william42

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by william42 14y ago
North Carolina teachers have no union.
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by william42 15y ago
GM was at least on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure that can be attributed more to massively underestimating how much healthcare would cost in 2008 during a union negotiation several decades prior than to any sor
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by william42 15y ago
Being a non-profit does not make you decentralized.
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by william42 15y ago
I'm skeptical of the legitimacy of any business that advertises itself mostly through spam.
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by william42 15y ago
Wikipedia is exactly as centralized as StackOverflow, in that it's all in a single site but licensed under Creative Commons.
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by william42 15y ago
An Erlang crash is of an Erlang process, which is a tiny green-thread with shared-nothing. That's very different from a C program segfaulting.
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by william42 15y ago
The main thing is that you'd need a new set of abstractions for security, and then you'd need to implement HTML5 on it anyways to do all the things we can do on a computer now.
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by william42 15y ago
No original research is because otherwise Wikipedia would be infested with physics cranks.
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by william42 15y ago
The censorship doesn't really work when it's in the URL.
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by william42 15y ago
Well, the actual content and information is only one side of the coin. The other side is taking bad content off.
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by william42 15y ago
Link me to Something Awful actually supporting these laws.
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by william42 15y ago
No, but the image+caption is different from just the image.
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by william42 15y ago
Currency markets exist, but most currency trading is a lot more short-term. Holding USD is rarely an investment. You put money in your checking account(as opposed to a savings account/CD, which is an investment in the bank) because you exp
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by william42 15y ago
Didn't the Oakland A's stop being successful precisely because every other team picked up their methods?
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by william42 15y ago
There are index funds that swap out exactly the same way the Dow does.
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by william42 15y ago
Ew. Is there a version of that graph that's on a logarithmic scale?
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by william42 15y ago
When is the last time that you purchased a product or service using gold?
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by william42 15y ago
Hint: the value of USD isn't as an investment. In fact, if the value of USD goes up, that makes it less useful, because the point of having money is to spend it. For example, one of the many reasons of the utter trainwreck of Bitcoin is
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by william42 15y ago
Aren't Bill Gates and Warren Buffett currently trying to spend as much of their money as possible on charity work, as well as lobbying to get the amount of taxes they have to pay increased?
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by william42 15y ago
"If you had bought and held the stocks that make up the Dow over 60 or 70 years, you'd have gotten demolished because the Dow constantly shuffles its index." No, but if you put your money into an index fund, you'd be shuffling your money ex
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by william42 15y ago
Yeah, the Prime Directive seems to be more "we don't want to completely fuck up a less developed culture by accident" than anything else.
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by william42 15y ago
I think he's claiming that plays are more popular in Europe.
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by william42 15y ago
And this doesn't apply to Holocaust deniers because...
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by william42 15y ago
The followup "Colour, social beings, and undecidability" http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/24 is also pretty good.
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by william42 15y ago
Actually, my first thought was "This reminds me of Enso", Enso being the predecessor to Ubiquity(by the same people before they were hired by Mozilla), but integrated into the desktop as a whole rather than the browser. Unfortunately, my ma
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by william42 15y ago
"Here's one way to start: remove direct elections of senators. It makes lobbyists having to deal with 50 separate state legislatures rather than 100 individuals." Lobbyists hear this and think "Oh boy! I get to deal with a set of elections
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by william42 15y ago
The former is what Megaupload was doing, though. They had software to download YT videos and upload them on Megavideo.
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by william42 15y ago
Two things that Megaupload didn't do. I think the moral of the Megaupload story is not to trust sites run by guys convicted of credit card fraud.
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by william42 15y ago
Honestly, this is the thing that annoys me the most about the Occupy Wall Street slogan of "the 99% vs the 1%"; income is a power distribution and there really isn't a threshold you can step over and become rich. Not that it really matters,
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by william42 15y ago
I think that when you use a magnet link it either includes the tracker (which is the part of BitTorrent that tracks the seeds) in the text of the link or uses a more sophisticated technology called a Distributed Hash Table.

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