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by philh 10y ago
If that network layout is unsuitable, then that's reason to dislike Urbit. If not, it seems weird to complain that their political opinions are causing them to make unobjectionable technical decisions.
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by philh 10y ago
I have no particular knowledge about this, but I just tried with a python2.6 (from one of Amazon's EC2 images) and it seemed to work: $ /usr/bin/python26 Python 2.6.9 (unknown, Dec 17 2015, 01:08:55) [GCC 4
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by philh 10y ago
> Both sides have extremes. I think it balances out. You seem to be saying not "that kind of leftish rhetoric didn't push people towards Trump", but "there's also rightish rhetoric which pushed people away from T
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Fair enough, I appreciate the clarification.
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> There's a group of people doing it on the streets at every damn Pride event in the UK - at quite some expense to the taxpayer too, since they wind up having a number of police officers stationed near them. Not that this is false (
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At most a portion of the value of the building has been redistributed. Some of it has just plain been destroyed. Also, capital in its undestroyed form can typically be used to extract value and make a profit. If that weren't true, ther
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> The republican party is simply unacceptable on many levels for any intelligent, honest person. > I realize that you, like many people, simply do not see it that way, Are you saying that hueving is not an intelligent, honest person?
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Ah, I was not aware of the rebate (I probably had been at one point and had forgotten about it). I was under the impression that £350M was gross in the sense that it was the amount we actually send them, and the net figure was that minus wh
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AFAIK the 300M figure or whatever was deliberately misleading, being gross and not net, but not literally false. Spending that money on the NHS instead would require cutting spending on some of the things that the money we got back from the
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But also, we have established procedures for how things are done and who has the power to do what. We haven't given the government the power to trigger article 50, so it would be undemocratic for them to simply take it.
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I am in the UK, and I'm sufficiently familiar with the case that I'm willing to stick my neck out and say "no, it was just unclear". But it's changed now (thanks, mods!), so shrug .
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I found the headline quite misleading: it sounds to me like "Court orders that Parliament give Article 50 the go-ahead", but it's actually "Court says that Article 50 cannot go ahead without Parliament's approval&qu
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FWIW, I've lived in the UK my whole life and I had no idea that had any meaning apart from the crypto one.
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Improving goimports(reasonableapproximation.net)
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by philh 10y ago
"Not because the ideas are necessarily controversial in their own right, but because anyone could twist them to seem controversial if they were sufficiently motivated to." I don't know if you're doing it deliberately, bu
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/* You won't believe the one weird trick this function uses to compute inverse square root */
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by philh 10y ago
> The Joker scares the city onto its two ferries. Once the ferries are in the middle of the water, he cuts their power and gives them both a button to blow up the other ferry, thereby constructing a prisoner’s dilemma (one boat is filled
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by philh 10y ago
Okay, fair enough, but nothing like that is happening here. That situation requires a surprise, it needs something to happen that the actors didn't expect. Maybe because they didn't have perfect information, or because they didn&#
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> acting only in one's own self-interest can lead to results that are provably worse for your own self-interest. To be precise: everyone acting in their own self interest can be worse for everyone's self-interest, than every
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Net neutrality seems almost universally praised. The FDA is quite popular too.
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If something is a straw man, you're not going to discover that by looking prima facie. Like, I could counter this article by saying "this dude thinks evolution has made humans as intelligent as it's possible for anything to b
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To add some context, California's tax revenue for 2014-2015 was $130bn. So having an extra $100bn would order-of-magnitude double their income for one year. It's not clear to me whether or not that would make a big difference. I l
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by philh 10y ago
> The OP was engaging in discussion, not seriously advocating a course of action. This is an important distinction to make, but it's not a black-and-white one. And while OP didn't literally say "I think we should take righ
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And a lot of 18-25 year olds would be prohibited from living independently. This would be terrible, for example, for people in abusive households. And it would merely suck horribly for anyone who simply chafes at not being treated like a pe
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I've spent the whole year reading Albion's Seed , a history of four major British migrations to America - each came from a different part of Britain, and went to a different part of America, creating four separate cultures in wha
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More or less, but they aren't necessarily going to admit that unless you can credibly signal that you're willing and able to pay their price. Brett probably did have a price (say, a billion dollars), but the person in question did
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To pick two examples, restaurants and tattoo artists can get booked up months in advance. When you ask about availability for tomorrow evening, they won't quote a price, they'll say "sorry, we're full". You might be
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"there is no incentive or a very small incentive to choose the candidate with the best policies, because the chance of your vote making a difference is so small" is a theoretical argument about rational actors, not an observation
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by philh 10y ago
Counterpoint: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/rati... This paper argues that voting for social reasons ("this result will benefit society") is sensible even in large election
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Data surgery is not rocket science(reasonableapproximation.net)
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