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by agency 6y ago
Though amusingly he continued to squat in a Nissan-owned mansion in Beirut after his escape. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-06/carlos...
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by agency 6y ago
I found the part about him moving in with his coworker/friend and effectively becoming a grandfather to his children so deeply moving. What a beautiful thing.
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by agency 6y ago
FTA: "we are [...] committing to never track your browsing activities" But based on your comment it seems like you harbor a deep distrust for Mozilla, in which case obviously you shouldn't use their products?
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by agency 6y ago
I recall several resulting from the fact that lodash's _.forEach terminates iteration early if the function you pass it returns a falsey value for any element. Most people (myself included) weren't aware of this functionality and
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by agency 6y ago
Definitely my experience. Implicit returns are just a breathtakingly bad idea and I have personally witnessed them cause countless bugs.
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by agency 6y ago
I feel you. I have {commonFirstName}.{commonLastName}@gmail.com and I get so much email intended for other people. Services that don’t verify email and require you to login to unsubscribe are the _worst_
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by agency 6y ago
You act like these are well defined and agreed upon categories. The page on consciousness you link lists off many different definitions people attribute to consciousness, including: "It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness
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by agency 6y ago
Wouldn't you expect having a captive audience of millions stuck at home with nothing better to do than watch stuff on their phone to be _good_ for something like Quibi? I have no sympathy for them, given the way they shamelessly ripped
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by agency 6y ago
Such a breathtaking interview. The internet bit starts around 7min. > Bowie: I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg. I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unim
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by agency 7y ago
You can't have contact with someone with a confirmed case of Covid-19 if nobody is being tested for Covid-19.
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by agency 7y ago
I've found there can also be an inverse of the "red but no traffic" problem where Google Maps is unable to understand that there can be multiple lanes traveling at different speeds on the same street. When I lived in SF I wou
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by agency 7y ago
So if Phil and Travis Knight wanted to realize a stop-motion artistic vision, what do you propose they should have done but “go into business”? Are you suggesting they should have actually structured the movie studio as a non-profit?
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by agency 7y ago
It doesn’t sound like the suggestion was made on the basis of water usage. Full quote FTA: > “Get rid of your lawns,” she said. “Lawns are total biological deserts. It’s just grass with pesticides. The way it’s grown does not support a l
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by agency 7y ago
FTA: > I’d seen examples of this on signs before, but it had always seemed to me that asterisks and such were not meant to be a solution, but rather a way to highlight the issue and start a discourse on something that’s deeply ingrained
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by agency 7y ago
Per the post, their complaints were based on rules prohibiting attorneys from splitting contingency fees with non-attorneys. The patent they were asserting against Cloudflare was purchased from the inventor for $1 plus “other good and valua
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by agency 7y ago
This latest bailout is coming directly from SoftBank, not the Vision Fund.
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by agency 7y ago
I've similarly heard of people shocked to find that red Solo cups[1] are in fact ubiquitous at American college parties, and not just a staple in movies/TV. [1] https://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/image&#x
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by agency 7y ago
The inventor called it "a mill for grinding rogues honest"
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by agency 7y ago
Are memory sports techniques useful in general? I don't know much about them but they seem specialized for memorizing streams of rote information (like strings of numbers). Can they also be used to recall useful information?
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by agency 7y ago
FWIW I think that behavior may be specific to the Giant Pacific octopus[1]. I'm not sure if other octopuses (octopi? octopodes?) behave the same way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Pacific_octopus
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by agency 7y ago
There's a last to market advantage in the same way that "you always find things in the last place you look"
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by agency 7y ago
Obligatory Matt Levine take https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-21/slack-... > Good lord have they never read Coase[1]? The point of working at a company is that, like, there are pens, and d
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by agency 7y ago
Same exact problem here. I get unbelievable amounts of emails intended for other people who share my name, including once a scanned copy of a passport. There's a special place in hell for services that not only don't validate emai
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by agency 7y ago
That reminds me of when I first discovered emulators as a kid and was playing a lot of SNES Mario classics and shamelessly abusing the quicksave/load functionality. I was playing so much I remember walking around IRL and having the tho
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by agency 7y ago
Thanks for the link. As an outsider I also thought it seemed weird given so many other languages use prefix, but it makes sense with this framing that the main concern is the interaction with the ? operator.
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by agency 8y ago
Is there really enough there to support an entire reality television _series_?
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by agency 8y ago
The GP said "I also regularly give to my community, by choice."
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by agency 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
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by agency 8y ago
This is a truly insane take. San Jose, the 3rd most populous city in California and 10th most populous in the entire United States is _maybe_ a city?
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by agency 8y ago
What makes you think that?

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