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by nwah1 4y ago
There is no functional difference between a tax break and a subsidy. And everything is private property only if a sovereign authority says it is. Much of it is not even remotely justifiable even by the most generous Lockean assumptions. But
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Many have noted the ubiquity of surveillance technology makes privacy impossible. The only real question is whether the people in general have access, in addition to authorities, or whether only authorities have access. But anything else
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They should just be built into cars
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by nwah1 4y ago
I am able to get 4 or 5 hours of intensive programming done on battery power... running multiple IDEs, Android emulators, browsers, etc. I've never tried it with a normal usage pattern because I only use battery power for working.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Not too many companies have a market cap over a trillion dollars, and if you don't then you can forget about competing on the upcoming process nodes that will require enormous capital. Samsung's internal processor division seems t
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I don't doubt those benefits are real, but I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Book with Intel 12th gen and integrated graphics, and it is actually fantastic. Super thin, lightweight, silent, and low heat, while still boasting 12 extrem
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by nwah1 4y ago
Children are not empty vessels that you pour knowledge into. They are individuals with unique interests and aptitudes. There is no universal formula for what to teach, and if a kid has no interest or aptitude for a subject then there is alm
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by nwah1 4y ago
Swagger/OpenAPI offers a typed API in JSON (along with generated clients just like gRPC). The complaints about protobuf as a serialization format remain valid, and you don't need it to have types. Also the reability of JSON in-tra
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The concept of DRM is quite old and never required a blockchain, because as we have all long figured out... nothing requires a blockchain. Not even DRM scams.
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Pennsylvania has a state monopoly on retail liquor sales. Liquor is at least as bad as most illegal drugs. That is probably better than the approach of some states which make obtaining licenses to sell alcohol or marijuana expensive. In mos
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The lottery does not undermine law and order or property rights, while depriving organized crime of revenue. The same cannot be said for any of the things you mention.
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The lottery is a way for the government to take over the numbers racket, which formerly was a source of revenue for organized crime. It is a net benefit to society for that reason.
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But should they?
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by nwah1 4y ago
Just developed something using MAUI's predecessor Xamarin.Forms It was perfect and exactly what I wanted. I had experience with XAML and MVVM thanks to Silverlight and WPF, so that explains at least some of why it was such a breeze. Bu
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by nwah1 4y ago
In the Twitter thread, it sounds like these guys may be connected to frauds worth tens of millions.
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If you have a lot of stored procs then the argument makes some sense. If you do most things in code, then I would argue these complaints are moot. In your code you can isolate all soft-deleting from business logic in the ORM layer or data l
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by nwah1 4y ago
It is C# for GNOME people
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Fraunhofer is based in Germany and likely is pushing this.
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In economics there is a concept called "search costs." And those costs need to be compensated if you want to encourage searching. But, of course, as you said, such compensation should not be in perpetuity. A patent, in this sense,
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by nwah1 4y ago
Not to mention all the wasted efforts from all laborers and services employed by all of the companies chasing unproductive financial returns in this space.
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Asbestos is still unbeatable for fire protection.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Fair enough. But if it is in an electrical device with shoddy glue that is likely to catch fire or explode, then it would be nice to not be given a lethal dose of lead in addition to my place burning down.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Toxicity is a relative concept. Lead's toxicity is measured in parts per billion. Lithium is many orders of magnitude safer.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Not having a UPS device also has risks. If you have any brownouts or surges then your electronics could be fried.
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Also have one. Also replaced the battery. The other thing I don't like about it is that the battery is lead-acid, which is extremely toxic and extremely heavy. But when I looked into that, I could not find any manufacturer that offered
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by nwah1 4y ago
As they say, just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Link doesn't work. Mortgages are one of the most annoying things to analyze in the economy, up there with healthcare, because of how much it is dominated by the government. In the US a bank first makes a home loan, and then later gets
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by nwah1 4y ago
Interesting point. I'm sort of steelmanning the anti-monetary perspective to the best of my limited ability. Partly in hopes of hearing good rebuttals. I will have to think about this.
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We should consider a lot of this to be zero-sum. Creditworthy demand for loans doesn't magically increase when rates change or the Fed buys bonds. In QE, like with accounting, you debit one side and credit the other. Netting to zero. T
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https://www.pragcap.com/bernanke-explains-why-qe2-is-not-mon...

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