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by noarchy 14y ago
I don't have an answer to your question. A subreddit with quality moderation could be an answer, but the readership is probably going to be much lower, to the point that it isn't useful. I am probably more turned off by anything coming from
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by noarchy 14y ago
He didn't use his random Bible verse generator in this case. That is a bit unusual.
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by noarchy 14y ago
Do upvotes have an effect on dead posts?
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by noarchy 14y ago
>I'm torn on the issue. In my view a politician is actually a service provider doing the mundane tasks I can't be bothered to do. It would be a huge waste of time if a majority of people had to keep up to date on all political issues. A
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by noarchy 14y ago
It can't be blamed on Fox News any longer. They're still cheerleaders for the "War on Terror", but these wars now belong to the current president. Do you see other news outlets questioning the current president's military occupations, drone
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by noarchy 14y ago
Not to mention, the handy "flag" link for those who feel strongly about it. There isn't much need to make a post about it, with the mechanisms in place.
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by noarchy 14y ago
>My pet peeves are all around voting systems. For instance, voting in most countries is voluntary. That has well-understood failure modes. I'd contend that voting itself has failure modes, and that making it mandatory is asking for disa
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by noarchy 14y ago
Speaking as a Canadian, the Senate is little more than a retirement program for friends of the party (which party is of little consequence). The party that currently holds power spent years talking about Senate reform, only to revert to the
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by noarchy 14y ago
I'm wondering if it's worth it though. I run WoW fine through Wine. After how much trial & error? I realize Linux users are not Windows users, but how well would WoW have sold if the installation was as painful as a Wine setup can be
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by noarchy 14y ago
King's book was my introduction to serious programming when I was younger. In an era of my life where I usually prefer ebooks, I still have King's book, in dead-tree format, and love it.
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by noarchy 14y ago
Many states are also running gambling monopolies, in the form of lotteries. As with the liquor monopolies that many of these same states run, competition isn't desired. Asking a politician to give up a revenue stream is a difficult task, th
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by noarchy 14y ago
Has it ever been different? At the moment that the US was founded, it was ruled by and for the landed aristocracy. I'm pretty sure that if any of the "minor parties" that you mentioned got near having a share of power, they would by that po
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by noarchy 14y ago
Something to that effect has undoubtedly occurred. I think that things can work differently. Do you? We've had a chance to see a number of government experiments run their course (some continue to), ranging from absolute monarchies, to Marx
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by noarchy 14y ago
That's a bit of a strawman, since I said nothing about the securing of property. As you are undoubtedly aware, government does not allow a choice in this, but you're likely taking a position that it must be this way. You're also taking th
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by noarchy 14y ago
I'd figure that more interviewers would ask technology-specific questions, but it is hit-or-miss from what I've seen. For example: questions about Framework X or Y that your company actually uses . This would seem to be a lot more importan
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by noarchy 14y ago
You are correct that government currencies exist by government fiat. Who said that those had to be the only currencies? Of course government does mandate that its currencies are recognized as legal tender, but that's something that governme
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by noarchy 14y ago
I'd like to see individuals making a high salary get their taxes slashed down to the levels that asset-based wealth currently enjoys. This can't take place unless the disproportionate influence of finance capitalists is likewise slashed. I
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by noarchy 14y ago
When did anyone ever get asked if they consented to the "social contract"? No one. We need, at the very least, to change the term. Something like "social compulsion", perhaps? The person creating capital may not be someone who is liked, but
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by noarchy 14y ago
Most Python programmers? I guess it depends on the circles in which one travels. I've personally never heard it said as "duh-jango" before. I've never pronounced it that way, personally. In this talk, you can hear a Django dev pronouncing i
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by noarchy 14y ago
I have been blocking the people who post nothing but pics of their babies. After the 50th pic, I've long lost an interest in seeing them, however adorable. Not all of my friends or family do this, and I am grateful.
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by noarchy 14y ago
To anyone who favours a free society, your argument may not sound crazy, but it sounds dangerous. Most apologetics written on behalf of a surveillance state seem to ignore the unsavoury elements of the government itself. Instead of becoming
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by noarchy 14y ago
They do it all the time, at the very least in the form of lobbying. Sometimes they do public advocacy that is more direct. The affairs of state can affect a company in the same way that it can affect individuals, so it can be in the interes
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by noarchy 14y ago
You're right, though I think that AppCode is an unusual case; you can only use it on OS X, right? It is a completely different beast. For IDEA, though, you can indeed get the same functionality of PHPStorm, PyCharm, etc, by simply using the
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by noarchy 14y ago
Still waiting for mine, but given the issues they've had today, I won't be surprised if it takes hours to receive the license info in my inbox. I was actually able to order with no problems, at least.
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by noarchy 14y ago
Government tracking methods and Facebook are two different worlds, though, aren't they? (I know I left the door wide open for a sarcastic reply)
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by noarchy 14y ago
This sort of thing shouldn't have been held up by waiting for a government body to vote on it. To build an use an app should simply require drivers willing to use it, and paying passengers. That tells you just how extensive the regulation o
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by noarchy 14y ago
Why do you need a compensation check if no damages have occurred? There might be legitimate insurance questions here, for example, but that's a separate matter.
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by noarchy 14y ago
Anarchists such as Benjamin Tucker were advocates of "free money" at least as far back as the 19th century. Of course there was no way for them to have imagined an implementation like Bitcoin.
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by noarchy 14y ago
I know that for some, bitcoin seems to be a solution looking for a problem. But there are those for whom the idea of a currency that is disconnected from a national bank is very attractive. The idea of a "free money" (free as in freedom) ha
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by noarchy 14y ago
I think that this is what most government default to on most things.

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