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But I've seen some speculation that after all the awfulness of the confirmation hearings accusing him of being a hard-right leaning justice that he would actually try (consciously or not) to show he's not locked into that mindset.
That's not the GP's argument.

"Japan was ready to surrender before the atomic bombs" and "Japan surrendered because of the USSR's declaration of war, not the atomic bombs" are two completely different arguments.
ppl are stupid. reactionary strategy is way less effective than proactive.
> one night of rioting by the now-unemployed proletariat

Lol, and this is response to "Luddites". Good luck with riots :)
This is poisoning discourse. Accusing Malamud of 'terrorism' is a kind of terrorism, using the power of the state and law to demonize dissenters by using emotionally charged hyperbolic language.

But delving into the details the failure is judges and other referring to annotations of laws as the interpretations of the laws which then build history and are held precedent, without first making sure any such interpretations are freely available to the wider public.

The judiciary is a specially empowered part of democratic process and has powers but also responsibilities, and has a primary responsibility to uphold the democratic process and free access to the the entire process of laws and their interpretations, and a deviation from this calls into question an individuals suitability for such an important role in the democratic process.
Where does the money for the yachet go?
One buyer, in particular, most likely will stop buying and that is China.
> Apple was basically playing the "whoa, we don't sell apps, we just make an app store. They buy apps from the developers" card. This is technically true.

How is it technically true? Apple collects the payment and takes a cut. Yes, the developer gets to set their prices, but I don't see this as any different to manufacturers of products setting their cost price for retailers, who then go and apply their markup to it.
For whatever it's worth, BoW in '97 is pretty different than BoW in '94.
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UBI supporters always seem to forget that the money has to come from somewhere.
My impression is that Amazon is kind of biased in that regard. There are valid reasons to keep the warehouse logistics in-house. And they did invest a lot of energy into that. It just bugs me that Dropshopping was never really pushed while the logistical powers to be ever so slightly pushed against it.

Nothing wrong with that, but it could very well be the first clue that Amazon is behaving more like an incumbent than a disrupter as described in the Innovator's Dilemma.
The timing of the Swedish charge is very noteworthy. The charge and extradition request was made shortly after the release of the US diplomatic cables.
> First of all, we were talking about Fukushima, do you have any data about that ?

How can I? Who would provide that? Especially in Japan where politics and ignorance go hand in hand with avoidance to even talk about the whole thing or any disastrous event.
The piles of white bags full of earth next to the roads in the region are the only silent reminders that something really bad happened there.

> Anyway, about the first link: Wow, 40000 cancers attribuable in Europe by 2065 to Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history. That sounds bad, until you finish reading the abstract, where the authors evaluate that impact as "several hundred million cancer cases are expected from other causes

I don't understand what you want to say by that. Do you mean it's okay to ignore the fallout of this disaster because people die of cancer either way? I mean seriously. There are radioactively contaminated wild animals running around in Bavaria's forests today and the accident happened almost 2000km away. Can you imagine how Europe would look like if one of those old and leaking reactors in France goes sideways?

There is nothing to compare to besides a nuclear war.

I can understand it's a nice thing with this radioactive accidents. There is usually a small amount of people who die in a spectacular and direct way while the rest dies a silent deaths over a long period of time. It's very handy if you want to push a technology which is too expensive and outdated and the only other argument out there is the death count of accidents. But this is not the case. Renewables are coming while even gas is a better solution then building even one nuclear reactor and most of the people, Governments and energy providers got the message already. The people never wanted a nuclear waste dump or reactor in the neighborhood in the first place. The only people left are those directly profiting from the immense subsidies (nuclear lobby) and those who fell for the recent artificial hype created by this lobby.

It's time to face the facts: it's dead Jim.
Btw, I'm not implying that stimulants calming one down is a must or that just/all people with ADHD get that effect; in fact, after the effects wear off, I wouldn't be able to sleep for hours.
Very neat. Will give this a spin and perhaps a port for FreeBSD if interested?
Netherland. Maybe we're the one that's different though; Netherland has a culture of social equality, where rich people are expected not to show it.
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That's extremely difficult to explain for many, many reasons.

