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by lucozade 8y ago
I'm aware. What's that got to do with Assange?
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by lucozade 8y ago
> And it's a rather interesting time to be stirring up this particular pot in the UK... Can you elaborate? I can't think of any reason why this would be more or less interesting than any time since the Swedes dropped the rape c
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Which is that the 'means of production' needs to be OWNED by the people producing I would tend to agree except that it's an awful way to diversify risk and a comically bad way to allocate capital. Even if you were to exp
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by lucozade 8y ago
> but in the US justice system considering this secondary behavior is perfectly legal Out of interest, do you know if that's a fact in the Ulbricht case i.e. the judge said she was taking it into account? I'm not sure it matter
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Why a high security prison..? I'm going to hazard a guess that that's fairly standard for drug kingpins which is what Ulbricht was convicted of (amongst other things). > look at the sentences for the Elizabeth Smart kidnap
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by lucozade 8y ago
> stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred That makes it sound like the prosecutor said that the contracts didn't occur. The way it's worded in the source Guardian article is "The prosec
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by lucozade 8y ago
> US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown While that is clearly true, a surprising number of US citizens do, in my experience, recognize the celebrity of British royals. The number of times I've been a
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by lucozade 8y ago
He only suggesting adding associated traits to trait definitions from what I can see. So there shouldn't be any extra abstraction cost. And any actual cost shouldn't be any larger than it is for traits generally. I believe most of
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by lucozade 8y ago
It depends on what you're doing with the forex trading. If, as I'm guessing is the case with your brother, you trade with the hope/expectation that a rate will move towards you in the future and you'll profit from that r
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Well nobody is saying that any language is wrong or not The Academie have done something quite similar. Infamously, they argued against protection of regional French languages. And I agree that they’re not arbitrary but only because th
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by lucozade 8y ago
Unfortunately, that all only makes sense if we were given the vote in order to make the decision to leave the EU or not. But that wasn't why. It was to stem the haemorrhaging of MPs and voters to UKIP for the 2015 GE. As such, the calc
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by lucozade 8y ago
> If this is for legal/constitutional reasons (it most likely is) It's not. It's for completely pragmatic reasons. The bind they're in is that, even if they select a winner, the process doesn't stop there. There
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by lucozade 8y ago
I saw that and that would be fair if they were saying that automation was a principle driver (which seems reasonable). It would also gel well with saying that more focus on automation will just make things worse. It's the statement tha
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by lucozade 8y ago
I don't see where the assertion made in the abstract, that current labor demand stagnation and wealth inequality is due to AI, is evidenced in the body of the paper. And I'd find it very surprising if it were true. Anecdotally,
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Is JPM really going to let everyone see every customer transaction on the open ledger? No > Are they really allowing third parties to mine blocks outside of their own servers? No > If not, this is just a database transaction with
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by lucozade 8y ago
> Yeah that's terrifying. Except they're not doing anything of the sort. They've created a stablecoin backed by their balance sheet. They plan to use it for reducing the friction on payments and payment like processes. Tha
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by lucozade 8y ago
I'm guessing you've never been on a galloping camel. This is not a comforting observation...
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by lucozade 8y ago
> The only deal possible is something like Norway and Switzerland have And yet, that's not what she was negotiating. You're correct in the sense that there was never a perfect Brexit to be had but we're about a week away f
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by lucozade 8y ago
> I am only curious if someone is playing against CLO now as "The Big Short" guys did Absolutely they are. The heroes of The Big Short weren't doing anything particularly unusual or special. They were just using credit ins
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by lucozade 8y ago
They are referring to CDSs. It's called out explicitly in the article.
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by lucozade 8y ago
> You can't just "replace men with women" though Indeed. I was just pointing out why the argument was broken. The lack of symmetry in the workforce would also mean that that's not a way to reduce the pay gap even with
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by lucozade 8y ago
The incorrect assumption is an implicit one: the fungibility of workers. Your argument would work (-ish) if you were arguing against pay inequality. And, in fact, pay inequality is usually a lot lower than the pay gap. But for many large or
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by lucozade 8y ago
I don't have any software that's been in use for 100 years but I have a couple of items in the 15-20 year range. About the only thing that they have in common is that they started with the thought: "I'll just knock this
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by lucozade 8y ago
It’s common practice because there are a lot of racist bigots. That’s not a particularly compelling reason. You suggested to someone that they hide their heritage so you don’t think less of them. You may consider that ordinary . But that’s
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by lucozade 8y ago
You don’t need to cite the prevalence of racist bigotry. Most people are aware. Practising it is fucking despicable.
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by lucozade 8y ago
> That's why I advise on name changes What astonishing presumption > Of course, if you hate success (as is common in Poland) Is the casual racism completely necessary? Couldn't you just stick to the critique of the work rath
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by lucozade 8y ago
The US uses a median figure for per capita income statistics. So this increase isn't attributable to the top end. It is true that relatively more money has gone to higher earners. As evidenced by the ratio of mean to median increasin
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by lucozade 8y ago
I believe they were using p1 which has the more general data. 2017 per capita income was 34,489 1970 per capita was 17,948 in 2017 dollars.
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by lucozade 8y ago
Really very interesting. Having never worked remotely, but tentatively considering it, what may be useful is a how to guide. Things to think about, pitfalls, location advice, useful links. That sort of thing. Something similar for employers
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by lucozade 8y ago
That's unlikely to be the basis for this result as they controlled for weight. In fact, of their cohort, if the person was obese and drank high quantities of diet drinks, their risk of strokes shot up even further.

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