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>at a certain point, it’s too expensive to keep fixing bugs because of the high-opportunity cost of building new features. While I may agree with this in the abstract, in practice …

Or 3g of shaped explosives. https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw?t=67

>"shouting fire in a theater." Relevant Christopher Hitchens: https://youtu.be/4Z2uzEM0ugY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TE3WYUVj4U

If their next best option to working at an Amazon warehouse is starvation, then it's a pretty good thing for them that Amazon has a warehouse there. That said, I strongly suspect t…

I'm curious to know these workers' next best employment option, the one they're forgoing to work at an Amazon warehouse.

Knights of the Old Republic

I'm not clear on why I should be prohibited from accepting more pay in exchange for being more available.

172. First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presum…

I find it curious that when someone suggests leaving an area of human action unregulated (i.e., not _a priori_ restricting otherwise non-criminal acts), others rush to read that as…

>Suppose a dollar of this loan has an expected value of 99 cents for the bank, while generating $2 worth of taxable economic activity at a 10% rate. Apart from miscalculating the e…

>I will drink a toast to the day the last auto dealership goes out of business. Unfortunately, manufacturers are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in many states. As us…

The only truly egalitarian algorithm is a random sort.

How curious that being the best in a competition is seen as anti-competitive, and that keeping one's innovations secret is seen as a barrier to entry. "[T]he English language... be…

Perhaps a first step would be to stop referring to it as "identity theft". That phrase places you as the victim, thus implicitly any injury is yours to bear. The proper victims of …

>Free markets are awesome eh? ;-) Care to make your point here more clear?

>Predatory pricing. Offering a lower price to consumers than your competition is not coercion against a competitor. >Buying up necessary capital. Offering a higher price to supplie…

>"free" and "free of governmental interference" are not the same thing. Since "free" in this context means absence of coercion against extant or would-be competitors, and since gov…

Correctness can often arise naturally when the implementation reflects the function's intent by composing "correct" functions. E.g., (defn values-in [m ks] (vals (select-keys m ks)…

Some of the comments here bring to mind a quote by Eugene McCarthy: "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest thr…

Sorry, I don't see why you consider what I wrote "inflammatory". Children in developing countries starving and going blind is the status quo . Opposing an existential solution with…