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by vanniv 7y ago
Dark times in the West ahead generally, I'd say
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by vanniv 7y ago
In our current society, where the other side is the greatest evil imaginable, the lesser evil of accepting fraud to secure victory is seen as preferable to losing. This is generally what the end of free society looks like.
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by vanniv 7y ago
My residential power costs just about that $0.28/kWh, though, so maybe the article is somewhat realistic
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by vanniv 7y ago
Generally, you don't make payments on student loans until after you graduate. That means you have years to spend the money before you have to worry about refusing to pay
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by vanniv 7y ago
There's no inherent reason why "job opportunities" have to be in only a very few places. I'm not sure anyway that local workers are fundamentally more entitled to be allowed to buy property than other groups of people wh
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by vanniv 7y ago
I think it's the government-guaranteed loans going away that would actually be the good thing for education pricing.
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by vanniv 7y ago
That's only how it works at Google if the "they" is sufficiently organizationally close that you actually care if you break them (and you'll only even know about it if you're close enough that you run their presubmi
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by vanniv 7y ago
All of which, I guess, says that if student loans can be trivially discharged in bankruptcy, then we should expect that non-government loans will quickly go away, and government loans will start to have a ~100% default rate (or this judge&#
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by vanniv 7y ago
I currently live in a monorepo that has pretty good CI and test coverage. That means that I know every time I have work to do because something changed (because the tests go red). That's great. But I still have to do the work every
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by vanniv 7y ago
The thread I was replying to started with the claim that this law couldn't stand because it would utterly destroy the economy. The response was that "law doesn't work that way" If it is true that this judge's ruling
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by vanniv 7y ago
Oh, we definitely haven't yet. But the fact that we can't currently do so doesn't mean that it isn't relevant to the philosophical discussion of whether the mind is a separate entity from the brain. It seems likely to me
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by vanniv 7y ago
Agreed! Multi-repo makes integrations harder, because you find out about breakages later -- which means that it might be harder to identify the cause and more likely that someone depends on the behavior that broke you by the time you notice
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by vanniv 7y ago
Is there some inherent evil in buying a property that you don't live in that requires the use of force to prevent?
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by vanniv 7y ago
It actually does -- y'see Congress gets to make the laws, and if judges decide the laws mean really destructive things, Congress writes new laws.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Yeah, if I could borrow $250k+ at the start of my career knowing that I'll never have to repay a penny of it, and the only consequence is that I couldn't get a mortgage in the first two years out of university... ...why wouldn&#x2
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by vanniv 7y ago
Like so many articles and papers of this sort, the headlines and conclusions make claims that the actual evidence can't back up. In this particular case, they analyzed two particular "lies" from the 2016 Trump campaign. First
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by vanniv 7y ago
What does an in-person interaction have to do with the idiocy of building software to decide what names people are allowed to have?
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by vanniv 7y ago
Indeed, maintaining the greenness of the build in a giant monorepo is extremely expensive. It isn't clear to me that it is worth the investment, even for Google -- though it clearly world's "well enough"
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by vanniv 7y ago
Tech companies will never learn. How many times must we go through "real names" idiocies before these supposed geniuses stop being imbeciles
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by vanniv 7y ago
Well, most airframes will explode wholesale in mid-air when they come into contact with anti-aircraft missiles (which, of course, was your point -- and also, as it turns out, what happened)
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by vanniv 7y ago
This joke is also very deep. "You" might tear "it" a new asshole. Almost as if, in some important and meaningful way, "your ass" was a fundamentally different entity than the "you" that has agency to
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by vanniv 7y ago
I think it is at this part of the debate where the ship of Theseus becomes interesting. The sequence of events in the brain are what make up the mind. But, if you replace the brain while keeping the sequence of events continuous, you have
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by vanniv 7y ago
Well would ya look at that... The Iranians shot the plane out of the sky after all. Looks like the crash had nothing to do with the model number of the aircraft after all.
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by vanniv 7y ago
You are an antisemite, a monster, and a true Nazi.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Alas, antisemitism is still extremely popular in the west -- and is becoming more popular by the day. As this thread shows, antisemites feel no need to hide themselves any longer, and nobody feels troubled enough to shout them down
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by vanniv 7y ago
Well, as the entirety of my people were saved from extinction, I for one am glad that some "fools" decided to risk their lives to end what was otherwise a very effective genocide. As it stands, a third of us were murdered by the &
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by vanniv 7y ago
NPR itself is one of the major sources of disinformation on this issue. They could solve half the problem just by shutting up.
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by vanniv 7y ago
...and Iran is withholding the flight recorders, which, coupled with the location and timing are a might suspicious...
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by vanniv 7y ago
The post doc that works at a university today could work at a research institution tomorrow in an otherwise-identical job. Accreditation could be performed for research institutions just as it is for university departments today -- PhD cand
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by vanniv 7y ago
The current undergraduate university market is almost entirely a reputational marketplace -- people are shopping for reputation/prestige. It turns out that prestige has very little to do with undergraduate education quality. This used

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