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by pitaj 7y ago
At the cost of further disincentives to actually building more housing. What a great idea. Every field of economics agrees that rent control causes harm to the people it's supposed to help.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Rent control deters the building of more housing. It's literally part of the problem.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Laplace transforms, being essentially a more powerful superset of Fourier transforms, are awesome. They also make calculus way easier, differential equations specifically. As an electrical engineer, I love me some Laplace transforms.
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by pitaj 7y ago
GitHub features the same draft system you described.
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by pitaj 7y ago
The quote, for people on mobile: > A particular type of complexity is over-engineering, where developers have made the code more generic than it needs to be, or added functionality that isn’t presently needed by the system. Reviewers sho
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by pitaj 7y ago
You need to use four space indent to create code blocks, triple-ticks don't work here.
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by pitaj 7y ago
The necessary pressure isn't that important. Obviously using this material under those conditions in the real world won't be realistic. However, what this shows is that superconductivity is possible at those temperatures, and that
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by pitaj 7y ago
How many snacks do you keep around the house? I find that if I buy them, I'll eat them. So I just don't buy them, instead buying vegetables instead.
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by pitaj 7y ago
I'm fairly certain it does it already.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Any specific reason you decided to use Flutter instead of React native for your mobile app, given you use React for your existing frontend?
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by pitaj 7y ago
I am the grandparent. I should have excluded trademark when I referred to IP but let me make it completely clear. By IP I am referring to copyright and patents.
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by pitaj 7y ago
> The question around IP law isn't if it's possible for creative work to be created without it, which is obviously true, but what creative works would be created (and what creative works would not be created) if IP law didn&#x2
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by pitaj 7y ago
Copyright is a form of IP.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Trademark is pretty different from copyright and patents. This is because claiming to be another party or claiming your product is their product is fraud.
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by pitaj 7y ago
> No, that's not true. Real estate can be purchased and owned, resold over and over without being improved by labor. The initial labor is what creates the property. It can then be traded and whatnot. But it was not property before t
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by pitaj 7y ago
If somebody makes a better version then good for them.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Creators don't have exclusive control over their past works, but they do have control over their future works. That is how those monetization strategies work. > If Marvel releases a movie, I can steal it and ask people to subscrib
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by pitaj 7y ago
> The fact that pircay exists exactly does show that their exist people that do not want to pay. Many people use piracy to get art they literally cannot buy legally. Many others use it to get digital versions of physical media they bough
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by pitaj 7y ago
By "stealing" I meant literally taking their money, not using their art.
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by pitaj 7y ago
> (Can you imagine the wacky alternatives that private individuals and companies would write into contracts if "IP" law didn't exist?) There are countless examples of trade secrets that exists in this exact state. These th
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by pitaj 7y ago
> When digital replication is easy -- as it is with arts like music or software -- piracy destroys innovation and hurts creators who want to earn a living by selling their creations. There's no evidence this is true. This is already
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by pitaj 7y ago
Your yard was not there naturally, unless you call a section of untouched forest "your yard". Every piece of property must be improved by labor in some way. That is how property is created in the first place: homesteading involv
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by pitaj 7y ago
Patreon is a huge example of this model working very well in the online creator space. Music artists already make the majority of their income from live shows. The solution to "subscriptions for things that have no reason to be provi
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by pitaj 7y ago
All of my public work is open source under the MIT license. Just because you aren't protected by the government, doesn't mean you can't protect your inventions through secrecy.
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by pitaj 7y ago
I'll go several steps further: intellectual property is an invalid form of ownership and shouldn't exist at all. Piracy is always a just action because the monopoly over information given to people by the state is morally wrong. &
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by pitaj 7y ago
These programs have been designed this way for many decades. Given that track record, why would anyone trust politicians to implement single-payer healthcare or other "socialist" policies?
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by pitaj 7y ago
It's adjusted for cost of living.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Don't forget public housing programs that concentrate poverty and crime ("The Projects"). It's as if assistance programs were designed to maintain a permanent underclass of dependents.
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by pitaj 7y ago
There are ways around it but nothing as easy as `&&` in other shells
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by pitaj 7y ago
Naw its chief crime is not having `&&`

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