justratsinacoat

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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
When it describes a pile of cash that a dragon/'ride-sharing' company jealously guards, it's "hoard". When it describes a big group of investors desperately trying to give Uber even more money, it's &quo
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>While we're at it, there could be a startup for this.. disrupting the disrupters This isn't as crazy as it sounds. "Hello, mid-size municipality! If you implement our easily-tailored boilerplate-legalese bylaw suite, our
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Oh please. "DAE COMMUNISM EEEVVIIILL?! (oh I brought links to PROVE it; here's Robin Williams and a wiki about a book)" is thoughtful discussion, eh? It's the same kind of mindless upvotery as your appeal to HN's os
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Shut the fuck up! The hivemind is speaking . Non-neoliberal perspectives are terrible and advocacy for them will be punished by context-free links and downvotes.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
The buried lede here is how this is all being afforded. The article implies the existence of multiple instances of this billboard, but while renting billboard space isn't usurious or anything, renting a shitload of them at once surely
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>(Another example of left wing mathematics denialism applies to the pigeon hole principle. If you have N houses and K > N people, K - N people won't have a house.) Can't win an argument because the facts aren't on your
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
OTOH, there were, as recently as a few months ago, ads in Toronto's subway system exhorting people to go to the doctor if they found blood in their urine . And this is in Canada, where there's no financial barrier to going to see
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Not to worry, the game's console supports command aliasing. https://steamcommunity.com/app/254320/discussions/0/52839871... ^ Just scroll to the comments section, as the initial post applies to prer
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Pointless trolling the troll Slimey, yet satisfying!
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I quite agree with you that the Saudis' approach here is much less horrible! >Here, if you are ever once a criminal, you're a criminal for life OTOH, recidivism for sorcery must be pretty low over in the Kingdom, since the puni
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Maybe you should grow some tolerance for alternative ideas and thoughts Yes! Exactly! That's just what I wanted you to do! And you even elaborated a bit! A nasty throwaway line like yours about how it's obviously going to fa
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>If I receive a basic income as part of a pilot/experiment I will feel tempted to "give back" somehow, while if basic income is a baseline all humans receive, that reciprocity will not be present. How can you design an exp
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I presume your strong, proud, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps oneliner throwaway comment was well thought out, so perhaps you could shed some light on the interesting artistic choice of failing to put a space between "find" an
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
A solid point; would that more people thought like you. One minor grammar-nazi nitpick, though: "populous" is an adjective describing the size of a population; "populace" is a noun describing the population itself.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Larry Summers needs a helicopter [...] He would not have written this rant if he had a helicopter Can you elaborate? It's not clear to me why he would not have written this rant if he had a helicopter. Are you trying to tie his fru
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>I am an anglo who speaks french (like an anglo) and don't think I have amused my Quebecois friends more than when I used 'tabernouche' in a conversation This makes sense to me. A summer job I once had featured a very clev
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I don't share your conviction that ROI is far more important than any ethical consideration. I seem to recall the KS pitch was full of aspirational language about a democratized future of VR spearheaded by a close-knit team of diehards
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
DAE CRINGE?!
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Tax cuts marketed as economic stimulus, attacks on regulations and consumer/environmental protections marketed as 'making government more efficient', racial oppression disguised as drug/crime laws, universal health c
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>No AI yet (In the future AI I love and respect you and welcome your presence in our world) Roko's Basilisk [0] is pleased! [0] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
A slightly peevish note to future viewers: the drone in question is owned by the RRS Sir Ernesto Shackleton. I was kinda hoping for a clandestine in-port surveillance, but no, the views are of the the vessel as it works in Antarctica.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Not because of food desertification and disappearance of traditional safety nets?
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>The author is implying the act was hampered by not having the budget to do the work (apparently $60 million a year according the article) There's always someone desperately trying to get The Powers That Be to notice.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>There are certainly people in this world who would sit on top a mountain of food that will spoil if not eaten a foot away from a starving dying man and tell him he's not allowed to have any because they'd like to watch him suf
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>while there may once have been a chance to stop the spread of $ARTICLE_TOPIC — around the year $CURRENT_DATE_MINUS_FIFTEEN_YEARS — that opportunity has since passed. Forces didn’t mobilize fast enough or spend enough money FTA, with min
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Oh well -- the EFF knows that if they write for themselves, there'll be lower-brow comment-threads full of 'lol wtf bbq' and no one will take them seriously because they won't understand. Write accessibly, and well-read
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Well, it wasn't good. Turing's actual story is actually more interesting than the whole-cloth fantasy that The Imitation Game wound up being.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>they're the ones shipping grievously broken cryptography to try to "stop the NSA" I don't understand this aspect of the strawman. Could someone help me out? In the context of the previous two examples of how members
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
But the elemental composition of Apple hate has changed since.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
More pointedly, it's a way to monetize the dopamine reward. Most modern mobile games, after all, try to induce "fun pain" to get you to buy more turns/levels/clicks etc. There doesn't have to be a "game&qu

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