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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Putting them under government ownership instead doesn't seem like the solution to anything, unless you are very sure that the government will follow your ideological beliefs, not be corrupted by its newfound direct power over peopl
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>This makes me sad. The entire point of Government is to be an enterprise spanning multiple generations. Not in a democracy. The point of a government in a democracy is to serve the current will of the people. The government itself might
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by pathseeker 6y ago
That same defense could be used to defend them selling heroin.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Throwing everything at another company so you can blame your outages on them does not a better engineer make. This site is just doing something silly dynamically for something that should be static (e.g. reading from a database). A single m
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>It takes roughly 2 weeks to form a habit; it takes roughly two weeks to get comfortable in a new environment. A common mistake is to treat a new report’s first couple weeks like college orientation - social, light hearted, get-to-know-y
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Yes, when you use key-based authentication to a server, you never actually give the server a secret, you just cryptographically prove you have the private key that goes to your public key. This is important because the sever can be entirely
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by pathseeker 6y ago
This was sort of figured out during the massive railroad booms in the US throughout the 1800s. You can let the market have parts of it but you need guardrails so you don't have some asshole that owns a bridge holding everything up for
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by pathseeker 6y ago
No, heavy trucks wear out the road significantly more than cars and result in asphalt having to be replaced more frequently. This is another case where the gas tax isn't really adequate for funding road issues due to the disproportiona
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by pathseeker 6y ago
None of what you identified are covered in these useless classes. In my undergrad we had a sociology course that when over how people have different roles in life (family head, care giver, money maker, etc). It was all stupid obvious stuff
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by pathseeker 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly Walmart has competitors in every market I've seen. Small towns seem to be more likely to have chain dollar stores than a Walmart. In my small city of 50k, Walmart doesn'
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Well that's not how the Internet works. Perhaps they can blacklist prefixes from being accepted by American ISPs, but as long as ISPs peer with any ISPs from outside of the country, those advertisements will be coming in.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
> It is my impression that modern companies that care about security assume that all networks are compromised and act accordingly. See https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp as an example. No, you assume the network can b
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Be careful with this, your ISP can easily record the NAT translations and going to your ISP with a connection 5-tuple would be enough to track it back to you.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
I wonder if there are any government requirements here for people operating ISPs. Does anyone have any insight into the time range that is required to keep these logs (if there is one)?
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Drivers generally lack the sophistication to do financial modelling for depreciation of their vehicles. Those poor dim-witted drivers. Seriously though, it only take a couple of seconds of Googling to calculate the depreciation of a veh
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Of course it changes it. How do you "give Oklahoma" to a bunch of distinct nations that have no relationship?
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Cash advance on credit card and you can gamble on whatever you want. The cash advance on the credit card is the dangerous part. You could even cash advance on a credit card, buy a car, and wreck it and be in the same financial situation as
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by pathseeker 6y ago
None of the financial instruments did that. That person didn't even have actual debt, just one leg assigned on a spread that would have been resolved by the end of the weekend.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
What do you mean "them"? You do realize that there were many different tribes who had very drastically different interactions with the US, right?
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Isn't trading a commodity technology? The rapid consumption RH has of younger retail market seems to imply the answer is firmly "no". The backend of sending orders to exchanges without caring much about latency is surely
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by pathseeker 6y ago
But all of these trades are just as possible in etrade, TD Ameritrade, etc. In robinhood, your trades even have to be cash-secured so your downside is capped to your deposit amount. The futures account I have on TD Ameritrade is much riskie
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>It's plain unethical and ridiculous that 20 year olds with no steady income get access to highly leveraged financial instruments that can ruin them for life. None of these instruments can ruin a 20 year old for life. Worst case is
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by pathseeker 6y ago
To expand on this, Robinhood offers instant gratification as well without requiring a wire transfer. They have "instant deposit" limits that allow you to start an ACH xfer and use the money to buy options/stock within a few s
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Companies pay for retail order flow because retail is dumb; and, on average, is not going to have trades better than random noise. This is ideal for market makers so market makers pay for it and even offer better spreads to retail. Market m
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Sounds like a great way to discourage people from saying anything they think won't be popular with the echo chamber. Rewarding people with upvotes/reddit gold is bad enough, rewarding them with real money will make it much worse.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>In some places, you can be prevented from saying something that others do not want you to say. Not really. The consequences in some places are just so severe that it might be one of the last things you say.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
You're talking past the point. You assume some idiots with slavery icons can't be embarrassed and shamed out of their views. Where does this conclusion come from that rationality is so weak and our tolerant views are on such shaky
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>It's super-easy to sue people for hate speech? Rational people are theoretically much more likely to consider their words, because they know everyone can get their ass fined and possibly imprisoned. Hate speech isn't well-defi
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by pathseeker 6y ago
So the problem is you are conflating southern pride (pride in the culture) with the confederacy. Many people in the south used to view the confederate flag as representative of southern pride (iced tea on a porch while complaining about the
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Honest question. For those of you happy that these censorship policies are being implemented by companies in reaction to pressure, do you believe that the ideal end-goal would be 'anti hate speech' laws like those of Germany?

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