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by thisuser 15y ago
Dereferencing a pointer to 0 seemed to work fine?
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by thisuser 15y ago
Because it is lip service only. This plan will be muddled by congress as to benefit primarily the large institutions that are their donors, rather than the intended swath of USians. When that happens, don't expect Obama to be outraged. The
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by thisuser 15y ago
Exactly. Texas called Amazon's bluff. Amazon folded.
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by thisuser 15y ago
Medical and voting records generally ask for sex, not gender. It would be nice if the two concepts would stop being confused.
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by thisuser 15y ago
How well does IQ correlate with intelligence?
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by thisuser 15y ago
Am I the only one yearning for the convex optimization I & II classes to be offered in the new style?
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by thisuser 15y ago
I wish this distinction was so hard and true. It has unfortunately been my experience that to address the assumptions of most economic thinkers, political engagement is required. Bringing up heterodox or marxist _economic_ arguments tends t
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by thisuser 15y ago
Where's the difference?
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by thisuser 15y ago
Oh Graeber's book is out! Lovely! I have been passing around his essay by the same name for some time now. Should be a good intro to the book http://blog.longnow.org/2010/04/22/debt-the-first-five-thous... I would also recommend anything
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by thisuser 15y ago
There is no evidence that lowering tax rates creates jobs.
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by thisuser 15y ago
Capital Vol. 1 by Marx is classic and still more applicable than anyone wants to admit. Ease into the terminology over the first few chapters, things are defined carefully.
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by thisuser 15y ago
You would think that at least a few of these Laureates would entertain the possibility that under the right conditions a community of technocratic professionals freely debating the merits of various policies could have a better answer than
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by thisuser 15y ago
I have serious problems with the policies that CATO advocates. I expect them to explain and justify their policies, not appeal to a committee of Norwegians for authority. I expect the same of you.
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by thisuser 15y ago
Allowed by the commenting community. There's a difference between simple and simplistic. Simplistic is pretending the only incentive force at work in a national scale institution is the profit incentive. Simple is acknowledging that a small
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by thisuser 15y ago
Everything is politics. But reactionary free-market worship is too simplistic to be allowed here. Cato only exists because advocating private ownership of profit turns out to be profitable, not because they have any insightful analysis.
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by thisuser 15y ago
Unfortunately law seems to be one of the most conservative institutions (i.e. slow to change) in existence. It it set up to be an adversarial system between two parties, and most of the institutional structure depends upon that. Between the
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by thisuser 15y ago
Oh well we can't be upsetting the government. Carry on.
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by thisuser 15y ago
He is accused of stealing bandwidth from JSTOR, not the documents. "Theft of services" not theft of property. Theft of bandwidth is almost as absurd as theft via copying. JSTOR apparently isn't interested in free transmission of knowledge
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by thisuser 15y ago
There's also no evidence that keeping taxes low (the opportunity cost) creates jobs. Just look at our employment performance over the last decade
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by thisuser 15y ago
Agreed. Lets also make sure that these new businesses stay employee owned. If newly created small businesses find success -- only to be bought out by the paragons of the current economic model -- we will end up cycling back into the same ne
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by thisuser 15y ago
Capital Vol. 1 has a pretty good explanation for this phenomenon
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by thisuser 15y ago
I'm not asking you to continue to defend the Empire. I'm asking you to analyze the multitude of institutional forces that contributed to the structure Empire in a way that lets you causally analyze which forces produced which outcomes. This
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by thisuser 15y ago
Thanks for jumping in to pointlessly defend some giant institution. "they did good things too!" is so simplistic it makes me want to tear my hair out. Why spend time defending the Empire as some unquestionable whole? The point is to analyze
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by thisuser 15y ago
Keeping things just good enough that search users return is not the same set of incentives as delivering search that meets the comprehensive set of user wants. Your instinctual reaction to frame this in the context of a market is faulty. AL
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by thisuser 15y ago
In this case perhaps the audience should grow up and learn about the side of the world that doesn't follow strict formal logic. Hackers shouldn't be afraid of aesthetic arguments, with all of the desire for elegant solutions they profess.
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by thisuser 15y ago
The logical conclusion of the intuition to save this restaurant from rentiers is that all of the FIRE industries should be owned by the community that enables them, not private hands of a few psychopaths.
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by thisuser 15y ago
Hahaha yeah man, the energy crisis of the 70s was because Big Gov broke up Standard Oil!! Totally. I'm SO SAD Alcoa can't continue to grow :( :( http://www.ncconservationnetwork.org/mainblog/alcoa-worldwid... http://webcache.googleuserco
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by thisuser 15y ago
Article claims: - Google should canonized (stock market as implied canon?) - Anti-trust legislation is merely political whimsy - Corporations don't have inherent structural problems, all problems are caused by individuals Can we keep this s
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by thisuser 15y ago
Go talk to someone at the uni who who cares about enthusiasm. Simply filling out a boilerplate form deliver great results unless you are boilerplate too. Engage some social hacking.
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by thisuser 15y ago
but does it tether?

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