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by nicobn 10y ago
"Every toddler has a right to bear arms" No toddler has a right to bear arms in the United States. I hope you were being facetious, otherwise you're grossly misinformed.
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by nicobn 11y ago
If you're talking about your aunt's primary residence, there is a capital gain exclusion of $250,000 (or $500,000 for married couples). Additionally, improvement costs, all sorts of taxes, fees, etc. can be excluded from capital g
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by nicobn 11y ago
4%-6% is almost certainly sustainable. Higher pay outs expose Harvard to wealth dilapidation. Companies, institutions and even empires come and go. The most successful adhere to conservative governance and plan for the next century, not the
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by nicobn 11y ago
One strategy is to use an IRA on Lending Club and a taxable account for lower yield investments that are taxed as capital gains.
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by nicobn 11y ago
Since you're dealing in absolutes, let me return the favor; you're being a little silly. Yes, Linode beats AWS when it comes to price. On the other hand, Linode's offer is incredibly basic and simplistic. AWS offers service a
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by nicobn 11y ago
I definitely agree with you; the externalities of nuclear power are very often understated.
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by nicobn 11y ago
Fuel is a minuscule percentage of the cost of building and operating a nuclear reactor. The cost of uranium is currently about $90/kg. Citing a previous poster, around 70 MT of uranium is used every year, which comes to about 6.3 G$, w
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by nicobn 11y ago
Indeed. I think what I'm trying to clear up is that the "money" created by banks is not "free money". It is a carefully crafted game of musical chairs on the bank's balance sheet. Bottomline is, the loan is an
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by nicobn 11y ago
You do not understand central banking at all. Banks do not create money out of thin air: central banks do. Through loans to charter banks and bond purchases, the Federal Reserve creates (or destroys) money whenever the internal one day inte
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by nicobn 11y ago
This is true for totally isolated unit tests but false for tests that require stubbing. You can theoretically use the same tests for a map implemented with one version of a hash table or the other. But once you start testing classes with de
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by nicobn 11y ago
People downvoted you because you can't seem to get down from your high horse. But since you started, let me give you a tip. You shouldn't use a language you don't understand. "Faux paux", more like "faux frança
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by nicobn 11y ago
Please define "dumb" in the context of a system solely guided by one of the most basic, non-emergent process conceivable (caesium oscillator) ?
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by nicobn 11y ago
The absence of a pull request does not negate the validity of a criticism. Hacker News is one of the most tech-savvy, intelligent and experienced audience you can find on the web. Everyone sucks, myself included. With that kind of attitude
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by nicobn 11y ago
This is only partially true. Generic types are accessible through the reflection API. What you are referring to is type erasure. See for yourself: https://gist.github.com/nicobn/8135faeda058fef5b6b9
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by nicobn 12y ago
This judgment will almost certainly be overturned by higher courts. The "right to bear arms" has never been interpreted by the S.C. as the right to bear "lethal arms", nor the right to bear "military" arms. The
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by nicobn 12y ago
I understand the sentiment behind your comment but applying this doctrine does more good than harm. The right to not be offended, quite simply, does not exist and should not exist in free democracies. Everything should be open for debate, d
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by nicobn 12y ago
What you say may be true, but I very much doubt that Google would lobby for a law that creates headaches for them. COPPA compliance is a major PITA. I doubt any business would lobby for such onerous requirements.
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by nicobn 12y ago
We had one with barely $7,000 of spending per month, but it might be because I already had my foot in the door with a previous account that brought them about $40,000/month.
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by nicobn 12y ago
When a script mistakingly provisioned a ridiculous amount of read/write capacity on hundreds of DynamoDB tables, we were presented with a bill in the thousands of dollars. We got reimbursed after talking with our account manager for 15
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by nicobn 12y ago
I'm glad that you can cite the constitution. Maybe you should also have cited clause 3: "[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes", wh
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by nicobn 12y ago
The essence of your legal theory is that "There is no provision in the constitution for the federal government to regulate money exchange." I guess it can be argued that the Section 8 clauses 5 and 6 do not grant the Federal Gover
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by nicobn 13y ago
Never had a problem with slf4j on top of log4j. By the way, I use DEBUG in development and INFO in production. The ratio of logging messages between the two levels is about 1 for 50. Definitely an useful feature on top of System.out.println
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by nicobn 13y ago
I was going to reply with exactly the same thing, and I'd add slf4j.
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by nicobn 13y ago
I'm sorry but I cannot take this article seriously. Memcached is trivial to install and to set up on all the Linux distributions that I know of. On Ubuntu, it's actually as simple as apt-get install -y memcached. I have set up memcached ser
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by nicobn 14y ago
<sarcasm>This is what's wrong with PHP !</sarcasm>
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Remember AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean? C.f.: Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry(framework.zend.com)
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