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by pjlegato 10y ago
That is to catch people accused of hiring someone to impersonate them and take the test for them. Where that is suspected, they can make the real person copy the sentence out again in cursive for comparison, on the theory that it's muc
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I'm not taking a position, just pointing out that the post I replied to was not responsive to the original objection (which someone else wrote). Also, the post I wrote specifically states, "provided that it doesn't adversely
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The query specifically states, "...provided it doesn't adversely impact anyone else." Building a sewage plant or a landfill next to your house would most certainly impact your life.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is a straw man reply. It isn't responsive to the original objection -- why should the government get to decide whether someone can build a radio tower on private property, provided that it doesn't adversely impact anyone else
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yes, in the massive London banking industry, though these are not accessible to most. 100k USD is about 76k GBP. According to [1], entry level analyst jobs in London banks pay £50k to £55k. In subsequent years, you make substantially more t
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by pjlegato 10y ago
If it makes you feel any better, most taxi companies are even more reprehensible than Uber. They just operate at much smaller scale, so nobody notices.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That all sounds great, if you're independently wealthy or at least have a well-padded bank account. What if the "option" you have is turning your entire family out onto the street if you decline? The "give back" man
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Actual arbitrage is very rare in the real world. If you're holding inventory at all, you're not doing arbitrage.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The choice between saccharine cuteness or hyper-macho toughness is a false dichotomy. There are many other options for branding besides just those two.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yep. Ironically, the next generation will likely find this sort of saccharine cuteness to be hopelessly old-fashioned and conservative, the same way the 60s/70s counterculture rejected the aesthetic of the cutesy cartoon corporate masc
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Well, it is an attempt to treat us like kids; the comment is more about how that can be a useful social function or at least an effective marketing message.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The case of importing from Ali, holding inventory, then reselling in the US is still not arbitrage. Arbitrage is by definition riskless simultaneous buying and selling of the same product in different venues. Since the Ali importer is buyin
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> make a big difference for plenty of people... The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
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by pjlegato 10y ago
As I wrote above, not merely influential in a historic sense, but alive and well today: clojure.org.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Lisp (first formulated in 1959) is still alive and well: clojure.org New languages (such as Javascript, Ruby, Python, even newer iterations of Java) become popular to the extent that they marry Algol-like (i.e. C-like) syntax with functiona
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Inertia, mostly. All the common tools are built around C, all the existing code is written in C, all the jobs to maintain and extend that code are all in C. Like most "Why does everyone only ever use language X to do Y" questions,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It happens for another reason too: everyone likes to flatter themselves that they're top-tier big shots, that they're "web scale," that they have the same scaling problems and uptime problems that Google and Facebook hav
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It doesn't matter, since the topic was whether being a member state ensures moderation.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
What the US does or doesn't do is not relevant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque fallacy). You're attempting to change the discussion from an analysis of Russia's historic motives in specific situ
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Let's skip the insulting tone. The signal value was, at best, an extremely minor signal. The shield was never a significant military threat to Russia, which was obvious and well known to both the US and Russia at the time. The only inf
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I think it's much more likely that Russia would have interpreted any voluntary surrender of power by the US to international organizations as a sign of weakness, which would only have emboldended it even further and sooner into aggress
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by pjlegato 10y ago
"Supply and demand" is not an optional element of city planning that individual communities can choose to use or not use based on their particular local planning desires; it is an objective emergent property of scarcity. The desir
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The various land regulations such as Prop 13 and rent control were overtly billed as "ways to stave off all the social change that's been happening" when they were debated and passed in the 70s and 80s. It's not a gues
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That is almost what happened. During the 1970s and 1980s, Californians collectively decided they didn't like the changes that were going on and that they wanted their state to be frozen as it was circa 1965 forever, in both physical an
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Russia could never have perceived the relatively insignificant missile shield as a serious or realistic threat. It was thus not a major factor in Russia's strategic calculations.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You've changed your argument completely. At first you said that Russia wanted to join international organizations and integrate with the world, but couldn't because the US was somehow actively blocking Russia from joining. Now you
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The missile shield in Poland was only begun years after Russia had made it very clear that it was uninterested in participating in any international institutions that would restrict its autonomy in any way. The choice between global integra
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Indeed, Hungary shows the EU's magic dust has little to no ability to induce moderation.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Russia actively refused integration in order to preserve its autonomy. It was not in any sense a result of the US denying them integration. Also, you are assuming that true global integration is both possible and necessarily a good thing, w
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> Berlin is anarchy Perhaps you could gain some perspective by traveling in Somalia for a few weeks. Berlin is nowhere close to "anarchy"; this is absurd hyperbole that simply weakens your overall argument.

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