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by pfooti 11y ago
I'd contend that black markets for tax evasion are qualitatively different from black markets for restricted goods. Consider the hefty tax on cigarettes. Sure, there's a cigarette black market, but it's not nearly the majorit
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by pfooti 11y ago
For what it's worth, I'm not usually one to do credential comparisons and stuff, but I'm going to prefix this with: I got a Ph.D in science education over ten years ago from UC Berkeley, and have been working in and around th
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by pfooti 11y ago
In addition to the per-student cost-to-educate not being constant, but charters only admitting the cheap students (as mentioned in sibling posts), charters also tend to have much lower salary costs, because in most states charter school tea
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by pfooti 11y ago
That's generally not true. For example: you could buy a few copies of the same lock and take them apart. Unless there's something Really Funky going on, you can use the master oracle method as well (start with your working key, an
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by pfooti 11y ago
Yeah, this is rad, as I imagine there's some overhead to running the transpiled babel ES6 code compared to running the native ES6 features. At least some things may be faster - I remember lexical block scoping (let and fat arrow) causi
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by pfooti 11y ago
I agree - I think I could get away with arguing that Ruby became popular because of Rails (that may not be completely true, but I and a lot of other devs I know learned about ruby because of rails at least). Node, OTOH, has no central frame
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by pfooti 11y ago
I also opt out every time. At one point the FSM came to me in a dream and told me that I shalt not go through a pornoscanner. And who am I to doubt the word of noodle?
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by pfooti 11y ago
FWIW, I have a PhD and spent five years as an assistant professor. I then went on to take a different job as a lecturer for a few years before leaving academia completely. The general complaint JF raised rings true. In my field (learning sc
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by pfooti 11y ago
At this time, it is kind of wild that handling rich text content editing is so hard on the web. It is understandable, but a bummer, that really good content tools (google docs, office 365, medium) do not open source their editors. There are
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by pfooti 11y ago
from the article ... "In general, I think that security researchers have a problem with public relations. Security people are like smarmy teenagers who listen to goth music: they are full of morbid and detailed monologues about the per
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This World of Ours: Mickens on Security [pdf](usenix.org)
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by pfooti 11y ago
Yah, in general I hate wavers. The problem is that I've experienced bicyclists who just don't follow traffic rules regarding stop, yield, and red lights. Given that I know there's a nonzero probability that a bicycle will int
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by pfooti 11y ago
As it happens, I learned my own behavior because I once struck a bicyclist who wasn't as predictable as you. I went to a 4-way, stopped, saw a biker approaching the intersection who hadn't stopped yet, and pulled into the intersec
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by pfooti 11y ago
Yes, when I'm at a stop sign anywhere near a bike, I'll yield if I'm in a car. Bicyclists are just too unpredictable - sometimes they'll roll the stop sign even if it seems unwise (or maybe they just didn't notice m
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by pfooti 11y ago
I love the cheese board, and not just for the pizza. When I was in grad school at Berkeley, I knew I could go there and get really good advice about what kinds of cheeses I should get for whatever dinner I was having or hosting. Everyone th
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by pfooti 11y ago
Sanders could beat Trump in the general. But then again just about anybody beats Trump in the general, and Clinton has had a long time to work on her ground game for the primary. I don't see her losing the primary unless someone really
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by pfooti 11y ago
Two way data binding is awesome and neat and shiny and chrome. It's also pretty slow; a lot of pragmatic angular work involves keeping the number of watchers firing during digest cycles minimized. If you have a lot of data that's
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by pfooti 11y ago
I'm not sure you are correct. According to the w3 spec for HTML attributes [0], html element attribute names must consist of one or more characters other than the space characters, U+0000 NULL, """, "'", &
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by pfooti 11y ago
This looks nice. I like the idea of more-or-less seamless integration between a1 and a2 on the same page, to allow for incrementally experimenting with a2 features without having to port the entire application over. With angular 2 moving to
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by pfooti 11y ago
Another article about the game: http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numbe...
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Play pool on a one-holed elliptical table: Loop(theguardian.com)
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by pfooti 11y ago
I live in Good Eggs central - san francisco, and I foresee problems that are still ahead for this startup. Don't get me wrong: I really want Good Eggs to succeed, but they have quality control issues that need to be addressed and scale
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Victoria Taylor of Reddit speaks to the media(bbc.com)
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by pfooti 11y ago
I use 'xie', but 'they' works too.
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by pfooti 11y ago
You know what I want? I want a tag that I can use like <img> but more flexibly- I want to manage cache and authentication on images displayed in-browser, and the fact that I basically have to use URL or Cookie auth for image embeds is
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by pfooti 11y ago
isn't 4.x kitkat? It's the 3.x devices that cause issues, and those are preeeeetty old.
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by pfooti 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is the place to engage meaningfully around common-sense misconceptions about race, class, and so forth in the US. That said: "the majority of crime is committed by Black people" is something that I'd
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by pfooti 11y ago
If you get (illegally) pulled over by the (racist) police, what should you do? Submit to their power trip instead? Given that there's a lot of questions about the audio in general, I'm not sure how nicely he really asked - the e
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by pfooti 11y ago
This is a pretty good idea. A friend of mine ran a startup in downtown SF for a while, which had some extra desk space in a nice office. They rented out desks to people who wanted a space to co-work. It went pretty well, AFAIK, and I bet th
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by pfooti 11y ago
This looks pretty rad - modulo the normal qualm of sharing all your location data with google, of course. I've been fiddling around with a lot of ideas for geolocated X on mobile (local chat, virtual graffiti, flashmob coordinators, et

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