Ignoring a great deal, basically that debt either needs to be paid off when it matures or rolled over into bonds e.g. issuing debt to receive cash that can be used in paying off those bonds.

Now, how that will affect the USD is where things get complicated. Will a higher interest rate be needed on new financing to attract investors? Will the Treasury have cash on hand to cover paying off all of those?

Assume they goto the market to refinance all of those bonds and have to pay a higher interest rate: this means tax payers have to pay more taxes, and get less services because more of their money is going to interest payments on this debt. Or perhaps they can only find investors willing to buy 8 trillion in new bonds, then that means the budget needs to cut out 1 trillion for that year in services, just to give a couple ways how this could play out.

Everyone has their own idea of what will happen and will speculate accordingly. Some might think interest rates will explode, of the Fed might cut. Maybe Foreign flows will not be reinvested and affect the USD accordingly. Etc, etc, etc...
thanks for your time and explanation!
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Yes. The entire crux of Apple's argument is that you aren't Apple's customer.

The true motives of a corporation often come out in court.
> practical, no-nonsense people who are used to having work define who they are

These people can still let work define themselves, with less competition and more responsibilities which would make them more happy.

> Would you care about high school if it's totally okay to not do anything? Maybe you'd go off to college, but then come back when it gets hard because it's totally okay if you never amount to anything.

I think this is totally okay. Every time there is a topic on college there is the debate of whether college should be job training or overall growth of individuals. This solves that problem altogether and all the way to high schools. Also, when those people enjoyed enough of their free time and want to go back and learn, they will be able to do so without pressure. We cram 12-16 years of school on kids because most of them can't afford to not to. We already see middle class and wealthy children taking gap years to explore life, this just let everyone do that.

> I would probably just spend my life on the internet and playing games while feeling guilty.

Do you spend all your time on the internet and play games after work? If you don't, why would you when you don't have to work?

> Others would escape through drugs.

I'd say more people escape through drugs due to pressure in life than the lack of pressure.
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Is it me or does it feel like the door to economic advancement is closing faster and faster every day?

In this thread people are suggesting UBI, but I can't see that as anything more than an economic uncertainty (trying to predict how market forces will respond and adapt), which will be exploited by the oligarchy that is already exploiting the systems we have now (as you might expect anyone to). To think we could successfully create a good UBI system despite the fact that we can't get other very important pieces of governance right in many parts of the world seems ludicrous.

People are suggesting that new jobs will be created as jobs are automated but there's no proof of that except history and this time seems different -- humanity has never had the tools it has now, the step change in ability/utility over the last few decades is insane. In a world with high levels of automation, where does advancement come from? Up until now, it's mostly been differentiation through some form of work. Do creative endeavors become the new work/only way to differentiate if we spend most of our time on leisure? But then what if someone automates that away too?

It seems like once we evolve past work the economic system and the big & small players in it will freeze in place. If you had enough capital to be on the right side of the split then you get to stay on that side, but if you didn't you seem all but condemned. Dystopia seems inevitable. I'm not saying that I think work is good in and of itself but it's disconcerting to happens when that particular music stops -- it's run so much of the world up until now.

Another thought -- the good 'ol revolution/riot path is going to get closed down in a few decades I think. Weaponization of autonomous machinery will happen, and the efficiency of oppression will reach untold heights. Security will be a highly sought skill and those most able to pay for it (with resources/money/whatever) will be able to purchase it.

Sure hope I'm wrong about all/most of this.
Rash, the Racket Shell, does something similar to this: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html
My friend once joked that some future civilization will discover plastic and think it's a natural resource.
It’s unfortunate that people will describe such a view as “cynical”, it’s entirely pragmatic. The cynicism is in whoever clearly doesn’t care that the people they hire are not effective in their jobs.
Nethack 4 is explicitly not an official successor project, and in fact the developer of NH4 has joined the original Nethack dev team to port interface improvements.
In such a way that people choose to work for Amazon instead of those other employers, so Amazon’s jobs must be fairly attractive to them.
what other understanding of derive is there???
> Kavanaugh was viewed as one of the best supreme court justice nominations for all sides

What is this based on? Everything I've read up to today, even ignoring the confirmation events, has indicated that Kavanaugh is not a desirable choice for those on the left side of the political spectrum.