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by jqm 10y ago
It's a juvenile article Dan. Your censure is unjust in my opinion.
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by jqm 10y ago
This article kind of reminds me of when a report was due in 7'th grade and I didn't really want to do it. I'd just look up a bunch of stuff and reword it and jam it all together with no real thesis or point. It always passed.
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by jqm 10y ago
Who wants to drink a beer that had a ball in it that had been rolling around on the floor? Beer pong is just dumb all the way around even as a freshman in college.
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by jqm 10y ago
I did notice the org has raised $650K from a variety of sources. It might be interesting to see the ideological bent of the source of that funding. But I'm guessing it probably isn't oil drillers and Jesus in public school promote
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by jqm 10y ago
Each potential voter decides if they are informed enough. Or at least interested enough. And the two probably go together.
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by jqm 10y ago
Much of the time the smartest people don't actually do the best. High IQ isn't a guarantee of high achievement.
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by jqm 10y ago
And _that_ is the real value of media. Advertising always was a side business.
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by jqm 10y ago
If you trace the root cause of why people are in prison I bet in most cases poverty is a large part. When will we stop and realize keeping people indefinitely in poverty only makes life worse for everyone? The people behind these kind of sc
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by jqm 10y ago
If indeed it's gone one year to the day later.
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by jqm 10y ago
That probably depends on who you ask.
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by jqm 10y ago
The point is we already live in that dystopian future. But it isn't machines running things. It's people fighting over scraps. I firmly believe the machines will do better.
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by jqm 10y ago
So if we don't widen roads because people might have to move then we get more accidents. Or the city can't grow. Or people sit in traffic for extra hours a day. People's needs need to be taken into account, yes, that is what
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by jqm 10y ago
Maybe not all governance is possible by algorithm but much of it is. For instance, where do we widen a road? Absolutely an algorithmic problem. But I suspect sometimes these types of decisions have more to do with contributions, political f
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by jqm 10y ago
Nope. No exaggeration. I've known probably 30+ farmers in 4 or 5 states (and even worked for a few) and many have attitudes exactly as I state It's not that they were bad people or unkind (although some are... bordering on abusive
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by jqm 10y ago
Partially agree. I do happen to think the cartoon raises a very valid point. But... having known a lot of farmers they are indeed usually quite well off. And many of them are not aweshucks salt of the earth types people often perceive, but
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by jqm 10y ago
The prevention to this type of problem is probably the same measure needed to fix many forestry problems. Regular fires. But now we have homes right up to the forest and no one wants to look at charred land for two decades. So I suppose it&
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by jqm 10y ago
It stands to reason. Centralized bureaucracy is centralized bureaucracy. What was it said about the Soviet Union? That they pretended to pay people and the people pretended to work? Well.....
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by jqm 10y ago
No, central economic planning has traditionally been viewed as disastrous. Doesn't mean it "is" or "always will always be". In fact, you undoubtedly live to some extent under the auspices of some form of central e
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by jqm 10y ago
The Ruger 10/22 has been in production a long time. I have one that was a gift for my 12'th birthday. I'm 45.
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by jqm 10y ago
Some of the most useful things I've written have been the simplest. In fact, I'd say there is a pretty strong correlation between simplicity and usefulness (for some reason). You don't necessarily need a heavy framework to ma
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by jqm 10y ago
That's pretty funny.
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by jqm 10y ago
I think the point is for complex UI applications (or a team with interchangeable members) you would use a framework. But for less complex applications you might very well not. Enjoyed this article. I like JavaScript, I use it almost daily,
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by jqm 10y ago
Pointing out a likely bias does bring objectivity into question.
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by jqm 10y ago
A big part of the problem is always corruption. But can machines plan for an entire economy?
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by jqm 10y ago
If you could really direct things on a massive scale that could work. But I fear each little piece will scream bloody murder if it's cheese gets cut off and it becomes feasibly impossible to do what needs to be done.
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by jqm 10y ago
Well to be fair "the whole" isn't fully visible yet so we don't actually know the plain truth. Maybe trade deals are better for everyone overall. Maybe they aren't. Maybe they have sustainably and permanently lifted
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by jqm 10y ago
SF isn't the entire country. True. Large swathes of the country it is very difficult to find any work at all. Never mind work with pay one can exist on.
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by jqm 10y ago
Ya, well I'd rather be safe than feel safe.
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by jqm 10y ago
no-one says "I wish we never introduced tractors" The Amish?
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by jqm 10y ago
Back up and ask why you should want to learn. People sometimes assume we should all be learning everything but the reality is we can't and we won't. So we need to focus. I've seen a lot of people that flit around and start th

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