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by mreome 8y ago
Many countries write their immigration laws in a way that allows immigration for people who will bring money/skills into the country. Some going so far as giving citizenship to people who invest enough in money into their economy. Tax
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Now this actually raises an interesting question. Would you define a monopoly based on the service a platform offers, or the resulting combined services created by everyone utilizing the platform? One could argue that any service that allow
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The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP(arstechnica.com)
18 points by mreome 8y ago|4 comments
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Yes, I would. I'm actually arguing something a bit more though, that if the future can not be perfectly predicted, people can not have an entirely free will. I'm claiming that non-deterministic action would necessitate that
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I think simonh was not arguing against the chain of causation, but rather agreeing with it, and arguing against "If the future can be perfectly predicted => people definitely do not have free will" and in favor of "If t
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This is actually an argument that is sometime raised in regards to net neutrality. The difference between an ISP and a web host is that the former functions more as a utility (the debated common carrier classification). If they are a common
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by mreome 8y ago
In addition to the specifically anti-union views mentioned in other posts, I think the biggest problem in the US is simply an apathy towards the goals/purpose of a Union, caused by sociopolitical views. If I was to tell someone that I’
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by mreome 8y ago
There is also the association of Unions with Organized Crime in the US. In the early 20th century unions got into bed with, or were infiltrated by, organized criminal organizations and were used to extort other businesses and the government
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by mreome 8y ago
This isn't a new idea, Virgin Pulse has been providing a service just like this for companies to integrate into their health-insurance and benefit plans for years. https://www.virginpulse.com/use-case/reduce-health
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by mreome 8y ago
I think some of my mechatronics hobby projects (CNC and small robotics mainly) have been some of my most satisfying. There is nothing quite as satisfying as getting the the last bit wired up, and then the last line of code right, and having
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by mreome 8y ago
Protected Class: The groups protected from the employment discrimination by law. These groups include men and women on the basis of sex; any group which shares a common race, religion, color, or national origin; people over 40; and people w
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by mreome 8y ago
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, which was codified as Subchapter VI of Chapter 21 of title 42 of the United States Code, and was later extended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and
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The issue is that under the law, you as an employer are not allowed to make a hiring related choice that in any way discriminates against a protected class (with some exceptions discussed on other comments). You might expect to only get app
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by mreome 8y ago
Under the law it would different, none of your examples are protected classes, discrimination in employment is only illegal if the targeted/excluded group is a protected class, those being: men and women on the basis of sex; any group
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The epic task of breeding fruit flies for life on Titan(we-make-money-not-art.com)
1 points by mreome 8y ago|0 comments
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by mreome 8y ago
Thanks, I will take look at both of those.
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The point I was trying to make is that it isn't something that can be done as an individual, even if it works, at scale it will cost billions of dollars annually to operate, and will require the full time work of thousands of people.
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by mreome 8y ago
Thank you. Basically I was looking for the functional-programming equivalent to the OOP factory-equipment analogy, or asking if such an analogy does/can exist (if it can't, the why might also be a valuable explanation). That analo
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by mreome 8y ago
Unfortunately the only way to gain a deep understanding of the powerful tools functional languages do give you is to gain a deep understanding of functional paradigms. If I didn't know what 'functional' was in this context,
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by mreome 8y ago
The ocean patch is hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, think 2x the size of Texas and the plastics are dispersed through the top 100m of the water column. This is an extremely thin 'cloud' of small plastic bits, not a floa
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by mreome 8y ago
So... an individual is apparently capable of constructing thousands of miles worth of marine-environment infrastructure in international waters crisscrossed by global shipping routes, managing the continuing maintenance of such infrastructu
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The problem is your assuming "build a big ocean plastic harvester" is a totally valid solution that won't potentially add to the problem. Just because it's something an individual can do, doesn't mean it's good
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Plastic does decompose, quite a bit faster in the ocean then it does in a landfill actually. That is why so much of the plastic is already broken down into very tiny particles. If we could stop any new plastics from entering the ocean, it w
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by mreome 8y ago
People so fall in love of the idea of the lone young genius who did something nobody else could, and will save the world so they don't have to change any part of their life. If you bring up the logistical, scientific and technical issu
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by mreome 8y ago
Being able to clean up environmental messes is more important than preventing them in the future This is the most short sited perspective imaginable, yes cleanup is important, but we're adding to this disaster at an increasing rate.
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by mreome 8y ago
I think there is a very interesting discussion to be had here about the obsolescence of mobile devices, and computing devices in general, through software end-of-support. There seems like there are both social and environmental concerns to
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United Airlines Made Its App Stop Working on My Phone(techdirt.com)
1 points by mreome 8y ago|1 comments
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... he believes this technology could be used to detect emotions, IQ and even a predisposition to commit certain crimes... 21st Century Phrenology
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While I can understand some of the benefits of functional programming within a single sub-system, or within academic research, I struggle to understand how pure functional programming can address the need for the large amounts of state info
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by mreome 8y ago
I found the SFML documentation to be one of the few cases where I didn't find myself looking for third-party API documentation or tutorials.

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