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by webXL 9y ago
What’s a truly risk-free alternative though?
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by webXL 9y ago
It saddens me to see HN jump on the bandwagon of an anti-free-market campaign such as this. Words such as "battle" and "fight" have no place when coming up with solutions to problems in a market economy. I know governmen
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by webXL 9y ago
> The innovation is that now your phone has a computer in it and GPS... And a map confirming your pickup & destination, and a payment system. Yeah, not much different than talking to a dispatcher with your phone /s
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by webXL 9y ago
That's an interesting way to view it. Apple's incredible revenue/profit per sq.ft. statistic comes to mind. This isn't a real estate investment. They're buying capital to increase profits. But it's Amazon, so d
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by webXL 9y ago
There's also no excuse for this red-herring. "At the 10Mbps/1Mbps threshold—which captures slower DSL technology in addition to cable and fiber—about 90 percent of census blocks have at least two providers."[1] UPS only
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by webXL 9y ago
A for-profit toll road is only bad because it's a natural monopoly. Competitors can't (cost-effectively) stack (or tunnel) their roads. Good thing that the subject of debate here is something very tiny and very light. Older wired
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by webXL 9y ago
Amazon would either have to eat that cost or pass it on to their customers. There's only so much money, therefore fewer packages would be ordered from Amazon or they would be less profitable/competitive. If the roads were congeste
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by webXL 9y ago
> they get volume discounts... meaning they pay less to get their package "into the pipe" but the pipeline treats all packages equally. If Amazon paid the same price as everyone else to get their packages into the pipeline, the
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by webXL 9y ago
No, but if it were, would you be more likely to break the law? My point was about the total cost of the crime. e.g. if speeding tickets had no impact on insurance rates, don't you think fewer people would care about a $200 fine?
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by webXL 9y ago
Yes, that's the average person, but for those who aren't average like the upper middle class kid wanting to get into a decent school, get a good job and not bring life-long shame to his family, I think it's fairly strong. Cri
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by webXL 9y ago
> wealth only exists as a construct of society And so do property rights and pretty much any other kind of right. To begin with , the construct was there, but the wealth wasn't, and definitely not Bill Gates' wealth, which did
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by webXL 9y ago
I mostly agree that the record makes it harder to get a job and give up crime, but what about the deterrence factor? How many more would commit crimes knowing that it wouldn't have any impact on their ability to get a decent job right
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by webXL 9y ago
Pretty flippant solution by the GP, but to your point, there has to be some consensus among the states, just as there needs to be consensus among nations, no matter how varied the size of their populations. I'm in a small state, so I d
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by webXL 9y ago
Sane dependency management isn't free! I have some tips, though: # find how all node_modules on *nix under the cwd (gsort is for mac with homebrew coreutils; use `sort` otherwise) find . -name "node_modules" -type d -pr
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by webXL 9y ago
> includes a roof AND solar ... and the cost to remove your current perfectly good roof! I think I smell a bargain!
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by webXL 9y ago
That's just looking at the tip of the iceberg, I think. It also improves everyone's ability to patch their applications, although with VM and container automation, it's not as big of a deal anymore.
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by webXL 10y ago
Have you noticed any improvement in your other apps? I have Atom and Mattermost (Slack clone) running right now with very little avg. "energy impact". MM is at about a half gig in memory though.
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by webXL 10y ago
They can work better, or they can work for what we can afford (our collective value of them). Washington is in a constant struggle to make sure we get neither.
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by webXL 10y ago
I think that's backwards. Fiscal indiscipline leads to not lowering spending when there are lower revenues. You get there by enacting rules that make it really hard (politically damaging) for the government to spend what it does not ha
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by webXL 10y ago
That could very well be true. wink wink "I know it's hard to believe, Travis, but while I worked for a company doing the exact the same thing as this company, at nights, I singlehandedly created this trove of patentable tech
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by webXL 10y ago
"So let's sue them, but.... it wouldn't be all that terrible if we lost."
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by webXL 10y ago
While those actions (and inaction) at Uber are despicable, part of me thinks that this was inevitable. In order to break up an entrenched, crony industry like ride hailing, you end up taking on some of their characteristics. Getting a femal
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by webXL 10y ago
Someone would really, really have to have it out for diabetic geeks for this to be plausible. The scary stuff I worry about is what an evil scientist, like the one from 12 monkeys, could do with a deadly virus. This type of evil gets more
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by webXL 10y ago
The restaurant most likely bought some ads that targeted your wife and your friends' demographic. It's far easier to do that than covertly access your phone's mic.
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by webXL 10y ago
Nobody is making the media publish every tweet either. It's a symbiotic relationship. > He's also a grown man who's responsible for his own actions, so blaming... There's blame to go around. The electorate is ultimate
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by webXL 10y ago
To some extent, yes. The base thinks it's fine, and the GP thinks Trump's win was a reaction to Obama. The media loves the tweeting, just like any time they could get Obama to weigh in on the latest racial controversy. So I guess
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by webXL 10y ago
Classy guy? Anyone is compared to the pres-elect. In his personal life perhaps. Every time he weighed in during an isolated racial incident before the public had all the information really did a disservice to the office. So much so that the
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by webXL 10y ago
LMB project: https://github.com/cern-hackdays/lmb Perhaps I'll submit a pull request to auto-focus the prompt!
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by webXL 10y ago
Picture in the first link is correct. The wiki link does talk about Fremont, which is kinda relevant to the discussion, being the current footprint champ. It's amazing that all that factory space is for producing these little guys:
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by webXL 10y ago
Same here. The US definitely has a lot of problems, but the criticisms are often devoid of any context and only serve to further some narrow agenda. > In societies including the US... Oh, so the other unnamed "decent" societies

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