Jack_Hacker

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by Jack_Hacker 4y ago
In Principles, he describes some high-level decision making processes. Bridgewater is split into groups of about 300 people. Within those groups, smaller groups are formed to discuss particular strategies. Everybody has "baseball cards
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by Jack_Hacker 4y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that WotC is getting ready to revoke the old OGL on the basis that "perpetual" doesn't mean "irrevocable," and the main impetus for a new license is explicitly closing that loophole. T
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by Jack_Hacker 4y ago
>Storj Labs Inc. will also make available, monthly, a "warrant canary" in the form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following: >- a declaration that, up to that point, no warrants have been served, nor ha
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by Jack_Hacker 4y ago
If we take QM seriously, there's nothing stopping it from affecting macroscopic events from a human perspective. A cannonball whose trajectory was planned in accordance with Newtonian physics could suddenly and unexpectedly move thre
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by Jack_Hacker 4y ago
>The story is a long one, but for now let’s skip to the end: future-proof, established scientific facts can be identified via a solid (>95%) international scientific consensus, born of scientific labour, in a community that is large a
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by Jack_Hacker 6y ago
Ebooks with illustrations/graphs? Text books and graphic novels come to mind.
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by Jack_Hacker 6y ago
Parens aren't doing the same thing. Primitives are implicitly being wrapped in objects when you use methods, but they come out on the other end as primitives again. The new operator gives you an object wrapper that you can keep working
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by Jack_Hacker 6y ago
Not quite everything. JavaScript does have some primitives, though it also provides object wrappers for those primitives via the new operator. > let numberPrimitive = 0; undefined > let numberObject = new Number(0); undefine
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by Jack_Hacker 6y ago
Everybody can have an opinion about general topics tangentially related to a story; to have an opinion about a comment related to the specifics of a story, one typically has to read the story first. One suggestion I've seen put forward
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by Jack_Hacker 6y ago
>they're likely just like you and me, learning on the fly and doing their best Correct. In my experience of working at a cellphone repair shop, we looked up most Android repairs on iFixit and/or YouTube before quoting a price.