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by latch 7y ago
Well, according to (1) life expectancy is up ~6 years, (2) infant mortality rate is down by ~2.5x, (3) homicides are down and (4) unemployment is down; all in the period of time that you mention. Seems like objective improvements. (1) http
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by latch 7y ago
Are you saying China can look forward to one of the highest qualities of life?
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by latch 7y ago
Isn't there a litany of examples where the government has the power to decide and enforce truthfulness? Stuff like health claims and protected designation of origin.
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by latch 7y ago
Aren't there just too many cases where this doesn't happen to make this appeal to probability flawed? For example, hate speech laws in Canada (or many other countries), or anti-discrimination laws? While they might have their detr
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by latch 7y ago
> Expose what practice? The practices that have resulted in Intel being sued/settling/fined by companies/states/FTC/EU/Japan.
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by latch 7y ago
Only wacky if you think insider trading is a bad thing. There's a pretty vocal minority of economist who thinks it does more harm than good. One of the most objective summaries I've seen is from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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by latch 7y ago
My mother was a teacher in Ontario. She insisted her salary should be looked at over a 12 month period, not ~9.5 month. Even though for those ~2.5 months, she was free to do whatever she wanted, including taking on additional full time work
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by latch 7y ago
s/now/again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
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by latch 7y ago
> Quite frankly this all stinks of 1930s European appeasement You're comparing this to an official policy of appeasing German and Italy's annexation of territory (and various other violations of the treaty), in an era of raisin
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by latch 7y ago
A bit interesting to contrast this to the NFL anthem protests. In both cases, there's been a lot of political pressure and some social media backlash. However in the US, to the best of my knowledge, sponsors have stuck on the "rig
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by latch 7y ago
What's strange? Scenarios where democracy is used to limit democracy aren't hard to understand. See the 2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum or much of recent US policy towards immigrants and refuges.
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by latch 7y ago
When it comes to this, taking intent on faith isn't good enough. Vietnam, a possible war of aggression in Iraq, illegal drone strikes in Pakistan, public threats and shows of force - the stick isn't subtle and I think it's fa
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by latch 7y ago
What makes DO tier2? I use 1 linode for personal stuff, but otherwise, I'm all in on dedicated baremetal. From my perspective, DO is just another cloud vendor.
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by latch 7y ago
Except they went and removed the count from public view, so the value of voting is limited to the poster. This captures only a small fraction of the potential value.
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by latch 7y ago
This is doesn't pass the burnt smell test. First of all, anyone's who's done even a little bit of cooking will notice that extra virgin olive oil smokes / burns very quickly. Secondly, this article claims "the oil a
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by latch 7y ago
Where I grew up, there were pretty frequent protests infront of the Chinese embassy. Year after year. I saw something similar at a Chinese consulate in the US once. I spent two years in Hong Kong. There were frequent (weekly) protests at Ch
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by latch 7y ago
Thought I'd agree with this, but they were found in his bag. Doesn't sound like he used them and there's no mention of whether or not they're of an illegal class (assuming some are illegal in HK). Another article (1) quo
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by latch 7y ago
> Why does Cloudflare feel the need to take action here? The linked article gives their reason.
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by latch 7y ago
Not sure what the python code translates to, so maybe this is covered, but in my experience, if you can't use COPY, you should: 1 - Generate a static SQL to insert N rows (say 10 to 50): insert into blah (id, name) values ($1, $2),
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by latch 7y ago
Because she's a fashion designer and surely that's _one_ perspective worth considering with respect to pretty much anything related to clothes? Not only is she eminently qualified to talk about it from a fashion point of view, she
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by latch 7y ago
Unparalleled in the _land_ animal world perhaps. But there are stories of birds that fly for months at a time. Penguins (in water), ostrich's and camels can also achieve pretty unparalleled things wrt endurance. And who knows about thi
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by latch 7y ago
You can take this further. Having lived both styles you mention, plus the ultra dense, I (tongue-in-cheek) don't understand how a Dutchman's idea of "suburban feel" has to means "connected houses". In a metropo
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by latch 7y ago
I don't know anything about cars, but I'm pretty sure most taxis in Tokyo are the smaller variant, the Toyota Comfort. I'd describe them as comparable to most taxis (maybe cleaner than average + the automatic doors)
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by latch 7y ago
I'll take a look at the video but.. I see problems with #1. First, I don't believe that having hate speech in the open is better because it can then be refuted. I think that's just BS..bigots aren't fueled by rational di
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by latch 7y ago
I don't know either. You might be right. (Does Crowder cross that line between harassing an individual and targeting groups?) Doesn't change that Canada should be applying its laws to these platforms.
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by latch 7y ago
Canada has robust, tried and tested hate speech laws. They've also previously said they would start regulating platforms unless they started to "self regulate." It's time.
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by latch 7y ago
I don't want to minimize what ES does, but as I understand it, it's fundamentally based on inverted indexes which is also a pretty old trick.
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by latch 7y ago
And linked lists are the backbone of most persistent data structures and are commonly used as a build block for a ton of things, like LRU caches, queues, ...
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by latch 7y ago
A monopoly isn't illegal, not in the US anyways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Mo... : "First, the alleged monopolist must possess sufficient power in an accurately defined market f
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by latch 7y ago
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