kaonashi

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931.
by kaonashi 14y ago
The point of estate tax laws is the prevention of the formation of generational aristocracies. I really have absolutely zero sympathy for someone receiving $500 million for nothing.
932.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Mr Ledin goes one better. “We do not mind being compared to McDonald's,” he says. “If we're religious about anything, it's standardisation. We tell our teachers it is more important to do things the same way than to do them well.”
933.
by kaonashi 14y ago
> but it's also an extremely complicated programming model and it's hard to develop OOP code correctly This should be a gigantic red flag waving at you.
934.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Because he's not going to get re-elected doing those things. Or put another way, politicians who would do more productive things are at such a disadvantage they don't get elected.
935.
by kaonashi 14y ago
The thing is though, you need to be familiar the tools involved with installing the system in order to use the system. It might present a bit of a learning curve up front, but I think you'll be better off. Now try installing rails on a win
936.
by kaonashi 14y ago
You can open it up in web browser and view the code. Goes right here: https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contribu... . I'm not sure how it could be more transparent.
937.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Right, because disagreeing with U.S. government policy is equivalent to hating the entirety of America.
938.
by kaonashi 14y ago
I think you're conflating discipline with violence.
939.
by kaonashi 14y ago
I can't wait until your next app "Striking my hand repeatedly with a hammer".
940.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Clojure in general prefers the loop/recur construct over real recursion. You still can't see each iteration of the loop, though; perhaps that's what you meant by useful.
941.
by kaonashi 14y ago
No offense, but that comes off as extremely conceited.
942.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Too many young people have college debt, that's for certain. I still think that exposure to the type of humanities courses that have been part of a traditional college education are very important for generating citizens with the critical t
943.
by kaonashi 14y ago
By Social Darwinism, I'm referring to the idea that 'economic outcomes make right'. If you are poor or destitute, it is because you are inferior and you deserve your plight. It is a monstrous ideology that has produced nothing but sufferin
944.
by kaonashi 14y ago
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
945.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Social Darwinism, really? I thought that went out of style with eugenics.
946.
by kaonashi 14y ago
tl;dw They lie.
947.
by kaonashi 14y ago
They are; they're just assuming you're already using jQuery (which for 95% of people using Backbone, is a correct assumption)
948.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Ugh, seriously. Some of us just want to do our work and go home, not stick around for a company mandated 'happy hour'.
949.
by kaonashi 14y ago
LPA's don't require a name.
950.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Dynamic typing isn't the problem; weak typing is the problem.
951.
by kaonashi 14y ago
You're special in that you're unique; you're not special in that you innately have talents that nobody else does.
952.
by kaonashi 14y ago
But of course the problem is when you place so much emphasis on an artificial exam, you create a large incentive for administrators to interfere with classroom instruction in order to try and cater to the test. This is especially bad when
953.
by kaonashi 14y ago
posts flamebait predicts flames
954.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Who is to blame is the wrong question to ask, the questions to ask are "why is government money being doled out in such a fashion", "what problems are the programs involved intended to solve, and how are they failing to solve those problems
955.
by kaonashi 14y ago
It's not PC to do so in an extremely crude fashion that does nothing to illuminate problems nor suggest ways forward.
956.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Yes, and certain people in Detroit didn't like the solution, so they bolted and the whole city collapsed. They didn't seem to like the solution.
957.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Investment in poor communities.
958.
by kaonashi 14y ago
We have a problem in poor communities. Black communities are disproportionately poor due to historical factors. The problem isn't that we tap-dance around the issue, the problem is we don't like the solutions.
959.
by kaonashi 15y ago
http://vimeo.com/36579366
960.
by kaonashi 15y ago
Social is not a noun.

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