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by rubashov 15y ago
Are you people really this deluded about the immigrants? The problems throughout the West are not policy or economic issues. The problem is massive numbers of people with no interest or aptitude to assimilate to Western culture.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Legal immigration is a huge problem. We are taking in vastly more people than the nation can culturally assimilate, and statistically these legal immigrants are net economic tax drains. Even if the legal immigration screening were fixed and
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by rubashov 15y ago
A cursory reading of the founders shows the US was founded as a racial and cultural nation. Nobody thought much differently until post WWII, more like the 1970s really.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Perl has Fey. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Fey As ORMs go Fey::ORM (built on top of Fey) is good. It's easy to get under the hood and make it do exactly what you want. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Fey::ORM::Manual::Intro
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by rubashov 15y ago
Actually, places like Accenture do tend to hire better looking people. Especially women. That goes into the whole "chicks making charts strategy" people joke about.
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by rubashov 15y ago
I'm linking it to the federal reserve act and massive credit growth. Your chart shows persistent deflation in the 19th century with inflationary spikes for wars, notably the civil war.
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by rubashov 15y ago
The article overlooks that fractional reserve banking is totally feasible with bitcoin. Bitcoins will not inevitably sit on people's hard drives doing nothing, hoarded. Saved bitcoins will likely wind up as reserves in some bank, just as wi
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by rubashov 15y ago
> In periods of mild inflation, people have an incentive to invest money ... In periods of deflation ... people have an incentive to put money under the bed This sounds very plausible but simply does not line up with historical reality.
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by rubashov 15y ago
This American mentality of "the big entrepreneurial idea" that produces some millionaires is why we have such a lousy unemployment rate and low skill workforce compared to Japan and Germany, not to mention huge trade deficits. The problem i
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by rubashov 15y ago
Last place I lived the dude in my basement had three guns and the guys on either side of me each had shotguns and rifles. I felt very safe. I think the difference is that due to demographics the Irish don't face the constant threat of the
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by rubashov 15y ago
Virginia has a lot of urban areas and population and almost anyone can get a concealed carry permit in short order. Many people do concealed carry. I really don't know the stats, but I've never heard of a mugging in Virginia, whereas ten mi
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by rubashov 15y ago
> The only solid argument against nuclear goes along the lines, The main argument against nuclear goes that it creates a dangerous set of problems that must be handled over many human lifetimes. People simply cannot do that. In fact, it
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by rubashov 15y ago
This pretty well captures Gil Scott Heron's attitude toward technologists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY Heron hates white people.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Birkenstocks are never OK.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Is the sandals with socks thing some sort of deliberate middle-finger? In NYC on a stage, no less.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Randomly screaming "racist" is the height of incivility.
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by rubashov 15y ago
The abortion correlation has been thoroughly dismantled. There were even straight-up mathematical errors in the initial claimed correlation. http://www.isteve.com/abortion.htm That this claim is still so often credulously repeated tells y
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by rubashov 15y ago
> I'd be more interested in understanding the long-term effects of insufficient sleep. I will confidently guess it involves more infections/sick-days. More zits, and general inflammation. Higher cortisol/stress/angst. Higher rates of ga
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by rubashov 15y ago
> paying $1,100/mo ... sure beats the $1,200/mo I was paying Yeah, but you have a huge pile of debt hanging over your head. Before you could punch out anyone who needed punching at work, or at least gone all Jerry Mcguire. Now you're ki
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by rubashov 15y ago
Concur. C++ compilation speed was legitimately a problem five years ago. Improved compilers, faster computers, and multi-core compilation have made it moot. Often you'll see a C++ basher bring up compilation speed and then in the same threa
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by rubashov 15y ago
Good for you. Are the American people better off thanks to you and your mother's presence here? Or would they have got along just as well without you? That's the salient question.
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by rubashov 15y ago
I'm not sure what founding values you're talking about. A cursory reading of the founders plainly reveals they viewed America as a nation of and for Europeans. Immigration policy for most of American history explicitly excluded non-whites,
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by rubashov 15y ago
Stop and think about how absurd this is. Ten million people apply and we pick randomly, rather than take the cream. Is this not plainly insane?
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by rubashov 15y ago
The Visa Lottery is infuriating. It's almost as stupid as the family sponsorship driving our visa allocations. The purpose of an immigration policy is to serve the citizenry. Only the most useful and "profitable" people should be let in, pe
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by rubashov 15y ago
Let's play silly pseudo evolutionary psychology. Asians come from long over-populated, labor intensive cultures. Rice paddy agriculture is one seriously backbreaking way to earn a living. The Chinese world also has a millennia old exam cult
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by rubashov 15y ago
> insidious nature of the Bamboo Ceiling [...] the discrepancy in these numbers is a matter of unconscious bias. The author spends plenty of time trying to claim there is some sort of racial discrimination going on. Much more plausible
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by rubashov 15y ago
Not to steal any thunder, but thought I'd point out Leont's great C++ perl bindings. https://github.com/Leont/libperl-- He has type safety and easy import/export of objects baked in.
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by rubashov 16y ago
get_flash_videos will pull the video off almost any random URL. http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
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by rubashov 16y ago
> Java with a jit compiler The JRE is substantially C++.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Manual laborers then, as now, were more likely to be fat. Physical labor is not related to obesity.

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