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by scottjad 13y ago
MLKJr: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"
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I'm not arguing the position, I was providing a few examples where people can reasonably disagree with the story that was presented as obvious and definitive and educational.
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So like 1% of the Federal government (by spending, just making this number up) is going to be closed. National parks, EPA, WIC, and Housing and Urban Dev. 99% of the federal government (by spending) will remain open, including: US Military,
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by scottjad 13y ago
What has surprised me about this issue is how so much of the media has automatically adopted the Democrats narrative (especially on point #1, see below). Surprisingly, the media stories covering this shutdown are actually pretty fair in the
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This is basically argumentation by story. You told one of many possible stories as if it was obviously and indisputably true. You provided no support for it. What about all the other plausible stories that you ignored? What if these "s
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by scottjad 13y ago
This is just a simple front-end/demo. The real work is being done by a separate project at https://github.com/mysema/scalagen . I kind of wished this site was written in Java and run through scalagen with the outpu
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by scottjad 13y ago
One thing not mentioned in the article, "Renunciation of U.S. citizenship was free until July 2010, at which time a fee of $450 was established." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renunciation_of_citizenship#Uni...
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by scottjad 13y ago
My main problem with this is it leads to accidentally executing git commands on your dotfiles repo. Like, say you thought ~/src/xulrunner was a git repo, but it was actually managed with hg or maybe was extracted from a tarball. W
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by scottjad 13y ago
CEO earnings are generally much more extensive than just the salary (I'm not judging, just saying). This link seems to indicate that the compensation was maybe $4.8 million (basic compensation fiscal year 2012) to over $10 million (opt
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by scottjad 13y ago
Libby didn't do time. His sentence was commuted by Pres. Bush before it started iirc.
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by scottjad 13y ago
This is why I like RSS to IMAP solutions. Plenty of native and web apps for every device.
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by scottjad 13y ago
My favorite green smoothie (lacks protein, I'll have to try the pea protein): 2 large handfuls of fresh spinach or kale, 1 apple or 6 strawberries, 1 banana, 1 tbsp ground flaxseed, 1 large handful of ice, 1-2 cups of water, 1/4 cup unsweet
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Spoiler alert. Don't read if you want to read Atlas Shrugged. Galt, arguably the biggest hero, is not a C-level exec. He is an engineer. Another hero, Ragnar, is a pirate.
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by scottjad 13y ago
What portion of a tax is paid by consumers is not so simple. It is generally thought to be determined by the slopes of supply and demand curves. The term to look up is tax incidence. There is a fair amount of debate about who really pays co
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by scottjad 13y ago
Maybe look at Mises on entrepreneurship or John Mackey (of Whole Foods) in Conscious Capitalism for deterministic optimism in libertarian framework. Perhaps "Atlas Shrugged" contrasts both indeterminite pessimism (the failing state and desp
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by scottjad 13y ago
What isn't in this post: - Any mention of the claim that they had made a deal with the hackers. No attempt to deny the claim. - Any mention of when the systems were compromised or when they discovered that they were compromised. The post st
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by scottjad 13y ago
Tax evasion.
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Thank you!
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I wondered the same thing. For the most important variable in their study they sure don't explain it very well. I looked all over FAOSTAT but couldn't find an explanation. http://faostat3.fao.org/home/index.html#METADATA
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by scottjad 14y ago
How are you highlighting the matching characters in the fuzzy search results? http://www.chris-granger.com/images/030/navigate.png It looks like the same method I'm using in emacs/ido, which is to turn "la/clj" into "(l).*?(a).*?(/).*
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From the page titled "Our Scientists, Doctors, and Researchers" programmer gamer mba programmer student/mathematics student/medicine md/recent grad student/medicine econ BA/finance (labeled researcher) marine biologist
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Someone just fixed it, try again. https://github.com/flatland/drip/wiki/Clojure/_compare/87336...
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by scottjad 14y ago
> Finally, regarding funding, yes, NIH spends about $31B per year, which is a lot. However, drug companies spend $4B per drug approved[1], which is an incredible amount of money when multiplied across all drugs. I think this $4B number
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by scottjad 14y ago
Depends on the person, car, mount location, driving conditions, and what it's being used for. 5" GPS windshield mount hasn't been a problem for me.
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Voting is not a contract. See Lysander Spooner's No Treason: http://jim.com/treason.htm Specifically: "In truth, in the case of individuals, their actual voting is not to be taken as proof of consent, even for the time being. On the contr
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How private forms of several of the things you mentioned can work: "The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o
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The only way your one vote has any chance of determining a US presidential election is if you sit on the US Supreme Court. Anything within a few hundred votes will be decided by the courts. See Gore v. Bush. "It's not the people who vote th
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by scottjad 14y ago
Included in that million lines of code are two maybe three email clients, two IRC clients, org-mode (~100KLOC itself), tetris, and who knows what else. I agree with your point, just not that the Emacs code base is a good reference of what's
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Please add rel=”next” and rel=”prev”.
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> 95% of the information on the web is written language. Really? Youtube videos, Facebook photos, TV shows, movies, music, etc only 5%? To be expected from a company that sells a text editor that's 95% typography.

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