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by a_c_s 13y ago
Frankenfood is the one I take issue with: there are plenty of things to criticize Monsanto for, but being able to 'grow your own seeds' has little to do with GMO's. Crops like corn/maize haven't been replantable in
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by a_c_s 13y ago
I fail to see what value this really adds: If you have a laptop, just close the lid. By default (on a Mac) you have to log in again when you return. If you have a desktop, what kind of environment are you going to be in where you need to gu
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Fruit contains far more than just sugar: fiber for example, is great for you. Vitamins and minerals are also, generally speaking, good for you. Furthermore, eating fruit will not spike your blood sugar the same way an equivalent amount of p
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Fruit is far healthier than junk food.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
This likely has to do with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). iOS updates used to cost a nominal amount of money because new features have to have new revenues. (Why? Imagine you are selling a physical good, and promised a 1 y
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by a_c_s 13y ago
There more liquidity there is, the less marginal value additional liquidity has.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Talking specifically about troops, I don't buy it - we have more troops than needed as a 'tripwire' to warn of an attack, but nowhere near enough to repel a full-on North Korean assault.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Then there would be no technical support staff - upgrading computers generates $0 new revenues and has significant costs. Clearly there is value in not forcing developers to use 15 year old machines, but it isn't so clear to quantify.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
1. I dispute your assertion that children 'lose that curiosity right around the time they start being stuffed into classrooms' - I don't think most people lose their curiosity. I think some people who chafe against rules and
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by a_c_s 13y ago
I don't use a pin because I don't want to have to enter one every single time I want to quickly check something on my phone. Those extra few seconds would be a many-times-a-day annoyance, and I try to keep my day annoyance-free. S
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Low, positive inflation is the ideal for many reasons that have nothing to do with the federal budget: inflation encourages investment, spending, makes people feel richer when their salaries go up every year, and it reduces debts. Given tha
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by a_c_s 13y ago
You are assuming people who are 'high achievers' achieve highly in all circumstances: this is false. For example, the Ivy League colleges suffer rampant grade inflation due to these high-achieving students not being able to cope w
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by a_c_s 13y ago
I disagree: the higher level the language, the better one can focus on the algorithm itself rather than getting bogged down in irrelevant details or language-specific details. For example, being able to swap by doing "a, b = b, a"
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by a_c_s 13y ago
I built a RESTful API without installing 3rd party code in Django, don't know why you think this can't be done.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Nope! If we rank stress from 0 = sleeping to 10 = getting diagnosed with cancer, the amount of stress I feel in a meeting (including important ones I lead or that include bigwigs) is in the 1 to 3 range, with maybe the occasional 4. My leve
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Comfort is proportional to room, there are plenty more than 7% of the population that would refuse to ride in a windowless box they can't even sit upright in. Remember there are two passenger compartment mockups, this is the smaller on
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Counter argument: Waitstaff in Europe offer significantly poorer service than those in the USA
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Is there a difference between, for example, banning Netflix traffic on the network level and banning the use of it in the TOS?
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Quinoa is a grain, which is technically a seed. I'm confused about the refrigeration comment though - I make quinoa all the time and have not had that issue.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
But 'reasonable profit' isn't a constant. Just look at the airline industry - no single airline has had a consistent profit margin (most have not even been consistently profitable!). Thin margins aren't incentive to leav
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Your 'this is all a tautology' point is neither interesting nor moves the conversation forward. This is like making the point that the sky isn't really blue it just looks blue - technically correct, but unless you are answeri
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by a_c_s 13y ago
The theory of 'addictive personality' is no longer a valid scientific explanation of addiction.
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Just as with a credit card API, you would integrate the ability to purchase & print postage within another application. I work on an internal company application and it would be great if people could purchase & print postage from wi
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by a_c_s 13y ago
I've had an iPhone since iMessage came out & I can recall no delivery issues (unless you count when my iPad gets a message a few seconds before my iPhone).
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by a_c_s 13y ago
Did you read the full article or just the data? 1. The author assumed NO sales. 2. Aside from bananas everything else will easily last a full week. If you wanted to say you are only shopping once a week then that means you either are willin
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by a_c_s 13y ago
You mean except for the part where they previously agreed not to do so?
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by a_c_s 14y ago
That makes much more sense! However I would still add that simple suite of regression tests (in my CRUD app these are almost entirely integration tests), often speed up development by more than the time it takes to write the tests in the fi
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by a_c_s 14y ago
Reader isn't the first project Google (or Google.org) lost interest in or shut down. For me the big eye-opener was their "Project 10 to the 100": they got 150,000 entries for where to focus philanthropic funds, waited a few years with no
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by a_c_s 14y ago
Interesting? Testing isn't about programmer enjoyment, it is about correctness. A 12 hour stress test is going to catch different things than a unit test. A simple suite of regression tests can be automatically run by a continuous integrati
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by a_c_s 14y ago
You clearly don't understand how the diagnosis of these things works. There is a spectrum of behaviors, raging from healthy to problematic. Drinking alcohol has a range too: from abstaining to enjoying in moderation to alcoholism. Neither a

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