Alex3917

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by Alex3917 6y ago
Just buy one and plug it in: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> In my experience, that sort of throwaway account (but there are many sorts—let's not overgeneralize) is usually reporting something true, though perhaps biased. If you look at the academic research on rumors, most rumors are appar
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by Alex3917 6y ago
It was more complicated before version 1.5, now it’s basically the same. In the last year I think angular is likely the best framework again.
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House passes bill to decriminalize marijuana and wipe out convictions(cnbc.com)
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I wish I could look back to how naive and childish I was at the beginning of my time online. This is the video that comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoUrLbHg5z4
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by Alex3917 6y ago
As a store of value it's better than gold in some ways, because you don't need to physically store it. But unlike gold, which can appreciate in value indefinitely, Bitcoin is mathematically capped in how much it can appreciate in
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Why wouldn't Apple just let people rent out computers for any amount of time, as long as they don't contain music or movies? I can understand why Apple would wan't someone to pay $3.99 to rent a movie for 48 hours, and then s
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Lots of plants contain DMT and lots of plants contain MOAI. They probably found a weaker or less pleasant combination by accident first, and then once they knew what they were looking for kept experimenting until they found the best version
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More Popular (and Cheap, Too)(seths.blog)
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by Alex3917 6y ago
He talked to me for quite a while when I met him at one of his book launch events, around the same time. I asked him what he thought of my startup (at the time), and he said he didn’t like it because it relied on being able to keep certain
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I imagine that the API-based uploads of the recent decrypts from the user being reported can also be faked, so I'm not sure that this is a very important distinction. That assumes that the decrypted messages aren't signed (e.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
It's less an issue of our code, and more an issue of third-party APIs from our partners getting deprecated. And Angularjs, where upgrading to angular or rewriting in react doesn't really do anything for end users, but if we want t
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I realize this is a joke, but regardless these days you basically need to spend ~25% of each year rewriting your app just to stay in security compliance.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> A high-level exec at one of the world's most powerful companies paying off a local LEO for a permit instead of, IDK, contacting the State or the Feds, is beyond inexplicable. The problem is that, at least in many jurisdictions, gu
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Anyone doing research on the effects of nicotinic acetylcholine inhibitors mixed with psilocybin? That seems like an obvious avenue for exploration, given we now know that they naturally occur together[1], but I haven't seen any papers
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I also don't see anything wrong with explicit default arguments. I think explicit default arguments should be used when they're documenting some behavior that the reader might not know or remember, but that isn't the c
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Interestingly enough, Sidney Gottlieb was my great uncle's college roommate at the University of Wisconsin, and they later reconnected after the war and became lifelong best friends. Apparently they both went there after colleges on th
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> People using science for destruction is a reflection of people, not science. I mean when's the last time you heard a story about a group of transmodernists wreaking havoc on society?
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Smoking wasn't particularly dangerous before scientists invented cigarettes, and science is also what makes Facebook similarly addictive. Maybe the danger comes from not enough science denial.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I try to teach myself one big thing per year, and then eventually do a writeup to explain how I taught myself that thing. And yeah, FreeMind definitely helps for that also. Right now I'm a few years behind just due to building my start
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I track all my ideas using FreeMind ( http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ), and generally recommend it. It's not really being actively maintained, but since it's in an open data format if it ever stops working you can
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> So, you insert "super" between any two long and complicated words, and that fixes it? In the case of "super" specifically, the issue is more that there's a short word that I want to emphasize that would normall
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Even a master of lean writing (Hemingway himself) knew when to bulk up, even for just a moment, to create a cadence that could surprise and intrigue us. There are other considerations too beyond just sound. E.g. recently someone (helpf
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Maybe they're hoping Beto gets a cabinet position?
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Do you mistrust the unsigned emails from 10+ years ago because they were sent prior to DKIM? Yes. > As for authenticity, you could contact him, or his correspondents? Correspondents aren't necessarily going to tell the truth ab
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by Alex3917 6y ago
We did, it's called email. The phrase "like a postcard" is how email has been described for decades -- by our school systems and the media when educating the general public, in corporate training, and in the court system.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> how do you get your head around disappearing messages? I mean I try to publish most of my interesting email conversations on the web, because every time you have a good email conversation that isn't public it's like taking a
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Non-repudiation over time is a truly powerful property of DKIM'd email for a great many uses outside of blackmail. This. Publishing the DKIM keys would be a huge loss for email archivists and historians in general. E.g. a couple w
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> In either case driving someone is a service you provide to Uber customers. No. Look at https://arcade.city . Their drivers are independent business operators, because they own the relationship with the riders. Uber drivers n
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I then hire them directly. Which can get them kicked off the app, and leave them with tens of thousands of dollars in car loans that they have no way of repaying. That's what makes them employees and not independent contractors, t

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