ja30278

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by ja30278 7y ago
I have never understood why, post 9/11, planes were not modified to remove the cabin to cockpit door, and make the cockpit door a separate entrance. This would more or less completely remove the possibility of a second 9/11 attac
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by ja30278 8y ago
Have you read the decision? That is an odd way to frame it...a corporation cannot ‘be the government’, and there is nothing in that decision that says they were. The more applicable passage would be: “The more an owner, for his advantage, o
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by ja30278 8y ago
Incorrect. See Marsh v Alabama
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by ja30278 9y ago
I don't understand the fixation with Wikileaks' motive. That seems independent of whether their information is true or false.
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by ja30278 9y ago
There seems to be a common bait-and-switch tactic performed by proponents of UBI, in which they mention UBI as a replacement for social programs when talking about affordability, but back away from that assertion when questioned about how t
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by ja30278 9y ago
Counterpoint: As Taleb points out, car accident deaths are 'thin-tailed'; that is, the rate of car fatalities is essentially fixed (and predictable by looking at past data), while terrorism is 'fat-tailed', and the numbe
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by ja30278 9y ago
There's also a certain kind of person who seems to really want 10x people _not_ to exist. I'm not a 10x person, but I have worked with some. I don't think they are unique to programming..there are 10x folks in every field. So
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by ja30278 9y ago
As a thought experiment, for people who agree with the idea that a company 'owns' all of the thought-output of an employee: Why should that mean only the valuable IP, and not _all_ of the thought-output, including the unpleasant p
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by ja30278 10y ago
It's quite funny, but.. " The followers advice is dropping the curly brackets for these one-line ifs to make them all happy. " I have never understood why anyone would do this. It's a bug waiting to happen (as goto fail
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by ja30278 10y ago
"And again if it be true, that a wise man like a good refiner can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea or without book, there is no reason that we should deprive a wise man of
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by ja30278 10y ago
I feel compelled to point out that your question has 2 assumptions: - that the RNC is equally corrupt as the DNC - that Assange has (or could obtain) evidence of that corruption. If either of these assumptions is incorrect, then your ques
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by ja30278 10y ago
You can have a similar epiphany with regard to corporate taxes, which are ultimately paid by the consumer.
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by ja30278 10y ago
Oddly enough, I just finished the last episode of this series 10 minutes before seeing this link posted (and your comment). It is uniformly excellent, and well worth the time commitment required to listen to the whole thing. I've also
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by ja30278 10y ago
"There was rampant shadiness back in the day" ...this is an actual quote from a major paper? Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like unbelievably sloppy language for someone being paid to write.
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by ja30278 10y ago
NB: you've mixed up spot and process colors ( spot = pantone, process = CMYK dots ), but otherwise correct.
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by ja30278 10y ago
Reading arguments for Basic Income makes me realize what it must be like to argue with a flat-earth proponent. I literally can't understand the frame of mind that leads to the belief that this would be a good idea, at least as proposed
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by ja30278 10y ago
Even simpler: Completely separate the cockpit from the passenger cabin. Without the possibility to use the hijacked plane to take hostages to a friendly destination, or to use the plane as a missle, it's no more attractive as a target
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by ja30278 10y ago
So..the cost of an extra kernel/userspace switch was too much for a file request that is going to be serviced by a server on the other side of the internet?..really?
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by ja30278 10y ago
I really don't understand how a 'basic' income is supposed to work. What if I spend my basic income on drugs and hookers? are you willing to let me starve? what about my kids? If not, then the basic income can't actually
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by ja30278 11y ago
I'm sorry, but this is nonsensical. 'Poor' people, on the whole, work less, and have a better standard of living now than for most of recorded history. It's much more likely that over-prescription of oxycontin is the roo
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by ja30278 11y ago
Medical professionals and hospital rooms are absolutely finite resources. You can certainly build more, either by incentivizing their construction (capitalism) or have the state build them as part of some 5 year plan. Medical professionals
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by ja30278 11y ago
Whenever someone says that some rivalrous resource is a 'basic human right', I have a hard time taking them seriously. As I get older, I have mellowed a great deal, and I understand how smart people can reasonably disagree about a
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by ja30278 11y ago
Because if we aren't causing it, then there's very little reason to make vast changes to our way of life in hopes of preventing it.
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by ja30278 11y ago
I prefer Milton here: “Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth
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by ja30278 12y ago
It boggles my mind that otherwise intelligent people have a hard time grasping this simple concept. Taxes are simply another cost of doing business, especially if they are applied to whole categories. Even if they are applied to specific co
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by ja30278 12y ago
With the caveat that I haven't kept up closely with systemd 1. It is attempting to unify a bunch of previously disconnected functionality into a single program. Typically unix is composed of small single-purpose utilities that perform
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by ja30278 12y ago
I never understand the desire to omit braces in single line blocks. sure for () foo saves you a line, but it's a bug waiting to happen.
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by ja30278 12y ago
1. Exceptions are basically 'goto' with a pretty wrapper. Over time, I've come to believe that the best place to handle an error is close to where it occurs, rather than throwing some hail mary message up the stack and hope s
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by ja30278 12y ago
"Another sort there be who, when they hear that all things shall be ordered, all things regulated and settled, nothing written but what passes through the custom-house of certain publicans that have the tonnaging and poundaging of all
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by ja30278 12y ago
Well...of course. Heroin dealers don't take Visa cards, so you wouldn't see a line item for drugs on a Visa bill. You also wouldn't see that the prepaid card had been exchanged for cash at a discount to someone that actually

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