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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business. So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? I am not aware of any major software company that has at all times been invulnerable t
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Progressive income taxes, or property taxes.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
This is good news for the country, even if it's bad for my wallet. The prior state of affairs was absurd. Online retailers already have major advantages in terms of convenience and inventory. Getting a N% discount vs. brick and mortar
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Leaving aside the supposition of utilitarianism, we don't know . We can only make educated guesses.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
At any rate, Google did do something like what that person described for a few years. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJnjuhBIhwc That stage of testing is past, though.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I can think of half a dozen likely reasons. I'm not sure which one it is, or if all of them could alone be fatal to your idea. - Such vehicles would not be street legal. - They would not be safe for passengers. - They wou
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
FWIW this is exactly why Presidents are supposed to divest themselves of business interests. It is a very bad thing that foreign powers have the ability to apply leverage specifically to his private interests. He's suppose to act in th
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Need more data to compute a meaningful answer. What do you want our of your next language?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Making money hand over fist, for one thing. It is smart to change slowly if you've achieved market saturation and your customer base has no viable alternatives. It means more profits.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
All other things being equal, the more compelling the product, the less you need to market it to achieve a given level of interest. Tesla cars are SUPER compelling on a lot of levels. I would be surprised to hear that they need the same lev
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Thanks for the correction! I mean, "Rather program in JS than Python," but my hands typed faster than my brain was keeping up. Oopsie.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Not to mention that standard is enough to run a pretty significant free-tier site. I'd way rather program in JS than Python [edited: thanks yathern], especially now that async/await is a thing in Javascript. Very cool work by the
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Without a rule saying you can't charge for the same thing twice, there's only law, convention, or competition to prevent it from happening. Since the ISP industry is famously uncompetitive, we're left with law and convention.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
If they are really filling the Dems' pockets, the money's not buying them much influence, is it?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> Not necessarily. The unions can redefine the bargaining unit to be members-only, in which case they will pay neither dues nor fees, and won't be entitled to benefits or representation. Do any unions currently do this in RTW states
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I stand corrected, thanks! I still have a sense that they are rather less proportionately open source than those other companies, but less so than before.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> MS is one of the biggest open source contributors nowadays. Really? For its size? It seems like Google, Apple, and Facebook are all much more productive in OSS. The only open source Microsoft product I'm aware of using is VS Code.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
This is surprising if true. Surely any of these companies would realize that the reputational risk of signing up for such a scheme is much larger than the relatively minuscule benefits it might offer. I would like to see some evidence.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
That's not what my analysis showed. It has a payback period of 5-10 years depending on your assumptions, assuming new construction. Shorter period the more extreme the climate, longer in places like Norcal. Retrofitting though is a dif
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I'm curious how much this affects the price. I'm not a homeowner any more, but when I was, I longed to replace my furnace with a ground-source heat pump. It is not too much of an efficiency win over gas for heating, especially sin
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I mean I'm aware that it's not literally a mansion, but I meant it in the colloquial sense. :) Anyway, thanks, I think we are in violent agreement.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
The problem with all of this is that you have a ton of disposable income when you make this much money and live in Utah, even with student loans this large. Unless you are a dummy with money. C.f. the dude's enormous, expensive house,
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
That house is freaking HUGE. Nobody needs 5,500 sqft.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I don't think you can classify anyone making 200k+ as a "slave" of any kind.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
In Utah. Not exactly an HCOL state. That must be a mansion. Here's what a $400k home in Draper looks like[1]. That was the size of their mortgage . This person does not have a debt problem. They have a spending problem. [1]: https:&#
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I do not feel a whit of sympathy for this guy. He can afford to pay, but he doesn't. That's why his debt is so high. If he had left his loans unconsolidated and made aggressive payments, he'd be a good deal down the road towa
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I would say the "shouting at eachother" vibe comes more from the snarkiness of this post's content. I enjoyed it, but I understand that might not be everyone's cup of tea.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> Dennett wrote a book on it. Lots of people have written books about lots of things. That doesn't always mean those things are worth studying or thinking about. Witness the vast plethora of literature about minute points in Christi
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
The text is what matters. You cannot defend yourself in court with the content of interviews.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I've heard this line a lot, but even as a government loving liberal it doesn't sound very compelling to me. The law says, comply or face fines up to 4% of global revenue. It doesn't say, "make a best effort to comply, or

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