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by kaonashi 13y ago
The manner in which it's being used at current is largely unknown to the public.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
e: Much.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
You're comparing the author to Lady MacBeth?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Ideally by alignment of incentives vs regulation Glass-Steagal seems to have been a regulation that altered the alignment of incentives (separating lending & investment institutions; so they no longer have incentive to create bad l
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Right, it's just power worship. So government in service of the powerful at the expense of the weak is a-ok; the converse, evil.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The belief that America should not be constrained by the morality of its actions. Essentially the same Nixonian argument "when the president does it, that means it's not illegal", which becomes "when the United States
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by kaonashi 13y ago
His 'worldview' is essentially 'the U.S. shouldn't interfere with the self-determination of other countries'. It's an uncontroversial position enshrined in international law. It only becomes problematic when
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Says the Ayn Rand disciple. Anti-government is great, unless it's anti-American government, then it's treason.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Why would thy need to flee to Russia, when they have so much control over the U.S. government?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
I think that's just code for "we don't want to spend the time and effort to properly test and debug our application on IE at this time, and we really don't want to get barraged with IE support requests either".
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by kaonashi 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
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by kaonashi 13y ago
If you think that's what's in store for Snowden should he return to the U.S., I think you're really naive. I would expect something along the lines of the Manning treatment (psychological torture).
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by kaonashi 13y ago
These types of long-polling setups have a critical flaw: no debugger statements. The moment you insert one is the moment you lose touch with the browser.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Almost as ridiculous as the US protecting human rights.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Address whatever legitimate grievances exist so that extremists are isolated and alone.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
You're endorsing a pro-cyclical elevation of pure violence to solve a problem of violence. If you're smart, you'll see where this leads, and it's not someplace a non-sadist would want to go.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Erlang is interpreted. I was under the impression it was compiled into .beam files. Is this just a subtle point that I'm missing somewhere?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> PS. Fighting against racism, is mixing a lot of races together. The program serves highly segregated communities, your suggestion is rather a non-starter.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
That's just a feature of having two parties dependent upon the same funding sources trying to differentiate themselves. There might be individual members of conscience, but there's somewhat of a Gresham's dynamic going on wh
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Not necessarily. Maybe they don't have a computer at home; maybe they don't have reliable access to the internet. The more likely a person lives in poverty, the more likely the above is true. The more likely a person is female
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Maybe blacks and women just don't like computer programming. Maybe black women have fewer opportunities to learn computer programming.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
It isn't racism to fill holes left by racism. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> While I'm not claiming that the US is currently close to totalitarianism A useful line of thought: what would it take for you to say that it was?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Kind of an eternal september problem. I unsubbed most of the defaults like 3 or 4 years ago so I don't ever read much of the poop. e) Ugh, the comments.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
It's not so much that inflation is good, than deflation is really bad. Deflation manifests as unemployment and idle resources, and created a vicious cycle.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
It depends entirely on where it's added. If it is added where it will directly translate to demand (e.g. eliminating payroll tax) then you will get more spending, which will cause businesses to hire, take on loans to meet the new deman
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by kaonashi 13y ago
This assumes an erroneous loadable funds model where loans are supply driven; loans have always been demand driven. It's the same reason why QE isn't inflationary, just because there's more reserves in the system doesn'
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by kaonashi 13y ago
On a purely logical level, for sovereign nations issuing their own currency, taxation is completely decoupled from spending. You can increase taxes if there's an economic reason for doing so, but it is not a prior constraint on spendi
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by kaonashi 13y ago
What an incredibly privileged and myopic viewpoint. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Government bonds and currency are different forms of government debt. One yields interest at a rate of the Fed's choosing, one does not. The net effect of swapping the private sector's bonds for the Fed's cash reserves is

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