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by virmundi 8y ago
There are other ways to tax for that. I pay for garbage and water, both provided by the city. I pay for $133/year for fire and police as a separate tax item. I pay a 1% sales tax for all non-food items to pay for roads. I also pay prop
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by virmundi 8y ago
Then you're showing a lot of favoritism. It's hard to universalize the idea that we should show favoritism. For example, historically we favored handicapped people. This was to their detriment. We paid for their subsistence living
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by virmundi 8y ago
Depending on how much you believe Quora, it looks like other municipalities follow a similar approach. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-so-many-unfinished-build...
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by virmundi 8y ago
Here's a counter-argument. Keeping property taxes means that old people have to pay yearly rent to the government to simply keep their house. In Florida that's about 2k a year for my home. That's fine when we have an income.
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by virmundi 8y ago
I wouldn't use Ruby/Python for web development given their know issues. I'd use Java/C#/Go/Closure; two of these existed at the time Twitter was made. While those two are more verbose, the IDEs make most of tha
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by virmundi 8y ago
From being on HN for years, folly is ok for a lot of VC backed startups. "We know Ruby! Let's do everything in that!", said the team at Twitter. Then performance took a nose dive since the language was known at the time to no
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by virmundi 8y ago
God is the objective morality because he will interact with creation. If he didn’t, you’re right.
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by virmundi 8y ago
I bring up God's existence for this end, without such a being, we are left with a material universe. There is no measure within the universe for right or wrong. People need to accept that since all of your ethics and laws are fundament
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by virmundi 8y ago
Why? Nietzsche gets it right, assuming there is no God. There is no objective morality. There are no forms. The world is entirely material and all things are subjective. Even the uberman is just a subjective fantasy that Nietzche told himse
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by virmundi 8y ago
I live in Florida. My AC unit in my office is out. That’s on the second floor of my home. A beach towel sarong and no underwear. Modesty and cool.
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by virmundi 8y ago
I like the idea, but wonder if the same features are possible on a stand alone tool. For example, the device does the NLP there on the premise. It exposes a plugin API for apps. The app gets the text translation by registering a callback UR
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by virmundi 8y ago
Right. I thought it would be interesting to see it there were experimental findings on a large scale. For example put a massive solar array in the US SW. Transport the power across the country and store excess in geologically stable areas.
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by virmundi 8y ago
The US government looks into this at a national level. Doesn’t look like it went too well though. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=slick-sheet-project/fuel-free-c...
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by virmundi 8y ago
I know. Lead testing is a soap box for me. Palatka has a high crime rate. I would love to know how much of it might be solved with cops testing.
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by virmundi 8y ago
Cops should do the same test. There was an NPR story a while back about a school, mostly black, that did poorly on a standardized test. The school officials declared the test racist. The science teacher couldn’t find that from the test. He
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by virmundi 8y ago
Here’s where it is their fault. I quit my job, moved to Florida. I figured my wife and I could get a high deductible plan like my former employer provided, and save $100/month into our new HSA all for $400. We had a plan picked out fro
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by virmundi 8y ago
I’m not saying don’t look at other languages, but don’t do so given what was said. Java still runs better than Go. Hadoop, et al won’t necessarily run better as C++ or Rust. Distributed system performance is often dominated by setup and oth
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by virmundi 8y ago
We are to pick this as a topic to fight back on? How about fighting back on law requiring people to purchase a product that they don’t want? No, USG says I have to have insurance while I don’t use doctors in network because they are worth l
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by virmundi 8y ago
Fix the terrible memory subsystem. There is no need to swap on a 16 GB laptop! Especially when Apple solders the drive to board! That leads to premature ware on the board and me having to spend 600$! My Linux machine is perfectly fine runni
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by virmundi 8y ago
And that is perfectly fine. Java 10 and then 11 and so on will bring a lot of niceties to developers. I switched my projects to 10. Haven’t had much issue. Now I get to use var!
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by virmundi 8y ago
Space exploration and colonization is, or course, more difficult given the harsh environment. Given land and manufacturing capacity, people could attempt to create a larger colony. We can heavy lift the manufacturing systems to the moon if
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by virmundi 8y ago
Deep-state doesn't just mean conspiratorial "them/they". It means all of the bureaucratic individuals that haunt the halls of government between administrations and Congressional turnover. They drive policy. They are aro
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by virmundi 8y ago
I doubt it. NASA and the US government has lost its sense of adventure and conquering spirit. Too many people in the administration (not Trump's, but rather the deep-state) are 1) afraid of deaths, 2) afraid of being seen as colonizers
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by virmundi 8y ago
If they have users, but transact everything in Dollars and only host out of the US, does Germany have claim to dictate terms? For example if Germans come to America and buy things, the German government has little control to exert power.
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by virmundi 8y ago
Cost. Linode is cheaper than AWS if you are willing to do your own ops. Lack of vendor lock in. Yes, AWS provides load balancing. When you look at their offerings they hook you by offering thing their way. You can use AWS messaging or run
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by virmundi 8y ago
You’re presuming no external existential threat. The Chinese have a large, but aging population. They could move into a weakened Japan within 20 years to take their infrastructure.
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by virmundi 8y ago
I wonder, out loud to all you HN lawyers, if not officially supporting an EU country gets you out of EU law. If a site offers no official language support, does it have to follow Germany's law simply because a German saw it?
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by virmundi 8y ago
The difference lies in the citizens' ability to fix the problems. Florida, my state, has a problem with not returning voter rights to convicts once they get out. There is a group spearheading a correction. The governor isn't too k
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by virmundi 8y ago
Can't this be modeled with baysian math? The chance that the storm causes the pressure to drop is .99. there could be some slight uncertainty included.
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Google’s Leaked Video on Mass Behaviour Modification(youtube.com)
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