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by mayneack 13y ago
If those people can't be legal prostitutes because they are out competed, that doesn't mean that they will continue being illegal prostitutes in public bathrooms. It's certainly plausible that having legal and more desirable
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by mayneack 13y ago
That requires admission of illegality
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by mayneack 13y ago
Luckily, the US hasn't declared war since Vietnam anyway.
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by mayneack 13y ago
I wonder how often freedom works (the infamous tea party group supposedly funded by the koch brothers) is listed right next to greenpeace and on the same list of supporters as the PCCC and moveon.org. It can't be often
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by mayneack 13y ago
What's the point of classified information if you don't punish those that leak it? Don't get me wrong, the treatment of Bradley Manning is absurd, and there shouldn't be any sort of prosecution of the journalists involve
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by mayneack 13y ago
> On the other hand, I think the dealership model exists for a reason. There's a racket aspect to it, but would a Ford or GM really want to manage customer sales and showrooms all over the US? Yeah, that's a great reason for the dealers
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by mayneack 13y ago
This is especially relevant at this stage of Tesla. I would guess that there aren't a lot of people wandering through the mall to buy a tesla or making it one stop on their trek through the dealerships. People (right now) are setting out to
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by mayneack 13y ago
Linux Mint + cinnamon. Give it a shot.
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by mayneack 13y ago
Let's be honest, the US isn't really famous for only doing things sanctioned by the UN.
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by mayneack 13y ago
That's my plan. I had head that it was a pain if I had UEFI. Any idea on how much of a pain? I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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by mayneack 13y ago
You don't always have to reach your goals to gain benefit from pursuing them.
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by mayneack 13y ago
Yeah, but Tesla didn't invent the first electric vehicle. As he said, it's a proof of concept. Besides, the taste is probably less of a concern than the price tag at this point.
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by mayneack 13y ago
Not for me
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by mayneack 13y ago
Plenty of great legislation is "introduced" all the time. Most never even gets brought up in committee. Those that do get killed before hitting the floor. Those that are passed get killed in the other chamber. This is far from the least lik
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by mayneack 13y ago
By not commenting.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Is this just for Unity or is it an across the board speedup that I'll notice even if I'm using something like Cinnamon/xfce?
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by mayneack 14y ago
That will keep it down, but never zero (because of that). There's a real value to the illicit transactions. Even if it's merely a way to exchange dollars into something like silk road points, that's worth enough to enough people to keep it
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by mayneack 14y ago
And they don't even have to pay for all of it.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I guess this is my answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5521343
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by mayneack 14y ago
I wonder if this timeline is slow enough for a given city's cable monopoly to respond with price/terms/bandwidth competition in time to head off google fiber. Doesn't mean they will, but I would think that this is slow enough that they coul
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by mayneack 14y ago
Does Aereo stream advertisements as well as the program or do they store it and let you fast forward? If they stream ads, shouldn't this work in the networks' favor?
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by mayneack 14y ago
So I don't know how much gold it would take to rock the price, but I'm guessing it's enough as to be non-trivially "lost" however, any random flashdrive could contain any number of btc.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Because by this time they have already seen this and are lawyered up.
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by mayneack 14y ago
That works for long as you keep more than you lose. If we get down to 1000000 btc at a reasonable value, what happens when I find my old thumb drive from 2011 that has 100k btc on it? That will be quite a shock to the btc economy. I don't t
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by mayneack 14y ago
So which country are you talking about then?
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by mayneack 14y ago
An incumbent is already well known. People are willing to give them money and put them on TV because they are already a congressman. A challenger has to have enough money to be taken seriously or pay to get attention via ads etc. I would se
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by mayneack 14y ago
The impasse of the budget doesn't necessarily need to server anyone's interests. It just has to be enough better than the opposition's proposal to lead to a stalemate. If there's no policy that both the Senate and House prefer to the status
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by mayneack 14y ago
I would recommend reading Lessig's book Republic Lost [1], it's very short and is very quick to discuss that "getting money out" is not the only thing that matters. To your point, you're right that restricting money is often worse for chall
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by mayneack 14y ago
Not only that, but unless you get a few optimal weights, they are unbalanced, so you are limited by what you can do. Sure, some things it doesn't matter if the right side of the weight is the same weight as the left side, but when I tried i
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by mayneack 14y ago
So now I guess I don't get to access my desktop computer with SSH from somewhere off campus? Also, MIT requires us to use the Cisco VPN client, which apparently doesn't work on 64 bit linux. This is absurd.

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