Vivtek

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by Vivtek 7y ago
It was a couple of years ago, November of 2015 according to my notes. I was involved with the Hungarian language course for a while, but there were some in-group political problems and I ended up getting shut out rather abruptly. The Duolin
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by Vivtek 7y ago
There's a lot of politics involved in that course data, too. That an open-source approach exists is a very good thing.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
I have some experience with Duolingo's course builder. I'd be interested in exploring better ways to do this.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
If that page has a single example with a diagram in it, I have yet to find it.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
You see the part where he's speaking from experience?
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Or imagine an island hit by a hurricane. The lack of sufficient physical cash on-island in Puerto Rico after Maria in our telecomms-free condition was paralyzing for a couple of weeks. And that's the US, no weird third-world phone-only
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Oh man, I'm happy you're looking at Prolog. Your writing is fantastic.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
My uncle was a locksmith. His listing was "AAA Locksmith". He was pretty proud about gaming the indexing system that way.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Ha! This makes Rap Genius's apostrophe trap even more delightful, then. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/genius-google-...
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Languages descended from APL are very popular among the financial engineering set.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
I'm old enough to have written hand-made, bespoke Internet in the 90's, and there's a reason I don't write HTML any more. Had enough of it then. I write in plain text now and process it.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
A beekeeping friend of mine here in Puerto Rico recently shared an article noting that Puerto Rican feral honeybees, which are basically killer bees that have relaxed somewhat and lost their aggression, are more resistant to hive death than
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Fun fact: the use of federal disaster funds for any replacement other than as-built components is specifically forbidden by law, because Congress doesn't want disaster victims to profit from a free upgrade. And that is why PREPA comp
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by Vivtek 7y ago
There was talk that Duke Energy was interested in a purchase. I haven't heard anything recently.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
The Puerto Rican grid is already partly segmented - Mayagüez was on a minigrid even before Hurricane Maria. The fact that Mayagüez was the only city on the island that retained power after the hurricane was not lost even on PREPA. (An aside
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Ostensibly, it won't look the same as it does now, but in reality it will still be hacked together with Perl.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
I had that same experience interviewing with a startup in 1996, if you can believe it. They were looking at their "burn rate" by literally spending extra on airfare, but when I told them what I was earning, they said, "with
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by Vivtek 8y ago
I'm honestly glad not to be alone in getting that same feeling.
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by Vivtek 8y ago
They literally had the best tools in the world - my dad swore by Craftsman, told me never to bother buying any other brand. Then they threw it away on a demonstration of Randian philosophy.
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by Vivtek 8y ago
Ah. Yes. You're right. There's no tax policy Puerto Rico could implement, because tax policy is a weak tool to start with. Now I see how I mistook the argument you were making.
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by Vivtek 8y ago
More realistically, it's probably third or fourth on a list of our 100 top problems. Absolutely top ten.
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by Vivtek 8y ago
Actually, in addition to the rich-person tax scheme, there's also a pretty reasonable tax-abatement scheme for any person, resident or not, who starts a PR-based business employing five people or more in one of a number of target indus
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by Vivtek 8y ago
This is true, you didn't say that and I apologize. But I live here in Puerto Rico, and the notion that our stable economic future has to be a handout from the United States rankles a bit. After all, Hawaii's economic stability doe
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by Vivtek 8y ago
When they were invented, they did what they were supposed to - in 1943, nobody had ever done this. In 1943, the mean annual income on the island was $142. The economic boom that followed on the tax incentive plan made Puerto Rico's mea
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by Vivtek 8y ago
The economic problems of Puerto Rico go way beyond the Jones Act. As long as your item is lightweight, you can turn a reasonable profit here - all the Viagra made for the North American market is made here, and other pharma companies have
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by Vivtek 8y ago
Sure, there are no impartial answers to these questions. But there can be impartial reporting on actual events taking place, and I think that's the goal here.
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by Vivtek 8y ago
I see you bump levels based on story shares - but if I'm logged in with my email instead of social media, I don't see how that will be tallied to my account.
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by Vivtek 8y ago
And of course there's always a certain proportion of them who manage to find ways to convert the ability to decrypt back into raw dollars. There's always abuse. And since their activities are secret, well...
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by Vivtek 8y ago
It has also been archived to Github: https://github.com/opsxcq/mirror-vxheaven.org
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by Vivtek 8y ago
So basically this removes my ability to set up crossposting through a nicely maintainable API, without making it much more difficult for any bot organization with an IT staff on call to switch to something like Selenium for their propagan

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