jedmeyers

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by jedmeyers 5y ago
Catching pokemon with those should be fun.
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by jedmeyers 5y ago
> I don’t believe for a second this virus was in _any way_ engineered. Does ‘selection’ constitutes engineering in your vocabulary. And if yes, then why don’t you believe that this virus was carefully selected during the gain of function
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by jedmeyers 5y ago
If you are against the bill - you are against child education. It's that easy. And stop asking questions.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> And the hardest part is when one has to write the complex pieces from scratch. Oh, no, the hardest part is to modify the poorly written complex pieces so they continue to function properly.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> I am no allowed move my monitor or computer without scheduling it through the union How about union workers call you next time they want to install a new app on their phones?
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Would you rather be shot or mugged? Would you prefer to be mugged or a mugger to be shot?
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Some states, like Washington, have already introduced permanent DST. The only thing they lack is federal permission to stay on DST. States can already permanently stay on non-DST time, like most of AZ does.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Anyways, in this interview I was being asked about Java and I answered every question by saying I don't really know Java. The interviewers were obviously getting annoyed. So I asked "Sorry, I thought this was a C# job?".
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore: - running a service that can scale based on load www.netmeister.org took too long to respond.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> So much of the official government response has been to support entrenched wealth. There is a word that describes this kind of merger of corporate and government power, I just don't seem to remember it.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Individual owners such in the article will eventually lose their properties to deeper pockets How do we know that’s not the actual goal of those policies?
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> force those websites to publish against their will? I would argue that the will of the websites is to actually allow publishing for the most amount of people. And they censor the opposing political views only because the government-ali
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> one of the main counterarguments is that people will just stop working One of the main counterarguments to the universal basic income is that napkin math does not work out. You don't even need to get the "science" involv
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
And it might have been a wild virus extracted from animals that escaped from the lab due to the poor safety protocols in place. Not the first time this would have happened. Soviets released the anthrax spores due to the filter not being in
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Isn't it what WSB is all about? I mean, yeah, the "bet" is even in the name.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> "and I can answer no further questions." Of course you CAN answer further questions since you can speak. Thus you have just lied to a law enforcement officer.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> And doesn't Robinhood have the right to sell margin stocks bought on margin? Only if they issue a margin call. But what if they were the ones responsible for the conditions that lead to the margin call in the first place (blocking
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> And I'm sorry, the moment you use "socialism" to describe the government backing private loans from institutions that are privately held you lost me No, I am sorry. When government forces financial institutions to give l
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> system is designed to give money easily to young people Who exactly designed the system that way? Banks (aka capitalists) were not very keen on doing this exact thing for the risk reasons, and now the government ended up backing most o
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Punching people in the face for disrespecting him was his job? I guess you can say shooting people was Billy the Kid's job, then.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
"Law enforcement made Mike Tyson all way too comfortable with punching people in the face and not getting shot for it." – Billy the Kid, apparently
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> I personally think the limit is around 50 Incidentally, I personally think the limit for communist societies is around 50 people or so.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
It's possible but the majority of stakeholders need to be actively engaged in managing that entity. Otherwise it will be taken oven by the bad actors trying to primarily benefit themselves.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Not if they are a cost center for the propaganda machine. In Soviet Union no one cared how much Pravda earned from the subscriptions, since it was not their purpose.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Probably because he considers nine children to be a luxury he cannot afford.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> You. Must. Vote. Of course, but there is very little utility to it when the vote counting is hidden behind an opaque software system, and you have no way of confirming that the vote counting is secure. So sure, go vote, but with absenc
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Since those who are concerned about the legality are not using. Now they have a good opportunity to start.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
I agree. In addition regulators have zero incentives to serve the interests of the regular people. They do, however, have a huge incentive to block the market for the new competition (aka regulatory capture) and then comfortably rest and ve
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
And the other one was Arthur Andersen, but we all remember what happened to it.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
What about the incentive structure for the regulators? Are we going to change that one as well?

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