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by pjlegato 11y ago
I discovered this one day on the street as I attempted to hail an Uber on my old iPhone 3GS. They had stopped releasing new OSes for the 3GS some time ago. The Uber app had been auto-upgraded and now simply announced that it refused to run
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Apple forces upgrades with a devious anti-feature: version-locked apps, combined with no OS updates for old devices. The system auto-updates your apps, whether you want to or not. Eventually, the newer apps simply refuse to run on older ver
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Yes. He further argues that competition is bad because it has produced this state. ("Competition doesn’t produce variety, it results in commoditization until we are left with 23 identical variations of the same vehicle.") He fails
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> for a measly 120k Spoken like someone who has always had easy access to 120k, which is unfortunately not the case for the vast majority of people.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The BART system you refer to was gutted. It met with heavy resistance from the local governments in the Marin and Peninsula suburbs who feared it would "alter the character" of their quaint semi-rural villages (which haven't
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Yes, they are now, in 2015, talking about completing part of the southern loop of the system that was planned in 1956: http://www.jakecoolidgecartography.com/regional-rapid-transi...
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Exactly. The local economy long ago outgrew the municipal structures. The state should do what New York City did a century ago and merge all of the tiny local governments into a single unified entity. San Francisco is a big city that hasn&#
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The large number of people from all walks of life who already own land in the bay area aren't afraid. They think this is great.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
There's always lots of talk from the politicians about plans to improve it, but so far few concrete results. Within the city, the only thing that's actually under construction is a very expensive new subway to ferry tourists from
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The other issue this is a symptom of is the terrible public transportation in San Francisco, where it takes an hour to go 4 or 5 miles and three hours to go from the west part of San Francisco to Silicon Valley, plus being packed in like sa
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Few politicians have seriously proposed it so far. If and when they do, the votes will follow (a testable prediction.) This process has indeed happened already. It was a large part of the downfall of ancient Rome. Glossing over the many det
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The fatal problem with any universal basic income scheme is that people will always vote for whatever politicians promise to augment their basic income, irrespective of any other factors, leading to ever higher strain on the economy and eve
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I'd translate "Ludus Latinus" as something like "Latin Practice," in the same sense you'd say "soccer practice" or "piano practice" or something like that. It is a game, in the sense that
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> the sort of extreme rich-poor divides between schools that is so characteristic of the USA is far less common in Scandanavian countries. This is due to the "leveling down" social philosophy prominent in Scandinavian societies
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I think you're interpreting that backwards. "Ludus" originally referred to educational training sessions to build skills for later performing activities of direct practical benefit, mainly combat and political oratory. This i
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Of course, Pixie is not the most appropriate tool for every possible application. How fortunate that we have so many great open source tools to choose from!
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by pjlegato 11y ago
People interested in NewLisp may also like Pixie, a small Clojure-like scripting language. https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> I guess they think typical business is like Google or Amazon or something. Exactly. Many in the EU imagine that "business owner" is a synonym for "evil capitalist plutocrat." For them, if you are not someone's
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Unfortunately for merchants, no, the legal responsibility for fraudulent transactions rests entirely with the merchant. Not only that, but processors routinely penalize merchants who fail to screen fraudulent transactions sufficiently with
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by pjlegato 11y ago
7 with a line through it is unusual in the US, but not totally unheard of. Z with a line through it is quite common in mathematics in the US (to prevent confusion with the number 2.) Many people who do a lot of math carry the dash over to Z
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Pompous moralizing is far more annoying.
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> You played or someone broke your legs or burned down your house The Mafia didn't force people to play their numbers games. They didn't need to. There were more than enough willing and voluntary participants.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This is simply the leftist version of the American exceptionalism thesis. Whereas conservatives focus on supposed positive exceptional attributes of America, multiple generations of leftists have now promoted and developed the inverse: the
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This is true. The zoning laws that led to suburbia were introduced in the 1910s and 1920s by well-meaning "progressives" who decried the ability of the rich to cloister themselves in country estates while the poor were forced to l
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Can we get a couple of screenshots on that page?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> finance is a zero-sum game It's not, because new money is always entering the system from the real economy. For example, there is not a fixed amount of money invested in the stock market that the players just trade among themselve
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Getting rid of scarcity is great as a long term goal, but it's not happening any time soon. The technology does not exist yet to do so, which is why these things are still traded for money. This goal is unfortunately not relevant to co
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by pjlegato 11y ago
If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. It is not the case that investors are simply greedy and want higher prices so they can make more money. Economies are not a zero-sum game where people can only make money when someone else los
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The US Fed has been signaling that they are planning to raise interest rates late this year or early next year. Not only does owning gold not pay any interest, it actually incurs ongoing cost for secure storage and insurance. Its main inves
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by pjlegato 11y ago
"Being under opposition control" does not necessarily imply "is not telling the truth."

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