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841.
by pitaj 8y ago
Doing that still means restricting the options people have
842.
by pitaj 8y ago
Doing so requires bigger and better capacitors.
843.
by pitaj 8y ago
Why are people using payday loans if they already have better alternatives? If it wasn't their best option, why would they pick it? Yes, you're making them worse off by removing their best option. > Imagine saying in 1850: &quo
844.
by pitaj 8y ago
Many people make use of payday loans. If you remove that option, those people aren't any better off. Restricting or prohibiting payday loans is politicians saying they can make better choices than the people they're claiming to he
845.
by pitaj 8y ago
These result, generally, in a 120Hz flicker, which some people are sensitive to.
846.
by pitaj 8y ago
> until I'm reminded that DC power loss over a distance can hurt bad, even 48VDC telecom power. If you had AC to your house, then a rectifier for a 100V/200V DC circuit through your house, the losses wouldn't be any worse.
847.
by pitaj 8y ago
r/atheism was made no longer a default because it became notoriously toxic
848.
by pitaj 8y ago
At&T was also a monopoly created by the government. It was in no way spontaneous.
849.
by pitaj 8y ago
Don't forget about shoeprints, dental imprints, drug dogs, and other bunk
850.
by pitaj 8y ago
Intellectual property reform is wayyy overdue. The DMCA needs to be reworded to provide stronger protections to creators. The timetables need to be reduced.
851.
by pitaj 8y ago
That's tangential at best to a discussion of credit cards as a payment processor.
852.
by pitaj 8y ago
Sure, but very rarely can you pay less by not using credit cards. There are some exemptions like "cash discounts" but in my experience they're rare.
853.
by pitaj 8y ago
You have to have some ideas of what the state was before the change, and what changes need to be done to transfer states. In complex UIs, writing custom update logic for every change results in an unmaintainable mess and a large payload to
854.
by pitaj 8y ago
And long before they're on their own, susceptible to all kinds of peer pressure.
855.
by pitaj 8y ago
Our drinking age is too high. This results in the negative outcomes related to alcohol use on campus, including habit forming behaviors that hurt people later in life.
856.
by pitaj 8y ago
Are these statistics standardized in methodology? Many countries don't count certain types of infant mortality that the US does.
857.
by pitaj 8y ago
Why is that a problem?
858.
by pitaj 8y ago
He's being facetious.
859.
by pitaj 8y ago
GDPR isn't so bad, but it is pretty vague. Holding IP Addresses in server logs may or may not violate GDPR.
860.
by pitaj 8y ago
Any regulation is a barrier to entry. The more complicated the regulation is, the worse it is for competition. Of course tax law has stopped people from innovating. It's one of the biggest drains on competition and economic growth. Tax
861.
by pitaj 8y ago
It's a really hard thing to spec for runtime.
862.
by pitaj 8y ago
They might support it with a software upgrade in the future, but I doubt it.
863.
by pitaj 8y ago
The engine wouldn't need to be especially efficient; it's purpose is to extend range, not to be the main charging apparatus.
864.
by pitaj 8y ago
Except the engine isn't always there as taking up extra space and weight.
865.
by pitaj 8y ago
I've thought about this, too. It can't be that difficult to do, can it? Maybe it's illegal under current regulatory systems.
866.
by pitaj 8y ago
I should have been more clear that I meant IP addresses alone. It seems like this only addresses when IP addresses are combined with other data.
867.
by pitaj 8y ago
Are IP addresses personally identifiable information under GDPR?
868.
by pitaj 8y ago
Also, it's voluntary. Taxation is involuntary.
869.
by pitaj 8y ago
I was talking about JavaScript. In JavaScript there are no typed functions or arguments, so that information doesn't exist period.
870.
by pitaj 8y ago
> getting the return type of a method and getting the input parameter names (+ types) Type information literally doesn't exist at runtime, though. Isn't it kind of ridiculous to compare languages like that?

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