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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Not sure I would call the area I lived in wealthy. Probably middle-class suburban area. My high school at the time did not offer SAT/ACT testing on campus. If I recall correctly, and it's been a while so I might be misremembering,
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Yes, I'm aware. That's why I'm giving a different perspective.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
My problem with SAT/ACT actually has nothing to do with the test itself. I grew up very poor in suburban middle of nowhere and even with a waiver for the fee, I had no way of actually getting to a testing center. Parents worked 24&#x2
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
It doesn't surprise me that HN is so pro nuclear but I am very skeptical about reactor safety. I know I will get inundated with comments about how modern reactors are so safe and if everything is done correctly then there is no problem
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Not the person you are asking but Solus is just very solid. There is nothing super special about it but it is one of the few distros I have ever used that "just works."
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I had to use a Mac for work for a while. You are right you can tweak MacOS to your liking but the difference is Linux distros actively encourage tweaking while Apple actively discourages and tries to get in the way.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
If you aren't gaming then latency concerns are really overblown.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I understand what you mean and I agree about everyone whining that the "sky is falling" but in my opinion, you shouldn't collect what you can't easily give me.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I can see this as well. A lot of old forums I used to run on have been hacked and spammed to death.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
> Make forums great again please I see this sentiment a lot here but people don't seem to understand why reddit "won." You essentially have access to thousands of forums without having to maintain an account on each of the
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Couple weeks ago I made this post about self-hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30618577 My conclusion coming out of that thread was self-hosting is not a thing I'm going to do. I don't have the time or
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
That's irrelevant though. The above posters aren't saying "stop using Python." They are defending the use of shell scripts. Both are tools and both have appropriate times where they should be used.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Let me flip the question, as the creator of a song, why am I obligated to provide you a lossless download of it?
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Python resolves this with docstrings but in general, assuming it is not self explanatory while a function exist, is it really necessary to go the whole nine with literate programming instead of just adding a few comments to explain why this
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I like literate programming in theory but the most common response I see to it is that writing self documenting code is better because as you are working on a code base with many people, it is unlikely they will keep your prose up to date a
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Most of those examples you describe are frivolous lawsuits and would fall under Fair Use. Humming a sound on your Youtube channel for example. This highlights a different problem, the fact these large companies can essentially bully you for
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
> If someone wants to write a song and have total control over it they just need to keep it to themselves because once I hear it, I naturally have a right to hum that tune to myself for the rest of the day, or to sing it at the top of my
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I think I'm more anti-piracy than the average person and despite bitwize being downvoted to oblivion, they are right. You aren't entitled to anything anyone creates. However, piracy is also 100% a service problem that has been exa
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
The article itself gives a few plausible reasons with police blaming the DA and the DA blaming the police. > Some former police officials said in interviews that officers don’t feel it is worth making an arrest in low-level cases because
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
> It’s just used when actual data doesn’t confirm what people want to be true. You don't have to take my word for it. There are studies to support that property crime goes severely under-reported[1]. Also, people are drastically le
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I don't believe the data is accurate simply because most crime of this level is not reported because the victims accurately believe nothing will happen.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
No? There are ways to collaborate in person that don't require acting like you have 0 social skills.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I'm still really indifferent but you could almost say I'm converted in the opposite direction. I realized how awful my co-workers are at communication, especially asynchronous communication and it makes me want to pull my hair out
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
It depends on a lot of things like when you bought the game and who you bought it from. Some issues get fixed over time and some companies are just put out better products than other. A good example of this recently is Hitman 3 which may ve
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
This whole things reminds me of micro-transactions in video games where people were constantly waiting for the walls to close in on companies doing them while micro-transactions just continued to get more and more absurd and exploitative un
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
Honestly I'd recommend Google Docs but the truth is, if you are an Excel power user there is really nothing quite like it without taking that next jump into SQL or something like Python/R. Google Sheets will let you use SQLite tho
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
The answer is networking. You want the best way to get a job? Networking. Most bootcamps would be more successful if they spent 95% of the time teaching you how to network then at the end told you to go to CS50x or something.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I am referring to PoS in ETH and while it is not settled it will remain dominant, it currently is dominant so all the talk of how eco-friendly crypto will be is just talk until that happens. It is not settled that Proof of Work will takeove
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
I mean NFTs currently are an environmental nightmare. The common response to this is "but that will change with Proof of Stake" and I'll believe it when it happens.
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by QuikAccount 5y ago
> If you were certain an NFT you were buying was not fraudulent and was created by the artist would you still think it's a shit way of supporting them? Yes. > Is it bad that they have an additional way to make money on top of com

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