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by prewett 3y ago
How do you expect Israel to defend itself against an enemy that lives next door and is indistinguishable from the citizenry? Doing nothing is not an option: Hamas' explicit, public goal is the annihilation of Israel, and they are right
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by prewett 3y ago
It was capped at $100k of income (at least in the US) and the US median income is about $75k [1], so I'm not sure how "mostly rich people" got it when 75% of the people who received it were under the median income. [1] https
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by prewett 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if his fulfillment came through providing for and raising 10 kids, in which case the work is just a means to an end, not the end itself like it can be for us. Also, I imagine farm work is fairly varied, and whil
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by prewett 3y ago
One can be rich (have a lot of money) without loving money, or to the point of the gate explanation, relying on money instead of God.
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by prewett 3y ago
The example isn't Intel, the example is some company three times faster than Intel. Think DEC Alpha, Sun, SGI. None of them were able to maintain their advantage in speed (although for SGI it was graphics and not CPUs where they failed
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by prewett 3y ago
That's a popular Marxist narrative, and conveniently puts on the blame on "them", but I don't think it's true. Plus, pretty much everyone on this site are "the rich" by world standards, so look to yourself
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by prewett 3y ago
You can complain about power imbalances and whatnot, but that's helpless cynicism, especially for the developer-types that mostly frequent this forum where the power balance is more even, and maybe even weighted in favor of developers.
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by prewett 3y ago
I hope the author discovers that not all companies do software like he describes. It sounds like it is time he starts interviewing the company, too, instead of just letting them interview him. Ask about how the projects are structured, ask
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by prewett 3y ago
> to individuals which no one would consider well-off enough to be labeled "greedy") Greed doesn't have anything to do with how much money you have, it's about how much do you want "more" and what are you wi
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by prewett 3y ago
"The reality is the very rich are doing phenomenally well while dollar store clerks and Amazon delivery drivers make chickenfeed" is basically a tautology. If you compare the very rich and the near destitute, yea, it's a pret
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by prewett 3y ago
> It's still a race war, apple (rich folk) It's not a "race war" if you need to clarify that apple <=> "rich folk". I might give you "class war", except there is no "war" part and n
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by prewett 3y ago
Honda and Toyota are the canonical reliable cars, I thought that was well-known, so not sure how finding a reliable car is difficult. I associate Kia and Hyundai with inexpensive, so that wouldn't be my first choice for reliable. (My t
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by prewett 3y ago
The last episode of Downton Abbey, Season 3 is reasonably close to that.
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by prewett 3y ago
That's a great start, but the problem comes when you want to have a site menu and breadcrumbs and then you want to redesign it. No problem for 5 pages, but if you have even dozens you'll start wanting to do something more automate
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by prewett 3y ago
We've tried public housing in the past, and it hasn't gone so well, so I'm not sure that's a great solution, either.
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by prewett 3y ago
Why do we fail to live up to our own personal standards? Is it a surprise that a large group of people fails to do what even the best person fails to do? You get all kinds of people in a religious group: the legalists, the people who think
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by prewett 3y ago
The Social Justice movement has two kinds of people. The thought leaders in the universities are functionally revolutionaires: "Justice" doesn't mean fairness in their thinking, it means "privileging" the oppressed
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by prewett 3y ago
The fact that the wealthiest 10% own 90% of stocks does not mean the game is rigged. (I mean, that's sort of like saying the game is rigged because the rich people have all the money.) Anyone can purchase stocks and the SEC works hard
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by prewett 3y ago
> [climate change] can be entirely prevented ... People need to accept that this statement is just incorrect. We cannot stop it in the near future. Even if we had the means of producing non-CO2 energy in quantities enough to provide all
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by prewett 3y ago
In my experience (admittedly from some years ago), you have to be pretty careful about using the terminal when NFS fails, since you can pretty easily lock up your terminal, of which you only have a "fixed" supply. If you're u
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by prewett 3y ago
I was hoping they were going to somehow draw parallels from ancient (Mesopotamian) Babylon. Sadly, it's some apparently overhyped health startup, which isn't nearly as interesting, although probably a more relevant comparison.
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by prewett 3y ago
Banking isn't exactly Apple's core competency. I would regard it as diworsification, for sure.
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by prewett 3y ago
Accounting measures aside, have you ever heard anyone express positive sentiment toward GS? They have negative (colloquial) goodwill in my book, although I'm definitely highly influenced by Buffett's summary of his experiences wit
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by prewett 3y ago
Wow, that is eerily reminiscent of the deterrence in Liu Cixin's _Three Body Problem_ novels.
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by prewett 3y ago
San Francisco and Seattle might have more affordable housing everywhere like Chicago if there were land adjacent to the city everywhere, like in Chicago. Instead, the cities are on penisulas. The only way those cities are going to be afford
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by prewett 3y ago
If it's a 4k TV it also has more pixels and better refresh rate. And color. But for that extra $2360 you get the feature that your image is still there when the power is off. I expect that feature would be substantially more costly reg
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by prewett 3y ago
The $100/yr is to publish to the App Store, which I don't think is the place for a gamejam game. You can download Xcode for free and distribute the resulting binaries for free.
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by prewett 3y ago
As Warren Buffett says, which would you rather own, a bunch of bits [0] that are going to be the same in 20 years, or shares in a bunch of companies where other people are working day and night to increase the value of the company? [0] Buff
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by prewett 3y ago
Any defenders defending a tower are obviously above the ground floor, which is where access to food and water is. So why bother fighting up the stairway, when you can just block all the downstairs exits? The castle's defenses are the w
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by prewett 3y ago
MacOS 10 used to let you specify scaled resolution in Control Panel >> Displays >> Resolution (scaled). It doesn't give you numbers, though, more like "larger text" and "more space", with "effective

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