praxulus

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by praxulus 10y ago
Lack of social mobility means life is unfair. Obviously life will always be somewhat unfair, but we should always see things that decrease fairness as a negative, unless they make up for it in other ways.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Why not a social safety net and access to education for everyone, rather than trying to protect specific industries?
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by praxulus 10y ago
When business competition goes awry, government steps in to correct the market failure. Who steps in when government competition goes awry? Governments are not perfect substitutes for each other. Packing up and moving to another city is har
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by praxulus 10y ago
Nit: I believe you meant 500W. 500wHrs would only keep the air breathable for an hour. Doesn't change your conclusion though!
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by praxulus 10y ago
It could plausibly be used as en excuse to cut public funding (e.g. "Look how successful private donations are!"). I don't think that's a big enough problem to dismiss the next iteration of the ice bucket challenge, but
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by praxulus 10y ago
Right, but the phrasing above wasn't "We can read your email," it was "We read your email." What actually happens is more relevant than what they could do if they wanted.
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by praxulus 10y ago
If you voluntarily enter into a contract in which you agree not to do a certain kind of work later in exchange for compensation now, it's perfectly legal for the other party to enforce that contract (unless it was in the form of a non-
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by praxulus 10y ago
How would LastPass protect you against another TeamViewer breach?
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by praxulus 10y ago
A "hub" should have connections to the surrounding area. Being the biggest creator of something won't necessarily make you the regional hub as well.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Here's the original study: http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/wwwpew... Figure 3 shows that 25% of black kids who had parents in the bottom two quintiles moved up at least one qui
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by praxulus 10y ago
Yes, but the the situation they agreed to was not "majority shareholders can force them to sell for whatever they want. Period." It was that they can be forced to sell, and then they can go to court and say that the price they got
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by praxulus 10y ago
They might be saying that evidence of job loss to Mexico is further complicated by the fact that the jobs may have been lost to automation anyway. I.e. that's one more reason nobody can definitively say NAFTA was good/bad for Amer
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by praxulus 10y ago
No. In our culture a prenup is a sign of distrust, or that you don't expect a marriage to succeed. Rational or not, people who have no gold-digging intentions can still be extremely opposed to prenups.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Those 30 years included the last couple decades of the cold war. There was clearly some benefit to having an arms reduction treaty in place while we were still staring down the Soviets.
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by praxulus 10y ago
>there's a shortage of US Citizen for that job, and they receive market rate salary That's not quite right. If you can't hire somebody at salary $X, then $X is not the market rate for someone in that position. The language
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by praxulus 10y ago
They don't need to build new roads, they just need to add cones to mark off a lane on an existing highway.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Here's a more up-to-date graph of "part-time for economic reaons": https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS12032194 We're down to June 2008 levels, but have a ways to go before we hit D
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by praxulus 10y ago
That's $8.75/hr in 1982/1984 CPI adjusted dollars, which comes out to ~$20/hr in 2016 dollars. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=8.75&year1=1984...
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by praxulus 10y ago
I don't get it. Are you saying in parliamentary systems legislation is only passed the day a new government assumes power? What do they do until the next time elections are called?
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by praxulus 10y ago
Ok, so in the year 11950 we can have a debate about whether or not a species has been around long enough to be considered native. Right now, they're still invasive.
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by praxulus 10y ago
> i think the biggest problem is that the commenters here have a different understanding of the ambiguous term chatbot I'm not trying to be mean, but I think you just have an incorrect understanding of the term 'chatbot'.
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by praxulus 10y ago
GCE downtime just means people lose money, it's not life-or-death. Skimping on QA in order to reduce costs and get to market faster is a perfectly reasonable decision when the consequences are so mundane.
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by praxulus 10y ago
A home loan is also paid back over 15 to 30 years. The bailout loans were paid back in under 5 years. Are you familiar with the "time value of money"?
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by praxulus 10y ago
They paid back $11.4 billion though.
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by praxulus 11y ago
How is that propaganda? People with degrees make more money. The fact that universities had other goals doesn't mean their effects on graduates' earnings are any less real. Are you saying we should lie to high school students abou
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by praxulus 11y ago
It sounds like the tax break was the handout, not the TARP loan.
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by praxulus 11y ago
>What's the difference between a Firewall and a paywall from a user's point of view? 5 stories a month.
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by praxulus 11y ago
Not exactly nothing (people won't need to drive around looking for parking, in theory self-driving cars could pack in more closely to reduce road congestion), but probably not enough to make it worth it.
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by praxulus 11y ago
This is a surprisingly effective protest action. It got the attention of an incredible number of people very quickly, and the damage is mostly limited to wasting the time of a bunch of build cops. I don't have much of an opinion on his
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by praxulus 11y ago
>Improvements to search results in Google are done by a relatively small amount of people from Google How many open source projects log more engineering hours than Google's search team? It's the flagship product of one of the l

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