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811.
by pitaj 8y ago
Prove it. Show the evidence that private primary schools perform no better than public schools.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> Ultimately, if something similar happened today (immediate removal of 50% of rich people's so-called property or some other major wealth shock), avoiding a similar recovery couldn't be done without banning private schools and
813.
by pitaj 8y ago
> With async/await you have to wrap everything in try/catch, so it only looks better if you do not handle errors. Better than having if (err) { callback(err); return; } at the top of every function. &gt
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by pitaj 8y ago
What a terrible comparison. Why don't you compare how those people were doing before and after enterprise entered their countries? Their standards of living are drastically better with sweatshop work than without it, and continues to i
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by pitaj 8y ago
Statism breeds cronyism in proportion to the power the state has over the market. Politicians need to get their dirty hands off the throat of the market.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> To be clear, I'm not some hard core libertarian that thinks everyone has made their bed and therefore should sleep in it. I think the struggle to conform one's life to productive positive decisions is ubiquitously difficult a
817.
by pitaj 8y ago
In addition to what the other reply said, it's bad because - it's inefficient wasted energy and capital - it causes bubbles which eventually pop, resulting in booms and busts - it pulls resources away from other opportunities
818.
by pitaj 8y ago
It's called malinvestment, and it's tied to monetary policy. When the central bank churns out money, the lower interest rates discourage banks from lending, making it harder for small businesses to collect capital that way. The lo
819.
by pitaj 8y ago
1) Some people prefer higher quality, especially in single-player games with cinematic stories 2) Higher framerates up to a point . That point is probably about 200Hz. If GPU speeds increase to the point where everyone has 200fps capabilit
820.
by pitaj 8y ago
The vast majority of wealthy families lose it within three generations. Growing your wealth requires taking on risk: your investments may not turn out well.
821.
by pitaj 8y ago
KYC/AML is your answer
822.
by pitaj 8y ago
There are very similar programs for the homeless in many of the cities with the worst homeless population, including SF. The helpful resources are there for people. Most of the homeless in these areas just don't make use of these progr
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by pitaj 8y ago
Plenty of people have brought up the "looks ugly/terrible/dumb" criticism and they seem to be sticking with the "total private encapsulation" proposal. Personally I don't have a problem with it, since Type
824.
by pitaj 8y ago
But do apps from the play store have the system permissions to carry out those operations on other apps? I don't think they do.
825.
by pitaj 8y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about. Under what circumstances is Dart AOT compiled and run untrusted? No browsers support Dart as a first-class citizen. If you're talking about compiling Dart into JS, that's obviously no
826.
by pitaj 8y ago
If revenue should increase, it's much easier to increase it by changing some constants in the function. Same applies if you think revenue should decrease, or if you think the taxes should be more progressive. A simpler system benefits
827.
by pitaj 8y ago
So what do you think a better tax system would look like? Here's what I think: - No corporate taxes - No income tax deductions - No income tax exemptions - Lower income tax rates across the board - Income tax rate is calculated by a co
828.
by pitaj 8y ago
Yes, but when pre-compiling, you implicitly trust the code. JITs like V8 are used to execute arbitrary code on your device, where such an exploit is much more harmful.
829.
by pitaj 8y ago
Splitting up "monopolies" won't create competition, especially in the case of vertical integration. What would help competition is intellectual property reforms, deregulation, tax simplification, occupational licensing reform
830.
by pitaj 8y ago
On the other hand, the reasons that ISPs are territorial monopolies (local, state, and federal regulatory capture) are hard to address. Splitting territorial monopolies into smaller territorial monopolies is unlikely to help.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Ma Bell wasn't created naturally at all. It's monopoly status was granted by the federal government. This is fundamentally different from Facebook, Amazon, etc. If anything, the large ISPs like ATT, Verizon, and Spectrum should be
832.
by pitaj 8y ago
> Going from an i7-6700k to 7700k to 8700k to 9700k gets maybe 10% faster single threaded performance on each step Sure, but you can get CPUs with 2-4x the number of cores at consumer price points, which is great for people who do stream
833.
by pitaj 8y ago
What file explorer do you use? Nautilus pisses me off. I'm 100x more productive with Explorer on Windows. Some features I'd like: - Being able to open the context menu for the current folder, even if there are enough files to fill
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by pitaj 8y ago
Even if there was more cognitive burden, it's insignificant compared to the drastically reduced amount of context switches the developer has to deal with.
835.
by pitaj 8y ago
Sounds like War Games + Terminator + Dr. Strangelove
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by pitaj 8y ago
VS Code isn't a fork of Atom.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Spotify didn't/doesn't use Electron, it uses something very similar called Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)
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by pitaj 8y ago
> This is precisely why large concentrations of wealth are harmful to the (free-market) economy. Large concentrations of wealth are necessary for scaling production, allowing lower costs and increasing standard of living. Moreover, large
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by pitaj 8y ago
But doing so will only force them into worse options for the time being. By restricting those options, you aren't magically progressing society into higher standards of living. If you want better options, create them. Then you won&#x27
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by pitaj 8y ago
This is exactly what I was referring to by "elitism". If people were better off to not have the loans, why would they ever use them? You think you know better than these people, but you are not in their situation. Perhaps instea

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