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by nbouscal 13y ago
> religion makes you happier In this case the distinction between correlation and causation is actually very important. The alternative causal chain, that happy people are more likely to become religious, is highly plausible. Further, th
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by nbouscal 13y ago
8,000 miles per year is about half the average annual miles per year driven by people ages 20-54, at least in the US: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
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by nbouscal 13y ago
You need to read what I'm actually saying instead of assuming that I fit your archetype for ‘opponent in a dialog’. You still completely misunderstand my stance despite my having belabored the point extensively. Your claim was as follo
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by nbouscal 13y ago
Like I just said, the comment was descriptive, not prescriptive. Neither that commenter nor I are arguing that this is how it should be. We're simply observing that it's how it is, and if you want to be successful it's almost
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by nbouscal 13y ago
The parent comment wasn't prescriptive, it was descriptive. You can argue all you'd like that it isn't fair or optimal or good, but you're hard pressed to argue that it isn't true.
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Even if governments do derive their power from the consent of the governed, the governed have consented to government sovereignty. That being the case, I don't follow your argument.
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Your life isn't leased from government, your land is, and while you choose to live on their land you must follow their rules or deal with the consequences of not doing so. You can make all the slippery slope arguments you want, but the
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by nbouscal 13y ago
Yes, still very, very different. Having a job where you don't actually accomplish any work is completely different from not having a job at all. Having a non-productive job wastes your time and saps your energy. I've had them be
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by nbouscal 13y ago
Overall, very good comment. My one point of disagreement is where you dismiss sum types because they clutter your program. Since sum types are the correct answer to this problem in theory, it seems to me that we shouldn't move on fro
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Ember is a framework, jQuery is a library. jQuery doesn't really give you much of anything that you don't have in regular JavaScript, it just makes things a bit more concise and smoothes over some browser inconsistencies. Ember pr
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It's been done, details here: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
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> The last thing we need is another government program. So would you then be in favor of a plan that dismantled all other current government means-tested welfare programs (welfare, unemployment, food stamps, medicaid, etc), replacing all
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by nbouscal 13y ago
Here's an article summarizing some experimental evidence to the contrary: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
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>> This has nothing to do with socialism. The means of production do NOT change ownership. > Oh, a Marxist. Not necessarily a Marxist, just someone who actually knows the meaning of the word socialism. Depressingly uncommon, that.
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> It wasn't called that way, but the policy was that everyone has to have a job and receive a specified wage. That is not a basic income guarantee. With a basic income guarantee, you receive the basic income regardless of whether yo
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by nbouscal 13y ago
No, if you decide you don't want to do business with that entity anymore then you have to get off that entity's land. Just like if you decide that you don't want to do business with a parking lot company anymore, you have to
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From the article: “(I should stress that in this article I’m focusing on school arithmetic and school algebra. Professional mathematicians use both terms to mean something far more general.)”
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I don't think one is inherently superior to the other, it just depends on the data. If you have highly structured data for which integrity is mission-critical, you want to be using a RDBMS. If you have unstructured data for which throu
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by nbouscal 13y ago
> if you have any sort of system that expects or uses your columns by index. Of course if you have that sort of system, select * is the least of your worries.
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"Huge" in context, sure, but compared to the rest of the world? 2,000 inhabitants is impressive and all, but that solution couldn't possibly scale to 10 million.
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by nbouscal 13y ago
Oh I know how to implement it, I was just responding to your claim that it was "an implementation detail of JavaScript functions." It's an implementation detail of method calls, the function itself is completely this-agnostic
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Obviously not. I do, of course, disagree with your reduction of prototypal OO to "looking up missing keys in another map". That said, I do need to clarify. I was talking about implementing classical inheritance with prototypal inh
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by nbouscal 13y ago
> that is an implementation detail of JavaScript functions. Oh? So in an example where B has a method m, and A inherits from B, how is it that `this` refers to something different when calling B.m() than when calling A.m()? They're
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by nbouscal 13y ago
That's a pretty good try, but that does not implement the full flexibility of prototypal OO. Also, note that I wasn't talking about statically-typed class-based OO specifically. Classical OO exists in plenty of dynamic languages t
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by nbouscal 13y ago
I'm extremely confused by this post. You claim to know JavaScript very well, which is fine, but then you go on to say that developers "fake class-based OO using the limited functionality that JavaScript does offer." That does
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I'm sure there are still problems that we'll need to solve. That said, how else are we going to solve them? It's not like the nutrition field is going to suddenly start figuring this stuff out, at least judging from its past
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> Pizza rolls and fast food are not, so the comparison between the two is a false equivalency. They may not be advertised as a full-time meal replacement, but they are certainly used as such by a non-negligible number of people. Nobody i
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by nbouscal 13y ago
Judging from this and other comments you've made, you seem to think of " food " as being something other than just chemicals. It's not. Food, just like humans, is just an assortment of chemicals. There is nothing mysteri
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I think you misunderstood vidarh's post. His/her second paragraph was referencing existing providers, not Soylent.
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They are already releasing male and female versions, with the female version having more iron (among other differences). They're also planning on setting it up so that you can customize it further based on activity level, etc, but that

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