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by redthrow 10y ago
Why does this Android app require a phone number to sign up? At least Hangouts lets me use the app without a phone number.
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by redthrow 10y ago
> Steven didn't make a clear distinction between naive environmentalists and other kinds But you do agree that he did NOT say people who desire clean air are like religious fundamentalists, right? Isn't it clear from context th
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by redthrow 10y ago
Landsburg says it's naive environmentalists that are similar to religious fundamentalists (which I fully agree). Those are the kind of people who don't care about e.g. the cost-benefit analysis of recycling and simply believe re
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by redthrow 10y ago
> He forfeits any reasonable discussion automatically by comparing a general desire to have clean air and water with religious fundamentalism This doesn't seem like a fair characterisation of his position. Which part of his essay d
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by redthrow 10y ago
> that essay is its very own brand of crazy. It seems both freightened and mean spirited through and through. You don't seem to have any rebuttal to the actual content of the essay. As a professional economist Landsburg is very open
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by redthrow 10y ago
> the point is to recover materials & to slow production and consumption of wasteful single use containers You are simply assuming throwing single use containers in landfill is more wasteful than recycling. > our ability to use ab
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by redthrow 10y ago
Think Globally, Act Irrationally: Recycling http://econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungerrecycling.htm... http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/07/munger_on_recyc.htm...
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by redthrow 10y ago
Recycling is Garbage (1996) http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-garb...
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Too uninformed to vote? (2007)(latimes.com)
1 points by redthrow 10y ago|0 comments
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by redthrow 10y ago
Yeah, Don Gorske ate nothing but Big Mac for many years, and he's still alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske I feel like if people skip sugary drinks and large fries they are eating better at McDonald&#
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by redthrow 10y ago
McDonald's often provides playgrounds for kids because local governments don't. https://youtu.be/F7IQyIWIcdI?t=12m42s
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by redthrow 10y ago
> you still need to find someone who will employ you Not necessarily. Negative income tax is one way to implement means-tested basic income. One way to implement a NIT is you have a cutoff point (e.g. $20,000/year) and a rebate rate
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by redthrow 10y ago
Right, Math being "pretty weak" was a bit of an overstatement. I meant that for a major that's generally considered to be hard and lead to a lucrative career (it's part of "STEM" after all), it's not that
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by redthrow 10y ago
Yeah, I wonder why so many people keep repeating "study STEM" instead of "study Engineering or Finance or Medicine", considering the fact that "S" (Biology/Chemistry) and "M" (Math) seem to be pr
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by redthrow 10y ago
Major Premium: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/04/major_premium.ht...
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by redthrow 11y ago
One form of means-tested basic income is negative income tax, which economists like Milton Friedman supported. However, some basic income supporters don't seem to like means testing, but they usually don't show how to fund univers
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by redthrow 11y ago
I may be wrong, but isn't Ubuntu/Canonical "snappy" supposed to solve this problem? https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/
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by redthrow 11y ago
> Signal the same ranking as Cryptocat You are probably right that getting a high score on the scorecard doesn't guarantee a secure program. (The standard of the socrecard is not high.) But can't you still argue that getting a
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by redthrow 11y ago
WhatsApp doesn't seem very secure: As of December 1, 2015, WhatsApp has a score of 2 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard. It has received points for having communications encrypted i
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by redthrow 11y ago
I was thinking about buying this exact machine. Does Bluetooth work well on Ubuntu out of the box?
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by redthrow 11y ago
How 'Mr. Money Moustache' Retired at Age 30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvJ4bwnAHnE
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by redthrow 11y ago
You reminded me of an article by Nassim Taleb called "The Future Will Not be Cool": http://www.salon.com/2012/12/01/nassim_nicholas_taleb_the_fu...
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by redthrow 11y ago
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels http://www.moralcaseforfossilfuels.com/
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by redthrow 12y ago
Take a look at Roger Shank's "Education Outrage" blog. "Community college wouldn’t be necessary if the high schools weren't broken." http://educationoutrage.blogspot.ca/2015/01/free-co
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Don’t Invent XML Languages (2006)(tbray.org)
3 points by redthrow 12y ago|0 comments
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by redthrow 12y ago
For Hacker News, you can do something similar by visiting http://www.hckrnews.com once a week and scan "Top 10" news for the last week and check out the articles that pique your interest.
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by redthrow 12y ago
Can't it be done simply by checking out... -Local events site -Wikipedia's world events page once a month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015#Events
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by redthrow 12y ago
It's not just Aaron Swartz (he's wrong about this part). Many people think the news is completely junk: http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par... http://www.mrm
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by redthrow 12y ago
Thanks! Does it have live preview? (It's not listed in the features page.) Also the UI looks really complex compared to ReText. It looks good for people who write complex documents (e.g. math textbooks) though.
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by redthrow 12y ago
> nice to have as a check I think this is exactly the purpose of having live preview, just like it's nice to have spell checker even for experienced writers. It's nice to know when something goes wrong immediately. Also, Markdo

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