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by pluto9 8y ago
Wasn't the dishwasher owned and installed by the complex? Why was the tenant responsible for damage caused by a failure of the complex's equipment?
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by pluto9 8y ago
If you care to, you can dig up plenty of examples of people underestimating, overestimating, or correctly estimating the future capabilities of AI. Just because some guy in New Jersey underestimated it once doesn't mean we should accep
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by pluto9 8y ago
And yet you have a number of useful and interesting projects on Github. That stack takes quite a lot of twiddling configuration files and piecing together disparate libraries and unrelated tools, at least on the frontend, and especially so
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by pluto9 8y ago
You just publicly outed someone who stuck his neck out for you by lying about your performance. People get sued for that. I would toss your resume in the trash just for your lack of discretion. I strongly suggest scrubbing any real names fr
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by pluto9 8y ago
What he describes there amounts to a naive, lobotomized form of event sourcing.
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by pluto9 8y ago
Do you have anything to support any of these claims? And how does the number of children I choose to have impact my likelihood of being a "helicopter parent" or my ability to contribute to "more science"?
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by pluto9 8y ago
Google Maps used to charge astronomical flat fees starting at $10,000 per year, paid up front, for any non-public or "commercial" use case (basically anything hidden behind a login). If I'm reading this correctly, they'r
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by pluto9 8y ago
The patent doesn't belong to Google. This is just Google's patent search site.
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by pluto9 8y ago
> A government can declare that something is worth a dollar, but the market determines what a dollar is worth. So what happens when the government declares that a candy bar is worth a dollar, but the market determines that a dollar is wo
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by pluto9 8y ago
> It is not an accomplishment for the US to be doing better than a bunch of third world countries I never said it was an accomplishment, just that the U.S. is better than many countries. That was in response to a comment that was implyin
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by pluto9 8y ago
You're over here comparing people to slave owners for eating a hot dog, but I'm the one spreading "hate" by pointing out that you're being a dick. Whatever you say, buddy.
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by pluto9 8y ago
> Of the 11 countries with GDP per capita no more than 10% below the US's I like how you casually discard the vast swath of data that doesn't agree with you.
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by pluto9 8y ago
What's wrong is that you act indignant about people's hyperbolic descriptions of vegans, but when your opinion of non-vegans is invited, you immediately trot out the most hyperbolic, damning analogy (and a poor one at that) possib
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by pluto9 8y ago
You were just complaining in another comment about vegans being painted as unreasonable and proselytizing, and then immediately posted this comment comparing non -vegans to slave owners. I can't tell if you're trolling or if you
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by pluto9 8y ago
Because calling people "bootlicker" invites conversation, right? Ah, the 1970's--the decade that ended with Iraq opportunistically invading Iran and promptly getting its ass kicked. If you want to make the case that America&
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by pluto9 8y ago
I'm not rationalizing anything. Did I say I was in favor of American policies regarding Iraq? No, I didn't. I'm merely saying that invasion or not, Iraq would be underdeveloped, just as it has been for a very long time. You c
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by pluto9 8y ago
I never said the U.S. deals with economic strata better than every other nation on Earth. In fact, I explicitly said that there are countries who handle it better. So what's your point?
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by pluto9 8y ago
It cannot reasonably be interpreted that way. GP made a blanket statement about how in spite of our GDP being higher than many other countries, our quality of life is not. That is obviously false. I choose to interpret GP's comment to
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by pluto9 8y ago
Yeah, no it wasn't. My comment compared quality of life while failing to account for per-capita GDP. So did GP. How is mine more specific about it?
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by pluto9 8y ago
Your remark about air conditioning makes no sense at all, but I'll reply to the rest of your comment by clarifying what I mean. GP was implying that Iraq would be nice if it weren't for American interventions. You appear to be m
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by pluto9 8y ago
It is when you conveniently fail to mention the vast list of countries, many of which are on this map, whose stratification is far worse than that of the U.S.
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by pluto9 8y ago
Yeah, life sucks when you're poor. More so in many of these countries than in the U.S, and less so in a few. You've said nothing. Every country has economic strata. Pointing it out only in the case of the U.S. is specious.
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by pluto9 8y ago
You're absolutely right. Not taking population size into account makes this entire comparison of QOL pointless, not just that between Iraq and Oklahoma. Considering GP is the one that initially made the comparison, I'm curious why
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by pluto9 8y ago
Utterly pointless and idiotic comment. I made no judgement as to whether those higher taxes or the things they pay for are good or bad. I am merely saying that these things are trade-offs, and if you're going to count the benefits, you
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by pluto9 8y ago
I was talking about the one that's been going on since 2003, but take your pick. I don't need to have been to Iraq before that to know that a very large fraction of Iraqis live in mud houses with no air conditioning, running water
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by pluto9 8y ago
Detroit is a mess, but the gap between it and Ukraine is not remotely comparable to that between Iraq and Oklahoma. And obviously single examples are not representative of the whole, but they're far more useful than GP's blanket a
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by pluto9 8y ago
I haven't been to Scandinavia, but I have been to some of the "wealthy" European countries, including Ireland. I now live in its GDP counterpart, Colorado. I would say their quality of life is comparable. It would be helpful
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by pluto9 8y ago
How do you figure? I've been to both Iraq and Oklahoma, and I can tell you the quality of life in Oklahoma is a hell of a lot better than Iraq, pre- or post-war, in spite of their similar GDPs.
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by pluto9 8y ago
Were you trying to reply to a different comment?
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by pluto9 8y ago
And when Elmer Fudd decides to commit a crime with his hunting rifle, what should the police do about it?

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