notdonspaulding

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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
> Thanks to legalized corruption ( lobbying ) the rich are able to twist laws and regulations more and more to their advantage. What you are describing is regulatory capture, and you don't have to be against wealth inequality in ord
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
> ...I'm certainly on the side of the those with disability. In your mind, is it possible to be on the side of those with the disability and yet still against the ADA? Put another way, given the two concrete examples mentioned (UCB
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
> ...Gosling's account is false and defamatory, and omits the crucial background fact that the program he sold to Unipress was an imitation of a program Stallman had devoted the last seven years of his life to, … So, was Gosling&#x2
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
Thanks for the tip! Updated my profile with my email address.
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
Fellow Normalite here, you still in the area? Would love to talk shop with a local Hacker Newser. Email in my profile if you're interested.
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
I don't remember when in my Python career I learned about names vs. values, but it finally clicked for me that I'm predominately just binding a value to a name with the = assignment. Now everything I read has become very easy to
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
This (the USA, at least) is a constitutional republic. You have representation and you have constitutional rights. In a democracy, a plurality of the people can vote to do whatever they want to you. In a constitutional republic, a superm
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
Good advice, and I love your last tidbit in particular. When I take on bedtime chores, my (stay-at-home) wife gets a second wind to accomplish whatever tasks of her own that she's been hoping to get to but has had to put off all day be
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
Good point about guarding breakable things. I can't type with my 16-month old on my lap because she just pulls the keys right off the keyboard. That caught me off guard the first time it happened. ;-)
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
My wife and I have 6 kids. I don't do remote work, but I can give you some protips on the aspects of parenting that I think help a house to run well. (I don't think having 6 kids especially qualifies me to weigh in here, raising
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
https://youtu.be/9_7W17hwu7w
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
I have been coding on a ThinkPad t460p with an i7, a 1GB SSD, and 32GB Ram for the past two years. I loaded it with Ubuntu Gnome and most everything I use it for just works. I also opted for the larger battery so I can easily go 4-7 hours
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
This is an excellent point. Along that same line of thinking, I think another historical American value/attitude is that a business is a person. More precisely, businesses only exist because individual people decide to take risks wi
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
How would you expect to impose any injunctions or damages on the LA Times for disregarding an EU law? In other words, to what court will you take your case? A US court won't hold a US company to account for breaking a non-US law. A Eu
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
I've heard this argument several times now and it finally hit me what I dislike about it. If you aren't context switching between your backend code and your frontend code (even when both are JS), you're probably incurring tec
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
The wheels of technological change in the Telecom space turn very, VERY slowly. Not upgrading equipment and configs for 10 years is nothing in the ISP world.
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
The 4th amendment to the US Constitution reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but up
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by notdonspaulding 8y ago
(Disclosure: this comment is more critical than I really mean it to be, but it's late and I'm too lazy to edit it into a more docile tone. I thought the article was interesting but simply wanted to raise the counterargument) I&#x
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
That seems like an uncharitable reading of history. Even if technically correct, this interpretation of the effects of nuclear weaponry on the number of humans killed in war seems wildly off-base. https://ourworldindata.org&#x2F
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
I tend to think you're right that "God" (in the general sense) is not falsifiable. But, as a Christian, and someone who studies the Bible daily, I can say that at the very least, the God of the Bible is falsifiable. For ins
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
"Nobody will force you to sell your goods for a particular price, but if you pick the wrong price, there will be consequences." Do you have some special definition of "force" that you are using which doesn't involve
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
I don't think the main thrust of your argument is wrong, however, your sickness example is also a false equivalence. There's nothing logically or philosophically or scientifically preventing both explanations for why we each
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
> "It's clear that we need regulation until there is sufficient competition..." I don't think it's as "clear" as you seem to think it is. What does seem to be a matter of historical fact is that the FC
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
> The argument is that your carrier can now block you from getting information relevant to your rights That's not an argument. > So you may no longer be able to search for an abortion clinic, or newspapers that have negative arti
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
Aluminum was once worth more than gold. https://gizmodo.com/how-aluminum-cost-more-than-gold-1575564...
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
You've not supported your conclusion that we "need" a non-human baby factory with any actual argument or facts. Surely the simplest solution to the reproductive question during space colonization is to send along a doctor or
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
I'll have a go. Here's a few that seem almost axiomatic to me but that I think might be somewhat less so to this crowd: - Words are important. Choose them carefully. Hear them carefully. - "Tolerating everyone but the intole
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
PSA: Death is coming. You are going to die. Your parents are going to die. Your kids are going to die. Everyone you know is going to die. Are there things which you can do to reduce your risk of dying earlier than the average person born a
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
Yes. - There are fewer white men in the NBA because they are biologically unsuited to it. - There are fewer tall fighter pilots because they are biologically unsuited to it. - There are fewer women as pitchers in the MLB because they are bi
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by notdonspaulding 9y ago
Yes, we wouldn't want to mischaracterize what the main thrust of someone's message is by putting up a straw man argument and then criticizing them for it. /s Zunger's response makes it clear that the promulgation of ide

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