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by jbooth 11y ago
Worth noting that the mainstream macroeconomic wisdom has been completely disconnected from what we've observed in reality the past 10 years or so -- having rates this low for this long is supposed to spur demand and create inflation,
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Wasn't implying you're a sociopath -- I think you were recognizing that a corporation is by definition -- I'm just saying that, even by that standard, the person is STILL not necessarily productive. Working compulsively isn&
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That person who is not neurotypical might be the type of person who works 80 hours a week with the net result of creating more work for everyone else. I've seen plenty of those.
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If we assume a generous leave policy for both? The one rushing back after 2 weeks either has a screw loose or is so bad at their job that they can't take their hand off the wheel for 5 minutes. I wouldn't necessarily consider th
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The best salesman is someone who believes in the product. I'm willing to take them at their word.
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Java works great on large teams. The stuff that people complain about as "too much boilerplate" and "super boring" when you're writing code is actually really awesome when you have to read a bunch of code and half
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If we were talking about a contract dispute where one of the parties is a city, state or the federal government, you're totally right. If we're talking about the police alleging that you have money because of criminal acts, we sho
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by jbooth 11y ago
I think the point here is that a civil burden of proof is completely inappropriate when the plaintiff is the state and there's an allegation of criminality.
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by jbooth 11y ago
I'm not a lawyer but this strongly disagrees with everything I learned in high school civics class about judicial review, and with many many high profile court cases overturning popularly enacted laws, from Marbury v Madison through to
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The words 'soviet style' in this comment are an insult to anyone who's ever read a history book.
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That sounds like it's not the bank, but some shady player that the bank sold your debt to for .01 on the dollar. If you want to settle the debt, do some research on these players so you don't just throw the money away without get
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by jbooth 11y ago
I'm sorry, are you proposing literally serfdom?
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Oh, come on. Anytime a politician of any party uses that line it's a load of crap. If they supported the policy they'd find the legal authority perfectly acceptable.
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At every bigger company, teams wind up shipping a 128MB jar assembly to their 128MB data block, annihilating any locality gains.
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Purchasing is full of unintended consequences. "You only get paid if the project comes in under budget" might just only give you the lower-tier players who have no better project to work on -- maybe the more professional people wo
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by jbooth 11y ago
Greater fool theory, they're thinking they'll make money on the IPO. They might have, actually, or they were very close to doing so -- a couple more weeks before the bad press Groupon started getting around the IPO and they'
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by jbooth 11y ago
No need to out the guy's name -- you can make the same point without it, he's just doing his job
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Just throwing it out there, it's remotely possible that state governments make this a priority because it is actually one of the moral underpinnings of a market economy and needs to be enforced. Litigating is very expensive, I doubt t
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by jbooth 11y ago
People ARE buying federal bonds at that rate, right? You can find a figure for the sales, look at the yield curve, and quantify exactly how many people are acting that way with their own money (or how much money, at least). Looking at htt
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by jbooth 11y ago
I think the bad, overwrought explanations are the whole reason. Yes, they're much simpler than differential equations. But the difference is, differential equations are the simplest way to solve some difficult problems -- monads are o
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Hopefully any future languages that prioritize java interop will do things like implement java.util.List rather than insist on renaming "add" to "+=" along with ":+", "+:", "+", "++&quo
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Yeah, but since the casus belli was ALWAYS OBVIOUSLY bogus, that's on them. Saddam held the world dicatatorship record for "number of times deterred as a rational actor after a little brinksmanship". He could have had the k
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I think, in the case of a bank or banking-like-entity, it's really easy to argue that commingling deposits with corporate funds makes it much more likely for things like.. what happened at mt gox to happen. If you violate professional
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Because your brain's a sponge, and all that stuff gets into your subconscious and affects your decision-making. In your examples given, it colors your perception of which products 'work well for you' and it biases that resea
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"I would be really surprised that some research wouldn't find that many of these office parks are built outside of the borders of major cities to avoid paying taxes" If you were gonna throw out a spitball estimate for the 3 n
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Christie knows that he'll lose that case, having to pay a bunch of legal fees and damages on top of the pension money. He also knows it'll take years, happen on the next guy's watch, and he can run for President in the meanti
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It's the politicians' fault, and I used to be one negotiating one of these agreements. Here's how it works: Town's short on money. Revenue is up 2% and a fair cost of living raise is more like 3%, let alone the fact th
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"The voters in local elections are mostly government employees" Citation needed? My anecdotal experience disagrees.
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Yeah, but I can do that without category theory, it's just obvious. I still don't understand what 'monad' offers over 'flatMappable' besides the ability to use 'endofunctor' in the same sentence.
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I'd call a Future a threadsafe queue with one element going thru it IMO, it's just as much of a collection as Optional.

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