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by jdreaver 12y ago
> Obviously not propped enough if this professor died in poverty and students need 6 figure loans to graduate. I argue that it is precisely because of government intervention that these things happen. > As opposed to what? Controlled
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Such little regulation? Harsh capitalism? Our education system is propped up chiefly because of government. Most of the US goes to public schools, controlled by the government. Most university students go to public schools. Students get rid
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Can you expand upon that? I am always looking to reduce my taxes. I got killed with my 1099s this year.
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by jdreaver 12y ago
The whole point is the IRS can't see the transaction, as long as you are careful. Of course, sending BTC to a registered business is probably a good way to expose transactions.
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by jdreaver 12y ago
EDIT: I'm sorry three of us replied at the same time. I didn't mean to gang up on you. > All "property" is imaginary. When it comes to the current legal notion of property, then yes, assigning something as someone&#x2
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by jdreaver 12y ago
The consumer decides how rigorous the tests are by preferring foods with certain tests. Obviously, more rigorous tests will cost more, so the consumer can decide the optimal balance between price and testing. Companies that test too thoroug
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I totally disagree. You are holding these hypothetical companies to a standard above that of the FDA. >You would be willing to trust what you put into your body to Consumer Reports? A magazine where, for a small fee, you can buy a posi
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by jdreaver 12y ago
> There are those who want to live the libertarian dream. Surely, there are people that care about the quality of what goes in their body (certainly you and I do, at least). Those people would be willing to pay a small price to ensure th
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Indeed, that is when I really appreciated the depth of this show. I went ahead and put the spoilers tag :)
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by jdreaver 12y ago
[MEGA SPOILERS] One of the best scenes in Adventure Time is when Ice King goes to Marceline's house to jam. It turns out the "lyrics" Ice King wrote were actually messages to Marceline the little girl that he wrote hundreds o
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! I actually already use pyqtgraph extensively. Those plots I was talking about are pyqtgraph plots :)
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Qt does have a docking system, but it is nowhere near as good as visual studio's. For the application I am building (we are using PySide, the LGPL Python bindings for Qt), I planned a fairly elaborate docking/undocking system for
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by jdreaver 13y ago
The first two monad papers, "You could have invented monads" and "Monadic Parsing in Haskell", are terrific. I think that monads and most monad tutorials are great examples of "this concept is hard because everyone
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by jdreaver 13y ago
In my original post, I talk about more than grants. The person to whom I'm replying just said grants, so I'm just being direct.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
My whole original post is an attempt to refute what you just said. Without grants, there wouldn't be a gap. College would cost less. Also, society "demanding" people to go to college is part of the problem.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I see absolutely no reason why police shouldn't wear cameras. It keeps all parties honest. I just hope they don't "lose the recording" when it conveniences the police the most.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I never said it was black and white. I thought that was the intent of the person I replied to when they said "down to the cent." I agree with you that it isn't black and white. (This is simply a semantic argument.)
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by jdreaver 13y ago
> I don't know anyone who gets free money for college Here you go http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/grants-scholarships
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by jdreaver 13y ago
> $1k specifying down to the cent how you are to use it I would classify that as someone else spending money on you, with the superficial detail that the money happened to pass through your bank account.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Everyone pays for these services, but not everyone uses them. For example, I had to pay a ridiculous $600 per year for the recreation center fee in college. I never once stepped in that place, and they wouldn't let me not pay it. I als
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I agree. Most of those loans, however, are sponsored by the government and can't be defaulted on. No normal lender would give an 18 year old $50,000 to get a degree in anthropology, because they are unlikely to get it back. When the
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by jdreaver 13y ago
> I see several people putting forth the argument that people are the most efficient at allocating money for themselves. That is not true except in an Ayn Rand novel. I've never read an Ayn Rand novel, yet I still agree with that st
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by jdreaver 13y ago
We have to ask ourselves why college is so expensive. When some people read articles like this, they call for more government aid to students. "We need to help young, hard working students from unprivileged backgrounds to pay for colle
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by jdreaver 13y ago
This just taught me more than any git tutorial I've read. What a great visualization!
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by jdreaver 13y ago
It would be incredibly unfortunate if this were found to be illegal. You take many of the same health risks when eating at a friend's house. The only difference is you don't pay your friend.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
One reason the current welfare system is so broken relates to your point about McDonald's. Oftentimes someone on welfare can lose money by getting a job.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I am always wary of supporting a basic income guarantee. Although it sounds much better than the current welfare mess we have, the actual implementation will probably be an addition rather than a replacement.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Because they are both branches of the government. The USPS has no incentive to tell taxpayers the NSA is spying on them. At least with a private company there is a profit motive, and they could lose customers over bad press.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
And then the NSA would have an easier time reading our email. No thanks.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Then all lawyers would be equally terrible. I would rather our laws weren't so complex. One start is to prove there is a victim for something to be considered a crime.

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