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by mikegagnon 13y ago
> "However, giving money to people on the street is not helping." Recall, my goal isn't to solve their problems by giving them small amounts of money. I think to solve their problems we need to make society-wide changes.
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I am aware of one experiment that has shown that basic income can work: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income I don't think that's the real issue stopping basic income. I think the real issue is that th
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I regularly give small amounts of money directly to impoverished individuals I see on the street. You raise some points that I've heard before, and I would like to address them all, and explain why I think it is rational for me to give
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
> People aren't working in factories to put bread on the table, people are working in offices to pay for their next new car or big screen TV. People are still working in factories to put bread on their tables. There is a huge amount
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I find the article repugnant; it glorifies selfishness. 'How to apply [rule #1] to your own life: Ignore "suggested donation" pleas at museums, always help yourself to more food and drinks at dinner parties and recline your s
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I find the article repugnant; it glorifies selfishness. > How to apply [rule #1 ]to your own life: Ignore "suggested donation" pleas at museums, always help yourself to more food and drinks at dinner parties and recline your se
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I agree. I think Military Keynesianism is a bad economic policy. I have seen lots of articles that discuss wasteful DoD spending. But I see very few that discuss __why__ the DoD spends money this way. And why it continues. This type of spen
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
There is always a debate about how much to spend and what to spend it on. I believe these issues are what primarily distinguish republicans from democrats. I agree that Military Keynesianism is not the best way for the government to stimula
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
The United States economy is based upon Military Keynesianism. The federal government does not analyze spending the same way we do because __spending benefits the economy__, which is part of the government's responsibility. They intent
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
This work does a great job espousing the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: "Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand," a cornerstone of effective visualization . http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.ph
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
In the American justice system the judge is part of the judicial branch and the prosecutor is part of the executive branch. Prosecutors have a huge amount of discretion in their jobs. They can choose if they press charges and if so what ch
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I don't think the world is so black and white. If you pay taxes to the federal government are you complicit with all of the government's actions? Well sure, but what other option do you have? You could not pay taxes and go to jail
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
By cropping every photo, DC hearing adjudicators should now throw out every alleged traffic violation (regardless of what the photographs purport to show). It is simple why: 1. "DC hearing adjudicators have been throwing out citations
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
A half hour before the keynote Moxie encouraged attendees to disrupt the talk https://twitter.com/moxie/status/362596265034399746 "Ubiquitous surveillance prevents millions from speaking freely. Blac
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
The low-level details of exploits always sound like they require a miracle to pull off.
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Show HN: Reformatting an NSA faq using Sidenote.io(mikegagnon.com)
1 points by mikegagnon 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
> Unless you have a real emergency and need assistance, it's best to avoid the police whenever possible, even if you've done nothing wrong. You are assuming everyone's objective function is to minimize harm to themselves.
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
Exactly. Too often I hear people say "I don't mind personally." But it does affect everyone, since it chills political speech which hurts democracy.
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Ending Secret Law Act(gpo.gov)
2 points by mikegagnon 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
Is the United States becoming less free, or has the US always been like this and I'm just noticing now?
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I believe a "no contest" plea is a formal declaration of (2). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
The article discusses the challenge of supplanting entrenched software such as Hadoop. I am actually a bit more optimistic about the ability to swap out Hadoop with technologies like Spark. At Twitter we don't program using Hadoop dire
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
> There's plenty of reasons why someone might want a virtualized OS; customization. True, using today's off-the-self software it is easier to customize your environment using full virtualization compared to containers. But it i
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
Are you an expert in the field? If yes, then apply for the position(s). If you are rejected for lack of Ph.D., then move on. It's not good to work in an organization that values credentials over expertise. If you are not an expert in t
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
I think you should assess and rate your own legal page using the same standards you apply everywhere else. If there is no ToS (as you point out here), you should say that. If nothing else, it's a usability issue. I assume that tosdr.or
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
Awesome idea. This is the first Chrome extension I have ever found worth installing. Thanks! I think one issue with a service like this, is that your rating of TOS provisions might not match with my own. Which is why it's great that yo
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
> If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn't read them terms and therefore should not be held to
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
The article makes the point that it is insufficient to use good crypto algorithms / implementations. You must also use it correctly. "A component can only be secure under certain well-defined circumstances, not for any use that ha
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
> One thought is this: how about making it a felony not to disclose information that an agency is clearly violating the constitution. The obligation to whistle blow is usually an explicit part of "honor codes," such as "I
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by mikegagnon 13y ago
When I read those excerpts from this report, I assumed it was written by some extremist lobbying group that doesn't have any real power. Then I read this statement from Congressman Mike Rogers (Chair of CHPSCI, House Permanent Select Commit

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