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by pjlegato 11y ago
Rather, tech workers in San Francisco trend more liberal. This is because the city generally trends liberal; it's not specific to tech workers. Outside of that bubble, tech workers are the same as anyone else. The largest single empl
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There are many other types of business besides startups, and not all technology businesses are startups. That's fine, many of them work very well. Rapid growth is not the only way to run a successful business. But they're not &quo
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Bad traffic was mostly limited to a few large cities such as LA then. In most of the US, it was not nearly as bad. It was also believed that traffic was a fairly minor infrastructure problem that could easily be resolved by widening the hig
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Runes weren't independently invented. They were likely derived from Old Italic alphabets related to Latin. This is why many of the runic characters are graphically similar to their Latin equivalents. * https://en.wikipedia.o
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> Young people never wanted to spend their lives in cars. Actually, many of them did. Talk to some old people in the US suburbs about what life was like when they were young in the '50s and '60s. Most grew up in a dense city an
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This sort of thing may have been limited to powerful state actors a few years ago, but now Pandora's Box has been opened. Many other actors are now actively exploiting the holes deliberately created in the entire stack of computer secu
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The fatal problem with this plan is that all end user devices are by now hopelessly compromised. Take a look at the Snowden documents, which are now years behind the state of the art. It doesn't matter if your crypto is both bulletpr
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by pjlegato 11y ago
"Progress" is a nebulous and heavily opinion-based concept. It is not a well defined factual, monotonic process whereby society invariably moves from "bad old ways" to "better new ways". This is not a game, and
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This is precisely my point. For almost all of human history, public health was indeed a luxury rather than a necessity. In many parts of the world, it still is today. The details of a specific proposal are not relevant. No matter what speci
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The problem is the intractable dispute about what things should go into which category. Empirically, there has been a strong historical tendency to move things into the "NEED" category that were traditionally in the "WANT&quo
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Looks like they have more than a few unhappy customers: http://www.yelp.com/biz/earth-class-mail-san-francisco-2
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The author does not understand the notion of falsifiability. It is not necessary that we have the technology to discover the physical manifestation of memes right now for them to be a valid scientific hypothesis, only that in principle we
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McDonald's is in some technical, economic sense a "restaurant" in that it serves food for pay. In non-technical everyday usage, the word "restaurant" implies table service, excluding places where you must carry your
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If I say to a friend, "What restaurants are around here?" nobody I know would ever reply with "McDonald's." It is a "fast food place," not a "restaurant." A "restaurant" has table servi
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American here. Nobody I know would ever call McDonald's a "restaurant."
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>What I am saying is that if MySQL wasn't robust then those companies simply wouldn't be using it. That conclusion does not follow from the premises: that some well known large companies use a technology in no way implies that
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> However, I still don't see the necessity of these instruments. > For example, wouldn't it be more natural for a pension fund to just spread the risks by buying different stocks? That's like saying, "Wouldn't
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Well, for that matter, stocks don't need to exist, either. We could go back to the medieval way of requiring all business enterprises to be fully funded by the founders personally. The problem is that greatly restricts the scope of w
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Step 1: Write a Lisp interpreter in C. :)
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Most people seem to be unaware of this fact, as the comments for this post demonstrate.
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The stock market is not a zero-sum game because net new money is usually entering the system from outside -- people make money in some other line of work and buy stocks with it.
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Isn't it rather patronizing to dismiss "unsophisticated investors" as unworthy of full agency in the stock market? Doesn't "unsophisticated" in this case just mean "they wound up losing money," in a
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Options and many other derivatives are not merely a casino game. Their unique role as financial instruments is to allow the transfer of risk from those who have risk and don't want it (hedgers) to those who don't have any risk and
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On the contrary, Chinatown is changing rapidly, and the Chinatown we know today will likely be gone very soon. It will soon transform into a Disneyland caricature of itself aimed at tourists, as North Beach has. The remaining population is
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Warmer than the west part of the city, but still nowhere near Miami-level "warm".
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Felony charges for 8th grader who used teacher's password(tampabay.com)
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Sure, there are lots of US group activities, but they are not collectivist in the sense I was using the word. Churches and sports teams and even the US military today are free and voluntary associations. Nobody forces you to join if you don
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I enjoy discussing sociological themes and I never take it personally. If you're ever in San Francisco, I'll buy you a beer and we can continue! Abortion is legal in the US, though some conservative areas attempt to make it imprac
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I believe this derives from the many immigrant groups that have come to the US over the centuries, each with a very different cultural view of what constitutes "correct" behavior. The only way to avoid constant fighting in that si
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Moreover, we don't need cheap almonds and pistachios and flooded rice paddies in the middle of the desert.

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