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1. 1441.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   CPython is obviously the way it is on purpose, by design, and quite successful. Yet I still find it ironic that this "slow" interpreter is written in C, the go to, general purpose, "low level and a half" fast language, a
2. 1442.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   "Big dollar reapers good, small dollar earners bad."
3. 1443.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   Or the reality on BART trains.
4. 1444.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   The beginnings of enclaves.
5. 1445.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   "Yuan" is to Renminbi as "dollar" is to USD. Also interesting (to me) is that yuan, yen and won are all units based on the word for "round," in China, Japan and Korea(s) respectively. https://en.wiki
6. 1446.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   It's always been hard to tell what's real. Reading back over Vietnam and Watergate, or even recent news that Congress has settled members' staff harrassment accusations with taxpayer money, from today's perspective, sugg
7. 1447.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   Second.
8. 1448.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   NPR does this. I don't like it. "... blah blah. For more on this story, Joan Smith joins us via Skype." The sound quality is often terrible, and this being radio they could have easily done this over high quality phone. But
9. 1449.▲
   by a3n 9y ago

   I like to use the ATM machine located on Table Mesa, and use the cash to enjoy a cup of soup du jour of the day.
10. 1450.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    > no one ever discusses how the hell these things are cleaned. The same people who clean your cube now, because they're cheap and no one is responsible for them.
11. 1451.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    Do they remember having their heads cut off?
12. 1452.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    LinkedIn has suggested that I connect with addresses of mail lists.
13. 1453.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    Add private connection requests (no one but you knows who you're connected to or how many you have) to HN. Problem solved.
14. 1454.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    I no longer connect with any requests unless they include a personal message in the request, because they're either a "legitimate" connection trawler, or (I suspect) LinkedIn making the request "on behalf of" the &q
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    by a3n 9y ago

    > Go to the local pub, have a few beers and talk to people. You could genericize this to: Go to a place where people meet for some $ACTIVITY, participate in what they do there, and talk to people. Now assign some agreeable value to $ACTI
16. 1456.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    > All of that may seem like an elaborate setup to catch a spy drone in the act, when it could far more easily be spotted with a decent pair of binoculars. But Nassi argues that the technique works at ranges where it's difficult to s
17. 1457.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    I think it's more banal than that. There are people out there who are always looking for something more to sell, and there are people out there who are always looking for more program to be associated with who will buy it.
18. 1458.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    > It looks innocent, makes the impression of a childlike idea how to make the world better. It answer's Richard Scarry's question, "What do people do all day?" [1] They watch each other. [1] Still one of my favorite b
19. 1459.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    It's seems likely that people growing up in a place called Darwin would, in time, evolve a particular fitness to thrive.
20. 1460.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    Give them time; we took ours.
21. 1461.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    With Meltdown and Spectre, and CERT's statement that only replacement of CPU will solve those, it's hard to think about buying any computer for the next little while.
22. 1462.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    We'll leave the jail house light on for you.
23. 1463.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    We're all third world. The saying about individuals probably applies to governments and corporations: Power (or money) doesn't change you, it just reveals who you are.
24. 1464.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    It looks like a bunch of paper that should be thrown out. Or like the old man montage near the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
25. 1465.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    Because medical insurance itself has worked so well for us.
26. 1466.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    "Los Angeles man arrested in ‘swatting’ call that preceded fatal police shooting in Kansas" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arrest-man-suspe...
27. 1467.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    The shooter will be investigated, and likely survive the investigation. The pranksters are the root cause, the reason this house came under the awareness of the cops at all.
28. 1468.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    Google's list (sorry) of current Atlantic articles, Google News (sorry), The Guardian, HN, The Hill, McSweeney's, NYT, New Yorker, if you use ddg then "!ddg news", Politico, NYMag, The Register, Reuters, Vanity Fair, Vox
29. 1469.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    > why aren't positive reviews considered evidence a conflict of interest? Probably because they get more ad revenue over a body of positively reviewed businesses.
30. 1470.▲
    by a3n 9y ago

    I suppose that's better than clicking, although now I'm leaking information to a fourth party (and keeping it from a third, unless my identity/data is already embedded in the shortened URL).