taoistextremist

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by taoistextremist 9y ago
>How could anyone blame them with where our economy has gone. We're like the richest we've ever been as a society. Even poor Americans are pretty damn rich compared to the past. Even if you want to make an argument about wealth
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>Even Japan is getting more heavy handed than they were, and in Asia, they are the most liberal of all governments in comparison. I feel like this isn't really true; Taiwan, and arguably South Korea have more liberal societies and g
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Is it possible this could be more about controlling dialects and ensuring only the prestige one gets taught to foreigners? Thus (in theory, though unlikely having an effect in practice) forcing people to speak the prestige dialect to do bus
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Are hutongs really all that bad there? When I was in Beijing, they were nice areas typically, albeit they smelled worse because of things like drainage not running as low, but overall it didn't seem terrible and many of them were prett
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I always thought House of Cards had some of the most bizarre ones. I can't remember anything too blatant in Love, but I only got a few episodes into the second season before dropping it out of boredom.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Man, that site makes me really happy Snapchat resisted buyouts. Despite the rough patches it's been through (and still going through, I guess) it should be looked at as an example of how new companies can grow and compete without just
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Its ability to respond to economic crises becomes very diminished if it does not have this ability.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
What's so terrible about Bay Area transit? I mean this genuinely since I've never been to San Francisco so I've never used it, and I'm wondering why it makes you think all American public transit is bad. I've used p
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
STV itself merely refers to the voting system. If by "multi-winner" you mean multimember districts, that's still very susceptible to gerrymandering. Anything involving districting is, you can still split up populations so the
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Yeah, that's what I mean. Essentially that's like a buffer you push to the main screen when done. Learning how to use ed could become relevant.
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>Someone denying there is no racism/xenophobia issue in the Midwest isn't listening in my opinion. You say this, but still the Detroit area hosts quite a large immigrant population, many from a group that experiences a lot of h
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
The only issue I see is typing fast could get frustrating given what I experience just typing on my kindle. Though maybe the applications and user habits would adapt around it to limit keystrokes and be more efficient. Or they'd just a
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Around the founding of the country, there were arguments of some range between 30k to 40k. Obviously that wouldn't be practical nowadays, that would create 10k representatives and the ability of the government to respond to an urgent i
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I don't think STV presents any function that would really prevent gerrymandering. The only thing it might do is allow entry of third parties, but even that's not guaranteed. But a party could still design districts that they&#x2
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It's actually one topic I've grown to agree with my extremely conservative father on, that they should have never fixed the seats at 435. This was done long after the founding of the country (relative to the age of the country, th
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
E-ink would actually be a pretty neat practical version of this kind of stuff. You get the relatively static display geared towards focus, without all the waste of printing out paper. I've felt like it's a really under-utilized te
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>Someone who is always there watching, looking for people who don't belong, receiving packages and securing them, etc. Isn't that the job of a receptionist? They should definitely be getting paid more if these are all their res
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
A lot of these jobs that they're bemoaning the loss of tips for, also aren't all that necessary. If establishments want to give off the impression they're upper class, they ought to pay these "professions" considera
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Correction: They block pretty much any mapping not done by Chinese companies. I could navigate around hutongs (old windy neighborhoods which aren't always easily mapped) with QQ Maps without a problem.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Maybe I ought to also insist I build git from source and scrub any reference to --force from it.
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We SSH onto a server to do work and it seems we just make folders wherever for our individual projects. They do (nightly, I think) backups which is sort of a rudimentary version control. And while I'm told it exists, it seems the &quo
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I'm planning on making a hard push for git on the team I just joined (that isn't using any VCS). This and OP are going in my bookmarks.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Despite all the comments here denouncing electronic voting, I think it could work if done right and provide a better security than paper ballots. This, however, would involve something like some blockchain voting proposals I've seen
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This is why I believe something like (bear with me here) Dogecoin is an example to follow. The fact that there's an unlimited number of coins and a consistent increase in supply can be a stabilizing factor. While I doubt Dogecoin will
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I think no matter what, you need a small group to really pique the interest of newcomers. Dominion was definitely what pulled me in, I played it back in 2010, when I believe it was still kind of new on the scene, and though I didn't to
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Ethereum at least acts as a platform for other things so it has utility outside of being currency. Bitcoin definitely feels more like one lately, though.
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I believe this is the "Hawaii 5-0" approach to television.