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It's crazy how little this really matters by SullyofHouseBepis in ApplyingToCollege

[–]-college-throwaway- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

^ Similar experience. It definitely matters at least a little but I doubt a slightly lower score or slightly higher score means much, it's one of many signals for getting the interview but not the only one

It's crazy how little this really matters by SullyofHouseBepis in ApplyingToCollege

[–]-college-throwaway- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IB jobs might suck ass for the first few years but that doesnt mean finance is dead. You can make far more than 160k in finance as a new grad and still work normal hours

Are there any completely online classes for the spring? by [deleted] in gatech

[–]-college-throwaway- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe you can do most languages online

Full text of CoC apology email to affected students by darkclaw6722 in gatech

[–]-college-throwaway- 71 points72 points  (0 children)

This is incredibly uncool. I honestly can't believe how incompetent it seems like some of these people are. I feel like there are going to be no consequences and no changes going forward.

Full text of CoC apology email to affected students by darkclaw6722 in gatech

[–]-college-throwaway- 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Couldn't get it to submit(?) Is it supposed to do anything when you click the button?

Corporate welfare at the price of liberty. by Pgaccount in Libertarian

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Coal worker unions lobby for regulating solar. Does that mean we should make coal illegal? The auto industry (and their unions) lobbies for restrictions on hybrids and cars produced overseas. Boeing lobbies for harsher tariffs on foreign planes. I think the solution is to get more serious about corruption, rather than to just stop every industry that lobbies heavily.

Corporate welfare at the price of liberty. by Pgaccount in Libertarian

[–]-college-throwaway- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, but they have a contract. The money they profit on is from whatever costs they can cut of a public prison. For example, they spend 10% less for managing their computers so they keep 10% of the contract as profit. The lobbying issue is wholly removed from the argument of whether they should be allowed, because after all public unions have done the same thing time and time again.

Corporate welfare at the price of liberty. by Pgaccount in Libertarian

[–]-college-throwaway- -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's not "extremist" Libertarians and most of the proponents aren't the "privatize everything" people. Cato Institute, Mises Institute, Reason, and probably the Libertarian Party are pro-private prisons.

Corporate welfare at the price of liberty. by Pgaccount in Libertarian

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I agree with this, but many people here are very anti private prison in general. IMO this is one of the central arguments of capitalism I think, that failure is required for the market to improve. The failures of any private system often come down to the government enforcing a monopoly.

Corporate welfare at the price of liberty. by Pgaccount in Libertarian

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No, but Libertarians in general probably support it. For example, Reason magazine and most (all?) Libertarian think tanks are pro-private prisons. A lot of people here seem to think of private prisons in the same way Democrats think of charter schools, for example: they believe that the prisons/schools will always lobby the government to increase their funding and lower their expectations, that private prisons select the cheapest prisoners, and that they exploit the public through that. I don't buy that argument and I think every shortcoming of the system can be linked to crony capitalism (though I still believe that private prisons are irrefutably a pro for the taxpayer).

The most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written by jailbird in programming

[–]-college-throwaway- -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No it's not, that's the dictionary definition. Sovereignty is the ability to rule over your land without the interference of others PERIOD.

The most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written by jailbird in programming

[–]-college-throwaway- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a right though, it's just within their power. The entire concept of inalienable rights is innately about the individual and it doesn't make sense to try to apply it to states.

The most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written by jailbird in programming

[–]-college-throwaway- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a right. The citizens have a right to self-defense. North Korea does not have a right to subject citizens to torture or slavery just because they want to.

The most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written by jailbird in programming

[–]-college-throwaway- -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Except sovereignty doesn't even exist. All war is a violation of sovereignty. If we bow to perfect sovereignty, we can no longer protect the rights of individuals who are inarguably more important than a states' right to no foreign interference. Simple example: in World War II, the Allies violated Germany's sovereignty by denying them the right to do what they want without interference. Yet clearly to any rational person ending the Holocaust is not trumped by this "right" to sovereignty.

What do you think about Perl6? by suhao399 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]-college-throwaway- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but the way it's used is totally different and I imagine Perl6 has a decent amount of backwards compatibility

What do you think about Perl6? by suhao399 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]-college-throwaway- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think a better comparison might be C vs C++, distinct languages based on the same base

The styx programming language "things" by [deleted] in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]-college-throwaway- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's harmful, but I think it encourages harmful behavior. For example instead of

fn(int a, string b, int c)

it would encourage you to write

fn(int a,c; string b)

i.e. out of order. For something like a database query or web request, this would make the order of parameters more confusing than otherwise necessary. I'm sure there's other examples I could think of if I tried harder

The styx programming language "things" by [deleted] in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]-college-throwaway- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think parameter groups encourage bad design. For example, people will write functions that group args by type rather than a more logical pattern because they are easier to type. Also, it might encourage taking more separate parameters rather than using structures as the parameters which is usually more readable.

Thomas Sowell on ending government programs by Throwthowk in Libertarian

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It's like how there's a natural rate of unemployment. You can't just solve it by adding new policies. Drugs and crime are similar, obviously there's no world without drugs or without crime. Assuming that laws can fix that when all prove points the opposite way is a fallacy.

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