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by jbooth 9y ago
Plus a lot of the train stations are owned by quasi-governmental agencies like the port authority. Traveling 1 mile under the hudson would involve deals with at least 6 entities: the states of NY and NJ, the port authority, the federal gov
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by jbooth 9y ago
Funny, I think the same thing about evil, shadowy scapegoats. When we have a market crash caused by private actors trading and someone says "OBVIOUSLY the problem is GOVERNMENT" I think they're arguing backwards from ideology
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by jbooth 9y ago
The article you linked is way, way out of the mainstream on the topic. That's fine and all but turning around and accusing the conventional wisdom of 'lacking a deep understanding' is a bit much.
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by jbooth 9y ago
The point stands at 10 trillion, thanks for the correction. I'm not sure what you want with more specificity. You're familiar with the situation, right? You want a book report on what happened? Yes, the government exists, and no
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by jbooth 9y ago
We had a housing crash that somehow led to hundreds of trillions of dollars missing. Add up the value of every house in the USA. They're not hundreds of trillions of dollars. The banks got really creative, a bunch of people made nic
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by jbooth 9y ago
Lots and lots of people walk through south side chicago every day as unarmed civilians.
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by jbooth 9y ago
No, he actually went right after your implied (to me and muhfuhkah, at least) argument. Your argument is that we should aspire to merely "just better than the other guys", with the subtext that Democrats aren't really any b
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by jbooth 9y ago
Motivations matter. When we had the march to war in Iraq, suspect intel was being selectively and deceitfully pulled out of context specifically to build a case for war in Iraq. By politicians, not by intel professionals. A bunch of forme
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by jbooth 9y ago
It doesn't have to be regulated to be rent extraction. You just need to make the switching costs really high, no help needed from the legal system. Look at Oracle.
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by jbooth 9y ago
That theory falls under the Econ 101 fallacy -- assuming perfect information dispersal, instant job-switching, instant production ramping.. "First, let's assume the cow is a sphere".
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by jbooth 9y ago
Oh, yeah, for sure. Agreed on everything, friends if not allies. But Russia as a state is pretty much synonymous with Putin as a person, right now. Until that changes, it's splitting hairs.
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by jbooth 9y ago
Evidence is downthread. CIA, FBI and NSA all concur, they all put out unclassified statements with their conclusions, although they obviously kept much of their supporting evidence classified.
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by jbooth 9y ago
http://abcnews.go.com/US/russian-hackers-targeted-half-state... "There's no doubt that some bad actors have been poking around," FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Wednesday, without offering any m
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by jbooth 9y ago
Because there's been a very recent and very public hacking scandal that was "them vs us"?
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by jbooth 9y ago
I'd go as far as to say that if you've spent enough hours with your build system that 100X is a meaningful assertion, you're spending too many hours in your damn build system.
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by jbooth 9y ago
The conventional wisdom was for stocks, which are much higher volume, liquidity, etc, and aren't a newfangled math experiment. I think with these coins it could be a decent bet that we'll see this happen again in the next year or
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by jbooth 9y ago
I bought a condo on a 100-year flood plain back in the day. Had 2 100-year floods, the first 2 springs I owned it.
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's not patronizing, I don't think I'm stupid and I had no idea of the insurance implications.
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by jbooth 9y ago
If 1% of guys are scumbags, and 5 days a year they really act like it, and you play that out for 10 years.. most women could be harrassed at some point or other even though 99% of guys are innocent.
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by jbooth 9y ago
The question is more, "what capabilities do they have that other companies don't", and I suspect the answer is "extreme proficiency at the federal RFP process".
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by jbooth 9y ago
40. You need 66 to ratify a treaty, but you can also pass a 'treaty implementation bill' which is basically normal legislation mirroring the language of the treaty, and you only need a majority in the house, and either a majority
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by jbooth 9y ago
The authority in charge of imports in any given country?
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by jbooth 9y ago
Kotlin is a smart subset of Scala. Scala did a lot of things that pushed mainstream programming forward, but it's also crapped up with a lot of detritus, ideas that didn't work out, and ideas that were always obviously bad.
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by jbooth 9y ago
Well, that's your opinion, and Thomas's, but very frequently it's not the opinion of 8 other Supreme Court justices, several of whom also claim to be textual originalists. The constitution does not mandate all good things, do
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by jbooth 9y ago
Yeah, but he has a history of dumb contrarian lone dissents that throw some poor citizen under the bus. Generally when the question "who the heck dissented on that?!?!" is asked, the answer is Thomas.
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by jbooth 9y ago
So what's up with Rust then? Sorry for noob questions but is it: 1) Ownership model means RC only needs to be used rarely in Rust, and ARC even less, minimizing the throughput impact? 2) Simplicity benefits were overwhelming conside
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by jbooth 9y ago
Ok, yeah, I saw upthread about C++ and Pascal having a more formal reference type. But in C and Go you can pass pointers to pointers, in Java and Python objects with mutable object references.. It seems like the whole article could have bee
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by jbooth 9y ago
I'm still confused and I've been working in various languages for 15 years. If I pass a java object to a function, I'm passing a (probably) 8-byte pointer to some memory with a class tag, fields, whatever. It goes on the sta
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's not thought provoking, it's a series of thought terminating cliches. I'm as liberal as they come, I'm very sensitive to disguised racism, but the tweets' entire basis of comparison between Musk and Moses is &qu
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by jbooth 9y ago
This could have been an interesting article about a real problem, but it's just 3 paragraphs of ranting about political straw men.

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