Incorrect. See Marsh v Alabama
I don't understand the fixation with Wikileaks' motive. That seems independent of whether their information is true or false.
There seems to be a common bait-and-switch tactic performed by proponents of UBI, in which they mention UBI as a replacement for social programs when talking about affordability, but back away from that assertion when…
As a thought experiment, for people who agree with the idea that a company 'owns' all of the thought-output of an employee: Why should that mean only the valuable IP, and not _all_ of the thought-output, including the…
It's quite funny, but.. " The followers advice is dropping the curly brackets for these one-line ifs to make them all happy. " I have never understood why anyone would do this. It's a bug waiting to happen (as goto fail…
"And again if it be true, that a wise man like a good refiner can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea or without book, there is no reason that we should…
I feel compelled to point out that your question has 2 assumptions: - that the RNC is equally corrupt as the DNC - that Assange has (or could obtain) evidence of that corruption. If either of these assumptions is…
You can have a similar epiphany with regard to corporate taxes, which are ultimately paid by the consumer.
Oddly enough, I just finished the last episode of this series 10 minutes before seeing this link posted (and your comment). It is uniformly excellent, and well worth the time commitment required to listen to the whole…
"There was rampant shadiness back in the day" ...this is an actual quote from a major paper? Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like unbelievably sloppy language for someone being paid to write.
Reading arguments for Basic Income makes me realize what it must be like to argue with a flat-earth proponent. I literally can't understand the frame of mind that leads to the belief that this would be a good idea, at…
So..the cost of an extra kernel/userspace switch was too much for a file request that is going to be serviced by a server on the other side of the internet?..really?
I really don't understand how a 'basic' income is supposed to work. What if I spend my basic income on drugs and hookers? are you willing to let me starve? what about my kids? If not, then the basic income can't…
Medical professionals and hospital rooms are absolutely finite resources. You can certainly build more, either by incentivizing their construction (capitalism) or have the state build them as part of some 5 year plan.…
Whenever someone says that some rivalrous resource is a 'basic human right', I have a hard time taking them seriously. As I get older, I have mellowed a great deal, and I understand how smart people can reasonably…
Because if we aren't causing it, then there's very little reason to make vast changes to our way of life in hopes of preventing it.
I prefer Milton here: “Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood…
It boggles my mind that otherwise intelligent people have a hard time grasping this simple concept. Taxes are simply another cost of doing business, especially if they are applied to whole categories. Even if they are…
With the caveat that I haven't kept up closely with systemd 1. It is attempting to unify a bunch of previously disconnected functionality into a single program. Typically unix is composed of small single-purpose…
I never understand the desire to omit braces in single line blocks. sure for () foo saves you a line, but it's a bug waiting to happen.
1. Exceptions are basically 'goto' with a pretty wrapper. Over time, I've come to believe that the best place to handle an error is close to where it occurs, rather than throwing some hail mary message up the stack and…
"Another sort there be who, when they hear that all things shall be ordered, all things regulated and settled, nothing written but what passes through the custom-house of certain publicans that have the tonnaging and…
Well...of course. Heroin dealers don't take Visa cards, so you wouldn't see a line item for drugs on a Visa bill. You also wouldn't see that the prepaid card had been exchanged for cash at a discount to someone that…
I hacked up something similar on appengine a few years ago, though it's more of a url shortener than a DynDNS replacment. http://symlinkd.com
Begging the question of how candidates achieve the Y level of support. Either they are already well known figures (actors, athletes, etc), or they have to spend money to make themselves known.
Incorrect. See Marsh v Alabama
I don't understand the fixation with Wikileaks' motive. That seems independent of whether their information is true or false.
There seems to be a common bait-and-switch tactic performed by proponents of UBI, in which they mention UBI as a replacement for social programs when talking about affordability, but back away from that assertion when…
As a thought experiment, for people who agree with the idea that a company 'owns' all of the thought-output of an employee: Why should that mean only the valuable IP, and not _all_ of the thought-output, including the…
It's quite funny, but.. " The followers advice is dropping the curly brackets for these one-line ifs to make them all happy. " I have never understood why anyone would do this. It's a bug waiting to happen (as goto fail…
"And again if it be true, that a wise man like a good refiner can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea or without book, there is no reason that we should…
I feel compelled to point out that your question has 2 assumptions: - that the RNC is equally corrupt as the DNC - that Assange has (or could obtain) evidence of that corruption. If either of these assumptions is…
You can have a similar epiphany with regard to corporate taxes, which are ultimately paid by the consumer.
Oddly enough, I just finished the last episode of this series 10 minutes before seeing this link posted (and your comment). It is uniformly excellent, and well worth the time commitment required to listen to the whole…
"There was rampant shadiness back in the day" ...this is an actual quote from a major paper? Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like unbelievably sloppy language for someone being paid to write.
Reading arguments for Basic Income makes me realize what it must be like to argue with a flat-earth proponent. I literally can't understand the frame of mind that leads to the belief that this would be a good idea, at…
So..the cost of an extra kernel/userspace switch was too much for a file request that is going to be serviced by a server on the other side of the internet?..really?
I really don't understand how a 'basic' income is supposed to work. What if I spend my basic income on drugs and hookers? are you willing to let me starve? what about my kids? If not, then the basic income can't…
Medical professionals and hospital rooms are absolutely finite resources. You can certainly build more, either by incentivizing their construction (capitalism) or have the state build them as part of some 5 year plan.…
Whenever someone says that some rivalrous resource is a 'basic human right', I have a hard time taking them seriously. As I get older, I have mellowed a great deal, and I understand how smart people can reasonably…
Because if we aren't causing it, then there's very little reason to make vast changes to our way of life in hopes of preventing it.
I prefer Milton here: “Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood…
It boggles my mind that otherwise intelligent people have a hard time grasping this simple concept. Taxes are simply another cost of doing business, especially if they are applied to whole categories. Even if they are…
With the caveat that I haven't kept up closely with systemd 1. It is attempting to unify a bunch of previously disconnected functionality into a single program. Typically unix is composed of small single-purpose…
I never understand the desire to omit braces in single line blocks. sure for () foo saves you a line, but it's a bug waiting to happen.
1. Exceptions are basically 'goto' with a pretty wrapper. Over time, I've come to believe that the best place to handle an error is close to where it occurs, rather than throwing some hail mary message up the stack and…
"Another sort there be who, when they hear that all things shall be ordered, all things regulated and settled, nothing written but what passes through the custom-house of certain publicans that have the tonnaging and…
Well...of course. Heroin dealers don't take Visa cards, so you wouldn't see a line item for drugs on a Visa bill. You also wouldn't see that the prepaid card had been exchanged for cash at a discount to someone that…
I hacked up something similar on appengine a few years ago, though it's more of a url shortener than a DynDNS replacment. http://symlinkd.com
Begging the question of how candidates achieve the Y level of support. Either they are already well known figures (actors, athletes, etc), or they have to spend money to make themselves known.