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by tcbawo 8y ago
I had always assumed that many Asian themed restaurants added Thai menu items because it was trendy/popular. It's common to see sushi at Chinese, Korean, or pan-Asian restaurants. Also, where I live, many specific Latin American
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by tcbawo 8y ago
It's not an argument against it. Its a theory why the federal government isn't pushing it anymore -- the carryover military benefits are not needed.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Just like funding NASA isn't purely about discovery, perhaps the collateral knowledge acquired for weapon building was reason enough to invest in nuclear energy. But, now that we are (hopefully) committed to non-proliferation, maybe t
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by tcbawo 8y ago
That recession was caused by the Fed. Rates were raised sharply to break inflation.
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Although, getting familiar with how political campaigns are actually run might send his interest in politics downhill.
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The financial industry is enormous and diverse. What I was referring to specifically was the US equity markets and FINRA. They have been very stable and reliable through the years. Commercial and mortgage lending is a whole other ball o
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by tcbawo 8y ago
The financial industry created self-regulatory organizations (SROs) to police themselves (in theory) more effectively than the government. They set up rules of ethics and policies and have the power to fine companies and bar individuals.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Not that it matters, but Maryland is 12,400 square miles by total area, but 9,700 in land area. Maybe Vermont (9,600/9,200) is a better example. Using either example, that's a lot of land! Source: https://en.wikipedia
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by tcbawo 8y ago
How about a private company (Weyerhaeuser) owning 12.4 million acres of timberlands. It's about twice the size of Maryland!
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That's the problem with making bold predictions. You're sometimes wrong. He's also made some very prescient predictions. Another thing people pull out is his dire predictions on the eve of Trump's election. He was qui
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by tcbawo 8y ago
It's fine for currencies with responsible governance. In some countries like Venezuela, cryptocoins would be useful. But oppressive regimes with currency controls are also likely to control access to the internet and/or block ch
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Except, will they look elsewhere? The current trend seems to suggest otherwise.
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It's the same reason why Hollywood doesn't produce less formulaic or smarter movies. It's a business, and their first priority is making money.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Informing the public correctly, or accurately parroting one candidate's desired message about the other candidate(s)? It seems clear to me that the media are afraid of losing access and retaliation at the business level for granting u
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by tcbawo 8y ago
We might be looking at a similar situation to the 1930s again, but with the USA closer to 1930s Europe and China closer to 1930s USA. China has had a recent speculative stock bubble. Also, the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs took effect in 1930 (we&#
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Is it populism or disrespect for property rights? What company would make a major investment after nationalization of industry? It seems you could be 'populist' by promoting education and investments to bring up the poor without
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Even scarier: attach it to a drone
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Yet, hopefully
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This is usually where someone brings up Fred Rogers. There are multitudes of inspirational people. Fortunately/unfortunately the digital age has knocked a lot of saints off their pedestals. Hopefully, the dust will settle and more wi
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Someone could be offended if they considered it something other than educational (sexual, religious, political). That's highly subjective, though, which is why most companies have policies to use company resources only for official us
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Maybe not offended, but it's very hard to justify as even remotely work-related. In many companies, their policy is to use their resources for work activity only. It's CYA from multiple angles.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Demolition Man didn't get it wrong. Just wait until Amazon gets into fast food.
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I have a suspicion this generation of parents is not pushing their children into fast food as a way to learn life skills and responsibility. For most, this is a dead end job with a low ceiling. Although, this has been true for ages. Has a
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Also, having children later in life reduces the role that grandparents play in a childs life, reducing an important safety net.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
I don't know if we need more smart parents or rather caring/nurturing families. You don't have to be smart, but children of dysfunctional families are at a disadvantage for breaking the cycle.
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by tcbawo 8y ago
Malthus was probably correct without the invention of fertilizer. Hopefully technology like seaweed and vertical farms come to our rescue!
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by tcbawo 8y ago
My preference is to use an asynchronous, shared-nothing actor model. Spinning one thread per core, it is extremely efficient. But, that requires more work to track state in a smart way. I suppose it matters how similar the coroutine&#x27
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It would probably expose too much of the implementation. Also, instantianted methods would live within the downstream libraries, making shared library linking fragile and un-upgradeable. Also, you could create your own specializations pote
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Facebook groups + alderman + local FOIA by activist citizens is what has been developing here.
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People seem to have an interesting psychology around perceiving government spending, as if their tax dollars are going 1:1 into a specific thing. Looking at a welfare recipient and thinking "they're taking my tax money" vs &

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