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And yet, our specialists are the best in the world and people fly in from all over the world to be treated by them. I'm not saying our system is perfect or can't be improved, but "Barbaric"? You win the prize for the mos
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by __--__ 13y ago
There is a third: they want their kids raised in an environment that isn't actively hostile to their religion and beliefs.
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Surely, the freedom to walk down the street knowing you can protect yourself from a fatal stabbing is more important than the freedom to feel a false sense of safety? Ban guns, people will use knives. Ban knives, people will use sticks. Ban
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by __--__ 13y ago
On the scale of things to worry about, most Americans are more worried about the flesh and blood swat team down the street serving search warrants than internet surveillance. When the police are armed with military grade weapons and sees th
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He's not implying causation. The idea that stricter gun control laws cause shootings is ridiculous. He's disproving the causation that stricter gun control laws stop violent shootings.
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It depends on where you cross the border. I've had nothing but good experiences crossing the border at the Thousand Islands Bridge or Massena, NY. Both ways, everybody was kind, friendly and patient. I hear nothing but horror stories a
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by __--__ 13y ago
Severance: Blade of Darkness (2001) for PC[1] was pretty good. Sadly, it suffered from two fatal flaws: horrendous bugs (even by today's standards) and no strafe. The sword fights were awesome, though. You could cut off a goblin's
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by __--__ 13y ago
What do you suppose separating it from academic institutions is going to do? The culture of sports will still be there. You can't hack away basic human nature and seeking social status through acts of physical strength has been part of
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Very good to know, thanks. But I did say 'github' and not 'git'. A lot of the important parts of what makes github so nice to use aren't supported in the standard git protocols. Issue tracking (which icebraining men
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So what do you think: is the moderation reasonable?
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While I appreciate the sentiment that version control is very useful, I'm loathe to put all of my data in the hands of a US based company again. Went down that road once with Google. Never again. I think "Git for everything"
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A lot of it has to do with extroversion vs introversion. The lone programmer working long into the night without seeing another human being is long gone. The work itself has become more social as collaboration tools get better and better. T
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by __--__ 13y ago
Do a lot of people continue to surf during the winter there, in wetsuits?
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by __--__ 13y ago
I'm partial to my ergodox[1]. It does have blue switches, but if I decide I want to switch to clear I can do the swap myself. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7245/ergodox-review-an-ergonom...
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I recently did something similar to this short term (airbnb for a month in SF) and I'm curious: are all digital nomads strictly software guys or writers? I have physical electronics and carpentry projects I like to do in my spare time,
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by __--__ 13y ago
I've found geeky motorcycle communities, but most of them are focused around electric motorcycles and most of them aren't software guys, they're hardware.
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by __--__ 13y ago
I got all excited until I realized they were talking about bicycles, not motorcycles.
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by __--__ 13y ago
Isn't this also horribly insecure? Unless it's encrypted (ha. ha.) anybody can intercept the email and get access to your account.
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by __--__ 13y ago
You've never popped open a text editor and started writing things down? I have a dozen notes scattered all over my hard drive because I do that all the time to capture ideas. For some people, it's quicker and easier to open a tab
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by __--__ 13y ago
People do that because the word "hacker" denotes status among geeks. There's also no solid criteria for it, so anybody can call themselves a hacker and immediately raise their social profile without worrying about being calle
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by __--__ 13y ago
Except we don't. There are no clearly defined rules of what exactly defines sexism outside of "referring to women in a a way that makes anyone anywhere feel uncomfortable." It's entirely subjective and based on community
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Let's say I've just spent the last 30 years on an isolated island in the south pacific. Could you define sexism for me, please, in a way that doesn't make it sound like "thoughtcrime" from 1984.
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by __--__ 13y ago
You're right, it's his mistake to believe this event was going to be attended by adults instead of children.
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by __--__ 13y ago
There very well may be a limit to the propensity of the brain toward addiction, unless we delve into deep sci-fi territory of complete reward structure take over. What makes you think that doesn't happen? We know the brain is plastic
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by __--__ 13y ago
I think a large part of why social networks have desperately failed to reproduce the sense of togetherness has something to do with the state of the internet at large. I used to play AstroMUD in the 90's and grew close enough to the co
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I still haven't found a linux distro that doesn't eventually resort to me fudging with xrandr for a week trying to get multiple monitors working correctly. Granted, this was 3 years ago. Have any linux distros solved the problem o
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by __--__ 13y ago
There's no reason to hire extra employees for the sponge baths. Just put a drain in the floor, a shower overhead and a pull cord to activate it. As for the feeding tubes... soylent. :D
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by __--__ 13y ago
This is something that has been bothering me for some time. The decision-making process on display here appears to be an appeal to authority by the CEO, wherein the author is a trusted authority. A suggestion to use an external product appe
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by __--__ 13y ago
This reminds me of a child having a temper tantrum. Do you want to know why men in general are having problems being feminist allies? Because feminism, at its core, is hatred of men. Why would we want to be part of a group that shows unfilt
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by __--__ 13y ago
What do you do when bugs show up in that module? rewrite it from scratch, introducing god knows how many new bugs? Or only address bugs when a rewrite of the entire module is necessary?

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