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by xixi77 9y ago
Nothing prevents you from making an XXX-2 app and selling it separately, just looking at the app store front page gives quite a few of these. How is it different from a paid upgrade?
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by xixi77 9y ago
This is all good, but still -- I am not sure that something that relies on resources provided by other people can be called a "fundamental right": for one, there will always be a question of exactly how much healthcare access is a
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by xixi77 9y ago
What kind of a federal crime does this fall under? Mail fraud perhaps? Also, are tests like these actually administered by govt.?
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by xixi77 9y ago
What exactly part of this is criminal? I mean, isn't any business free to discriminate and refuse service to anyone they like (for example government employees, hackers, or Democrats), as long as they are not in one of several protecte
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by xixi77 10y ago
Nope, as a kinda libertarian myself, I don't think this a libertarian forum at all, judging by all the hate for things like sharing economy and such. I think a lot of people (on all sides really) just react to keywords instead of think
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by xixi77 10y ago
The question is not who is being suppressed, but who is doing the suppressing. If US govt. wanted to get at a Nazi / alt-right account in the same way, it would have been just as much of a problem.
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by xixi77 10y ago
You are right, but the arguments above and in Hayek are really relevant for all kinds of markets. PS: it is nice to see an actual Marxist! :) Even though I disagree with them on most things (really just LTV, but you can't really take t
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by xixi77 10y ago
All that happens; but (1) corporate failure costs largely fall on the stakeholders of the corporation (yes bailouts etc. happen; they don't change the basic principle), and as a result (2) corporate money-losing projects in general fai
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by xixi77 10y ago
Regarding the link: there are many countries that went through sharp supply shocks and didn't experience hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is not the result of a supply shock; it is a result of a particular method of dealing with that sho
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by xixi77 10y ago
All true, but's more than just information: planners' incentives, including quicker failures, are also quite important.
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by xixi77 10y ago
> I'm not sure how what I mean for 'us' is difficult to grasp. Human societies? This is actually a kinda fundamental thing. I think one big (if not the biggest) reason people often talk past each other on such topics is th
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by xixi77 10y ago
He wasn't talking to software engineers who may have been out of school for a while had time to forget this stuff though; looks like he was talking to a mix of graduate and undergraduate students and some faculty, and I would think st
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by xixi77 10y ago
You are welcome! :) Just to clarify: Ctrl-L does clear the screen -- this would have been a problem on Windows, but does not bother me on a Mac; on the other hand, Cmd-L (which is the Mac shortcut for the URL) simply prints an "l"
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by xixi77 10y ago
Regardless of the merits of the suit, taxes are not regulations in the same way taxi union rules are: they are a way to provide the government with revenue. People may disagree about whether government should involve itself in the taxi busi
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by xixi77 10y ago
This is neat! One small annoyance is that it captures common browser shortcuts: e.g. Cmd-L on Mac (iirc Ctrl-L on Win/Linux) is a shortcut for the URL which is what I usually use when I want to go to another page. In insect, it just pr
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by xixi77 10y ago
Absolutely true here as well; "being amongst other people doing things" is it. What I found (somewhat) helpful is making sure to get out of the office regularly, even if it's just a trip to the water cooler.
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by xixi77 10y ago
I don't think it's purely an intro- vs. extrovert thing: as an anecdote, I tend to test as introvert, but find what the sister comment says very much applicable: it is hard to impossible to focus and/or maintain motivation wi
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by xixi77 10y ago
Obama administration's approach to conflict has generally been "they are making threats and can escalate them, if they do, we would not be willing to respond in kind, therefore let's do nothing and avoid conflict, and hopeful
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by xixi77 10y ago
It was absolutely domestically grown -- had the foreign intelligence and NGO's been as strong as you suggest, things would have never gotten to that point, as the money and effort spent on influence by Russia absolutely dwarfed everyth
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by xixi77 10y ago
You are right, these are indeed complex problems, however this is no directed effort against this type of activity. If anything, having a common platform would make it easier to focus on such things, and I suspect platform owners would glad
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by xixi77 10y ago
This is of course entirely by design -- liberal opponents of sex work have to rely on automatically, by definition denying agency to any sex worker who disagrees ("she is brainwashed/has internalized oppression/..., therefo
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by xixi77 10y ago
While I wouldn't personally mind a "corporate dystopia" (or at least a sci-fi version of such) on Mars at all, it seems exceedingly unlikely, even conditional on the success of the whole enterprise -- for one, there wouldn&#x
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by xixi77 10y ago
I would even say code organized in small, easy-to-read chunks >> code organized in long, dense chunks >> code organized in lots of tiny, impossible to read (because calls go back and forth all over the place) chunks :)
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by xixi77 10y ago
Precisely -- it's the "general-purpose" part that is extremely complicated, which is what everyone here seems to be talking about when bringing up invalidation, but having simple, specific and localized caching in a performan
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by xixi77 10y ago
I am not sure you and the OP are talking about the same thing. Bundling a caching layer without even trying to write caching algorithms -- particularly if such a layer is serving multiple purposes -- sounds to me like what the parent is cal
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by xixi77 10y ago
Yeah, I agree that the GP went overboard with the conspiracy accusation. There is of course no conspiracy; but it does indicate bias.
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by xixi77 10y ago
Thanks for the references, these are good articles, and I am happy to see that I was wrong and there are in fact some defenders of the term. Still, it is very predominantly seen in a critical context -- quite unlike, for example, "libe
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by xixi77 10y ago
Not sure at all -- a lot of critique I've seen directed at "neoliberals" (and the term is exclusively used by critics), seems to target policies that are decidedly non-libertarian. It is always used to critisize things from t
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by xixi77 10y ago
One reason is that the term is exclusively used by the ideological opponents of this "neoliberalism", and as a result it is necessarily ill-defined. A lot of people describe themselves as libertarians of various types, or even as
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by xixi77 10y ago
It's more than just overfitting: e.g. if a neural net model with several hundreds or thousands of parameters can be trained on a dataset of billions of observations, and may even be OK at predicting behavior both in and out of sample,

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