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by pdonis 1y ago
Even those items have to meet more stringent requirements for DoD than similar items bought by private companies or individuals.
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by pdonis 1y ago
Not defending DOGE, but it should be noted that much of what DoD pays for when it buys weapons is not the weapons, but reliable weapons and the logistics of supporting them under combat conditions. The apparently inflated unit costs often a
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by pdonis 1y ago
> The moon circles the earth approx every 28 days. In what sense? You state this like it's an obvious fact. It isn't. It contains a number of hidden assumptions, not all of which stand up to close scrutiny. > Given there&
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Can you go further and say that the Earth and sun "really" are orbiting the center-of-mass of the milky way? Not according to the definition I gave. Calculate the acceleration of the Earth and Sun towards the center of the
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by pdonis 1y ago
> the earth doesn't even orbit the sun. Rather, both bodies orbit a point that's (roughly) their combined center of mass Yes, that's true. Indeed, when we take into account other planets (and the Moon, and the asteroids,
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by pdonis 1y ago
One statement in the article needs a little clarification: "This so-called “quasi-moon” isn’t a true moon or a mini-moon, because it orbits the Sun rather than our planet." Our Moon also orbits the Sun rather than the Earth, in th
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by pdonis 1y ago
> It’s closer to “freedom to make the right choices.” Not quite. It means, individuals have to have the freedom to make their own choices, because nobody can be trusted to know what the "right" choices are and dictate them t
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by pdonis 1y ago
No, it's much less of a risk, because companies that sell domain hosting services have an actual financial relationship with you and have much better support infrastructure in place because you're a paying customer. The risk is no
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by pdonis 1y ago
I've gotten both calls and texts from my bank and credit card companies about fraudulent transactions. Indeed, I want them to do that, so I'm alerted as soon as they spot something fishy. But if I get such a call or text, I don&
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by pdonis 1y ago
> not answering is not always a good idea. Sure it is. Just because you get a call about an issue that turns out to be legit, doesn't mean you need to resolve that issue by answering the call. I describe upthread what I've do
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by pdonis 1y ago
> you're assuming that "bank security" (or the like) will never call you to alert you to a scam, or that you will recognize their number I'm assuming no such thing. I have indeed gotten calls and texts from my bank
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by pdonis 1y ago
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know, period. (In fact I routinely have my phone in Do Not Disturb mode so only a few numbers, the ones I have in my favorites, will make the phone ring at all.) If it's urgent enough
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by pdonis 1y ago
> "only 22" doesn't mean they have to be hesitant about making pronouncements about the whole human life. Yes, it does, because he has a lot more life ahead of him, and he doesn't know what it will be like. Lots of
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by pdonis 1y ago
I would advise the author to be very hesitant about making pronouncements that are supposed to apply to a whole human life, when he's only 22.
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He's probably pining for the fjords...
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by pdonis 1y ago
> The US claims at least to have built a free market solution I don't know that "the US" has actually claimed this, but in any case any such claim is false. There are lots of reasons for that, but the key one is simple:
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by pdonis 1y ago
> how can you have a functioning marketplace for a good when the demand is hard to forecast for an individual, almost completely inelastic and often extremely time sensitive. Most health care is not like this. Most health care is fairl
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> the alternative being that there is no entity able to regulate No, the alternative is for people to realize that "regulation" provided by government doesn't work--that the only way to effectively regulate a market is f
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> My point was that free market is kinda like unstable isotope, it can't exist for any significant length of time and will decay into a government. If this is true, I think we're screwed. I don't think it's actually
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by pdonis 1y ago
> And do you know why that happened? Because there was no control Nonsense. It was because the government had control, and could force people to accept that it was giving special privileges to certain players. For example, the railro
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by pdonis 1y ago
> because humans are shit at governing, the only viable way (until someone invents something new) is external control. No, that's even worse, because, as you admit, humans are shit at governing--and the "external control&quot
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by pdonis 1y ago
Capitalism is not the same thing as a free market. A free market means all transactions are voluntary. That's how wealth gets built--by voluntary cooperation among productive people through specialization and trade. Capitalism is just
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by pdonis 1y ago
No, not money. The problem is not that Google, Amazon, etc. can buy special privileges from the government; the problem is that the government has them for sale. It's government power that's the root of the problem, not money. If
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by pdonis 1y ago
> unregulated market A free market is not unregulated. It's regulated by the voluntary choices of all market participants. The alternative is to have the market regulated by those who aren't participants--i.e., who have no sk
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by pdonis 1y ago
> A free market that you or I might define requires safeguards like a social welfare net to make sure individuals are truly free to decline an offer that is harmful to them. That depends on how the safeguards are implemented. If they a
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Money is a unit of exchange that exists to compel action Not in a free market. In a free market, people have the option to refuse to accept your money if they don't want to give you what you want to buy from them with it.
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by pdonis 1y ago
It would work the same as it works now for generators. A function that calls a generator function isn't a generator just because of that; it only is if it also has the yield keyword in it (or yield from, which is a way of chaining gene
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by pdonis 1y ago
I've used gevent and I agree it works well. It has prevented me from even trying to experiment with the async/await syntax in Python for anything significant. However, gevent has to do its magic by monkeypatching. Wanting to avoid
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by pdonis 1y ago
That would be nice, but how would the bank verify the signature? It's the same old key exchange problem all over again. In any case, that's not what I was suggesting. I was simply suggesting that banks shouldn't be allowed to
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by pdonis 1y ago
> For the bank, I don’t really see why it would be preferable to intervene with the bank vs the tech company. Because the bank has a fiduciary responsibility to its customers. The tech company doesn't. The bank can't just den

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