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by squirrelicus 7y ago
1) https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-... 2) the diarrheal diseases generally don't need much money at all. 16oz water, fist of salt, three finger pinch of sugar. Unfortunately,
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Income inequality is weakly correlated with everything. It seems to be a necessary consequence of both the most and least prosperous societies. Honestly, income inequality is a red herring of left politics and public schooling. If the most
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Okay, that's my point. If you have a thousand wealths and I have one wealth, that's worse than if I have a million wealths and you have a quintillion wealths. No, not trickle down economics. It's history. The standard of livi
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Politics has vastly more time for nuance when politicians are allowed to do their jobs instead of being Twitter celebrities constantly on the lookout for the next scandal, both defensively and offensively. I suspect if we didn't hear f
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I might be a pro lifer, but I have to support this distinction. Now the dark hilarity of describing the fatality rate of abortions as 0.6 per 100k abortions, on the other hand... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2227
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
That's not obviously true by itself without some underlying unspoken premises we probably do not share. I reject mercantilistic views of economy. They belong in the 1600s where they died.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Which doesn't address the flexibility of the margin. Carbon fiber might cost more than an operator of a machine that turns carbon fiber into a useful good.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Pretty all costs eventually go into the hands of workers through the beautifully complex web of economy. I know this isn't the same as distinguishing between cost of labor and cost of non labor things like keyboards and shovels. But th
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Subsidies have the same problem if they target a class of recipients. If they target recipients directly, then we are simply in crony capitalist land where politicians' friends and doners get competitive advantages and risk monopoliz
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Tax breaks and similar incentives exist to nudge the market in the direction the government would like. I may not approve, as a conservative person, as I always advocate for a simple flat tax on all entities. But I'm not the politician
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
What do you mean "if the margins are due to labor costs"? Margins are always due to all costs and the sales price.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Adding reasons why opting out of social media 10 years ago was and remains a good idea.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how the JDK and dotnet core have flipped in their relationship to the software engineering community. What was once open is closed. What was once closed is open.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
> Unless you got into tech solely for the money (you monster), it's stuff like this that we nerds live for. I take offense to that! :P The rabbit holes of my past are half of why my paycheck is where it is. (The other half is interp
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Excellent point! I wonder if safety levels are set based on heavy metal toxicity or radiation, since one is likely to be the dominating factor.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Ah scare mongering. The safety limits are put in place such that the exposure causes no measurable effects, plus a buffer for safety. The precision of our instruments is very, very high. Naturally occurring uranium has a very long half life
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It really depends. In the 30s and 40s, many scifi [comic books] were largely based on well defined and plausible rocket theory. Hollywood though... I guess the distinction between scientific hypotheses and scifi that extends beyond well und
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I can't help but get the sense that your economic materials analysis is based on a video game crafting economy. If the profitability of leather is low enough, then people will trash the raw hide but butcher and sell the beef. There&#x2
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Don't worry. The first time a Republican wins the popular vote, but Democrat carries the state, people will cry about their vote not being counted in THAT race, will drop out of the compact fast, and electors will probably defect no ma
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
tl;dr the rule holds, the answer is no. :] Though i have to admit to bring skeptical of his analysis that suggests the rainforest is a net zero on oxygen production.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I think you're minimizing the impact of antifa psychos. And I'm no moderate. Antifa is explicitly about violence, racism, and is associated with the Dayton Ohio shooter as well as the recent attacks on the ICE facilities.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
The industry is very new. The rise and fall is natural (lolwat data mining?). But the function is not uniform. MongoDB might be one of the worst tools on the planet for relational data, but data that's only accessed by id and is domina
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
This is one of the cons of non-discrimination laws. We can't tell people like that why they got fired. Something tells me that if I could tell someone I fired them because of their support for antifa or the alt-right, that evil nonsens
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Woo there buddy, slow down there a gorsh durned second. The nature of our republic and bicameral system is a recognition that both the elites (in the form of states, in this case) and the population have important things to contribute. If y
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It is not possible to create a non arbitrary system. You may attempt to create what appears to you to be a more parsimonious system, but know, at least, that in doing so you will change the fundamental power dynamic. Thank God we need the c
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I wish I could talk to you 5 or 10 years down the road when you have discovered and internalized the reality that a) there are no good programmers b) the programmers you're complaining about will never go away c) you're one of the
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I certainly am conservative but the things I said are not false. The USA government is not merely a representative democracy, it's more formally a republic. Consider this: the purpose behind the bicameral legislature is that in order f
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
The electoral college was created to strike a balance between valuing a diversity of perspectives and popularity of perspectives. The probability that a geographically restricted monoculture gets it right is very close to zero.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'm not sure this map is trustworthy given CA's propensity to label everything under the sun as unsafe. I bought a turning signal to fix my grandpa's boat trailer and it had the famous CA cancer advisory. Crying wolf, man. Ho
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
This has nothing to do with calculus and everything to do with the fact that there are an infinite number of irrational numbers between any two rational numbers. Indeed, if you randomly select a real number, you can be almost certain that

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