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by actuator 6y ago
I think the title is apt. It is quite common for people to mistakingly do this pattern, I have seen this mostly happen through ORMs. It might have changed but in ActiveRecord it was fairly common to do. models = Model.where(column_name:
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by actuator 6y ago
Umm.. FANMAG pay the same comp for NY and SF. Roughly the same for Seattle too.
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by actuator 6y ago
NYT might be a paragon of journalism for American issues but it is hardly a good source for news about countries like China or India. I have been following their international coverage for some time and what they have mastered is the art of
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by actuator 6y ago
But that has nothing to do with the dam itself. That should be regulated by the state authorities. Living close to rivers in such fragile places is not a good idea. Back in 2013, roughly the same place witnessed ~6000 deaths in floods. htt
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by actuator 6y ago
I don't use Facebook or Instagram but they are hardly just an exploitation service. They do help people in staying connected, specially with ones who are not in your very close circle. There is definitely a positive value that the palt
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by actuator 6y ago
> The disaster draws attention to the controversial hydropower projects Why is this the subheading of the article? All the speculation regarding the actual flood is a glacier breaking away and falling 2km on valley floor triggering land
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by actuator 6y ago
I don't think FB should do hardware honestly. Hardware requires a lot of patience and integration as Microsoft and Google discovered with their phones. Adding to this, FB's image is such at this point that most people won't t
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by actuator 6y ago
or he has really grown. Is it really surprising that people can be immature when they are young and grow to learn from their mistakes? It is easy to hate on Zuck so most people love to bring his past to malign his image. The grown up thing
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by actuator 6y ago
I would imagine that now English content would be even more easy to obtain as most mediums now support multiple languages flawlessly.
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by actuator 6y ago
One more advantage of keeping it together can be easier development cycle. IDE features like autocompletion and building would be faster if artifacts can be cached.
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by actuator 6y ago
But Google is more or less an exception in this regard, from hiring their own offensive penetration testing teams to having a lot of paranoia in general about anything from outside. They had adopted a lot of good practices early on. Even mo
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by actuator 6y ago
> What has happened in China is that a billion farmers are massively, undescribably better off. After Great Leap forward? Cultural Revolution? What about the farmers of the marginalized communities in Tibet and Xinjiang. I am not saying
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by actuator 6y ago
It doesn't have to be most actually, just the ability to let out what even few are thinking. Look at what's happening in India. An elected government on a clear majority, passed new laws and some section of people which are not ha
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by actuator 6y ago
Except for winning competitions, is there any natural advantage of bodybuilding for both men and women? For both, for advantage in most sports and attractiveness the typical calisthenics physique, sort of gymnast/football(soccer) one s
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by actuator 6y ago
He might be happy and content there. Also, leaving your homeland is a tough decision and he would lose his home audience potentially if he is vocal.
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by actuator 6y ago
> 3bp also would've benefitted from a smaller cast with more character development. Maybe it was because of my non familiarity with Chinese names or lack of detail to a lot of characters, that I had to constantly look back to see na
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by actuator 6y ago
Kind of, more like just another legal contract to sign up to satisfy a social requirement.
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by actuator 6y ago
> I feel like your comment suggests that one of those things is common while I would suggest that the other interpretation is more common. I read it as people taking that step in a relationship without much thought because that's wh
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by actuator 6y ago
I would say middle class folks will probably consider marriage to be more important. Like Viktor Frankl would say, the meaning of your life is either from your work, love or courage in difficulty for survival. Most middle class folks I am s
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by actuator 6y ago
> I would think they were settling, if they got a more compact state. It is not like any land exchange happened. Sure, some resources got divided but I wouldn't see it as settling. If you read analysis about management of big states
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by actuator 6y ago
Weaken them by making a state where electoral prospects are just decided by them? That is just counter intuitive. If you don't divide the state, they aren't in the majority anymore but it does increase the administrative burden. A
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by actuator 6y ago
I am not too aware about the reason for this. Most of the states have been divided on linguistic lines. Punjab and Haryana have different dominant languages. It also might have been administrative like it was for a lot of states.
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by actuator 6y ago
I apologise for any mistake I make here as my knowledge of Indian history is not very fresh. > the state of kashmir has been essentially fighting war of independence against foreign oppressive rule for the past 500 years. But what consti
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by actuator 6y ago
Sure, we are back to talking about free speech considerations since now it is not the side most of the tech press hates being blocked. What Twitter started with when it decided to become the arbiter of what is allowed on the platform, and w
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by actuator 6y ago
Also, in Kashmir's case, the lines become blurry because on one hand you have excesses from the Indian state, and on the other hand you have a bloody armed insurgent movement which sometimes is just separatist and sometimes also colour
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by actuator 6y ago
I just read that it is being restored from today. Definitely a step in the right direction. https://theprint.in/india/governance/4g-mobile-internet-serv...
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by actuator 6y ago
Even the Total Return one? FTSE 100 has been also flat since the 2000 bubble peak but I think there is some gain if you count the dividends. Anyway, one should diversify between geographies as well.
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by actuator 6y ago
Even if this is true, I think the simple reason might be that one of the five eyes country is US, which is probably the global hub for data and services used throughout the world. Also, Britain being near entrance of Europe from Atlantic, a
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by actuator 6y ago
Eh, I would count this just as some people not being comfortable with the social changes happening. If you look at most of the pop culture that comes out from East Asia, the typical male archetype seems to be gentle, boyish looking men who
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by actuator 6y ago
Has any country remained strong for all its history in the last millenium? Look at Britain or the Dutch. They aren't weak as such but their influence is very less now.

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