SteveLAnderson

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by SteveLAnderson 8y ago
I lead a small group of people twice a week in mindfulness practice. I agree wholeheartedly with what this article is saying. Mindfulness has been sold as the latest snake oil, a cure for all ills. It is not, and it should not be taught
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
If by technical documentation you mean a readme page, or a few internal pages, then either are fine, as are AsciiDoc, org, etc. There's no huge advantage or disadvantage to any of them; use the one that is easiest for you to write in
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
TL;DR - the writer dismisses common lisp because he can't be bothered to learn emacs.
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
The question the article is asking isn't matched by the headline, or the conclusion. The points raised in the article come down to this idea - if we, as a society, want to make sure everyone has access to health care, then we need to
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
It was insulting to every person that works in the government, and especially to those people you mention that are "good competent folks". If your only experience with government employees is asking them to provide service to you,
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
I agree with your assessment of the legislation. It's true that Sen. Lieberman, in coordination with Sen. Snowe, threatened a filibuster. At the time, Sen. Lieberman was an independent, not a Democrat. So, it was an independent and
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
Just go straight to the Harvard Museums site - http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/tour/the-bauhaus
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
"American governments are not capable of running efficient programs" - that's simply false, and your statement about government employees is insulting.
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
Well ... you're strictly right, but just like the idiotic provision that forced Congress to give up their employer sponsored insurance and use the exchange instead was forced by the GOP, so to were these provisions dropped due to GOP p
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
Answering my own question - the graph is about mass shootings. The data is from http://www.shootingtracker.com .
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
California's population in 2013 was 38.4 million. According to the map, 2 Californians per million were affected by firearm violence that led to death, so that'd be about 77 people killed by firearms. According to "Homicide
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
DSSSL was amazing. Mr. Clark did some truly outstand work, and I benefited from using it with SGML and FrameMaker back in the day. It was hard to learn, though, and the documentation wasn't good.
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
On the one hand a detailed report and the other a bunch of random quotes. I think I'll trust Brookings.
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by SteveLAnderson 10y ago
Interesting quotations you included - where did they come from? I didn't find them in the report you cited. The following is from the conclusion of the Brookings report you cited, "The evidence suggests that the program did inde
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Anybody that thinks $1.1T is a "small piddling decrease" must be a truly wealthy person. Can you spare the government that pittance? We'd all benefit from it.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Ask yourself, honestly, what percentage of the entire budget was that end of year splurge? In my experience it's very small, much smaller then the year to year cost inflation. There's tons of waste in any large organization. In
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
That may happen, but like the "cadillac welfare queen" is an exception, not the rule. For most departments, they run out of money before the end of the fiscal year.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
You mean the 2013 budget sequestration never happened? Tell that to the departments that are getting $1.1T less over an 8 year period. Between the sequestration and the lack of budget increases, the US has been going through a period of fed
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
The paper I linked to discussed both of those papers and corrects errors made in them.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Ah, yes, flag it because heavens forbid anyone on HN discusses gun violence!
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
You may not be sure, but the researchers that study this subject are sure - http://andrewleigh.org/pdf/GunBuyback_Panel.pdf And for the US - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cri
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
How do you know it won't work? Seems like speculation to me.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Exactly. When Australia changed their gun laws, the suicide rate went down by 65%.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Fixing the issues that lead a person to consider suicide is really hard. Decreasing the number of available guns is much easier and is effective. When Australia decreased the number of guns, the suicide rate (not just gun related suicides,
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Don't do it. Send them an email telling them why you didn't sign up.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Missed the paragraph on the about page that lists the differences - http://saveosx.org/about/
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
I'm interested, but how is this better, or different, than homebrew?
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
Umm, I hate to be too nit picky, but the headline isn't deceptive. "Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors" The Obama administration is rejecting mandated backdoors. That's what the headline says and i
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
How isn't that a zero sum mentality? Unlike in your housing example, nobody lost any true value, just perceived value. No doubt it can be hard to process, but that doesn't mean it's not a case of zero sum mentality.
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by SteveLAnderson 11y ago
I do think that right wing voters are more reactive. They tend to see/hear something, and that something becomes the most important thing. That's why Rep. McCarthy's statement on the Benghazi hearing resulted in him losing

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