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> "opinionated" people who cannot tolerate any difference of opinion, and think that SWAT raids are a valid means of addressing disagreements. I believe they call that the "paradox of tolerance."
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A THIRD of all Rust devs are trans?
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Pity you can't just flag/downvote the wrongthink away like you can on HN.
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Ctrl+f Cantrill >Phrase not found Bryan Cantrill, ex-Sun dev, ex-Joyent CTO, now CTO of Oxide, is the reason they chose Illumos. Oxide is primarily an attempt to give Solaris (albeit Rustified) a second life, similar to Joyent before. Th
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> It's also worth considering who would be liable if large-scale mammoth reintroductions went wrong. "The ecosystem has been adapting to the absence of mammoths since mammoths started going extinct," Lynch said. "What
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The reddit threads on this subject were interesting, with hundreds of comments in r/programming and r/linux all bemoaning the lack of Rust adoption in the kernel and the supposed mistreatment of the Rust maintainers. Are these peo
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> The agency’s commitment is not expected to exceed $150 million to develop novel technologies that will allow surgeons to remove cancerous tumors with higher accuracy. If successful, these technologies will revolutionize surgeries, dra
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by _zagj 2y ago
I love all of these ironic black bar request posts.
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tl;dr: wealth + connections = successful children
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>My brother has MS It's telling that the best example you could come up with is yet another neurodegenerative disease, albeit one with some not-so-effective treatments.
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O'Dwyer's "Back to Basics" talks on YouTube are worth a watch for anyone looking to get up to speed on modern C++.
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I thought Ben Horowitz was fairly progressive. Were these high net-worth VCs, CEOs, and fund managers suddenly endorsing Trump actually closet Trumpers all along, or are they just cynically reading the room and trying to pander to it? For B
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The contradiction is easily explained by him registering as a republican to vote in R. primaries (against Trump and for downballot candidates likely to lose against presumptive democratic opponents): https://newhampshirebulletin.
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> your fellow traveler I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but having had to deal with taking care of my aging, disabled parents in 2020 in a city heavily affected by the riots (and COVID), I was and remain bitter about the media incit
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> The left does not want violence or war Am I the only one who remembers the Summer of Floyd?
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How would you characterize the 2020 Floyd riots, which caused an estimated $1-2 billion of damage ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests ) and resulted in Trump at one point being taken to a White House se
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> Reason #1) C++ is just dumb in 2024 and choosing it is a big red blinking sign that the devs make bad decisions. Now they're considering a rewrite in a better language? So, starting again from scratch... No thanks! Because modern
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> US had close to 100:1 ratio in the post-911 iraq war. So the US is responsible for every Iraqi death, even those caused by insurgent groups like Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Mahdi Army, and ISIS?
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It won't be a myth if life extension ever pans out.
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wxWidget's wxStyledTextCtrl is based on Scintilla, too: https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxStyledTextCtrl
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Read the whole thing. Maybe there are undigested kernels of truth and foresight amongst the excrement, but on the whole, it's easily one of the worst, most unimaginative, and most dogmatically narrow-minded futurist thinkpieces to have
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https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv... > Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual com
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His erratic behavior may have been attributable to heavy metal poisoning, especially lead, much of which came from his paints: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/16/caravag...
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> https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... >> FACT SHEET: Biden- Harris Administration Announces Temporary Pause on Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports The administration
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Don't forget the Keystone XL cancellation: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-keystone-p...
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Blood lead level association with lower body weight in NHANES 1999–2006(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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> tastes That's the thing, tastes change. Peoples' preferences, values, goals aren't static, which is why permanently disfiguring yourself (especially with some trite saying or cliched symbol), besides being trashy, just s
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I'll never understand how tattoos became so socially acceptable that 46% of people 30-49yo now have at least one: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/15/32-of-ame... As if the continual
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It's incredible how unsympathetic these threads are to artists. I remember the HN threads covering the FAANG (or whatever they're called now) laysoffs, where people would get flagged just for pointing out that tech workers earning
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> then people decided perl was bad and moved on from that. That's a large part of what's driving Awk's renaissance: devs that never learned Perl to begin with want something to fill the gap between shell and Python, and ot

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