cornell532

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by cornell532 16d ago
People arguing against parent are Property Thieves. see 5th amendment which requires "private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation". It's your property. Do what you want with it. In a free
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by cornell532 2mo ago
Why? The Beatles really wrote and performed Strawberry Fields. Why are you entitled to it for gratis? It’s a taking for public benefit. Ancient writings like Plato or Marcus Aurelius somehow feel different. But high-fidelity live recordin
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by cornell532 2mo ago
Don’t be so nasty about w2 workers. Incredibly unbecoming. Also see comparative advantage re best roles for each actor in an economy
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by cornell532 4mo ago
“Explicit is better than implict.” —PEP 8
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by cornell532 4mo ago
I like Elestio for managing devops of self-hosting. I don't want to do backups, monitor and fork git repositories for updates, etc. It's non-trivial. My time is scarce. However, I'm extremely reluctant to give my password d
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by cornell532 6mo ago
Mine shuts off because of conditions regularly. It's very annoying. FSD is a better driver than me 99% of the time.
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by cornell532 9mo ago
You mean “getting dangerous people off the streets who’d kill if they had the means”?
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by cornell532 5y ago
Where does all of the money go? New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.
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by cornell532 5y ago
You sound like a great parent doing right by your daughter. She's lucky to have you. The point of school is to learn to think + learn to face adversity & failure....
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by cornell532 5y ago
Why not just let them be a permanent liability on the business? Are you worried about claims in bankruptcy court or something?
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by cornell532 5y ago
"_* Permanent liability* _" Are you insane? You have the cash in-hand. The customer has made an interest-free loan to you. You're ACTIVELY trying to * DISCOURAGE* positive cashflow!?!?!?!?!?! You should execute the exact op
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by cornell532 6y ago
Just signup for Shifter ( https://www.getshifter.io/ ) and call it a day. The point of static hosting is to simplify things, not feed into developer fever dreams of complex systems. Plus, Wordpress is established, mature ecos
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by cornell532 6y ago
Long distance calls cost a pittance now. Service is better. VoIP is a big innovation. Lack of competition in cellular is another story....
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by cornell532 6y ago
How is money not speech? Jeff Bezos is able to buy the Washington Post (or multiple TV stations if he wanted) and can say anything he wants under the guise of free speech. I don’t have Jeff Bezos’ resources, but if I buy a single televisio
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by cornell532 6y ago
The right to petition the government is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.
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by cornell532 6y ago
This is exactly what we do using Shifter ( http://getshifter.io/ ).
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by cornell532 15y ago
#1 was great. This is a joke right? You do know the US Treasury is the safest financial instrument in the known universe, right? I'm sure you also know that French debt is denominated in Euros a currency which may or may not exist in 10
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by cornell532 15y ago
Move to France. You'd find their backwards, less competitive economy to your liking.
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by cornell532 15y ago
Brilliant response. Economic ignorance encountered here can be stupefying.
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by cornell532 15y ago
This is an idiotic argument that ignores/sidesteps the main point of the parent. No matter what you think of China's economy, it is leaps and bounds better than what it was 20 years ago and provides a dramatically superior quality of life f
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by cornell532 15y ago
Is the answer cars, cheap land, big houses?
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by cornell532 15y ago
By your logic, pharmaceutical companies are exploiting cancer patients. Patients with horrible, painful, fatal diseases are certainly miserable. Pharmaceutical companies are certainly looking to further their own goals through the developm
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by cornell532 15y ago
By the way, as a separate issue; if people were allowed to bid for organs. And assuming you're right that rich people horded them, then wouldn't the supply rise up to meet that new demand? Wouldn't more people sign up to be organ donors?
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by cornell532 15y ago
I agree with everything you're saying (except the part about hording) perhaps.... My expectation is that donors would be paid based on expected value, which is how (I believe), the issue is being framed in debates. ie assume there's a 1% pr
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by cornell532 15y ago
What do they do now? You make it sound like there's a better alternative currently available! The reason they would consider selling a FUTURE interest in their organs is because it would be the best option on the table. Since it's not c
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by cornell532 15y ago
Ah, now we arrive at the real nut of anti-Libertarianism: paternalism. The notion that somehow adults are not capable of making their own decisions. This is our fundamental disagreement. To me, impoverished, indigent people struggling to
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by cornell532 15y ago
Libertarianism would say that hit-jobs (and stolen organs) involve coercion. That is, it's not "2 consenting adults", but rather a market for doing harm on to other people and creating a "externality effect" of harm. This is similar to du
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by cornell532 15y ago
I agree with you completely. As engineers, our instinct is to build things. Business discipline requires focusing on profitable uses of time. It's highly unlikely that building expense tracking software was the best use of time for the o
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by cornell532 15y ago
Your point is true, but so is parent post. Standards doesn't mean "no innovation". While the electric outlet may be a "standard" devices that use the electricity shouldn't necessarily be "standard". ie if I want an innovative lamp to plug
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by cornell532 15y ago
Google just bought a 3,000,000 square foot building on 8th avenue. Seems like they were able to find space.

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