ataggart

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by ataggart 8y ago
>at a certain point, it’s too expensive to keep fixing bugs because of the high-opportunity cost of building new features. While I may agree with this in the abstract, in practice most folks don't really know whether they're at
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by ataggart 8y ago
Or 3g of shaped explosives. https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw?t=67
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by ataggart 8y ago
>"shouting fire in a theater." Relevant Christopher Hitchens: https://youtu.be/4Z2uzEM0ugY
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by ataggart 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TE3WYUVj4U
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by ataggart 8y ago
If their next best option to working at an Amazon warehouse is starvation, then it's a pretty good thing for them that Amazon has a warehouse there. That said, I strongly suspect they have better "next best" options.
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by ataggart 8y ago
I'm curious to know these workers' next best employment option, the one they're forgoing to work at an Amazon warehouse.
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by ataggart 8y ago
Knights of the Old Republic
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by ataggart 8y ago
I'm not clear on why I should be prohibited from accepting more pay in exchange for being more available.
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by ataggart 8y ago
172. First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems
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by ataggart 9y ago
I find it curious that when someone suggests leaving an area of human action unregulated (i.e., not _a priori_ restricting otherwise non-criminal acts), others rush to read that as allowing crimes such as fraud to go unprosecuted.
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by ataggart 9y ago
>Suppose a dollar of this loan has an expected value of 99 cents for the bank, while generating $2 worth of taxable economic activity at a 10% rate. Apart from miscalculating the expected returns or mispricing the resulting goods and ser
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by ataggart 9y ago
>I will drink a toast to the day the last auto dealership goes out of business. Unfortunately, manufacturers are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in many states. As usual, scratch below the surface of a "market failure&
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by ataggart 11y ago
The only truly egalitarian algorithm is a random sort.
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by ataggart 11y ago
How curious that being the best in a competition is seen as anti-competitive, and that keeping one's innovations secret is seen as a barrier to entry. "[T]he English language... becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are
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by ataggart 12y ago
Perhaps a first step would be to stop referring to it as "identity theft". That phrase places you as the victim, thus implicitly any injury is yours to bear. The proper victims of the fraudsters are the businesses falling for
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by ataggart 12y ago
>Free markets are awesome eh? ;-) Care to make your point here more clear?
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by ataggart 12y ago
>Predatory pricing. Offering a lower price to consumers than your competition is not coercion against a competitor. >Buying up necessary capital. Offering a higher price to suppliers than your competition is not coercion against a com
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by ataggart 12y ago
>"free" and "free of governmental interference" are not the same thing. Since "free" in this context means absence of coercion against extant or would-be competitors, and since government regulatory efforts
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by ataggart 12y ago
Correctness can often arise naturally when the implementation reflects the function's intent by composing "correct" functions. E.g., (defn values-in [m ks] (vals (select-keys m ks)))
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by ataggart 12y ago
Some of the comments here bring to mind a quote by Eugene McCarthy: "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
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by ataggart 12y ago
Sorry, I don't see why you consider what I wrote "inflammatory". Children in developing countries starving and going blind is the status quo . Opposing an existential solution without bothering to provide an alternate exis
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by ataggart 12y ago
Considering the opposition to golden rice (sometimes violently [1]) to fulfill this role in other parts of the world, these bananas are probably DOA. So long as middle-class Westerners imagine someone somewhere might end up making a profit
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by ataggart 12y ago
I am reminded of a quote: "Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the
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by ataggart 12y ago
>That is, users systematically spring for games with lower cost-benefit tradeoffs simply because they are offered for free. Except that's not what the paper says. It just notes that the decision-making process that goes on in peopl
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by ataggart 12y ago
A good indicator for the seriousness of an article is how quickly the corpse of Ayn Rand is draped over the subject's policy positions.
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by ataggart 12y ago
>You're either ignorant or amoral. Unfortunately rayiner is neither, as a look at his comment history makes clear. His morality is just antithetical to yours and mine. To paraphrase and invert an H.L. Mencken quote, it seems in any
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by ataggart 12y ago
Terms like "net neutrality" and "reform" are often used to trick an audience into agreeing with the speaker by having the listeners fill-in-the-blank with their own favourable definitions. So, when it comes to state acti
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by ataggart 12y ago
>the police have always had broad authority to conduct warrantless, intrusive searches at the time of an actual arrest. Only insofar as needed to protect the arresting officer from harm or to prevent the destruction of evidence.[1] [1]
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by ataggart 12y ago
So, X contributed to Y, therefore Y could not exist without X. Is there a name for that kind of logical fallacy?
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by ataggart 12y ago
I wonder why so many people always assume that increased productivity means fewer workers instead of more goods.

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