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by kansface 11y ago
This isn't exactly the case - see Puerto Rico. For that matter, the debt (of Greece/Puerto Rico) is owned by other states/countries either directly or indirectly.
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by kansface 11y ago
Truly spicy food has typically been found only in the tropics ... and Korea. Chili peppers are strictly new world, but people in eg India/China used other piquant ingredients before the Portuguese introduced them. I have never seen a
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by kansface 11y ago
Raising a hundred? million dollars to "acquire" accreditation via a small college is not within the realm of startups. Perhaps just tens of millions is needed? Even if you acquired a college, turning it into a de facto online fo
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by kansface 11y ago
The interest on their endowments does not exceed their operating expenses. They literally live on tuition; raising tuition is often counterproductive as students without aid will choose cheaper schools since prestige doesn't really co
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by kansface 11y ago
A similar thing does exist and is actively used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
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by kansface 11y ago
I believe I'm in the minority, but I think unit tests are nearly universally worthless - exceptions being those for well defined APIs (eg math). Good unit tests must have an independent oracle of truth or else you aren't testing
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by kansface 11y ago
I don't suspect strong correlation between the desire to make customers happy and productivity writing software - maybe you can tell me if my intuition is correct.
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by kansface 11y ago
Try it in a couple of years.
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by kansface 11y ago
No, Atom's API is probably an order of magnitude smaller than Emacs.
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by kansface 11y ago
Its great when you actually need to get shit done (see San Francisco), but rather terrible in the case you don't (see multiple empty million unit cities in China). In the very best case, this sort of spending is merely wasteful. I&#x
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by kansface 11y ago
> It's still an open question as to whether this will cause San Francisco level problems SF's (SV's) problem is that it refuses to build houses commensurate to the number of people who move there. Any number of well paid
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by kansface 11y ago
> AGW is labeled a "denier". And rightly so, when the overwhelmingly vast consensus, among scientists, is that the thing exists. > I think that even AGW proponents know the science is not on their side Outlandish claims requ
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by kansface 11y ago
Stop merging from Github?
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by kansface 11y ago
Merge commits, particularly those that merged master multiple times effectively destroy history (by preserving it). For that matter, many projects maintain all commits to master should work! Unless you advocate only committing entirely w
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by kansface 11y ago
Won't companies just fire the H1-Bs before the year is up and keep the treadmill rolling?
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by kansface 11y ago
I feel like much of what was lost wasn't very valuable. How many reporters do we actually need sitting in the room with the Press Secretary? If reporters just report the news and only the news, how many do we need to send to each nat
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by kansface 11y ago
I don't think it was within their power to compete against CL which happily transformed a billion dollar business into a million dollar business. Maybe, just maybe, if the newspapers kept their local monopolies they could have stemmed
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Fearful Symmetry(slatestarcodex.com)
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by kansface 11y ago
OpenSSL immediately comes to mind, but I don't think JavaScript really fits the model - it is still evolving into a better language. In a very real sense, EMCA7 is an entirely different language than EMCA5.
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by kansface 11y ago
The desert isn't special - paying a group of people to not work goes against the protestant work ethic. It may be common for farmers, but the practice certainly isn't in the limelight (as this bill would be).
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by kansface 11y ago
I agree, but this would be more expensive.
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by kansface 11y ago
Water rights are a classic tragedy of the commons - its exceedingly rare industries or their regulatory bodies solve these sorts of problems before the resource is destroyed.
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by kansface 11y ago
Protecting inefficient industries from their own inefficiencies to save jobs is not a viable long term strategy. Besides, its not within the power of the government to create rain. Job training and relocation programs can help.
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by kansface 11y ago
Scott (from slatestarcodex) suggests[1] CA buy out all of its alfalfa farmers Catch-22 style [2]. The total pay out would cost on the order of a couple of dollars per CA resident which is far far cheaper than the alternatives. Alfalfa is
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by kansface 11y ago
Yes - otherwise, they would have to pay interest on the loan while refinancing to a lower rate (they'd lose money).
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by kansface 11y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean the government will get anything close to the amount owed.
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by kansface 11y ago
You answered your own question. > Why is this a problem? >So yeah the government is losing all these future interest payments
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by kansface 11y ago
There will be another earthquake/tsunami before it decays.
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by kansface 11y ago
> But if you look at a repeat winner who keeps producing wins after you've started watching them, the same argument doesn't apply. I don't follow - would you elaborate?
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by kansface 11y ago
| [Disruption] has never happened in the hotel industry, for example. Clayton should try out AirBnB. An interesting article, though I found his use of the third person confusing/odd.

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