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by a_humean 10y ago
Funny, but he does not need to go through 3493 dates to meet one of his 18,726 viable bachelorettes. Its probably in the double digits. You don't meet random people within the general population, you meet random people within your envi
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by a_humean 10y ago
Yep, its one of the best essays I read during my undergrad, and in the era of Trump's never ending bullshit generation it has never been a more relevant a topic for study. 16 page PDF of the original article: https://www.sto
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by a_humean 10y ago
It's a priority for this year with the ground work already completed last year: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1774-road... https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016&#
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by a_humean 10y ago
In the UK the majority of public toilets have been removed over the past few decades, and some of them have been replaced by paid toilets run by private companies where you pay a small fee (<£1). The removal and ofttimes poor maintenance
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by a_humean 10y ago
Rustup automates this process so much that it costs you nothing to compile from a specific nightly release without compromising your existing configuration. I downloaded the nightly within a minute, and I compiled a release within 125 secon
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by a_humean 10y ago
I just got Scythe for Christmas. I'm just waiting for people to return from their families after the new year to give this a go!
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Under the present system in the UK it really doesn't make much sense to work <=16 hour at around the lower wages. I know this from personal experience when I was unemployed (graduated uni at the worst possible time during the recess
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by a_humean 10y ago
I live in London. In the UK we have a statutory minimum wage (like the federal min wage - we are having almost the same debate in the UK) and a voluntary 'living wage' that is higher than the minimum wage and set to a minimum leve
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by a_humean 10y ago
Enjoy the read: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/1...
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by a_humean 10y ago
Except to be fair to the Dems and the Clinton campaign, they did have proposals and white papers addressing exactly these communities. For example, a proposal to invest $30 billion into coal mining communities within the Appalachia regions
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by a_humean 10y ago
That is certainly true; its very hard for a political party in a genuine liberal democracy to hold onto power for more than 2 or 3 4/5 year cycles. The problem with that analysis in this particular case is that it is an attempt to norm
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by a_humean 10y ago
If I had to guess your definition of what counts as an institution is much narrower and fairly specific to banking and international finance. When I say institutions I mean the political institutions that support and enforce the norms liber
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by a_humean 10y ago
The author is delusional. This isn't a re-run of Bush 2000 for liberals or Obama 2008 for conservatives. At a time of greatest institutional weakness, a demagogue with authoritarian tendencies that considers the norms of a liberal demo
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by a_humean 10y ago
I've identified a Philosophical Zombie. Someone contact the nobel committee, for I have refuted Physicalism. I knew your kind would finally let it slip. I jest! http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
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by a_humean 10y ago
This report is pretty pointless, and is at best a puff piece for an American audience. American workers are some of the most productive workers in the world, but working hours are not the sole reason. Working hours really do not tell you th
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by a_humean 10y ago
Why on earth was a matter of war and peace left to a referendum? As someone who lives in the UK my confidence in referenda and most forms of direct democracy (and watching the US that is starting to include having presidential elections ove
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Ask HN: Self Taught and Already Employed Developer – Should I Go Back to School?
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There is a local upmarket curry house near me that is quite good and has been around for nearly 5 years winning plenty of local awards for food and service, but on TripAdvisor about 1/5 of the reviews refer to a steak house that was at
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by a_humean 10y ago
It could be something as simple as you need to pay a fee for a search query in order to get hold of filtered results, but with no indication that there will be any extra results to find. eg: Search 'John Smith Liverpool UK Murder'
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by a_humean 10y ago
That's interesting and would help a bit, but its probably not going to help the man falsely accused of murder very much. In the relationship case its basically pretty much impossible to legislate norms of behaviour in any reasonable pe
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by a_humean 10y ago
This appears to be an overzealous extension of the right to be forgotten. The right to be forgotten is a debate worth having as there are individuals that may have historical public records that may be false or no longer in the public inter
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by a_humean 10y ago
What literately every other country does: Old fashioned price controls. Government as a buyer or as a regulator puts a cap on the price through a process of negotiation, and be willing to say no when the price is too high and the benefits a
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by a_humean 10y ago
In the UK the vast majority (don't know the hard figure, but guessing something like 95%) of police are unarmed with the exception of maybe pepper spray or the occasional blunt stick (I think even that is less common now). Only a small
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by a_humean 10y ago
I think it is certainly worthwhile, and I've already used one of your new features in the d3-hierarchy package (d3.stratify) in a d3 v3 project. I think the general improvements are enough to warrant the breaking changes. I think you w
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by a_humean 10y ago
I think it is quite possible in some cases due to the modularisation. I have already done that with in my D3 v3 projects. For example I used the d3.stratify method that is part of the d3-hierarchy module.
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by a_humean 10y ago
Changelog (weekend reading): https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/CHANGES.md Really excited about this release. It seems like nothing has been left untouched with major changes to everything from selecti
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by a_humean 10y ago
So my intuition about your thought experiment is that said high performing individual would probably waste away quite quickly by the onset of severe depression leading to high incidence of drink, drug abuse, and possibly suicide. I don&#x27
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Yes, there is no explicit statute that says that an official can be punished for preventing gay marriage, but new case law would make this an offence and a lower court might need to establish further new case law to decide what an appropria
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New precedents are created all the time. Just look at the US supreme court which is a court with the primary responsibility of establishing case law precedents when lower courts disagree on statue and case law. They recently legalised gay m
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by a_humean 10y ago
US and UK courts help develop the law through the precedents they set in their judgements. Law is not just a product of the legislative process and statute, but also of case law developed by judges. Common law often leaves a lot of the deta

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