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by pnathan 8y ago
Personally , I would cut the military budget to ensure we have an educated society. It benefits us all in society.
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by pnathan 8y ago
> I believe student loans can be written off after 25 years. Not sure the exact details. I know med school loans can be paid off based on income and if your income is low enough (almost never happens) you don't have to pay anything.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Debt. Debt. Debt.
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by pnathan 8y ago
I paid out $100,000 to pay off my wife & my own student loan debt early. Student loan debt can not be discharged by bankruptcy; it's always waiting for you. This implies several things immediately: - You have to take a job which ca
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by pnathan 8y ago
> terroir, the French notion that a product is inextricably linked to the place where it is made are there scientific grounds for this notion?
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by pnathan 8y ago
Mmm- no, I don't think that's how this works. You're dodging the question. (markets have multiple definitions. a bazaar or person to person trade has existed as an independent variable of governance. a stock market ("the
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by pnathan 8y ago
> Markets are a prerequisite for liberal democracy. That is an assertion, and my recollection of history suggests that is not the case. Would you mind backing that up?
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by pnathan 8y ago
> This alternative would include technical standards requiring foreign companies to build versions of their products compliant with Chinese standards, and pressure to comply with government surveillance policies. It would require data t
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by pnathan 8y ago
He's not wrong in saying some of the major interests that have held corporate power for some 100+ years would love to see Tesla die. It would be in character for a fearful power to strike at an upstart adversary. He does sound on edge
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by pnathan 8y ago
DC overwhelmingly voted for HRC. I think it was something crazy like 98%.
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by pnathan 8y ago
There's a book of his paintings available. It's fascinating, a peep into a uncommonly seen side of one of the giants of the 20th C.
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by pnathan 8y ago
> I don't know that much about the Soviet Union. > I have been following some leftist stuff and saw this article recently by Trotsky. so Trotsky has a better reputation than most leadership from the early USSR; he didn't las
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by pnathan 8y ago
Unchecked power is a bad thing to hand to another human being.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Health insurance and housing instability is a huge risk. Not to mention the weaker pay and corporate structure. If company explodes within 4 years (like most startups), I'm off interviewing again, and my family relies on my health in
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by pnathan 8y ago
It's very very tense right now, under the surface. It would be very interesting to know what proportions of the population broken out by 5-year segments have adequate employment and stable housing. I have a notion that things are going
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by pnathan 8y ago
2. See 1. We aren't disconnected from social trends. The cost of change is huge, because the cost of a software developer's time is extremely expensive. We are tightly networked into cities where the cost of housing is 2-8x elsewh
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by pnathan 8y ago
my perspective is the appetite for risk has collapsed in the USA. Partially due to the high cost of housing & medical services, but I think it's a broader social trend.
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by pnathan 8y ago
> I suggest the rise of populism is caused by increases in wealth going to the very richest while in real terms the majority of people are poorer than ever. That's my working thesis as well. the increased in real poverty rate in the
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by pnathan 8y ago
Do you perhaps know when & where the New York exhibition will be? I'm a lifelong Tolkein reader, and would love to see it.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yeah, that's another way to do it. The lack of constraints here means that we can explore the space of solutions very freely. :)
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by pnathan 8y ago
Code is data is code. I wrote my surrounding static text as a Common Lisp program; relevant BLOBs are put into a resources directory. Blog entries are in Markdown, then read into the program, transformed, and the entire thing spat out as HT
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by pnathan 8y ago
Matt Might does excellent academic blogging. So does RJ Lipton and, to some extent, Terence Tao (although his is for a specialist audience). I would advise writing, writing, writing. I wouldn't worry too much about #1; a cohesive set
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by pnathan 8y ago
> . You are no longer using C, you are using <Implementation>C. If you go deep and gnarly enough with your system, this is always the case, I'm afraid. There's a famous talk at Stanford by a Coverity... founder? consultan
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by pnathan 8y ago
now I am wondering about getting a multi-carat synthetic diamond on the cheap. :-)
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by pnathan 8y ago
A leftwing mag today might be Jacobin or Mother Jones. Directly advocating socialism & other anti-/non-capitalist policies. Time was visibly centrist and general interest, with a skew towards boomers and gen x.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yeah, I thought the same - "look another branding exercise, I'll pass".
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yes, we need some substantial acts of congress including and up to a Constitutional amendment to properly handle technology. I still shake my head that "wiretap" laws are what are being used (last I knew a few years ago) - why not
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yes, the laws should move at the pace of technical capabilities. That's the big takeaway here. Not asking the cops to live in the '70s technologically, which is often the (effective) ask from privacy groups.
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by pnathan 8y ago
re 3: My perception & guess is that he was offered a deal after he dumped the docs: Come to Russia and we'll ask you to use your platform to talk on issues we care about. Snowden has a lot of cred with the Left and libertarians&#x2
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by pnathan 8y ago
That's the industry jargon, sorry.

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