davinic

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by davinic 6y ago
Do they have to incite a mob to overtake the halls of a separate and equal branch of our government resulting in the deaths of five people including a police officer?
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by davinic 6y ago
It wouldn't be. Forcing the producers to pay for their externalities will also make some products like bottled water cost-prohibitive to sell in glass bottles and reduce demand or increase packaging sizes to more is bought in reusable
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by davinic 6y ago
Now just put your laptop inside of a HEPA vacuum bag. Problem solved.
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by davinic 6y ago
We could also just tax the income used to make the donations at similar levels to prior top brackets and not depend on philanthropy as a means to fund public institutions or social safety nets.
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by davinic 6y ago
> Drones are a serious responsibility, and can be misused to cause a lot of damage >I flew the drone over to a friend's back yard, and had misconfigured the "return-to-home" altitude too low You claim to understand the
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by davinic 6y ago
And also the effects of those couple dozen are nonlinear and the degree of nonlinearity probably varies from subject to subject.
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by davinic 6y ago
You could also stop this degree inflation by requiring a $15 minimum wage on all jobs but a $25 minimum wage when the job lists a bachelor's degree requirement (applied based on whether the job requires a degree, not whether the employ
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by davinic 6y ago
I think something along these lines would be great. The problem with Amazon competing in their own marketplace is that there is far too much information asymmetry -- they know about how their marketplace sellers are setting prices and they
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by davinic 6y ago
No, because stores like Kroger aren't building a marketplace platform, they are building a single thing to sell their products -- this is evident in the fact that there's aren't grocery monopolies. A single market is not a ma
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by davinic 6y ago
But the laws can be structured to deal with those issues, much as they are today.
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by davinic 6y ago
Also in many cases I am allowed to proceed with the +, but never receive confirmation emails because the sending system chokes.
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by davinic 6y ago
Your friends could still be considered contractors under this law. One of the provisions that allows you to remain a contractor is that "the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business o
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by davinic 6y ago
That option is still completely possible under this law. One of the provisions that allows you to remain a contractor is "The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same natu
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by davinic 6y ago
> If the chocolate was only given out afterwards, 29.8 per cent of participants revealed their passwords. Nearly 30% of people just gave out their password and didn't even know they were getting chocolate! They gave it away for lit
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by davinic 6y ago
Exactly. At least one of these kids used their personal gmail account on the hacking forum. These are not advanced hackers.
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by davinic 6y ago
But we're not talking about a couple people, we're talking about a culture shift to prevent ageism. In that context, the average age definitely increases, which definitely increases the risk and premiums for that pool, what was th
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by davinic 6y ago
No one who works from home has job security in a global market. Plumbers have job security in a global market.
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by davinic 6y ago
True but the framework is standard, which is why there is no software engineering equivalent to GAAP. GASP?
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by davinic 6y ago
I am saying that we should react proportionally and that the societal context is critical.
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by davinic 6y ago
But the risk to the target outweighs the potential benefit to the doxxer. Consequences can be unequal. And if the doxee ends up being the perpetrator, then the bad things were already on their way via the legal system.
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by davinic 6y ago
Reputation risk avoidance. "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"
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by davinic 6y ago
Where did I even come close to making the claim that mobilized mob squads are a "proven remedy to fix power dynamic's distortions in society"?
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by davinic 6y ago
With which part do you disagree and what is your basis for that?
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by davinic 6y ago
Knowing that absolute security is a myth, it makes more sense to assume all the systems are insecure and proceed from there, placing only the appropriate level of trust in any system.
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by davinic 6y ago
Because power dynamics play a huge role when we're talking about systemic issues, and the current system gives most favorable outcomes to white males. It's not that the other cases are not important, but dealing with them deserves
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by davinic 6y ago
I'd also recommend Sour Grapes, which is about the vintage wine market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film)
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by davinic 6y ago
Yes - in the Character classes chapter you had just introduced the negate operator, then in the next example use the beginning operator, which happens to be the same character in a different context. That might be a leap too far. Great reso
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by davinic 6y ago
In a couple days, New York will probably release the number of meals served. Divide that by the population of New York and then multiply that by your $596 billion. Even if it's 10% (no way it will be this high), that's $60 billion
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by davinic 6y ago
I didn't read this comment as promoting means testing. I read it as "Even if they make the meals available to everyone, mostly just the people in need will use it". It was addressing the moral hazard risk that people often as
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by davinic 7y ago
Also Java has Optional<T> and C# has Nullable<T>.

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