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by random28345 9y ago
> For what it's worth, a lot of people like myself consider Snopes a source of leftist propo, not truth. Is this more "reality has a known liberal bias" sarcasm? Or as you saying the entire concept of objective truth is le
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by random28345 9y ago
> It's a good strategy, if you can afford not to withdraw from the fund on the year (and for several years after) you 97% bet turns sour If the bet turns sour, you close the fund. The idea is that you grow the fund and take your tw
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by random28345 9y ago
The idea is that you can simultaneously be protected by the laws of nation-states that you like (protection from pirates), and are free to break the laws of nation-states that you don't like (taxes, drug laws, etc.) It's an exampl
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by random28345 9y ago
I want to move to this libertarian paradise where I'm not affected by externalities and acting selfishly is always pareto efficient. I want to live in this magical place where we don't need government. Where is it?
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by random28345 9y ago
> I think the EITC uniquely incentivizes those in the program to work themselves out of it, unlike other programs. That's why I like it so much, because I think other programs do fall under your critique. This experiment has never b
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by random28345 9y ago
> I'm going to need a cite for that. You're going to need a citation for... employers seeking lower wages? And that these lower wages are subsidized by government benefits? The citation would be nearly every company, ever. So s
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by random28345 9y ago
> My expectation would be that employers would offer lower wages so that employees will have roughly the same take-home pay. You are absolutely right, in the absence of a reasonable minimum wage, this is exactly what happens.
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by random28345 9y ago
> Objecting to the redistribution of wealth isn't the same as trying to do away with the rule of law. The rule of law depends on the redistribution of wealth. Courts, public defenders, police, regulators, juries don't magically
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by random28345 9y ago
> we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian. The purpose of automation is humanitarian in the same way that politicians serve the needs of their constituents, and police protect their communitie
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by random28345 9y ago
> Lower the taxes and don't let government get their hands on it at any stage of the process. This smacks again of redistribution of wealth and I'm totally against this. Brilliant! I'm sure that startups will flourish in a
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by random28345 9y ago
I second this. It's usable.
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by random28345 10y ago
You know, I think it would be a shorter list if the systemd guys were to enumerate the things they didn't want to control on a Linux system.
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by random28345 10y ago
> So Netflix has a six year lead and attendant network effects in it's favor. I completely agree with you. I personally have a Netflix account, and do not subscribe to other services. My point is that right now, today, this very ins
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by random28345 10y ago
Intel still has a good edge on single-core performance. And productivity software is about pushing lots of instructions through a single core.
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by random28345 10y ago
> The original success of Netflix depended on being the first company with a fixed-price-no-ads streaming business model Actually, the original success involved putting DVDs in mailboxes. > I remember being astonished at watching a Ne
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by random28345 10y ago
> [Netflix's] edge is in software alone, nothing that causes a huge barrier to entry like custom hardware. Actually, they are a media company. Their "edge" is in content creation and licencing deals. They might have been
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by random28345 10y ago
Why not get a modern (Haswell or later) Intel CPU and a motherboard with DisplayPort output? You don't need a discrete GPU unless you're MLing or gaming, and you can splurge a bit and get something with DDR4 and/or NVMe. Hav
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by random28345 10y ago
> Right here on HN is an example, where the comment reply chain is indicated with indentation. <div class=comment> <span class=user>T-hawk</span> Right here on HN is an example, where the comment
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by random28345 10y ago
> Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this! Well, if you're going to try t
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by random28345 10y ago
> What city/state was this in? New Jersey. But it's fairly universal behavior. > Is there no place to report such behavior to? The manufacturer? The manufacturer is at the mercy of the dealers. Do you really think it's
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by random28345 10y ago
> it takes a ton of time and requires you to be willing to walk away and waste an evening if they pull any funny business. Can confirm, agreed on a price, the dealer wanted $3,500 for a pinstripe at the last minute. Had to walk, went to
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by random28345 10y ago
> Actually, that case fits two full length cards Eyeballing that case, it looks like it might have the length to accommodate a modern GPU, but it doesn't have the width for a double-slot GPU, much less any room for airflow across it
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by random28345 10y ago
Actually, the main problem is that you can't put 2x full length video cards in it. Cooling a mini-itx board with a 14mm processor with <90W TDP is not a unsolved problem. But the standard ATX motherboard layout assumes most of the h
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by random28345 10y ago
This is a problem that badly needs to be solved. Advertising revenue is the incentive for news organizations to provide a conduit for malware onto your computer, and there isn't anyone who thinks that's a good idea. If these guy
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by random28345 10y ago
> Do we want every soldier, employee and contractor working in our government to use giant data dumps as a legit way to lodge their objections? Yes, that is exactly what we want them to do when faced with criminal activity within their o
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by random28345 10y ago
Seems almost tautological that if there's not a ton of frothy money chasing a limited pool of assets, it will both be hard to raise money, and you'll get better returns because of less investment competition.
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by random28345 10y ago
> Most businesses rent so property holders would feel the tax burden and rents would go up significantly. Property holders would feel the tax burden, decreasing the net revenue from rent, and decreasing property values. Rents are already
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by random28345 10y ago
> If you think a ~$100,000 a year to a politician (plus another couple million to some other politicians) is largely responsible for the rules that govern how 20% of our economy functions you are quite mistaken. cough https:/&#x2
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by random28345 10y ago
> American governments are not capable of running efficient programmes, because to a first approximation American government employment is a make-work program for people who can't get hired at anywhere that cares about competence. A
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by random28345 10y ago
tl;dr: Houses are so expensive that people can't afford a down payment, so banks let people buy houses for no money down, driving up the purchase price of houses.

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