ta0987

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by ta0987 7y ago
Not sure how to reply if you just ignore everything I wrote that addresses that.
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by ta0987 7y ago
Because, unlike with guns, nobody is trying to ban cars. And to the most common objection: yes they are. Gun control proponents often bring up and praise the UK (near total ban) and Australia (significant limitations compared to the U.S.)
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by ta0987 7y ago
They would be called draconian by Republicans and the NRA, look how they react to any increase in gun laws today. That's because those increases are never compromises or exchanges. They are simply demands. Republicans and the NRA l
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by ta0987 7y ago
They are not Draconian, they are in the ballpark of a blue state in the US. If the progressives were willing to accept the Swiss laws in the US under the stipulation that they would never again be made more strict, the US gun owners should
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by ta0987 7y ago
.org does have value over .anything-else because .org domains already exist . The value is, for starters: branding, people remember sites. The value is also vendor-lock in. What you called "annoying" above. The value is not
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by ta0987 7y ago
No? I'm not sure what the relevance of that is though? I mean, it would certainly be right for the government to limit the increase in the cost of .org registrations to inflation, or better to cap the profit margin, since costs are
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by ta0987 7y ago
Well, if this is a disagreement over the word "monopoly" I'll just cite wikipedia: Patents, copyrights, and trademarks are sometimes used as examples of government-granted monopolies. Third paragraph from: https:/&#x2
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by ta0987 7y ago
I see your point, I was thinking of daylight in general. But even the blue sky is not quite as spiky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation#/media/F... If you look at 460-470 nm where the spike
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by ta0987 7y ago
What if you already have a .org domain that you actually use? How would you like it if your phone company started charging you extra to keep your phone number, and told you, there's plenty of other phone numbers you can have, we won&#
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by ta0987 7y ago
There's also this company, but I haven't pulled the trigger myself because of the cost: https://www.waveformlighting.com/high-cri-led-strip-lights
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by ta0987 7y ago
I've been looking at this, but it's not cheap: https://www.waveformlighting.com/high-cri-led-strip-lights
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by ta0987 7y ago
The blue sky's spectrum doesn't have a giant spike like this: https://www.benkuhn.net/img/lux/ledspec.png
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by ta0987 7y ago
Office computer? Definitely Android. Google is like a feudal lord. In exchange for owning you, they'll protect you from everyone weaker than they are. Google doesn't want to break into your office computer as long as they can s
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by ta0987 7y ago
I mean, sure, kind of. But indirectly. We can eat improved technology which we might be able to buy some of with money. increase retirement ages Yeah, that's one of the negative consequences of the demographic collapse. Not th
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by ta0987 7y ago
Paying for retirees is solvable by simply aggressively taxing the billionaires. You can't eat money. The problem is not financial, it is economic. Ignoring the few durable things that can be stockpiled, the money retirees spend, wh
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by ta0987 7y ago
Unfortunately, they got bought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
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by ta0987 7y ago
I wonder which will happen next, IP addresses again or Voyager leaving the solar system again?
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by ta0987 7y ago
I have the same question. The problem is picking a company you can be confident in for both: 1. Competent security 2. Good support Google meets 1. but fails at 2. Every time this topic comes up there are many suggestions meeting 2, but wit
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by ta0987 7y ago
One of my professors at an ivy would occasionally at the end of a lecture jokingly say something like, "ok here's what I think about all this, this five minutes is what you're paying 30 grand a year for so pay attention, ever
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by ta0987 7y ago
YouTube channel
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by ta0987 7y ago
e.g. to serve as a police officer You can't legally work in any job as an illegal immigrant - it's a Federal law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324a
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by ta0987 7y ago
People are paid based on what they have the leverage to demand, not based on what's right or wrong. Regulated taxi fare formulas usually include both time and distance. A mile in a traffic jam will be based on time. Ten miles with no
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by ta0987 7y ago
"The best form of exercise is the one you will actually do." Which form of art do you most enjoy or appreciate? Which form of art has output that will motivate you to keep practicing?
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by ta0987 7y ago
IIUC Common law courts were supposed to be exactly that - that's where the concept of judicial precedent comes from. When a court hears a case and decides it's different enough from previous cases it makes a new ruling for that s
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by ta0987 7y ago
Adam Neely Music theory and other music topics https://youtube.com/user/havic5 I strongly recommend his videos on the fastest/slowest/hardest music, he gets into the psychology of perception, philosophy of ar
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by ta0987 7y ago
I think that wanting the end result is the best reason to do something. If you foresee the value of the uses you put programming to, to be greater than the pain of programming, then keep at it. E.g. music. Nobody* likes practicing. The
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by ta0987 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing for. The faster the population falls, the harder the problem is to solve. Whether it's political or not.
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by ta0987 7y ago
The rate at which that happens is the problem. The faster the population declines, the more old people there are relative to young people, the smaller your labor pool is relative to your population, the harder your economy will crash. And
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by ta0987 7y ago
Given the way Congress treats the Post Office, I wouldn't take it for granted that the IRS has much choice in the matter.
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by ta0987 7y ago
I agree that the effort is best spent on promoting Free Fillable Forms which has no income limit (unlike Free File). But I file my state taxes on paper because fuck those assholes. If your coworker stole 50 dollars straight out of your wall

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