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by mac01021 6y ago
Are you saying that citizens with a mind to criticize an administration/senator/whatever are regularly blackmailed into refraining from doing that?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I do! It makes it difficult to see what's going to happen when I invoke operations on lines. And it encourages my colleagues to create long lines that would play better with diff tools like git diff if broken out.
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by mac01021 6y ago
They'll be negatively effected later if the effects of the lockdown have time to trickle up.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Not wrapping should be the default for every editor. AFAICT, it is not the default for any editor. I don't think nano is unique in this respect.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Well it's definitely in your interest to retract rather than to be called out publicly be another person.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Do I have to think everyone needs to learn to code in order to want to teach _more_ people to code or to want to advance the state of the art in coding pedagogy? I don't think EVERYONE needs these skills. Most people will never need t
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by mac01021 6y ago
> Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Quora had a strong office culture and discouraged employees from working remotely most of the time. But once the company had no choice, Quora CEO and co-founder Adam D’Angelo says they discovered the ben
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm dense. Can you explain "another reason you’d not build is speculation"?
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by mac01021 6y ago
"the maximum that the landlord can get for it" is a function of (approximately the minimum of) [1] the amount of money the tenant earns and [2] the price of the tenant's alternatives. Just because [1] increases, doesn't
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by mac01021 6y ago
It should be easier for the poor to get mortgages if the bank knows UBI can be relied on. Landlords will lose some leverage as a result. If target and walmart, currently competing for business on opposite sides of the same street, both rai
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by mac01021 6y ago
I just googled "advertising as fraction of gdp" and the two top results are 19% [1] and 1.17% [2], respectively. It's almost as though random pages on the web are not to be trusted. The OP's argument, to a large extent,
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by mac01021 6y ago
Because you need some autonomy to take more autonomy.
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by mac01021 6y ago
High level summary & FAQ: https://energyinnovationact.org/how-it-works/?cn-reloaded=1 Some pages about forecasted household/economic impact: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/household-impact-st
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by mac01021 6y ago
Hi! I regularly donate to CCL, but I haven't seen a way of volunteering that I felt would be an effective use of my time. (I'm not especially eloquent or charismatic in person) What do you do for them? And why can't HR 763
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by mac01021 6y ago
It sure wouldn't be perfect, but I don't think that's enough reason not to do it. Hopefully, if we import a lot of steal from a country, our border adjustment would be incentive enough for that country to adopt for themselves
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by mac01021 6y ago
It's called a "carbon fee & dividend" and an increasing number of people are advocating it. ( https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/ ) It's nowhere near enough to fund a UBI that most people
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by mac01021 6y ago
Well, they _do_ if the tax is not coupled with a dividend. To a fist approximation, the carbon tax you pay will be a fixed fraction of all the money you spend in daily life. Poor people spend essentially all their income every month. The b
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by mac01021 6y ago
Exactly. Coupled with the dividend, it is no longer regressive. This page ( https://citizensclimatelobby.org/household-impact-study/ ) has a nice chart showing the fees and where they come from for an average household
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by mac01021 6y ago
It's called a "carbon fee & dividend" and an increasing number of people are advocating it. ( https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/ ) It's nowhere near enough to fund a UBI that most people
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by mac01021 6y ago
So you're not talking about a response to the pandemic here. You want this reform independent of that.
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by mac01021 6y ago
A synthetic, autonomous agent as generally intelligent as human, or an order of magnitude moreso, could indeed be terrifying. But who's going to give such an intelligence any degree of autonomy?
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by mac01021 6y ago
What should schools/teachers have done differently? (Just curious)
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by mac01021 6y ago
Ok. Not to do what?
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by mac01021 6y ago
IanDrake: I upvoted you here to offset some of the downvoting. While your posts here arguable lack a little tact, I think this discussion would be improved if people who strongly disagree would respond with substantive, logical argument. I
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by mac01021 6y ago
The thing is, depending on the power dynamics in your family, she might or might not lose a lot by not having a job. If she's a homemaker, you have the ability, if not the desire, to hold all of the purse strings and possibly, in effec
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by mac01021 6y ago
This is just a nit, but I assume a single father is able to utilize this too?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Well it depends. People can have lots of hope for the future without wanting children. And even in that case, low fertility can be bad for the economy (at least medium term).
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by mac01021 6y ago
They were convinced to be cult members, as consenting adults, rather than having it imposed on them as minors by a parent, is my reading. Later, they gained some perspective and realized it was not in their interest to stay.
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by mac01021 6y ago
With a legendary cathedral, the layperson can walk up to it at any time and easily perceive its ever-waxing size and majesty. This is something a fusion reactor doesn't have (I guess they could do tours or something maybe?).
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by mac01021 6y ago
The battery life when idle is shown here to be 5 or 6 hours. Any other consumer-grade phone gets something like 24-36 hours by sleeping a lot (or something). Should I expect the Librem 5 developers to be able to achieve the same thing befor

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