DirtyCalvinist

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by DirtyCalvinist 13y ago
At least as of a few years ago, that's not quite true. I went back to school at 24, and because I had earned over 50% of my own income in the past year (100% in my case) and had not been claimed as a dependent on my parents' taxes
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by DirtyCalvinist 13y ago
The folks at JetBrains must be a little annoyed at all the iOS devs who say that now that there's a decent tool for developing Android apps they'll give it a try. Android Studio looks to be more or less IntelliJ, which I've been using to d
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
I mean you have no right to an offense-free existence. Otherwise, claiming offense amounts to a heckler's veto, and is chilling and oppressive. You can be offended, and proclaim your offense to your offender, but offense isn't enough to req
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
I actually thought of this after writing the above. It struck me than KeenIO is probably the sort of community where this wouldn't need to be explained. For better or worse, HN is.
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
Interesting here is the automatic assumption that the company should agree with the criticism and apologize. Except for the gratuitous accusation of bad faith, the response is what one might expect from someone who did not agree with the of
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
This phenomenon is called pauperization. Many countries in Europe experienced it acutely during the early 19th century. People were allowed to starve back then until production shifted to take advantage of the surplus labor. And though peop
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
Strictly speaking this is true. For a number of (perfectly rational and moral) reasons, women on average bring home less money than men. This statistic is not terribly good evidence of discrimination, but it does make a bit of sense here, b
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
> In addition, while it is true that judgements of value cannot be reduced to judgements of facts (i.e. the "is-ought problem"), one must acknowledge that judgements of value must be based upon judgements of fact. If you're basing your
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
Electronic voting machines allow for easier customization of text for edge cases, like a need for higher contrast, larger print or another language. A good compromise, I think, would be to have the electronic machines print out a human-read
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
There are different factors in different fields. The downsides of software patents far outweigh any upside for innovation and should be done away with. Same for business method patents and most trade dress patents. But designing and impleme
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
It won't destroy all incentives to innovation. Hence the word 'monetary'. But if someone can make billions of dollars from innovating, that will certainly be a spur to do it, right?
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
This is one of those cases where the rights and interests of patent holders need to be balanced with the rights and interests of the public at large. Biotech crops are probably key to our survival and prosperity as a species on this planet
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
I just tried it on the S3 test device here at work. No go on either putting it in a web page, or going through a QR code.
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
Does not the same problem exist with judges? Also, have a large enough pool and this becomes more difficult.
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
It seems to me that all this wrangling and instructing juries is an argument for having dedicated, technically and juridically trained jurists decide these cases.
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
From the standpoint of a mobile developer and a user of one of Samsung's 7" tablets, the 7" form factor is too big for phone apps to really feel right on it, and too small for the big tab apps to be naively scaled down and feel right. So an
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3D Printer can build house in 20 hours(theatlanticcities.com)
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
I once had a conversation with a Frenchman (in France) about how he had berated some poor American girl (also in France) for not knowing that Zurich was in Switzerland. I promptly quizzed him on which states 5 American cities were in, all l
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
It seems to me that being dictatorial and downright mean only works if you are right about whatever you've decided to be dictatorial about. So when Jobs dropped that iPod prototype in water to prove that it could be smaller still, this help
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by DirtyCalvinist 14y ago
In response to a Swedish economist noting that there was no poverty in Scandinavia, Milton Friedman once said that in America there was no poverty among Scandinavians either. Probably apocryphal, but it does draw attention to the role that
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
"Strangely though, in these experiments, people tend to readily and accurately agree on who the worst performers are, while failing to recognize the best performers." So we know incompetence even if we don't recognize competence. This appea
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
Nonetheless, companies would do well to remember that the first unions were formed not to demand higher pay, but to protect the worker from employer caprice and tyranny, and to lobby employers to make changes to keep workers from being mang
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
Interestingly, "Fake" and not "Faux".
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
I'm wondering why Twitter would suspend those accounts. Does the French government exercise some power over them? https://twitter.com/#!/_nicolassarkozy is accessible, at least here in the US, though @SarkozyCaSuffit and @MaFranceForte ar
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
I think your logic is a bit facile. If you want people to take your creations, that is not piracy, more or less by definition.
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
I've thought about that and I still don't have a good answer. My guess is that it is only marginally more theft-prone than the self checkout stations. It probably helps that the store is in an affluent suburb. They won't be setting up such
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
My parents' local supermarket already has a version of 'scan as you place in the cart.' This works ok for small trips, but two-cart food sprees are much better handled by the folks in the green smocks behind the cash registers.
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
The fact that a person who has not lived in the US for 30 years, has been a citizen of a foreign power for 30 years and has never earned a penny in the US nor held directly any US assets must now worry about the long arm of the IRS is ridic
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by DirtyCalvinist 15y ago
Britain, the Low Countries, France and the German States all went through this process in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Historians call it pauperization. The only good solution seems to be keeping people from starving to death (th