jbooth

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by jbooth 13y ago
I'd say that admitting something is generally accepted as true (which you're agreeing the respondents did) is the first step towards admitting that it might actually be true. The truth isn't subjective, and it seems that the survey elicited
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by jbooth 13y ago
I disagree, I think that MY tribal group is totally right no matter what and YOUR tribal group is totally wrong no matter what. I'm gonna namedrop the concept of 'austrian economics' while I'm at it in order to prove that I'm a detached, r
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by jbooth 13y ago
In your metaphorical question, there is actually a correct, factual answer and it's not intelligent design.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Honestly, in my case, for my day job, it's way, way more "business use case" or more frequently "misunderstanding between 2 services" than it is an implementation error. We catch 90% of implementation problems with unit testing and/or just
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's also noteworthy that the Japanese troops in Manchuria were, from most accounts I've seen, their most veteran land-based army. And the soviets, having fought the Germans for the past 6 years, basically cut through them like butter. Th
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by jbooth 13y ago
I meant less interesting logic bugs, like "Oh we never considered the intersection of these 3 different business use cases". I could see a couple ways where the type system could be more powerful than unit tests, but only to the extent that
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by jbooth 13y ago
Chess isn't a skinner box, neither is Solitaire or Skyrim. Even poker is less of a skinner box than the games we're talking about.
908.
by jbooth 13y ago
Hey, this is a pretty late response but regarding: "I don't ever debug null problems. I almost never have to debug any crashes whatsoever. I don't debug aliasing bugs. The vast majority of the sources of bugs in other languages do go away."
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by jbooth 13y ago
Because it's not truth that matters, it's truthiness. I don't need facts I can understand with my brain, I need facts that I can understand with my gut.
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by jbooth 13y ago
But why the hell get into all that? We've got a job to do. Your comment here is a great example of why people don't bother giving Haskell the time of day. I've already got business problems and performance problems, why give myself type s
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's all great. People still want to buy a house in CA so bad that it costs a million bucks. Political conservatives go on and on about the free market and then say with a straight face that a single government policy, income tax rates,
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by jbooth 13y ago
Cops and teachers have to get paid somehow -- Texas doesn't print the money, it gets it from property taxes and other sources. I'd say that even if you hypothesize a gain in not-paying-taxes of, say, 5% of income -- that doesn't change the
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think the points related to better transit expanding the amount of available housing stock in other commuter markets have more to do with it than a 'business friendly' legal system or even zoning laws. We're developers. We know shit-all
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by jbooth 13y ago
If the lions eat too much, zebra population declines and lions begin starving. This is bad for both the zebras and lions.
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by jbooth 13y ago
This sort of wealth distribution is almost without precedent in the modern economy. It happened before in the 1920s and didn't end well. If you understand "game theory or sociological models well enough to understand that this sort of weal
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by jbooth 13y ago
Competition drives the cost of living up. We can explain this with supply and demand. As far as the industrial history, yeah, service economy, information age, yadda yadda. And I agree on Wall St, I pretty much despise them. But if you're
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by jbooth 13y ago
Property taxes actually wind up being regressive a lot of the time. Having 2x or 10x income usually translates to a house that's less than 2x or 10x in value.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, it's practically the third world here in NYC. Texas's top industry: Defense (100% government spending). Texas's 2nd industry: Oil (government subsidized, and having oil is surprisingly not a function of income tax rates). Texas's mo
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think his fundamental disagreement is with the idea that embracing simplicity makes one a simpleton. I'm primarily a Java and Go coder and think that writing boring code to solve difficult problems requires much more intelligence and art
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by jbooth 13y ago
Thanks, I hadn't thought about it that way. Still disagree with it and all that but at least it makes some amount of sense that they were able to pull it off now.
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by jbooth 13y ago
You can spin up US cloud providers from inside China and tunnel to them in about 15 minutes. It's just that most people don't bother -- there'll always be the people on the edge, though.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's actually a legitimate argument. In theory, there could be a tea party group that was doing issue advocacy and not campaigning for candidates. In practice, many of them were in fact advocating for candidates, and the IRS screwed up
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by jbooth 13y ago
Obviously, if people died, then someone screwed up bad. But the "scandal" hasn't been about who screwed up. It's been about whether Obama used the word terrorism enough times in the aftermath, and nebulous accusations of "cover-up" with no
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by jbooth 13y ago
OFA only switched to a tax-exempt organization in January 2013. I don't know the full story behind that, but I feel that their activity before 2013 was primarily political and shouldn't be tax-exempt (and it wasn't).
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by jbooth 13y ago
You wish that were true? It's fucking terrible. Take a look at their front-page right now. Or tomorrow. The whole op/ed section is filled with the same crap that every politician is talking about. Strategically balanced so that they'r
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by jbooth 13y ago
If it were just about my political preferences, I'd be thrilled that conservatives can't shut up about Benghazi. It didn't play during the last election, it won't play during the next one, and makes Republicans look like frothing at the mo
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're not contradicting my contention: Lots of political groups were applying for charitable status, they're not allowed to have it, and it's the IRS's job to flag those groups, filter them out and inform them that their donations are not
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by jbooth 13y ago
Washington Post isn't liberal or conservative. It's beltway. If one party says that the sky is yellow, and the other party says it's red, the Washington Post will be there in all their wisdom to inform you that it's actually a shade of or
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by jbooth 13y ago
Bad wording on my part. I guess I was saying that there hasn't been a major court decision overturning US vs Ellsbury/NYT, yet somehow everyone's just pretending it's gone. Seems to me like in order to contradict that previous ruling you
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, I hate that circular logic. Americans drink more coke than pepsi, look at the advertising budgets. You hammer something on prime time every night for 6 months and people will think it's a bigger deal than the story you don't. There'

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