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by jbooth 13y ago
Take it a step further: How do you get from A) At least one person, somewhere in history, has been falsely accused of being crazy because he was inconvenient to authorities. To: B) Johnny over here is telling me that the illuminati are co
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by jbooth 13y ago
Sort of a non-sequitur here: Someone once called the FOUNDING FATHERS (freedom!) crazy, therefore we shouldn't restrict documented crazy people from buying guns? There is probably a lesson in that disorders that make you inconvenient for t
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yes, there was in fact a war during the revolutionary war, but very few if any of the founding fathers were at Bunker Hill, and you'd be hard-pressed to prove the overwhelming majority of soldiers were doing it out of pathological anti-auth
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by jbooth 13y ago
Take it easy on the rhetoric. No, those founding fathers were not anti-authorianists to the degree that people would call a pathology. The continental congress did not descend into a bunch of bickering every time someone asked someone else
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but I still do my own yardwork no matter what my day rate is. Some things about money you do based on principle, like not shelling out $350 without knowing what you're buying -- Warren Buffett wouldn't do that, why should I?
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by jbooth 13y ago
I wouldn't hold your breath. The current generation of suits were protestors in the 60s before giving themselves debt-financed tax cuts in the 80s and complaining about socialist kenyans in the 10s.
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by jbooth 14y ago
All that'll happen then is a lot of corporate headquarters move there from delaware.
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by jbooth 14y ago
With go's defer mechanic (defer f.Close(), defer l.Unlock()), and the way they handle errors, multiple returns are basically the way code comes out naturally. I think it's more readable than juggling a bunch more variables and returning at
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by jbooth 14y ago
It's definitely possible that the blue-chip companies are missing an opportunity to develop talent out of that ecosystem, but it's also not their responsibility to do so. Most of us who are senior engineers at whichever high-flying company
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by jbooth 14y ago
Yes, they're trying to hire top talent through the H-1B program. Immigration status is orthogonal to talent. That's the reason they're generally not trying to recruit from the masses of underpaid infosys developers.
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by jbooth 14y ago
Construction workers and programmers are both tradesmen, for most values of the word. I know you added a disclaimer already but I figured I'd just emphasize the point.
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by jbooth 14y ago
Not to mention that the actual machines behind those instance types have probably fully depreciated and paid for themselves by now -- if they're replacing them, it's to save on power.
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by jbooth 14y ago
why should they need to change? If you acknowledge that the changes required are superficial, why are they required? If they're superficial, why can't Uber just play ball? I can't disconnect my electricity meter and install a more accur
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by jbooth 14y ago
Yes, of course, but it does not follow that those products are being optimally allocated by price like a normal economy. Normal economies adjust to produce more, natural disaster is a temporary state with different rules. It becomes a pu
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by jbooth 14y ago
Look Untog, on the one hand, we have what you saw with your own eyes. On the other hand, I just finished my freshman year in economics, and when we draw a dotted line across the X of supply/demand, then there's this little triangle see? Sh
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by jbooth 14y ago
It's a legitimate business, and they've generally been a bit smoother than this hacktastic email. It just so happens that they're entering a regulated market, and some observers will go full tea-party upon hearing things like "we have extra
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by jbooth 14y ago
A few years ago it was really bad, now it's super easy, file -> import maven project.
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by jbooth 14y ago
Probably nobody's challenged them on it, and moreover if they did there'd be the counter-arguments that it's voluntary and that throttling the A/C enhances their service by preventing brownouts.
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by jbooth 14y ago
The great thing about this comment is our security measures stop like 2 or 3 levels before even reaching the point you're describing as insecure. Like the people involved even know what an MD5 is?
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by jbooth 14y ago
And the contracts for these machines are what, cheap? I've be interested to see a source for the contention that paper's actually more expensive -- not saying you're wrong, but I'd have guessed paper is cheaper with all of the volunteer la
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by jbooth 14y ago
I feel pretty comfortable being upset with both of them over it.
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by jbooth 14y ago
As far as the rates that the feds have to pay to borrow money -- that's set by the market. They can issue bonds at 0.25% and people will buy them, therefore the interest rate is that low. It's not like they're forcing people to buy. The
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by jbooth 14y ago
Fair enough, but that's way less effective as rhetoric. How do we know Krugman didn't falsify his results and murder people?
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by jbooth 14y ago
The view against austerity was mainstream until very recently. Counter-cyclical spending was a bipartisan point of agreement from the 40s until the year 2009. You never heard anyone accuse each other of being "keynesian" or "hayekian", it
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by jbooth 14y ago
Sure there's consistency. Obama. Healthcare ideas that originated from the heritage foundation? No way. Romney 'won' the first debate by agreeing with Obama's platform on every single issue. The difference between them? Obama.
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by jbooth 14y ago
His threats to veto it guaranteed that the Republicans would all line up behind it. So we've got the people who've been saying they're libertarians and he's a socialist tyrant for years, and they're determined to give him and the federal go
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by jbooth 14y ago
It's not simple economics, accounting for externalities is really complex and fraught with subjectivity. What price on early deaths, reductions in labor force and increased medical bills? I've been to China a couple times, the pollution is
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by jbooth 14y ago
True about England, false about the ladder. We can do better with a combination of renewables and nuclear, and the Chinese would be better off for it as well (depending on how much you like the smell of sulfur).
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by jbooth 14y ago
I didn't say we shouldn't get the deficit under control. I said that we should calibrate our responses to avoid hurting the economy while doing so. In 2009, debt was not the problem, economic collapse was. In 2013, we should start workin
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by jbooth 14y ago
It's not just 'more time to kick the can', which still implies that not trimming debt immediately is irresponsible. If you trim debt by a little and hurt GDP growth by a little, you wind up with the same ratio you had before. If you trim d

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