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by pcstl 8y ago
As far as I know, large bitcoin-mining setups usually include their own solar farms (or other energy production facilities), as it is cheaper to generate your own electricity than buying it from the grid.
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by pcstl 8y ago
I think the point being made is that it's nearly impossible and very unsafe to get on top of a horse while wearing heavy armor without stirrups. Hence, the stirrup would have acted as the enabler of heavy cavalry use in battle.
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by pcstl 8y ago
Allowing the government to regulate Facebook and Twitter is opening a door for the government to claim it has the legal right to regulate anything on the Internet. While Facebook and Twitter indeed might be used for nefarious things, dissid
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by pcstl 8y ago
It’s important for journalists to do everything in their power to disavow any notion that they might consider anything marginally right of center to not be the work of Satan himself, lest they find themselves out of a job.
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by pcstl 8y ago
I think finding what a “reasonable amount” looks like is the big issue, but nevertheless that is solid advice.
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by pcstl 8y ago
Sorry to be annoying, but as a Brazilian who constantly sees people making this mistake - it's São Paulo, not Paolo. Paolo is the Italian version of the name Paul, Paulo is the Portuguese (also Spanish) version. But hey, at least you g
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by pcstl 8y ago
I think the biggest question here is what did Patreon even need that much money for.
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by pcstl 8y ago
The US is going to start losing a huge amount of technology talent to developed countries with more rational visa policies.
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by pcstl 8y ago
Well this seems like a well-reasoned comment and not flame bait at all.
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That it has not been observed in the wild (which is arguable) does not mean that it is not real. It is quite obvious that a tax rate of 0% would lead to no revenue. It is also obvious that a tax rate of 100% would not lead to the full expec
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by pcstl 8y ago
"Property is the legal right to deny other people some set of actions regarding a thing." People often denied other people some set of actions regarding things even without the state-enforced legal right to do so. As I said, the o
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by pcstl 8y ago
Vanilla is fine for small projects (and I tend to prefer it for static websites), but if you try to develop a large web app using vanilla JS you'll just end up making your own half-baked framework. A kind of variation on Greenspun&#x27
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by pcstl 8y ago
I mean, you have essentially stated that the Laffer curve is correct.
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No. People had possessions long before the state ever arose. It was just that they could only possess that which they could defend themselves. The state allows for people to possess material things without needing to provide for the defense
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by pcstl 8y ago
The system where anything can be taken from you by a higher power in the name of a “greater good” is called Tyranny, not “Society”.
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by pcstl 8y ago
It is not unconditionally true. Your characterization of the Laffer curve is an unfortunate misunderstanding which was widely propagated by Reagan’s political opponents. (Which was not helped by the fact that the Reagan administration, eith
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by pcstl 8y ago
“They would have the poor be poorer, provided the rich were less rich!”
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by pcstl 8y ago
It seems to be a trend in media to try to convince people that fulfillment must be found in life - but not in work. Anywhere but work. Work is supposed to be mindless drudgery which you only do because you’re forced to, and if you think o
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by pcstl 8y ago
I mean, Haskell does not have multiple input or output parameters, but it simulates both of those well enough.
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by pcstl 8y ago
The main difference is that companies fail with their own cash (or that of private investors) and everyone who loses money in the process had contributed that money voluntarily. When government fails, it’s with the money of taxpayers who ha
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by pcstl 8y ago
Government contracting is heavily incentivized to privilege companies which have close ties to government officials. Have a look at the political scandals of the last 8 years in Brazil. Nearly all of them had to do with officials getting “f
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by pcstl 8y ago
It’s sad how your lived experience is getting downvoted just because it doesn’t line up with peoples’ almost religious faith that the government is wise and government investment in science is always a good thing.
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by pcstl 8y ago
That making taxes more progressive within certain limits has certain effects does not imply that these effects will progress linearly as tax progressiveness increases. After all, if you had a 100% income tax for some segment of population,
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by pcstl 8y ago
Betting on technology evolving faster than expected is usually a safe bet, but it feels like Ray has been working on flawed premises and refuses to revise them.
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by pcstl 8y ago
As long as the demand for skilled programmers stays as high as it does, I don't see this alleged "bubble" popping. And it does not seem like software will stop eating the world. In fact, as someone (I think it was Marc Andree
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by pcstl 8y ago
As far as I can tell, CS enrollment is at an all-time high.
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Which would be perfectly fine, except that digital newspapers have a pesky habit of putting "Opinion" or "Editorial" in very tiny font on the piece's header, with no other indication that the piece being read is,
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by pcstl 8y ago
Nothing new, really. Do people generally believe most mainstream songs being around 3 minutes in length is due to artistic choice?
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by pcstl 8y ago
You keep it out of React, manage it however you want to and is most convenient for your application's data model, and pass in the parts that are relevant to UI as props to React's root.
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It can be used for that, but it quickly becomes cumbersome. Redux, in my opinion, should be used for complex UI state in applications with complex interfaces where interactions with one part of the UI can change very different parts ("

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