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by abtinf 7y ago
The explanation I've found most persuasive is to take a purely philosophical approach: the universe had no beginning and will have no end because those concepts do not apply. The universe is everything. If there was something that &quo
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by abtinf 7y ago
A cross-platform c++ framework... why not just use QT?
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by abtinf 7y ago
> This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. This is the reason I love archlinux. Most of the time, updates are no big deal. Sometimes, they
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by abtinf 7y ago
Option 3: you write a coherent proposal of a quality comparable to those written by the committers and work with them to implement it, possibly becoming a committer yourself and getting hired by google in the process.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Your claim is that before humans, Earth's climate was static?
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by abtinf 7y ago
It is hard to say whether FB or CrossFit has more influence in this situation. I have friends on FB who are fanatical about CrossFit. They write and post photos about workouts, events, and achievements. They seem to have limited use for FB
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by abtinf 7y ago
I read your comment once thinking it said something, but I couldn't remember what. So then I read it again, and again, then suddenly realized you didn't actually say anything at all. You could replace the single word "China&q
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by abtinf 7y ago
> The appeal was that even though I know how to set up arch on my own, it takes about 2 hours or so. I've used Arch on and off for about eight years. The first time I set it up, it took about 2 hours. I just tried again last week, a
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by abtinf 7y ago
It seems like you have some ideas you want to try out that involve system and community level decisions. If only there was a word for such a concept...
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by abtinf 7y ago
Ted Nelson pointed out that knitting (or was it weaving?) is one of the most popular programming languages back in 1979. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI Edit to add: I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more knitt
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by abtinf 7y ago
You are corrrect. I guess I’ve learned to treat deviation from gofmt as error because of the go vim plugin. It runs goimports on save, which fixes a bunch of real errors (like unused imports).
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by abtinf 7y ago
I think a nontrivial portion of Go’s success can be attributed to having a standard format and treating deviation as compiler errors. It is immensely valuable to be able to look at any Go code, whether in the toolchain, the standard library
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by abtinf 7y ago
Perhaps a stupid question: Why isn't there a time standard that is monotonic and defined simply in terms of seconds, without attempting to match the movement of the earth (no leap seconds, no negative seconds, no daylight savings, no c
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by abtinf 7y ago
> Infowars may have the best coverage of a story Has there ever been an example of this?
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by abtinf 7y ago
John Deere will never go out of business in the manner you suppose. Worst case is restructuring through bankruptcy.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Failure to pay taxes is not criminal. You cannot go to jail for not paying taxes. The most that can happen is additional penalties and fines. The only time taxes become a criminal matter is if you lie on the paperwork.
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by abtinf 7y ago
I think it’s very similar to shutting down Reader, which I’ve long believed was killed in a vain attempt to force adoption of G+.
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by abtinf 7y ago
What baffles me about this is that getting people to dial these numbers has been a known scam for many years. The fix seems stupidly trivial: break up the North American Numbering Plan to move them out of the +1 zone. They just don’t belong
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by abtinf 8y ago
That link was useful, thank you. I don't find it hard to believe technically, but it strikes me as a fundamentally different practice than what I'd head of before. If I request for traffic to go to a certain IP, I expect it to be
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by abtinf 8y ago
Links for documented instances of this practice?
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by abtinf 8y ago
Why even bother trying to explain something to others if free will is an illusion? What are you relying on to persuade them if they don't have a mind capable of understanding you?
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by abtinf 8y ago
I meant my comment in the context of the person I was replying to, who was considering working on something at home that is unrelated to their day job.
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by abtinf 8y ago
The value of the work you do at home is a small fraction of the value you produce at work. Employers risk a lot of money on engineering, but even more on marketing, sales, product management, support, vendors, operational processes, legal,
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by abtinf 8y ago
Sounds like this person confused advice for a sprain with his fracture. In case of a sprain (ligament injury), the standard of care has changed over the years: whereas the advice was to immobilize the injury and rest, now it is to start usi
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by abtinf 8y ago
Have you tried using the built-in ClearType Tuner to tweak the rendering to your liking?
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by abtinf 8y ago
The author ignores two obvious, extremely high leverage changes that would solve the problems in his model. First, on the revenue side, extend patents on pharmaceuticals as long as possible. His model assumes a very narrow window of payback
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by abtinf 8y ago
> the treaty violates the U.S. Constitution I am not a constitutional law expert, but I believe that under article 6 section 2 (the supremacy clause) treaties are held to be equal to the constitution. Thus, there is a very high bar for a
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by abtinf 8y ago
> It seems like despite a lack of evidence, it would be very hard to ethically approve a randomised trial of teeth brushing over a long period. This is the exact same argument that was used to evade studying the effects of low doses of a
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by abtinf 8y ago
What is the reasoning to put money down on an auto loan or lease?
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by abtinf 8y ago
A number of replies to this comment point out that modern animals also eat bone marrow. However, that may have not been the case a couple million years ago. In “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, Diamond points out that animals in Africa are particul

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