maratd

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by maratd 7y ago
Your point is absolutely valid, but there is no reason why the same doesn't apply to this new scheme as well. You would need to distribute the money and the same distribution problems apply. People are people. Give everybody $1k? Who&#
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by maratd 7y ago
>> charities, welfare, churches, synagogues, etc. > All of those things have displayed discrimination against groups they don't like in the past, or have an overt or covert missionary agenda. The welfare office discriminates a
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by maratd 7y ago
> People working many hourly jobs net less than $1,000 per month and cannot afford to take unpaid time off. Absolutely and those people should receive assistance through the regular channels we have available. Unemployment, charities, we
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by maratd 7y ago
I think this is a profoundly bad idea. It's just as dumb as the fed trying to prop things up. You're not going to solve this problem with money, but with a strong response to the root cause, the pandemic. That said ... > My wif
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by maratd 7y ago
> Again you're hyperbolizing. I am not. > The outright toxic projects that developers and city leaders routinely propose run at a least a couple of orders of magnitude above 0.01 percent. This is true, but does not contradict my
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by maratd 7y ago
> for example, a major trash incineration facility on a plot of land in the middle of your quiet residential neighborhood We can either chat about the 0.01% of scenarios ... or the other 99.99%. The other 99.99% look extremely similar ..
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by maratd 7y ago
> And your plan for achieving that number is - what precisely? Ease up on the zoning laws. Many zoning laws in that same metro area prohibit high density housing. The same high density housing that is most profitable and reduces the co
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by maratd 7y ago
> That's like saying "anyone who learns about the world is a scientist". That's exactly what a scientist is? At least if they're using the scientific method to learn about the world.
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by maratd 7y ago
This sort of what-about-ism doesn't address the core point. That top-down command and control systems are vulnerable to precisely this type of outcome. Providing a single western example of a much milder localized circumstance doesn&#x
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by maratd 7y ago
> Corporations are a thing. Corporations aren't a thing. They're a legal construct. They're owned by shareholders, who are mostly institutional investors ... pension funds, 401k, etc ... everyday people. So you will be tax
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by maratd 7y ago
To add to this, only those who are actively seeking work and are not employed, are considered unemployed. A retired person (or a person who has given up looking for work) is not counted as unemployed, but will be counted once employed.
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by maratd 7y ago
You should be flexible enough to bill in whatever manner that works best for the work at hand, the client, and most importantly, yourself. If the job requires hourly billing, don't pass it up because "I don't bill hourly&quot
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by maratd 7y ago
There are two levels of organization. Time level (which projects when, meetings, sprints, time allocation) and project level (user stories). For the time level stuff, I use Google Calendar. This allows me to plan development work for the va
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by maratd 7y ago
Wrong trilogy =) I was talking about https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N32K12H/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
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by maratd 7y ago
Unless you assume each solar system is a threat, so you proactively send automated machines to each solar system that can adapt to the threat as needed. They might also not care if there is or isn't life there and just want to build Dy
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by maratd 7y ago
Also Winter World (and the other two books in the trilogy). Fun read. Very similar in style to the The Expanse.
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by maratd 7y ago
> As an engineer, it's tough to get past this mindset. Seems that way considering how you're being downvoted. A shame. As engineers, we should be more concerned with what actually works, not with what works inside our heads.
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by maratd 7y ago
How is a Ford F150 safer for a pedestrian?
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by maratd 7y ago
> There is also the possible issue of rapid exit when electrics are dead. This is not an issue with Tesla design, all of that is handled by a traditional car battery that every car has, not the main battery. Those batteries are completel
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by maratd 7y ago
I would be far more concerned with the acceleration of the fire. If I have plenty of notice to get away from the vehicle and to keep others away, who cares how vigorous it is? Either way, the car will burn down. I don't think it matter
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by maratd 7y ago
> Are there any contemporary visions of the future that are as forward thinking as the cyberpunk universe imagined in the 80s? The Expanse
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by maratd 7y ago
> It's worth pointing out that the intent of transportation infrastructure isn't to turn a profit It's also worth pointing out that transportation systems that do turn a profit are generally healthy and run well. It is dif
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by maratd 7y ago
I can argue that censorship isn't OK on either? Isn't that the appropriate position?
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by maratd 7y ago
> analysing how you are as a person and in my opinion makes you become a pacifist This contradicts your argument. If there is no free will, you can't make yourself become anything.
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by maratd 7y ago
> Free will is an illusion but you can continue to postulate otherwise. Then you won't be mad at me for down-voting your comment? It wasn't my choice!
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by maratd 7y ago
Do you truly feel that the US has antagonized Canada and Mexico within the past 100 years? I'm pretty sure they're our closest allies.
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by maratd 7y ago
Not sure I understand. If you're using your ISP's DNS service, majority of your requests are going to hit their cache. You shouldn't notice any downtime as long as the cache doesn't expire.
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by maratd 7y ago
> Actually everyone should prefer the other guy do it rather than host it themselves. This isn't true. If you're hosting it, you can control it and you can make sure that it's always operational. The last thing you want is
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by maratd 7y ago
Registration! Scary! It's an index-sized paper form you fill out. That's it. The draft isn't coming back and there has been no instance of it coming back in any capacity in over 50 years. So no glass houses here, thanks.
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by maratd 7y ago
I think you're confusing the word "can" and "must". A Jew can become an Israeli citizen. The issue here is that many of these people are not choosing to be China's citizens and yet are considered such.

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