tsotha

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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree with this. Steam has hundreds of titles that are worth the $5 or $7 they charge. You could never bring a title like that to a console without jacking up the price. Lately people in my social circle have been getting together on a
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by tsotha 11y ago
Even the mob takes lottery ticket money up front. That's not really an issue unless you're borrowing from them to play. But if you're borrowing to play you could just as easily be borrowing for the state lottery.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yes. Preventing SQL injection attacks is very, very easy. To have something like that in your code in 2015 is inexcusable.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>My point was that "I have no other options available to me" is only ever true for poor people. And my point was if you have no other options the military probably won't take you either.
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by tsotha 11y ago
They'd probably start operating on the dry cleaning model. The shop has one employee who takes custody of your bike. That night it gets loaded on a truck and taken somewhere cheaper. It's repaired using lower cost labor and shi
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by tsotha 11y ago
I support it too. If it takes more money to attract people to work at your business, then you have to pay more. And charge more for your product. Your competition will be paying more, too, so it's not like you're at a disadvant
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by tsotha 11y ago
Are you saying you think there's resistance here to an organic rise in wages? I don't see it.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Aren't government programs in the US globally famous for being woefully inadequate and embarrassing? Only to people who haven't actually looked at them. US welfare programs are certainly adequate to ensure nobody goes hungry.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>A bit tangential, but I'd also argue that the military as recourse is, itself, an unfair burden on poor people. Not borne out by the statistics. The average recruit comes from a family that's better educated and wealthier tha
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by tsotha 11y ago
The idea is everyone ends up better off because you don't need a giant civil service bureaucracy to apply arcane rules about who does and does not qualify for various subsidies.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Oh yes. What could an HN story that involves poverty be without yet another round of "You don't know poor people. Let me tell you about poverty."
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by tsotha 11y ago
Whenever I see a NYT headline that starts "The Myth of...", I know whatever they're pooh-poohing is true.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I would still be pretty comfortable at 20:1, but I probably wouldn't bet very much since the payout is so small.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Poverty statistics in the US don't include government programs. How many of those kids are hungry after welfare and food stamps?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Uh huh. How many of those kids are there, you figure, on a percentage basis?
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by tsotha 11y ago
If by "difficult to teach" you mean kids who cause problems for the other kids, then yeah. I went to a Catholic high school, and they did not tolerate disruptions. That allowed them to have classes with almost 50 kids and still
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm sort of curious as to where these buildings are. I've never seen one on the US west coast.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm skeptical this has any effect on poverty. Poor people who buy lottery tickets wouldn't spend the money on job training if they couldn't buy lottery tickets. They'd find a bookie and bet on sports, or they'd pl
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by tsotha 11y ago
At 1:1 I'd bet every dollar I have.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Where? Every country I'm aware of that dipped below replacement fertility has not been able to recover.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Second, creating inflation is very beneficial when current inflation is below target. That's not a blanket truth. Inflation is good if you don't have savings. It's bad if you do.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The next country? I'd bet good money against that proposition.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>It's not clear to me that the voting population has required significant convincing to stay 'tough on crime'. That's the key. Ultimately it's the public which decides how tough sentencing is. People who are tr
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by tsotha 11y ago
Great. See how far you get when you ignore the majority's sensibilities in a democracy.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Oil is solar powered. If it didn't take so long to form we wouldn't be having the discussion at all. I don't see why you would expect animals to evolve a way to "capture sunlight" (though some do: http:/&#x
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by tsotha 11y ago
You move in a circle of fools. For every person cheering the rioters there are ten people turned off to anything with which the rioters are associated. If anything, the riots (along with the recent surge in violent crime) are going to end
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by tsotha 11y ago
>There is a such a strong anti-government 'libertarian' streak to US domestic policy, that is essentially anarchism though. This is patent nonsense. "Anti-government" libertarian types (who aren't actually anti-
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by tsotha 11y ago
1) It's not a tax. The IRS does not start sending you nasty letters if you don't play the lottery. 2) It's not fraud. Gambling is not fraud. 3) Yes, it would be illegal for you to set up your own lottery. But the state doe
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I think the idea is that if you legalize games of chance and have them run by the state, the rules are at least fair and there is some level of oversight that prevents people from being completely taken advantage of. In California the m
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by tsotha 11y ago
>...finance was a crucial prop for profits in the two decades to 2007 (see chart 3), with the banking industry expanding rapidly and industrial firms such as GE and General Motors building huge shadow banks. The regulatory clampdown sinc

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