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by mises 7y ago
Single-threaded download still stinks. Maybe the new HTTP stuff will make it better, maybe not. Google drive is one of the few sites that maxes out a fast internet connection single-threaded; until others adopt those tweaks, why bother?
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by mises 7y ago
Iot is not about you or me. It is not about phones or alexas. It's about "smart cities" and surveillance states - why do you think the chinese are so good at it? It is not long until we will be unable to escape 24/7 s
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by mises 7y ago
> reel in the global population size What does this mean? Forced sterilization? One-child policies? I don't ask this to be confrontational, but because it's a difficult question and I honestly want to hear opinions. Acces
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by mises 7y ago
I think that's the point they're trying to make - there is a certain amount of caveat emptor associated with theming. But they don't make it well when they say "don't them our apps".
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by mises 7y ago
That's pretty crazy. I understand "reasonable accommodation", but doing that for so much content is beyond. Better most of the population gets it that no one can because a few edge cases can't consume it normally. I u
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by mises 7y ago
> We have robust public and private medical research universities. We have a few that give treatment for some things. That does not mean everyone can get treatment; they are not just free hospitals.
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by mises 7y ago
It's also important to note that advanced drugs for rare illnesses are expensive for a reason: high development costs and a very small market. Costs must amortized over a very few. There also aren't really any economies of scale
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by mises 7y ago
> In addition, subtitles, secondary audio, descriptive video, and multi-view video etc. are all things which we mandate by law which do not work well in a file base expierenced. Since when are subtitles mandated by law? "Multi-view
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by mises 7y ago
I'd have to clean it up first. I wrote it for a competition, and it does its job well; I may clean it up and improve it soon. Right now, it's a mess of a monolithic script.
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by mises 7y ago
I drink a milkshake. I must now clean a reusable straw. I have to deal with a sticky mess. That's more than I want, particularly when the alternative is pitching said sticky mess. One of the best things about eating out is that ther
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by mises 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. I believe humans are sacred and ought to be treated as such, even when dead.
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by mises 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what made you decide to purchase a ".xxx" domain for your blog? And do you regularly get comments?
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by mises 7y ago
That last unless is what the value prop is. Personal site is indeed just fine on a cheap vps (and I can also put up the occasional file), but AWS has better reliability and much better scaling. When you consider the opportunity cost of ti
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by mises 7y ago
Maybe I'm just a security nut, but I would probably also relegate ssh to a non-default port, allow key-only authentication, narrow ciphers, close all other ports (except 80, 443, and 53). Also fail2ban, sysctl tweaks (networking, disa
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by mises 7y ago
There is a great difference between what is rationally true and what an emotional being (i.e. a person) will do. See the trolley problem and many others. For instance, people will stay in a declining stock past the "rational threshol
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by mises 7y ago
Exactly. From what I understand, you have to put a huge tent over it to prevent any escaping. Asbestos in buildings doesn't do anything when undisturbed, so if you're careful around it, it can stay until the building is redone.
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by mises 7y ago
No, see California. They are considering expanding their state healthcare much further, even to criminal aliens (reported this morning). I don't agree with the policy, but can approve of them trying to avoid forcing the rest of the n
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by mises 7y ago
Exactly. This was originally not perceived as quite so "unfair" because the senators were chosen by state legislatures. But yes, one of the important goals of our Constitution was to prevent "Rule by Virginia" - that is
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by mises 7y ago
This may have been where lacking a central bank could have helped us. One of the advantages of America is that the feds are only supposed to do a few things, so states can pick what works best for them. We've been joking about the &q
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by mises 7y ago
I think we're pretty close with English, or it's at least the best candidate. Most of the knowledge recently produced (since WWII) is in it, and the world's largest economy uses it. It's also taken a little something f
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by mises 7y ago
Not necessarily. That has been the traditional economic opinion, but it has been challaneged as of late. Employers don't always raise wages, harder to save for retirement (unless you want to take higher risk in the stock market, yo
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by mises 7y ago
Taxpayers still pay for fed expenditures, albeit indirectly. Expansionary fiscal policy -> inflation, and inflation is probably the biggest single tax on any one.
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by mises 7y ago
Americans don't consider a large, essential expenditure to he a tax because it's not. Food and rent are not taxes either.
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by mises 7y ago
> getting most of it with your fingers Please tell me you don't mean this like it appears you do...
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by mises 7y ago
I'm confused, to what "countless genocides and systems of torture" are you referring? I will acknowledge that there have been genocides and tortures against practically every group of humans in the past, but I don't see
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by mises 7y ago
Not so. Those who actually go across the border from Brownsville to Matamoros see it; those who fly straight to Cancun do not. It used to be a pleasant trip (through the mid- to late nineties) to go for a day or two, at a reasonable price
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by mises 7y ago
For years, there has been strong criticism of reliance on standardized tests, as there are quite a few people who "just don't test well". This extends the flawed philosophy of attempting to condense a complicated question in
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by mises 7y ago
> Why are Americans so emotional about that ? How is that a basic liberty ? I think it has to do with our nation's history. We never had a feudal system or a monarchy and fought for independence. It's a different culture. It
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by mises 7y ago
That does not mean they have to carry said stuff with them. Also, credit/debit cards do not store the same kind of information an ID card stores, particularly as there is no photo. Do you really think we ought to have a society in whi
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by mises 7y ago
That will work, at first. It is not a long-term solution, as algorithms and technology will simply evolve to recognize in spite of that. The solution, at least for America, is to remind the feds that they have no constitutional power to u

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