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by jbooth 13y ago
Substitute "how things ought to be" for right. I'd be willing to pay a fair price, say $20/mo to stream NFL games and watch my out-of-market hometown team. I shouldn't have to pay for $100/mo of services I do
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by jbooth 13y ago
In 2008? Guess you weren't around in 2003?
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're not buying anything during the super bowl either and it costs millions to run a 30s ad -- branding.
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by jbooth 13y ago
They do small bits of work that would be hard to automate, accompanied by metric shitloads of reporting and process so that the people at the top can look at an oversimplified graph of what's going on.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Unless you have enough liquid cash to self-insure against high medical costs, then you're just hating the fact that you can't freeload on the rest of us who pay for insurance.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Apparently it's the promise of something-for-nothing through nebulous means, similar to social media marketing and viral marketing.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's good PR for the NFL management, too. 22 year old millionaires will always have a DUI tendency, the management just needs to be seen as doing things about it. I'd bet this project came out of their PR firms rather than the bi
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by jbooth 13y ago
At a specific time and place in 1945 this law makes a ton of sense, and it's actually done a lot of good. Compare german - european relations with japanese - chinese/korean/filipino relations. Maybe it should have a sunset p
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by jbooth 13y ago
The top 2 free-est counties on that list are run by generally benevolent but completely autocratic governments.
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by jbooth 13y ago
They can all be subdirectories of the same main repo, yet import each other with paths like github.com/mainrepo/packagename. The real thing that I haven't figured out a consistent solution to is how to manage versions. You c
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by jbooth 13y ago
Doesn't the game theory for this sort of always point to the last, smallest member to join the coalition gets to make the most demands relative to it's size? If it's get my party with it's 4 seats on board or fail and ho
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by jbooth 13y ago
And if this were done by jews being oppressed somewhere, your reaction would be the same? Not that you'll take this advice, but I'd really recommend spending a little time thinking about what if you were born with a different last
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by jbooth 13y ago
"Could be better" is of course true for every single situation, no matter how good. But even Java, which has what is generally regarded as the most advanced GC ever written, still has lots of applications doing the free-list of By
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by jbooth 13y ago
Non-emergency medicine, also inelastic. There's no hurry on your shoulder surgery, but there's also no point at which you say "Geez, at that price I'd rather not", like it's iMax tickets for Iron Man 3. Maybe
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by jbooth 13y ago
Of course healthcare is special, it's not a normal market because of extreme demand inelasticity. Food is special too, but it manages to function as a market because we have a food surplus, a plethora of replacement goods within the f
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by jbooth 13y ago
Its Occam's razor -- if a house party full of underage drinkers just got busted, and a drunk 20 yo is hiding on your porch, do you personally think this is a flight or fight situation? Think this guy had a bit of an itchy trigger fing
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by jbooth 13y ago
If we're being honest, the only reason to shoot the kid in that situation is because you've always hoped you'd get to shoot a home invader one day.
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by jbooth 13y ago
In the 80s? It's 2013, man, get with the times and start ripping on Chicago. In this decade, I'd go to the anecdote from WI last year of the dude who, upon a high school party being broken up by the cops next door, shot a kid hid
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by jbooth 13y ago
"E.g. assume you have to retreat from your home in Massachusetts, no matter the current law, case law or circumstances." Why?
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the castle doctrine applies in most states? Hell, 'stand your ground' applies in a decent plurality of states these days.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It sounded like he aced all of the questions except for the distributed computing ones, where he put up some reasonable answers but not the exact ones they're looking for. I'd note that when Google was first solving those problems
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by jbooth 13y ago
For the record, last I heard, Amtrak is actually incredibly profitable in the northeast and almost profitable along the west coast. It's the losses from running the rest of the system that kill it.
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by jbooth 13y ago
insert "dumb code in any language" rant here
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by jbooth 13y ago
This is a jobs program. All those people who talk about cutting government waste, believing in the free market and capitalism while supporting this boondoggle? They're performance artists.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Apples and Oranges. I'm talking rates, you're talking dollars. People in MA make and spend more money than people in Alabama, so you'd have a higher per-capita tax burden even with lower rates in MA. Per capita income minus
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by jbooth 13y ago
MA is actually in the lower third of states both in terms of their income tax rate (5.3%) and sales tax rate(6.25%). They could increase one or both of those by a small amount, raise a ton more money and still be a low-tax state, without g
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm much more bothered by the wanna-be assault troops than the retired assault troops. Both on a scared-for-my-personal-safety level and on a go-join-the-military-you-wannabe-tryhard level.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That only applies if you're spying on the taxpayers, though, or possibly threatening to kick their doors in looking for drugs. If you're teaching taxpayers or helping them in any other way then most of your department got the axe
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by jbooth 13y ago
My point was more about justifications on paper for things you want to do for other reasons rather than being butthurt about a bad manager in ancient history. And I see your points. I'm just taking issue with the fact that business cu
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by jbooth 13y ago
Ok, so add the phrase "I believed that I was enhancing shareholder value" to whatever the thing is that you're doing. People get fired all the time based on bullshit performance improvement plans that come down to "pisse

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