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by patmcc 13y ago
To the cost argument: to say "it would be hard to manage efficiently" makes it looks like most first-world countries don't already have a massively successful income tax collection program of some kind. They do. Tax rates cou
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by patmcc 13y ago
You really should have done it 9 or 11 times. :P
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by patmcc 13y ago
John Scalzi (well published sci-fi author) does one draft, with editing along the way. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/07/27/novel-writing-and-rela... Which isn't to say that's superior, just that i
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>they're stuck either selling a crappier device for the same price or a good device at a higher price. Or they just need to accept a lower gross margin than the ~50% Apple gets.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Motorcycle couriers are comparatively very expensive - a 10 mile delivery is easily half an hour of real human time (plus gas, wear, etc). It might be "cheap" if they're delivering $50 of (high margin) pizza, but less so if t
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by patmcc 13y ago
No, but talking about the border guards could well be. Then Jim downstairs listens to the clip, gets a laugh, and ims his buddy upstairs "hey Ted, red car says your sunglasses are ugly lol".
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by patmcc 13y ago
Why would you? Capture the audio, convert to text, trigger on words like "border agent", "customs", "guard", "bomb", "drugs", etc. and then have someone in the basement reviewing the convers
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by patmcc 13y ago
Yes, but did they cash out into real currency? There are lots of "US dollars" on MtGox sitting in the accounts of people who sold bitcoins. It's clear someone has the US dollars; it's not clear it's in the hands of
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by patmcc 13y ago
The use of gold in industry is discouraged by its high price - if it were the same price as copper, you'd see more uses for it.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>It makes rational sense for merchants to accept BitCoin and to keep some holdings in BitCoin because the price is increasing at such a rapid pace. Why wouldn't you want to sell something for x BTC today when that amount could b
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by patmcc 13y ago
I work 35 (Canada), with the occasional longer day if I'm in the middle of something at 5:15, or something blows up. If it's longer than half an hour or so, I bank it and take time off in lieu of overtime the next week or whatever
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by patmcc 13y ago
Travel. Going away for two weeks and taking 1 ebook compared to 8 or 9 paperbacks is really nice.
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by patmcc 13y ago
That doesn't mean it isn't also a crime to access the classified files (in certain circumstances, as above). That's the great thing about the US government now - everything's a crime, oh boy!
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by patmcc 13y ago
This is where you say "my total compensation is around $x". To me, "total compensation" includes pay, benefits, bonuses, the dollar value I put on how short my commute is, rough cost of free food in the office, how nice
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by patmcc 13y ago
Congress now != congress in 2 years, remember.
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by patmcc 13y ago
If you live somewhere where the police literally tell you "burglary is a civil matter", you need to either start a revolution or move to a civilized country.
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by patmcc 13y ago
I sometimes think the answer is both boring and sad: everybody is just really, really, unimaginably, far away. Even if we manage to continue for another 10,000 years without causing our own extinction, will we come up with anything capable
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by patmcc 13y ago
I think the usual argument against your argument is that compelling silence is reasonably common in law, but compelling false testimony (and I'd argue that being forced to leave a false statement in a published document would be tantam
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by patmcc 13y ago
I think another big problem is the generic advice (eat better, exercise more, don't smoke, etc.) is incredibly effective, but doctors routinely see huge numbers of their patients not doing it at all, so why would they bother researchin
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by patmcc 13y ago
I suspect it's people who: -enjoy the challenge -like the paycheque -either have trust in their superiors/government, or simply don't care I don't understand the attitude of people who can't believe anyone would wor
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by patmcc 13y ago
Yes, I often read the free local daily - it's short, usually has local+provincial news, and kills time on transit or waiting in restaurants.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Compared to the 1GB in the iPhone? How much RAM were you expecting?
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by patmcc 13y ago
Likely for the smart case you see linked on the bottom of the page - likely when a magnet is brought near it goes to sleep, and wakes when it's moved away.
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by patmcc 13y ago
You're off by a factor of 10, but yes, it's terrible.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Not being able to quit your corporate job because you desperately need the health insurance is a really interesting kind of freedom, independence and self determination.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Fine, it's impossible to run at a national level because there's some magic cutoff population point past which single-payer can't be done. Let's take your word for it. Why can't the feds force each state to figure o
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by patmcc 13y ago
Thanks for your reply, that's very informative. I'm Canadian (BC) and like to keep an eye on the health care system as my parents are aging and I'm looking to have kids soon. Glad to hear you found treatment for your son, and
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by patmcc 13y ago
Not worth worrying about. Bluetooth is decently secure (uses public key crypto for initial key exchange, entering the PIN at setup prevents against MITM attacks, and the range is short enough anyway you don't actually have that many po
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by patmcc 13y ago
What was their policy? And why did you leave to the US as opposed to another province?
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by patmcc 13y ago
Not as described, but it might work if it was travel focused.

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