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by jrs95 8y ago
No, it won't. It will enable India to cut out U.S. service providers as much as they want. That hurts us more than economically, it reduces our governments ability to gather intelligence there as well. This level of state control if th
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by jrs95 8y ago
I've seen this happen to everyone I've known that's tried it.
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by jrs95 8y ago
The U.S. could easily stop this by threatening to withhold or tax remittances to India if they move forward with it.
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by jrs95 8y ago
Just work 70+ hours a week! Yeah, no thanks.
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by jrs95 8y ago
Good luck driving this thing in the snow. I suppose having only 3 wheels may benefit it in terms of its low weight, but still....if an inch of snow cripples my Fiesta, I bet you'll have to buy snow tires for this at least.
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by jrs95 8y ago
It might feel like this, but if you boot up an old Windows XP machine and edit some text, it's still going to feel slow as hell in comparison to Atom on a modern machine. We get used to what's "fast" to do on our compute
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by jrs95 8y ago
Even if you were equally proficient in C++ and JavaScript, you can't tell me that Electron isn't significantly more productive.
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by jrs95 8y ago
Some apps may legitimately benefit from having access to local native functionality that they can't access from a browser.
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by jrs95 8y ago
There is little to no evidence to support this claim. Whereas what I'm talking about was done after the great depression and developed a lot of infrastructure, especially in rural America, that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
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by jrs95 8y ago
We shouldn't just accept a future of joblessness. It's a terrible waste of human capital. Rather than simply paying people to be unemployed, we should find work for them to do that benefits society in some way. To an extent we nee
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by jrs95 8y ago
UBI is the opposite of a post scarcity society, it props up a society of scarcity and exploitation by maintaining the current economic structure with an increasing unemployment rate.
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by jrs95 8y ago
A lot of people are into UBI as a solution to this, but I personally don't think that will work. The social issues that would come from having that high of a level of unemployment, even with a UBI, would be enormous. I think it would b
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by jrs95 8y ago
Hypothetically let's say you raised taxes by a third across the board. Only people who's taxes went up by more than that 560 a month would be paying more than they received in UBI. So it's a little bit deceptive in terms of h
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by jrs95 8y ago
Well alternatively you could get a corporate job, stay there for a long time, and use your position of seniority to block anyone from using technology you haven't learned about ;)
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by jrs95 8y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say that opposing opinions aren't wrong. Sometimes they are, and a lot of the time it's because of some form of institutional inertia. In general though, you'll have great ideas, people will polite
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by jrs95 8y ago
This somewhat depends on the technology you're using as well though. Writing Java in vim is a pain in the ass in comparison to something like IntelliJ that has auto-importing, go to definition, etc
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by jrs95 8y ago
Some people confuse being well-rounded with having other people tell you their ideas and then being able to repeat and maybe even riff on them.
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by jrs95 8y ago
When all you have is a Haskell everything starts to look like a monad
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by jrs95 8y ago
If they hadn't been chasing thinness so aggressively they could have avoided some of the negative side effects of battery degradation by just increasing capacity.
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by jrs95 8y ago
This article doesn't even seem contrary to scientific consensus as far as what factual information is presented. It's just about how it's packaged in order to form his argument. It's sort of a lawyer-y manipulation of te
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by jrs95 8y ago
Do you really need a better argument than that? Or do you just need to repeat that it's racist until a substantial part of the population both believes that and would also treat challenging that belief as racist? Consensus is a fundame
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by jrs95 8y ago
Those personality types are a lot more pseudo-scientific than IQ
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by jrs95 8y ago
In my experience even things which are explicitly prototypes can be dangerous, as it can appear to be in the short term interest of the business to take a prototype and modify it as little as possible to get it shipped. I've seen this
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by jrs95 8y ago
Businesses in the U.S. for the most part can discriminate however they want as long as it isn't on the basis of race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
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by jrs95 8y ago
"Hate speech" doesn't have a legal definition in the United States that I am aware of. If it does, it's still covered by the first amendment and legal. So its not a question of Patreon determining what is legal, they&#x2
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by jrs95 8y ago
If you can't stop authoritarianism just because authoritarians have access to targeted advertising, then there's a bigger problem at hand than just Facebook or any particular ad platform.
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by jrs95 8y ago
Aside from vaping being less harmful than cigarettes, kids were vaping long before Juul was popular. They are not responsible for this trend; they're just an inevitable improvement upon semi-disposable e-cigarettes. This argument also
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by jrs95 8y ago
We're also going to have widespread gigabit fiber and 5G soon, probably prior to significant adoption of technologies like this. So even if there is a period of time where these optimizations don't exist yet, rapidly improving int
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by jrs95 8y ago
But an article I read on the internet said it was true!

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