fsckboy

I'm like you, there is an edit button, so I use it. I have to make a choice and I choose all the people who will arrive in the future over the small number of people who might have read what I've already poorly written, people who can get over it if they want to, even using their edit button if they wish.

the article does not discuss what you are saying, do you have an alternative source that tells this true story?

what type of school, private or public or charter or anything else in particular? whether donations are tax deductible is important, as is education philosophy, as are communities served.

everything you're pointing out is better explained by "Europe didn't want to spend the money, they'd rather let America spend". This was true right after WWII because Europe needed to dedicate money to rebuild their economies. It remained true as later Europe continued to rely on tariff regimes to protect inefficient home industry sectors, and financed increasingly expensive welfare state programs to appease voters.

The US was only in favor of Europe rebuilding after the war, and rightfully against the rest of it.

the US has never been anything but helpful to Europe, but Europeans need a boogeyman to draw attention away from their own failings. It is very important to the European psyche that they be seen as near perfect on every measure. Americans are much more comfortable with, and benefit from, self criticism.

>But when there's a public prediction market, the only benefit is to the insiders.

false.

all the conclusions economists draw in microeconomic theory about efficient markets are based on pricing that reflects symmetric information. secrets are asymmetric. trading on inside information drives the market price in the direction it should be moving, making the market more efficient, a benefit to all participants in the market.

this is not a defense of trading on inside information, simply pointing out the mechanics.

what's an email alias? (in the sense that they would know you were using one)

>the assumption that 'close enough' is actually 'good enough' for uniqueness

i'm pretty sure it's "far enough" that makes it "good enough"

you picked the wrong phrase, that's involuntary servitude, not slavery.

yes, "get under your skin" can mean that, it can mean "can't stop thinking about" like the way somebody annoys you while it turns out you are falling in love

>logs don't matter. O(log(n)) and O(1) are effectively the same thing.

ever heard of a hashtable? that's because O(c) is better than O(log(N)). if they were the same, you would only have heard of binary search.

when you read the parent comment, "Tough guys with Mullets that blasted Metallica said "Mint" (term of approval) every sentence back in 1980's Long Island", you didn't think to write, "Your comment reeks of elitism and condescension"?

"To Serve Man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

I think it's more likely so they don't get sued by somebody they've directly injured (bad medical adivce, autonomous vehicle, food safety...) who says as part of their suit, "you went out of your way to tell me it would be safe and I believed you."

large businesses have large cash borrowing needs. if they borrow for free from their customers, it reduces the other borrowing they would need to do, so the rate to use is not what interest rate is available to you, but rather how much interest that Starbucks would need to pay for loans that size. Furthermore, whereas dividends are taxed twice (once as profit for the company and again as regular income to the shareholder), interest is a tax deduction to the company (which decreases their taxable profits) and for a percentage of debtholders that interest income is also taxed advantageously.

probably doesn't come up to 20% (unless Starbucks is in junk bond territory) but it's higher than the investment rate of 4% that you're quoting.

jumbo shrimp are actually large shrimp. that the word shrimp is used to mean small elsewhere doesn't mean shrimp are small, they're simply just the right size for shrimp that aren't jumbo. (jumbo was an elephant's name)

>If a bank actually wanted to serve working people, they would be open on weekends.

banks are open Saturdays all over in the US. TD Banks are open on Sunday.

>It is called a metonymy

or called synecdoche (square/rectangle)

if your fellow countrymen decide that in exchange for the benefits they will accept the noise and passive data gathering, and establish some ceiling restrictions, I don't really care what ill tempered reason is motivating you to start shooting at things

>There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property

no, there really doesn't need to be.

i'm not saying that i'm in favor of autonomous drones flying around, i'm simply not in favor of individual people getting their own say about everything we as a society do. democracy: live with the results

it's not shooting at drones that is the big worry, it's missing the drones, and shooting at things if the law doesn't give a peaceful alternate way to get your own way is also not "great" in the pantheon of ideas.

these are basically like the things Yogi Berra was famous for saying, like "Nobody goes there any more, it's always too crowded."

and apropos this moment:

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours. -- Yogi Berra

>I don't see any harm that could come from saying "a less addictive algorithm needs to be available to users"?

consider air travel in the present day. ticketing at essentially all airlines breaks down as: premium tickets that are dramatically expensive but offer comfortable seats, and economy tickets that are cramped and seem to impose new indignities every new season. what could be the harm from legislation that would change that menu?

the harm would be fewer people able to travel, fewer young people taking their first trip to experiencing the other side of the world, fewer families visiting grandma, etc.

As much as people hate the air travel experience, the tickets get snapped up, and most of them strictly on the basis of price, and next most taking into account nonstops. This gives us a gauge as to how much people hate air travel: they don't.

this doesn't mean airlines should have no regulation, it doesn't mean monopoly practices are not harmful to happiness, it doesn't mean that addictions don't drive people to make bad choices, it doesn't mean a lot of things.

I'm just trying to get you to see that subtle but significant harm to human thriving can easily come from regulations.

i think what keeps it alive is that it shows up on the default "extensions you might especially like" screen inside the "install extensions" menu

people who do understand thermodynamics will already understand the problem, but innocent people who don't understand thermodynamics should not be misled by poorly chosen examples presented as proof.

>i.e. The lack-of-a-thing that makes a thermos great at keeping your drink hot

e.g. the lack-of-a-thing that makes a thermos great at keeping your drink cold too

it's legal to say "I can't raise my arms over my head". it is then prohibited to ask people about disabilities, should somebody think to inquire. I was not saying "tell this to a judge", i was telling HN that yall were making assuumptions. (assuumptions makes ass-of-you-and-you)

dude, you inhabit financial nutball territory which is where most discussions of "reserve currency" take place, "not even wrong" territory.

actually they multiply, 12th root of 2, to the 12th

"la forge" in french is feminine, it would need to be LaGitette

don't you mean 11-fold? ... oh wait, they aren't even consistent

>"I bought a two tib SSD."

no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short