reasons, in spite of cache localit

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