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wealth isn't the same as "i can get money for this"
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do scientific findings contradict the notion that we are using economic theory to "ignore the exploitation of humans as a resource for the sake of ill-defined (by design) notions of 'the group' or 'us all?'"
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i've given it a bit of thought over the years, and a reputation system that accurately represents the stinking realities of letting someone use your toilet, and can identify creeps who'll listen at the door or video the entire eve
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oh you
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i use zsh, but i often invoke bash just to make sure some behavior is "normal" rather than zsh-specific, or specific to how i wrote my .zshrc last decade [and haven't changed]. i don't think it's about the newfangle
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those poor gymnasts do some truly impressive things, and then every little leap of basic thought is conflated with their work
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>ball of goop can you please talk to us like programmers? your audience is programmers.
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> as if the way it ended up looking was the only way someone managed to get it to work using default GTK widgets. want to guess what G in GTK originally stood for? that's right, GIMP. GIMP invented that toolkit because they needed o
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protocols like aim's oscar were proprietary. it's the legal and business landscape that's changed.
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i'll correct myself: maintaining the $40/citizen city funding by raising costs for other customers is not what "eating the cost" means
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yes. the moralistic sentiment seems to be that you should only resort to the hack when faced with legal consequences.
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i don't think raising rates for other customers is what "eating the cost" means. it's also possible to profit less.
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i suppose they are both broken, but i claim optparse is "more broken" because it lacks the nargs="+" and nargs="?" functionality, and doesn't support positional arguments. it's also valid to suggest t
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we can safely assume at least 150% of americans are innumerate
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i mostly agree with those choices. colorsys: a small handful of conversion functions you need every now and then fileinput: quick and dirty boilerplate for when you want to accept input from files or stdin getopt: a fine, well understood co
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that makes sense considering khtml, from which webkit evolved, was designed as a web view for the kde desktop environment.
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2005 if i recall correctly. i downloaded a 200mb iso file over the course of a couple days: a [then] slackware-based distro called slax. i quickly came to understand that its packages were just tarballs overlaid on the filesystem (how simpl
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i was similarly perplexed but upon reflection i may understand it. windows kept me at the level of "power user," and i suspect it lulls many into that complacency. sure i wrote a few windows programs, debugged a few i hadn't
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who knew? it sneaked up on us. we spent decades wedging compatibility shims into gaping functionality holes, while heroic visionaries of the web as a platform toiled and bargained to bring us the tools we needed for modularity, performance,
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"due to the tyrannical nature of your nation's government, your privacy rights have been suspended"
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i don't care for the aesthetic of the aws icons you posted, but i agree they serve their purpose much better than the gcloud icons you posted.
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goog-233.com still fails the domain name test i taught my mom in 1999.
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i believe it's a rite of passage for any new linux user on a dpkg-based linux distribution to install synaptic and with it every possible package.
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according to the wiki[1], packages which are non-cohabiting alternatives should use both "provides" and "conflicts" (and it's sufficient to list the original package name in conflicts, rather than all of the conflic
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>I'm quite impressed that it's still being actively developed 30 years later. Looks like it's being modernized to build with c++11 compilers
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"I have been advised to let you know that I have never..."
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> Should they fine you $200k instead Yes, the fines should be punitive, not proportional to the damage.
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I'm curious about the subjective jittery v. snappy experience you describe. Perhaps Chrome shows more intermittent reflows so you observe more of the page rendering as it's taking place? Can you describe it in more detail? I presu
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Monaco 9 takes me back to coding for Macintosh System 6. Inconsolata is my daily driver.
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hors... glutamate-gated chloride channels.
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