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Comment Re:Dystopian framing (Score 1) 79

" I work with an inner city Houston nonprofit that provides many services to people in poverty. We have "clients" who continue to have children specifically because each child results in more income from the government. They then abandon the children and leave them to the foster care system. "

I don't believe you. I've been hearing this line of lies since Reagan.

If they abandon their children to foster parents, how/why does the "more income" keep flowing?

Comment Itâ(TM)s the most predictable software failur (Score 1) 439

A small company is given less than two months to agile-ly develop a one time use app which must be run under high simultaneous user load, installed by tech-unknowledgeable users on the day of usage, and is never tested (or Iâ(TM)m guessing even modeled or simulated) under load.

The big screaming headline would be if it worked.

Comment Re:some people think they're an eyesore (Score 1) 336

Nowhere in the linked story does it say the publicized statements were not made by speakers at the meeting.

Other stories on the subject stated that there was opposition to a fourth solar farm, but still reported the silly statements made by citizens in the comment portion of the meeting.

The internet emphasized the stupid statements made at the meeting, but did not get them wrong.

Comment Re:Rent at all is inherently problematic (Score 1) 940

When buying a house, you are gambling that the value will go up ONLY if you plan to flip it in the future and are treating it as an investment. If your intention is to live in the house for the rest of your life and then will it to your kids, you aren't concerned with making +2% year over year so your "investment" has grown when you cash out.

See: 2008

Comment Re:Perfect? Really? (Score 3, Informative) 340

They have found a non-exploitable strategy, not a maximally exploiting one.

This strategy will win less from an imperfect opponent than a strategy which maximally exploits that opponent's weaknesses. However, there is no strategy which can exploit a weakness in the strategy they have developed.

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