SamBam

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by SamBam 10y ago
And can you tell me what makes someone a refugee? Whether an average refugee is ideologically/culturally identical to the average non-refugee from that country? And how about a refugee who's choosing to go live in a country very d
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by SamBam 10y ago
> Things are also confounded by the fact that most of these people are heavily theologically indoctrinated, making social integration and upward mobility effectively impossible This is when your biases are walking uninvited into a discus
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by SamBam 10y ago
Somehow I thought this was going to be more like the barber question. " There are only two barbers in town. One is neatly trimmed, smooth shaven, professional, and is sweeping up after his last customer. The other has a wild appearance
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by SamBam 10y ago
Appeal to Nature is only a fallacy when discussing whether something is good or not, not whether or not it is healthy or safe. The argument that, say, " walking for six hours a day is unlikely to be dangerous, since early humans did
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by SamBam 10y ago
I'm confused by the "File Tester" at https://shattered.it/ It says "Upload any file to test if they are part of a collision attack." When I upload either of their two sample collision documents, it
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by SamBam 10y ago
I don't see why. If anything, life might be even easier if you're constantly getting energy from above, rather than intermittently. In any case, "different climate and weather" doesn't seem to me to imply "hur
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by SamBam 10y ago
That's pretty much what I thought. I think the concept was pretty neat, and it does a pretty job of smoothing the gradients while maintaining the detail, and I think that's probably the hardest part. It would be hard for it to acc
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by SamBam 10y ago
> unacceptable Since pot is legal to grow (either freely or with a medical license) in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Alaska, Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maine, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, N
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by SamBam 10y ago
I was going to make this its own "Ask HN:" post earlier, but thought I'd post it here instead: Is there a good central resource or listserv or something for developers who would like to volunteer their time on political proje
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by SamBam 10y ago
If it's a form of paid vacation, I don't see why it would matter. There aren't any legal ramifications (afaik) for companies whose employees volunteer to do political work during their paid vacations. So long as they aren&#x2
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by SamBam 10y ago
> There's a succint description of the steps at the webpage: You put a colon there as if what's below is the "succinct explanation," but that explanation is no where on the site. Also useful would be a better use-case
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by SamBam 10y ago
But if all you're doing is reading the feed on this app, then why do you need to require accounts or ToS? StackOverflow doesn't require accounts to read posts (unlike some similar sites...).
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by SamBam 10y ago
> I can't understand how anyone who has ever tried well-water can believe that misconception about choosing beer over water. But for urban folk in the middle of London, or New York, was the water they were consuming as fresh as what
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by SamBam 10y ago
This doesn't add any new UI component, as far as I understand, it's just a router system for native.
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by SamBam 10y ago
Eh, or maybe he just noticed how much you had been staring at the other guys.
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by SamBam 10y ago
> every phone plan I've ever had since the first iPhone Exactly... You realize there was a time before then, right? In the mid 2000s, texts cost between 10-20c to send, unless you bought a bundled plan, which weren't actually t
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by SamBam 10y ago
You can contact customer service right now because they're promoting the heck out of Pixel, and are happy to sink lots of resources into it. Once it becomes a legacy party of Google (hey, remember the original Pixel that Google made?
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by SamBam 10y ago
Nobody expects to be able to type an apple-symbol, or for colors to have any meaning. But if Apple changed their branding so that their logo was just "App/e" written out, wouldn't you expect people to type that out? Actu
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by SamBam 10y ago
> The React team makes it a point to encourage people _not_ to use boilerplates as a learning tool What I would love to see is one of those over-engineered React+whatever boilerplate project that shows you, in a step-by-step form, show
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by SamBam 10y ago
Putting an ancient toy to a new and brilliant use is genius. If you can find a way to make pick-up-sticks into a seawater desalinator, I'll bet you could get a nice article written up about you too.
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by SamBam 10y ago
A agree with it. I think a more subtle way to go about this would be to say: > We donate x% of our profits to Exodus Road. To find out more about who they are, and what this means to us, click HERE
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by SamBam 10y ago
...you can't listen to music at work without wearing headphones either. This has hardly put a dent in the popularity of music.
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by SamBam 10y ago
Weird. I just tried it out. So in Javascript you can have two variables, `a` and `b`, such that `a === b` and `1/a !== 1/b`.
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by SamBam 10y ago
It sounds like the attackers got in almost instantly -- presumably they logged in via script, not a human. Changing your password at that point would probably be like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Still useful, I guess
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by SamBam 10y ago
> If anyone can answer what the 'correct' interpretation of a piece of writing is, it's the author. Well, that's very much up for debate. The Intentional Fallacy claims that authorial intent is not a valid part of art
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by SamBam 10y ago
Very true. I have coworkers who I only found out years later were wealthy through family money. They worked as hard as anyone else, and no one had any reason to know they were wealthy. I'd love to see studies on this, though.
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by SamBam 10y ago
Such a narrow definition of risk... Their money is the only risk invested? What about employees who moved across the country, or who worked for two years of their lives here and lost the opportunity costs of working elsewhere, and now have
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by SamBam 10y ago
That's just privatization of the government's sphere. It was still done on public lands, under the state's direction and in the state's interest. It was a deliberate choice to have someone else build it -- and allow pric
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by SamBam 10y ago
Many states actually build highways for their citizens without needing to charge $30 tolls. We also don't allow our fire departments to price-gouge.
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by SamBam 10y ago
> where they've determined they will make the most money But is that supposed to be the goal of surge-pricing on a public, state-built road? Or is it supposed to be about easing congestion? If the aim of the government was to always

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