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by PostOnce 6y ago
The content wasn't "readily available". People were either locked at home, the libraries were closed, or else disease-ridden. Archive.org was providing knowledge in a time of emergency when people had no other means of access
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Signal is working on getting rid of the cell # requirement, but it'll take a while.
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by PostOnce 6y ago
And having a code of conduct is a sign that this place is so terrible so regularly that it needs a code of conduct to get people to be civil to each other. OR, everyone in power is a satirical HOA tyrant type character whose primary hobby i
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by PostOnce 6y ago
You're right, of course. Games also exploded in popularity, the industry is huge now, games can make a billion dollars in a matter of days . AAA doesn't need a price increase, it makes it up in volume... and fucking IAP.
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Sick people are sort of viscerally gross, we're repulsed by wet coughs, even the sound of vomiting some people can't cope with, not even on a movie -- it's an evolutionary response, I think. Animals probably have similar feel
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by PostOnce 6y ago
A company with one restaurant in one city is suddenly Walmart? There's a place like that in this town, it has 4 or 5 people working there and two of them are the owner's sons -- they have a restaurant, and in the back they put spi
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by PostOnce 6y ago
How many 2 person startups have one guy referring to himself as the CEO and the other guy is the CTO and that's the entire staff?
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by PostOnce 6y ago
If a large percent of the money just goes to the few owners of the construction company and not to an army of workers, then it was all for naught, so that has to be factored in too.
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by PostOnce 6y ago
It's a hassle to sign up though; at least they could show me an example weather forecast for some region so I could compare it to others before bothering to play with their API... of course I won't bother if their forecasts are no
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Plenty of times, see the entire open source movement or the cypherpunks, or the browser wars in which Firefox was a major competitor, there must be tons of examples.
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by PostOnce 6y ago
I think the opening paragraph of Moby Dick is one of the most memorable of all the novels I have read; I think it would be hard to drive home the emotion with the same gravity in fewer words, and I'll paste it here in case I can con so
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by PostOnce 6y ago
The second sub-heading asks the question, and answers it in the first paragraph, so you can gain the answer without reading the entire article; if it grips you, then you can keep reading.
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by PostOnce 6y ago
This is my all time favorite animation of how a solid rocket works https://i.imgur.com/E7J8pxF.mp4 so yeah it is all burning at the same time In the OP's video, it looks like the fire is magically coming out of thin ai
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Why would it be infinite? Just load all the comments at once! Show me everything. Modern caching strategies mean it wouldn't be any database load or concerning computational overhead? I'm no expert on HN-scale sites though. Anyway
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by PostOnce 6y ago
We'll have to see how many tech companies survive the coming depression before we can determine whether the long game at Berkshire is wrong or not :) Indeed, we'll see if Tesla survives, not only the coincidental depression, but a
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by PostOnce 6y ago
No new community transmission cases for weeks, all new cases linked to known clusters, and we're trending towards zero active cases nationwide -- every day for over a month there has been a decrease in active cases. https://
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Install Python --> Run script? Python adds itself to PATH on installation. What did you have trouble with, and when was that? Python 2 used to not add itself to PATH iirc, but that was years ago. Even for dependencies, I haven't had
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by PostOnce 6y ago
You're playing a game about a cigar-smoking soldier set in 1964 and you think the gender politics are not keeping with the times?
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by PostOnce 6y ago
it's also a high quality job creation program that employs 17K at NASA and who knows how many at contractors it's also a military capability it's also saved who knows how many lives with weather satellites and ambulance GPS a
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Cyberpunk, being broke and writing a virus to steal access passwords -- and then he ends up running a phone repair stall, even more cyberpunk. Reminds me of rtm's chapter in the book CYBERPUNK by Katie Hafner, pg's in there too. E
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Sometimes we draw a bad hand, and no amount of parenting can save some of the mentally disturbed, like Commodus -- you can't read Meditations, though, and say it's not full of startlingly relevant advice to modern life. From educa
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by PostOnce 6y ago
This always leads to discussions of "what kind of school is right?" and not of "is school right?" Perhaps the answer is always yes, but it'd be nice to see it discussed. Marcus Aurelius said 2000 years ago to "
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by PostOnce 6y ago
Burroughs MCP impresses me with its lifespan (which is ongoing) Initial release 1961; 59 years ago Latest release 19.0[1] / June 2019 I wonder who uses it today and for what?
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by PostOnce 6y ago
This guy's blog is ridiculous(ly good). Browse the rest of it, you'll be glad you did. I'm glad I did. http://www.righto.com/2014/10/how-z80s-registers-are-impleme... http://www.righto.co
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Oh my god the closure on that link. You couldn't write satire this good. Bureaucracy distilled.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
You can also return the book instantly if you're not actively reading it, sometimes i check them out, flick through them, and return them, then check em out again later when I want to read more, instead of hanging on to them for 2 week
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by PostOnce 7y ago
i don't go to the library often because i buy books, but i don't think the library should be ad funded, I'm happy to pay for it in case someone else needs it, their knowledge will benefit me later anyway i have a similar theo
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I thought court fines weren't discharged in bankruptcy -- I could be wrong
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Is it empathy, or is it the realization that the decline could be worse if they develop a Nestle-style reputation and inspire boycotts or something? I won't rule out empathy, but it's not the first thing that jumps to mind for me.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I had no idea "webspinner" insects existed until I learned it from Deep Look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_JP3RbJ8zk their web strands come out of their feet.

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