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by tcbawo 8y ago
As they say, America is a country of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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I believe that loneliness comes from lacking people that are emotionally invested in you. The strongest bonds and closest relationships people tend to have are family (blood and marriage), which often come with a high cost to sever. The e
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What aspect of newer versions of GCC breaks the ABI? Are these things that can't be controlled?
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From what I've read in the release notes, Haiku uses GCC version 2 for ABI compatibility reasons. Can anyone elaborate on whether this is the case, or whether modern GCC can be/has been modified for the OS to maintain binary comp
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Some people look at societal improvements as byproducts of increased wealth generation. In other words, me getting rich is good for the world, presuming I am not cheating/robbing someone else in the process. Although, apparently that&
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I've gotten down voted for this opinion in the past, but US equity broker-dealers have created self-regulatory bodies like FINRA with sensible auditing, rules with teeth, and certification processes simply to avoid being micromanaged b
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I'd much rather have some base safety net. As it stands in the US, no amount of capital is sufficient to protect yourself against a lifetime of medical expenses. This is a perverse incentive that injects greed, selfishness, and somet
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I'm not advocating for patient ownership of medical records. I'm not in the field, so I don't know whether that makes sense. I do know that profit motives tend to backfire in this industry as everyone tries to get theirs be
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Treating medicine as a generic, traditional business has done nothing positive for society. There has been a lack of innovation for fear of breaking things, but things are seeming more broken all the time. Maybe we'll start to see s
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Commonsensemedia.org has many resources and parent-driven (and child-driven) reviews.
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It sounds like you have more of a problem with poorly written code than C++. The motto of C++ is to not pay for what you don't use. The rub is using abstractions doesn't absolve you of efficiency and design constraints.
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Is the threat of a whistleblower witness during such litigation enough to keep them honest?
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Sirius also has almost all major sports and a decent amount of non-music content. I like having it built into my car vs needing to deal with bluetooth, lag, and the various interruptions that my mobile likes to make.
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I have not read the entire thing yet, but I would recommend it. It's available at Project Gutenberg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308 ).
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In a similar comment thread a couple months ago, someone brought up the book Progress and Poverty ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty ), which described this effect nearly 140 years ago. I could have us
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by tcbawo 8y ago
I rediscovered the classic "wear sunscreen" column/commencement speech recently and I was reminded of this quote: "Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it of
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There is waste and fraud everywhere, including China. You can also find anecdotal evidence everywhere. It's impossible to piece this together into a singular narrative.
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Technology and information overload are driving everybody to think their viewpoint is the suppressed majority, feeding a victim mentality. We seem to be working towards more of a massively individual polyculture than monoculture. Also, we
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Is it really surprising that a multinational company would have a preferred candidate? Although, I'm sure they lobbied extensively for all major candidates. It is interesting that both major parties seem to want to have their cake and
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This seems like many parts of the human body: use it or lose it. I've heard this described as well for sexual function. Supposedly, seniors losing the ability to walk leads to quick decline in health.
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Fixed costs have gotten too high, and these prices are inelastic. I think the only way to fix it is wage inflation across the board.
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In the military, you probably don't get to change your mind and do something different on a whim. And there's the whole killing/being killed thing.
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If you have children, it seems that many parents make friends with similar ages to their own. Once those groups are baked in, though, it's harder to crack. People seem to be more open to new friends with their first child than last.
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My theory is that people put a brave face out in public on social media, but have nobody nearby when they need emotional support.
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Are the software tools used to build a buildprint smart enough to take into account the local code, comfortable spacing/clearances, etc.? Is there a blueprint equivalent of lint?
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It was interesting to read about industry in Gorlitz. It's a quaint town that was divided between Poland (Zgorzelec) and Germany following World War II along the river which became the border. I once visited there in the early 2000s.
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Imagine if Microsoft focused on IronPython and added a high level of integration with PowerShell and/or Python-extensible utilities. Running/executing PowerShell from within a Python REPL would really be something.
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From what I understand, PowerShell has been open-sourced and ported to Linux. Are non-Windows users adopting it? It's probably facing a long climb. Having 30+ years of productivity hacks is tough to compete with.
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There is a theory of rehabilitation, although prison is probably the least effective form of it.
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I'm not sure I would consider human prosperity a zero-sum game. Rather than military conquest, it seems the world powers are vying to own the technological walled garden we build for ourselves.

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