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by sowhatquestion 13y ago
Note that your argument began with "It's too radical, it won't work!" and ended with "It's boring, there's nothing new here." When I see this particular pattern of cognitive dissonance, I take it as a sign that the phenomenon being dismisse
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
From the comments: "This can give a second life to the JS backend of PyPy." That would be incredible. Any PyPy devs care to comment on this possibility? :3
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
I'm sorry, but do you honestly believe that the specific provisions of this bill matter? Do you honestly believe that whatever it says won't be stretched to justify the most invasive and overbearing applications? The corporations under disc
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
The question isn't whether people will "do different jobs than they did before." The question is whether any of these "different jobs" will not be low-skill, low-paying service jobs. Basically, the argument that employment is being eliminat
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
Glad to see someone repping van Parijs on HN... while we're at it, I feel like I should recommend his longer and more systematic treatment of the subject, "Real Freedom For All" ( http://www.amazon.com/Real-Freedom-All-capitalism-Political
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
I can't remember the specifics offhand, but I used the built-in value "NotImplemented" to address a problem like this once.
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
I'm astonished (in a good way) to see a perspective this radical represented on HN. Considering how the discussions of sexism usually go--i.e., a circle jerk in which we all congratulate ourselves for having slain the dragon of "political c
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
This can be edited down to six lines with a simple trick: a Python string multiplied by True will return itself, and multiplied by False will return the empty string. for i in range(110): pr = "" pr += "Fizz" * (i%3 == 0)
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
As of 6:30ish p.m. EST, this ( http://linkdaq.net/sites/247vicodindrugstore.com ) is one of the top "movers and shakers"... Can that be where the prize comes from? ;)
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
Some excellent points here, but his conclusions seem to be severely limited by self-interest and/or nostalgia. "Individual investors and the funds that just invest in stocks and bonds are not going to crash the market." So what happened in
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
Excellent response. I would just like to add that I've heard it pointed out many times since the 2008 financial crisis that, e.g., China's extremely high savings rates have been a drag on its economic recovery. The level of consumption requ
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by sowhatquestion 14y ago
I'm pretty sure where he gets it. For comparison: Rush Limbaugh, a social conservative, is threatened by any narrative of history that attributes great misdeeds, e.g. the genocide of Native Americans, to the dominant social group (Christian