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by vivekd 10y ago
You're right, it probably won't be at first, but it all has to start somewhere, I am hopeful that manufacturers will be smart enough to just contract it out to existing makers like blue coat instead of trying to build a system fro
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by vivekd 10y ago
I'm going to take an unpopular view and say that I think this bill is a good idea. . . I use digital blocking software on my laptop now, I use bluecoat's K9 software which is an effective way to avoid thins like pornography, hate
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by vivekd 10y ago
There is no such thing as "more money than you can spend" basic human nature. The issue is "more money in the system than the system is producing". And that's exactly what the digging holes and filling it system i
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by vivekd 10y ago
The problem is education is tailored towards particular jobs. For example if you have a degree in biology, sure you can get a job in a factory paying almost minimum wage. . . but it wouldn't pay enough for you to cover your student loa
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't know what you are reading but that post had nothing about income or the relationship between individual income and GDP: >Increasing the GDP is easy. First, pay me 50$ to dig a hole. Then I pay you 50$ to fill the very same h
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by vivekd 10y ago
Not on the short term no, but when you scale it on the long term it evens out and artificial increases like Keynesian style economics are temporary and GDP is in fact a good indicator of productivity. The original argument was that GDP woul
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by vivekd 10y ago
I suspect that a lot of people's flavor of productive might turn on "artist" or "writer" where very few will be interested in "coal mine equipment operator", or "customer service person for DELL.&quot
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by vivekd 10y ago
Yeah, try that in scale for a few years and watch the economy collapse under runaway inflation.
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by vivekd 10y ago
It's interesting to note changes in the type of disability claims. It looks like there has been a dramatic decrease in disability claims arising from circulatory and nervous system illnesses, likely due to improving health conditions
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by vivekd 10y ago
It seems like we can learn so little by selecting only for jobless people. The best way to do a BI test seems to me to get a random sample so we can test how it affects people in various circumstances. Selecting a specific demographic lik
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by vivekd 10y ago
Just not sure what to say, such a horrific revelation about how much corruption there really is in the corridors of power
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by vivekd 10y ago
It's so easy for humans to anthropomorphize animals and believe that they have thoughts, feelings and inner lives similar to that of humans. We do it every day when looking at cute cat videos on the internet and imagining that the cat
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Modern medicine lacks resources to fight drug resistant pathogens(reuters.com)
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't have time to read the whole case (much like the authors of the article I suspect), but as a lawyer that whole claim about "using the doctrine of clean hands to deny copyright" sounds fishy to me. Clean hands is an eq
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Why we should switch to a base 12 counting system(io9.gizmodo.com)
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by vivekd 10y ago
That would be a whole different situation from the get go, it would be a fact based question based on credibility. Courts evaluate people's credibility all the time and make determinations of credibility. If a judge believes that you
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by vivekd 10y ago
To be fair, facebook can, if it wants, put full blown nazi propaganda on their network and delete anything anti-nazi. Of course just because it's legal for a company to do that doesn't mean it's ethical and okay and we shoul
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by vivekd 10y ago
Where is the need for this product? People who know about computers will probably just use the very easy to learn HTML and CSS code and people who don't know computers will likely use wix or wordpress or some similar alternative. I w
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by vivekd 10y ago
>Yes, we were merely counting whether our graduates had jobs or not, instead of more specifically if they were able to obtain employment as a direct result of their studies. To be fair, pretty much every school does this, hell even my la
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by vivekd 10y ago
Exactly, the key is "testimonial evidence," as in, is the piece of information the government is making you tell them testimonial in nature as defined by case law. Testimonial seems to be defined by case law as giving some kind o
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by vivekd 10y ago
doesn't matter, if the police stumble onto incriminating evidence in the course of the ordinary and legal investigation of a crime, it can be used in court.
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by vivekd 10y ago
Seems to be more of an issue with the lower court judge than the lawyers (from an article describing his original conviction) >Justice Leeming found Mr Moore acted "extremely foolishly" and dishonestly. He had known of the erro
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by vivekd 10y ago
Yeah, Elon was very vocally opposed to Trump, in an interview just before Trump's election he said Trump was "not the finest moment in our democracy" and that his character "doesn't reflect well on the US. Still, th
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by vivekd 10y ago
Nah, Uber and Lyft CEOs both said they envision a future where we don't own cars and just call self driving taxi services via app when we need them. They both envision this happening in less than a decade. This seems to be coming tru
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by vivekd 10y ago
>"We question whether identifying the key which will open the strongbox - such that the key is surrendered - is, in fact, distinct from telling an officer the combination," wrote Judge Black. Well, the circuit court is right, t
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EU fines Sony, Panasonic, and Sanyo for price fixing lithium ion batteries(ca.reuters.com)
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>In those 12 years, about 3% of people developed ischemic heart disease—which includes heart attack—but 6% of people who had health anxiety did. “We found there was a surprisingly strong association between levels of health anxiety and t
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by vivekd 10y ago
1. They lobby the legislature right, they can't lobby judges themselves. 2. Is there is any evidence that they are lobbying for more or heavier prison sentences to make more money, because that's a pretty serious accusation. I wo
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by vivekd 10y ago
You're right, there should be a balance, overwork is harmful even when you are doing something you are passionate about. But passion, appreciation, and the feeling that your work is benefiting humanity seems to ward off burnout. That
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by vivekd 10y ago
But prisons have very little control over prison numbers, whether to send someone to prison is decided solely by the courts with no influence from the prison system.

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