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by pzone 11y ago
You should stop casting these guys as villains, it obscures the main point of your argument. You would probably do the same lobbying if you were in their position. (Rather, if you were a major shareholder in Exxon, you would demand that man
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by pzone 11y ago
what?
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by pzone 11y ago
?? You just tax sales of oil, natural gas, etc. and a few other specific activities, like raising livestock, it's super easy If Congress can implement something as complex as the Dodd-Frank act, I'm sure it can measure and tax som
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by pzone 11y ago
Poor living in rural/exurban areas, spend more of their money on utilities & transportation overall You're assuming here that the money will be spent on the poor, but we really have to make sure that will actulaly happen if we
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by pzone 11y ago
50% tax on everything across the board is different from differentially taxing carbon. Taxing everything at once just slows down all economic behavior at once, but putting an additional tax on carbon makes people shift their behavior to avo
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by pzone 11y ago
You don't have to reduce carbon emissions to zero to solve global warming, you just have to discourage emissions to some degree. That is exactly what a carbon tax does. It directly solves the problem. Revenue-neutral tax is the key to
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by pzone 11y ago
This is a point which gets overlooked pretty often. It's the same as the value of taxi medallions in the Uber debate. Allowing Uber to operate in a city where technically only medallion owners were supposed to drive is actually really
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by pzone 11y ago
It is theoretically possible to develop technology that makes electric cars greatly more co2 efficient over the lifetime than internal combustion engines ever could be. That puts Tesla at an advantage in the long run.
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by pzone 11y ago
I think it's more about him being CEO of Tesla than his jet-setting note: I'm strongly in favor of a carbon tax, but Elon Musk is a bit of a head-scratcher
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by pzone 11y ago
Update: I read one of the comments below and now I'm convinced by the argument. Here's the intuition for what's happening. (I wish the article had spelled this out sooner) As long as A does not equal B with some positive prob
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by pzone 11y ago
That sounds right to me. The first few sentences of the article, talking about "picking numbers at random" without fixing any sort of probability distributions for those numbers, or even labeling those distributions as P1 P2 and s
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by pzone 11y ago
Krita developers are working on improvements to the Mac OS port, keep an eye out for 3.0 and 3.1 come out in the next few months.
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by pzone 11y ago
I've loved contributing to Krita. It's also heartwarming seeing the lead contributors doing things like sending out stacks of postcards to donors, and great that IRC is for both devs and users.
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by pzone 11y ago
syl20bnr bristles too easily at any criticism of the project though. I think he would do better ignoring reddit &c entirely instead of acting as PR manager.
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by pzone 11y ago
So, anyone here crazy enough to try this?
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by pzone 11y ago
Er, no, that's basic economics. If you make an investment, you are going to expect some sort of profit, on average.
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by pzone 11y ago
"When it comes to publishing in the Journal of Finance or the Journal of Financial Markets, the editors simply don’t have the mathematical knowledge necessary to vet some of the more complex and nuanced assertions." Personally, I
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by pzone 11y ago
I wish they told me about http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs ! Also, the extended MELPA package universe. This and (use-package) allowing me not to worry about installing hundreds of packages really transformed Emacs into a
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by pzone 11y ago
Customize.el is not only about saving on keystrokes from elisp code, but it is highly discoverable, and importantly, type safe. If you need to put some wacky cons shenanigans to define your font locking rules or whatever, all that is taken
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by pzone 11y ago
Very strong? Some friends and I bought a nondescript looking, average-priced baijiu from a liquor store while we traveled in China. I would describe the taste like one part everclear and one part shitty homemade mead, steeped together with
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by pzone 11y ago
M-x customize! Here's a great website: https://www.masteringemacs.org You're right though, a basic "bootstrap your .emacs" tutorial would be very helpful.
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by pzone 11y ago
I think a better title for the article would be "On being really smart."
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by pzone 11y ago
Absolutely agree. I find the phrase "simple, but theoretically-sound manipulation of diffs" physically disgusting.
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by pzone 11y ago
Hell yes. This is totally amazing. The beauty of developing an open-source voting platform is that it can be reproduced throughout the country, even throughout the world. All that was necessary was for someone to pay for it and use it. Than
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by pzone 11y ago
Yeah, it's a little shitty to take money and not maintain something if people are expecting you to. So tell them upfront you might not maintain it indefinitely. Moral obligation: satisfied! ️
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by pzone 11y ago
I'm not going to jump until I see some sort of technical explanation of what Sift does that Ag is missing. It just seems implausible. As for the additional features, I am not looking forward to memorizing more command line crap. Anyon
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by pzone 11y ago
That's a little different: the situation was that rms has denied GCC to provide the AST inspection features which Clang provides. This is to prevent non-free tools from using GCC's core. For the same reason, It is highly unlikely
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by pzone 11y ago
Just recently discussed on emacs-devel in the past few weeks: improved IDE features, concurrency, test-driven development, and guile-emacs. Big ideas for such an old code base.
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by pzone 11y ago
Yes. Defensive, unhelpful, precisely the kind of behavior a good CoC should fence off!
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by pzone 11y ago
How delightfully UNIXish.

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