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by Dove 11y ago
> this is the natural result - businesses that exist solely to profit off of human pain and despair and create it on an industrial scale There are plenty of middle ground options between criminalization and total freedom. And in fact,
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by Dove 11y ago
That this ended up on the front page suggests a problem somewhere.
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by Dove 11y ago
I actually do carry a paper notebook.
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by Dove 11y ago
Cash friendly places are getting more prevalent in the US, but you have to look for them. For example, one of the hospitals in my area publishes this (very sane) price list: http://swedishhospital.com/patient-financial&#x2F
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by Dove 11y ago
> creating multiple language families for instance I remember reading in one of the introductions that he enjoyed working on the languages for their own sake, and would work on that if he didn't feel like working on the story. It&#
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by Dove 11y ago
I don't know that you could measure it with something like Moore's Law, but aerospace capabilities grew at an astonishing rate at the beginning of the 20th century. From the Wright Brothers' first powered flight in 1903 to t
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by Dove 11y ago
This is functionally the same thing as a 2-for-1 sale. Not that I really know what such sales are supposed to accomplish, but you see them frequently enough that there must be some reasoning behind it. Maybe getting a free second thing ma
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by Dove 11y ago
Yeah. Mosquitoes are densest in the tropics where hailstorms are rare, but just about everywhere on earth short of Antarctica has some mosquitoes. I'd think mosquitoes would meet hailstones occasionally, though I can't really
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by Dove 11y ago
Cold isn't required for hailstorms. The ice forms at altitude. We have a lot of hailstorms in the spring and summer in Colorado, and while it isn't the mosquitoiest place I've ever lived, there are mosquitoes.
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by Dove 11y ago
I'd consider "normal alcohol use" to the the use of it that is so broadly considered socially acceptable that even people who need to keep a clean public image don't have trouble doing it publicly. You know, wine with di
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by Dove 12y ago
An online entropy checker is going to assume all the decisions that went into making the password, beyond the ones it's been programmed to understand, were die rolls. This is a false assumption unless, of course, those decisions actua
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by Dove 12y ago
Well, that would only work for straight people. Everyone else would have to work on a team with a maximum size of two, which seems like a rather unfair way for the world to work. No, I think we're just going to have to figure out how
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by Dove 12y ago
As a heterosexual woman, I agree with the sentiment. No one could coerce me into giving blow jobs by threatening to fire me, either. In fact, MOST women would HEARTILY agree with that! I'd quit a job like that. You'd quit a j
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by Dove 12y ago
If you have all your graduation requirements fulfilled, the system penalizes you for taking any further classes. You improve your GPA by taking a quarter of Nothing/Study Hall if you can't get another AP class. And indeed, I beli
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by Dove 12y ago
I was once told of a similar situation in a high school: AP classes were worth 6.0 in your GPA, while regular ones were worth 4.0. The valedictorian wound up being the person who realized this, took as many AP classes as possible, and as
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Who Was That One Guy in That One Movie [Short Fiction](howardtayler.com)
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by Dove 12y ago
Correction to [3], "Stan" is Xciter.
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by Dove 12y ago
Developer here. Sorry about that. I really do need to make a web site. So far, Retro has been oriented toward the several dozen active competitive pilots out there. There are so few of us; we know and see each other regularly. When some
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by Dove 12y ago
While these are fun to read from our smug pro-vax point of view, they provide no effect on everyone else. I actually suspect the effect may be negative. The piece seems persuasive if you already agree with its premise: that vaccines are e
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by Dove 12y ago
Huh. This must be a generational thing. When I started learning to code 20 years ago, there wasn't any hand-holding. There were college courses and textbooks and sometimes mentors and ultimately your own ability to work things out f
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by Dove 12y ago
I would think rotating this sideways and placing the troublesome T on top would give a pleasingly neat and symmetrical shape, if not a rectangular one.
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by Dove 12y ago
It looks wrong to me because they're spaceships, which I expect to be fairly rigid. If it were a game about organic things, it would probably look more 'right' than a static sprite.
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by Dove 12y ago
Yeah, I think it has more to do with how you're taught to think about people than what you're exposed to. I grew up in Spokane, WA -- 87% white by demographic survey, 98% people who look white if all you know about race is what yo
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by Dove 12y ago
Not at all. I don't see human history as a fall from peace so much as a struggle upward from a constant state of tyranny and war. There are whole civilizations now that haven't known tyranny for generations . Where the last inv
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by Dove 12y ago
You think so? I've had discussions on the topic of warfare off and on throughout the time I've been on HN, and they're usually pretty respectful. Indeed, I think that's one of the unique things about this place. For ex
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by Dove 12y ago
I'm not advocating warfare. Of course, peace is always best, when you can get it. You can't always get it, though. Nations have conflicts and need to resolve them. In descending order of preference, I would prefer they resolve t
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by Dove 12y ago
I'd say stick to your day-job or whatever. You know, this is an example of the sort of vacuous insult that I don't expect to see on HN -- or at least, didn't expect to see a few years ago. Every time I come by here, I&#x27
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by Dove 12y ago
I'm not sure how to feel about that. I know how I feel about it: I would much rather wars were fought with code and robots than with tanks and bayonets. And I would rather those than CBRN weapons! Certain countries were going to n
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by Dove 12y ago
"There's no internet" is a rather damning accusation that can be made of practically every sci fi story written up until there was actually internet! And even then, they generally didn't anticipate just how much it wo
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by Dove 12y ago
A further thought: this is another of the fundamental tradeoffs in doing this sort of design work. In a laggy environment, you can either have dodging work 100% correctly client side, if you dodged it, it didn't hit you, no questions

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