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by pitaj 8y ago
> They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration. Ah yes because the _impoverished_ Democrats are fighting for the common
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by pitaj 8y ago
> And the Futurama take on this was just as bad At least with Futurama, Mom was an established character and they were able to comment on other internet culture like Twitter.
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by pitaj 8y ago
You need to consider complimentary data incoming through multiple senses, and data which is better represented in moving picture form.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Before I looked at the page I thought to myself, "Let me guess, this is going to be a list of 'rights' they want to force on the internet" and I was right. This list of rights with a few modifications would be a good pla
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by pitaj 8y ago
Mixins can be modeled as inheritance or as composition.
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by pitaj 8y ago
You can indirectly measure it's mass, charge, and angular momentum.
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by pitaj 8y ago
The "greedy unchecked banker" narrative is cute, but it completely absolves the distortive effects government policies had on the market before the crash. This included incentivizing subprime loans, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, and p
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by pitaj 8y ago
Personally, I think we should stop sheltering people from being able to make stupid mistakes. Then maybe people will learn to be a little more skeptical about everything.
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by pitaj 8y ago
In my experience, the majority of the community uses VSCode with the RLS plugin or IntelliJ with the rust plugin (which is, ironically, written in Kotlin)
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by pitaj 8y ago
Eh, I'd rather have the option to choose than have the government force it down everyone's throats. Believe it or not, most people never repair their devices for the entire time the own them.
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by pitaj 8y ago
It's not English pronunciation that's wrong, it's the spelling.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Exactly. Government subsidies [thing]. [thing] becomes more popular, resulting in unforeseen consequences. Government must now do [stuff] to fix what [thing] caused!
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by pitaj 8y ago
The animation is a little hard to follow because the "balls" get stuck in different places for a while, and the colors aren't easy to distinguish or attribute to certain activities.
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by pitaj 8y ago
The distribution wouldn't even need to be uniform, right? As long as one or more digits never stopped appearing at any point, the infinite sequence would include every possible sequence of numerals.
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by pitaj 8y ago
You left out the entire entertainment industry. I imagine that many people will end up doing creative endeavors, including art, engineering, philosophy, and science. Also, people (being more flexible than robots) could be the main actors be
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by pitaj 8y ago
Most of the criticisms I hear are against the current system. Specifically, I hear many criticisms of "free market" healthcare and finance, among others. All of which are ironically the most regulated and checked industries. I hea
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by pitaj 8y ago
Guaranteed student loans did most of the damage. If we stopped doing that, prices would almost immediately fall to reasonable levels.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Games have been $60 for decades despite growing scope and inflation. Why do you think that is? It's because of alternative monetization strategies.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Gaming is one of the most competitive industries I can think of. It's very easily accessible by new developers and there's an entire industry of indie games. > They argue that regulation is not needed because, if there is a pro
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by pitaj 8y ago
Except that it lowers game cost for everyone else when whales buy a bunch of cosmetic items.
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by pitaj 8y ago
I didn't mean any disrespect, but fair enough. Edited my original comment.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Beyond the chilling effect others have mentioned, it also adds a huge barrier to entry for any Youtube competitor
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by pitaj 8y ago
> The constitution limits the authority of what the Federal government can do in the US I wish. If that was true I'd be much happier with politics than I am.
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by pitaj 8y ago
You don't need to bail out banks to protect the economy.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Business Cycle Theory explains exactly this. When interest rates are too low, people go elsewhere for returns, resulting in malinvestment. What it doesn't do is predict when the crash will happen, or say how to spot which investments a
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by pitaj 8y ago
Yep, what the parent commenter didn't say was that pumping money into any system almost always results in prices going wayyy up to absorb the new demand. This happens regardless or whether it's loans or direct subsidies.
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by pitaj 8y ago
Don't forget another thing the government did: previous bailouts. When large banks were told they were "too big to fail", they heard "your risks will be subsidized by taxpayers", so of course they took on more risk.
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by pitaj 8y ago
> It is about locking up poor people in order to keep them from voting. Poor people already don't vote in high numbers. > It is about filling our prisons with non-violent offenders so we can force them to work for slave wages, an
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by pitaj 8y ago
> Fear is everywhere nowadays, it seems to power capitalism or at least is encouraged by it. To the contrary, fear powers the State. > I suspect the reason is that actual capitalism (as opposed to the ideal construct) is more based on
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by pitaj 8y ago
Does `canonicalize` [1] not work in place of `realpath`? You have a couple of helper functions, like `s` and `str` which you might consider using `to_str` and `to_string` in their place, as it's more idiomatic to use them directly rath

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