lend000

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by lend000 10y ago
Yes but even here, seconds since Epoch should remain unaltered, and the correction should be made by whatever is rendering a human readable date format (to address every leap second). In most cases, the renderer wouldn't have to addres
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by lend000 10y ago
I'm a big proponent of UBI or at least a negative income tax, but this is an extremely misleading representation of investing, claiming that it does not provide any value. Just because your income is not linearly tied to hours of physi
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by lend000 10y ago
Two valid points. A third: convince everyone to adopt epoch time for data transfer (seconds since epoch), and let applications that require formatted time do the transformation where it will be used (not earlier). It doesn't make a lot
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by lend000 10y ago
Duly noted. In fairness, it was mutual escalation of hostilities.
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by lend000 10y ago
Theoretically, that sounds reasonable, but in reality, they tend to agree on issues due to political alliance, not values. Politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties have almost unanimously been on both sides of issues depend
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by lend000 10y ago
Cool video of self organization, which led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-gtr4pEBU
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by lend000 10y ago
This also results in people thinking Obama is a good president and electing characters like Donald Trump. Not everyone has time to educate themselves about something that will provide very little personal return (rational ignorance), but it
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by lend000 10y ago
I'm not arguing My dear Matthew. You clearly just like to argue. I'm pointing out that it's obviously an arguable point wrt. obesity having an impact on others, since we obviously have functional countries with public heal
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by lend000 10y ago
Or maybe they should just get rid of the subsidies. Maybe you should visit India or the Philippines and let me know how soon you expect that cultural shift to hit them. Something happening in your world does not equal global paradigm shift.
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by lend000 10y ago
Your first point is illogical. It was a violation of basic human rights then and it still is now. The underlying tenet (liberty) is independent of "not being a slave" and has nothing to do with whether slavery has been invented ye
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by lend000 10y ago
Because I think it's really important people stop thinking healthcare is a fundamental human right: Somebody has to provide healthcare for you. There is limited supply. There is INFINITE demand. That's right, infinite demand. Peop
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by lend000 10y ago
The incentive is that many people will pay a premium for healthy foods, which is why companies like Whole Foods exist and do quite well. Certainly not all, especially those who would have previously been facing hunger, so the industry will
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by lend000 10y ago
Now that's fair, but I disagree. Some of the fastest growing countries have very high populations (like India), and it makes the stagnant growth of some Nordic countries mathematically insignificant. I am personally skeptical that the
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by lend000 10y ago
And this is where I make a hard cutoff between what is expected for the social good and what is clearly infringing on individual rights. There is no perfect legal framework that knows how to balance individual freedoms with impacts to the &
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by lend000 10y ago
Nope, a government that aims to prevent fraud produces the healthiest society. See my comments on the FDA/USDA discussion -- it would be best if they advised the public, but did not outright block products/services.
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by lend000 10y ago
I subscribe to chaos theory, so yes, any action has enormous repercussions in the future. But policy-wise, I don't think what you are saying is at odds with what I'm saying. If you get rid of the soda tax AND the subsidies on corn
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by lend000 10y ago
You're not. It's factored into their rates to the best of the insurance company's ability. Come on, this is HN...
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by lend000 10y ago
Reminds me of Amdahl's Law... There will always be a pyramid that has more people on the bottom (i.e. increasing the population), and the reproductive tendencies of the minority of the population are mathematically insignificant. But l
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by lend000 10y ago
All of your points are born of the flawed assumption that it is ethical to take away people's freedoms because you think you know better. Even if you DO know better and could PROVE it (which is never guaranteed in theory OR in practice
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by lend000 10y ago
/s? It's a service. A product. It didn't even exist 200 years ago. There is certainly nothing fundamental about it.
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by lend000 10y ago
The market isn't free; there are government farm subsidies in all the wrong places. It's no coincidence that cheap junk food is built on a subsidized corn industry.
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by lend000 10y ago
Economic signaling based on opinion of good/bad is the bane of the free market. Pollution tax: yes; you are being taxed for affecting others. Soda tax: no; you are hurting no one but yourself, and it is a stretch to say otherwise. Not
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by lend000 10y ago
I agree, and the FDA and USDA basically have a monopoly on providing that education in the current system. They aren't doing so well. Scaling back as the original commenter suggested would still offer government-stamped peace of mind f
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by lend000 10y ago
And people will also choose to eat potato chips, not exercise, smoke, and drink heavily. You can't protect people from themselves, and even if it was an ethical government job to do so, i.e. take away people's freedoms because the
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by lend000 10y ago
That sounds like a TCP congestion control mechanism, except worse! TCP leaves much to be desired in terms of performance, largely because their congestion control fails miserably on lossy links (TCP RENO). There are better backoff mechanism
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by lend000 10y ago
Is it assumed that blacklisting IP's is a difficult challenge for a censor? Most major blacklisted sites have static or rarely changing addresses. Still, it's an interesting idea for small back channels.