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by vore 7y ago
Most members of the middle class would classify it as mild spending, so I don't see anything disingenuous about my claim. Groceries are not fungible for entertainment, and if you choose to spend a reasonable by middle-class standards a
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by vore 7y ago
Are you choosing watching TV for $70/month as an example of an "expensive thing"? Living in poverty doesn't mean that you get should judged so harshly for mild discretionary spending to make your life less of a hellhole.
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by vore 7y ago
UBI often gets held up as a panacea for an "inefficient" welfare system by allowing recipients to have "consumer choice" regarding e.g. healthcare or housing. In my and the author of the article's mind, UBI only mak
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by vore 7y ago
The point is to prioritize assistance for people who otherwise would not be able to take care of themselves as much as less vulnerable people. Prioritizing care for the elderly doesn't necessarily make them less vulnerable than otherwi
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by vore 7y ago
I don't think there's any partisan name-calling at all in here? If anything, it's partisan introspection. The content is pretty substantial and goes into great depth about the history of single-family zoning.
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by vore 8y ago
Neither are apt examples in this case: not sharing exam results is inconsequential, and not sharing how much you earn disadvantages yourself and gives bosses more power to determine how much you earn :-)
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by vore 8y ago
No mention of Mercury is complete without mentioning PrinceXML, the only software I have ever seen using Mercury in production: https://www.princexml.com/doc-refs/#acknowledgments
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by vore 8y ago
If waiting a little longer doesn't reduce the quality of care (research from 2007: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801918/ ), then it doesn't really matter how long you wait.
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by vore 8y ago
Regarding TypeScript, the benefit of catching way more errors at compile time greatly outweighs the amount of extra work for adding types. If you're starting a new JavaScript project, you should definitely think long and hard if you pl
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by vore 8y ago
Should she be in a position where her opposition to trans people can possibly have a direct effect on the lives of trans people? If one side of the argument is "trans rights matter" and the other is "trans people are just men
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by vore 8y ago
Awesome to see Fortress mentioned, even if it is about its untimely demise :( There was a lot to like about it, and how ahead of its time it was: safe parallelism, a powerful type system, extensible syntax; but ultimately its ambition and o
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by vore 8y ago
Germline editing has consequences far beyond "my body, my choice". If your offspring have genetic defects from gene editing, and their offspring also have the same genetic defects, then "your choice" has consequences far
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by vore 8y ago
"Racial disharmony" is clearly the spirit of the law and not the letter of the law. Of course you can legislate against racial disharmony: in the US, race is a protected class. Is proclaiming "white people are evil" raci
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by vore 8y ago
If you want to rebel against the state, whether or not they have a "monopoly on the use of force" is irrelevant: civilians aren't going to be able to fight against effectively against a trained military or state paramilitary,
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by vore 8y ago
While Amazon is most definitely not the best messenger to be delivering this message, they're correct in drawing a bright line between what is open source and what is proprietary. From an open source contributor's point of view, i
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by vore 8y ago
That seems unfair to the students who apply for admission: if supply was high the previous year and low the current year, a student in the current year may not be admitted even if they demonstrated identical academic performance (assuming &
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by vore 8y ago
A step on the perhaps unintended path to first-class library installation into browsers, rather than relying on CDN caching for shared code? Will deploying on the web might look like deploying to the desktop, just one step abstracted? :-)
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by vore 8y ago
This is an argument you can make regardless of what is actually going on on the ground. "The problem isn't policy, it's actually polarization" -- but the article completely fails to examine the causes of said polarizatio
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by vore 8y ago
You can't extol the virtues without considering the social cost in the US: "How can we make sure labor laws and social welfare systems don't become as tragic as those in the US?"
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by vore 8y ago
A related article from AGG talking about some of the subtleties of font rasterization: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/
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by vore 8y ago
The Chinese government is uninterested in letting Western companies compete on the same ground as Chinese companies (e.g. any company with a significant market share in China vs their foreign counterparts doing business). Entering China at