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by pfisch 7y ago
Human's always game every system we ever develop. It is reasonable to recognize this when you design systems. I have a f2p game and it is unbelievable how clever some of the free players are at figuring out ways to get everything for f
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by pfisch 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the poster I responded to was talking about doing this on a per state basis. Not the national popular vote.
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by pfisch 7y ago
> This particular problem could be solved by forcing all states to apportion their Electoral College votes based on the distribution of the popular vote. That is not a realistic proposal. Political gridlock will never allow a change like
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by pfisch 7y ago
Because of the EC I would argue that in most states, including California, your vote effectively doesn't matter at all. Unless you are in a purple state you basically don't have a vote, and politicians can ignore your entire State
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by pfisch 7y ago
I seriously doubt this idea came from Trump. I can imagine the person/group pitching it stroking his ego and convincing him to buy "trumpland" though.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Well if they are unwilling to do that it seems like we aren't really capable of it. Just like we aren't capable of operating without corruption or war because a certain group of people won't "get out of the way"
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by pfisch 7y ago
But it seems wrong to put a mentally ill person in jail for crimes a lot of the time because it isn't necessarily within their control and/or they lack mens rhea. So either we have 2 tracks or we continue to fill jails with the me
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by pfisch 7y ago
Really? Are the other countries on target? I heard the EU was not. I want it to work. I'm just not sure it is, or if humans are even capable of coordinating on the scale required to address this problem outside of some geoengineering s
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by pfisch 7y ago
If you recognize that the GOP only pretends they don't believe in global warming it makes more sense.
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by pfisch 7y ago
It's way too slow to do these things. Also the reliability would be terrible. Also a TOS violation anyway.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Almost no tech company could operate like that. What would you do just shut down your services for a month? Offer no support?
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by pfisch 7y ago
The fee would have to increase exponentially, and that still probably wouldn't work.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Theoretically they could do that. It depends if the tort laws actually inflict enough damage to force change. It seems to be the case that a lot of companies instead focus their resources on tort reform bills to neuter the laws.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Is it just a scapegoat though? Allowing these groups of disaffected people does seem to be a significant part of mass killings. There were a lot of ISIS inspired attacks until ISIS was destroyed. Which effectively shut down the community. T
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by pfisch 7y ago
> Not sure in what country you are what I read on the internet most Western countries have issues with plastic bags floating int he air , bottles in rivers,side of the roads and forests where tourists hang out. That is really not what th
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by pfisch 7y ago
I'm just not even sure if this is good at the end of the day. If it takes less energy to create and use plastic and then properly store it in a landfill then that is what we should do. I feel like we get confused about the source of pl
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by pfisch 7y ago
I'm just not even sure if this is good at the end of the day. If it takes less energy to create and use plastic and then properly store it in a landfill then that is what we should do. I feel like we get confused about the source of pl
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by pfisch 7y ago
Too bad like 90% of plastic in the ocean from land based sources comes from the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, Nile, Ganges, Pearl River, Amur, Niger, and the Mekong. So this basically does nothing at all to address the issues we
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by pfisch 7y ago
So the same attorney general that believes the FBI was infected by the "deep state" and is vulnerable to widescale corruption also thinks that same group should be able to remove encryption from anything? How can a man even hold b
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by pfisch 7y ago
Show me an event that is conclusively psychogenic. At this point I feel like a psychogenic diagnosis is like attributing something to god/religion. When you say what the cause of something is the burden of proof is now on you to provid
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by pfisch 7y ago
I'm not sure he was saying he was uncomfortable. I agree that "they" is awful, and I would definitely prefer that we just have to make the unknown pronoun always be "she" if that is what everyone needs to not throw
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by pfisch 7y ago
The mechanism really doesn't matter as long as they are secured.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Those were not consumer banks. I don't think anyone actually lost their account balances.
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by pfisch 7y ago
>The majority of markets don't care if it is 100% backed, like they don't care when their bank does fractional reserve. Banks are insured, and in general they haven't failed for the last like 100+ years. I do think what yo
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by pfisch 7y ago
There is no chance it is 100% backed like they claim. I would happily wager $10000 on it if a framework for such a wager existed.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Amazon will just play games where you have to dig through a bunch of menus to figure it out.
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by pfisch 7y ago
Yeah, and all we have to do to stop piracy is make it illegal. Right?
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by pfisch 7y ago
> A very talented artist creates a realistic watercolor of the President in a compromising situation with Kim Jong-un and posts to Instagram. Probably legal. It is satire meant to be political commentary. Not distributed with the intent
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by pfisch 7y ago
Which time are you talking about when it flooded? It flooded on mother's day this year during just a hard rain because all the pumps are failing because the cities infrastructure is falling apart. New Orleans has been losing its natura
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by pfisch 7y ago
New Orleans is itself in a rapidly deteriorating state. I lived there for over 30 years, and it has gotten progressively worse and worse over time. There are now frequent periods where you have to boil your water before you can use it, and

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