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by aisengard 6y ago
Democrats literally just led a charge to pass marijuana legalization on the federal level. This "both sides" horseshit is insane.
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by aisengard 6y ago
They'll never get a chance to vote on it, because the GOP leader McConnell has final say on what bills come to a vote. The Senate is a deeply broken political institution. Every single Republican, by supporting Mitch McConnell as major
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by aisengard 6y ago
GPL has obviously utterly failed to solve this problem. "Doubling down" on it will only serve to further isolate any code which adopts it. There will always be people out there who will be happy to license their code freely, and t
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by aisengard 6y ago
The government does have the power to regulate what you do with your body when your body interacts with the public. Cigarettes are rightly banned in enclosed spaces and shared public spaces. Alcohol is rightly banned if you combine it with
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by aisengard 6y ago
Maybe, but there doesn't seem to be much danger in them being enacted on a global scale. Even the OP article is treating added-sugar products like age-restricted alcohol, not an outright prohibition. We've seen what happens to law
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by aisengard 6y ago
You know, I thought so too, but I would probably instead just work _less_, maybe half time for half pay, I dunno. Seems like a great way to transform how we think about work and the economy. Fewer hours, when it's by choice, are pretty
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by aisengard 6y ago
Unless you wanted to be acquihired into Google/Instagram, you likely wouldn't have made any money in equity. This acquisition is $200M less than their most recent valuation from 4 years ago, the investors are probably taking every
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by aisengard 6y ago
The shelter in place order mostly hits around the margins. Most people are staying home on their own volition - government orders notwithstanding. I started staying home a few weeks before the official lockdown went into effect. The economy
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by aisengard 6y ago
I'd posit it's the business owners who feel like they want to earn a living, not a small number of them by forcing their employees to come to work and create value for them. The vast majority of people in the US don't own a b
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by aisengard 6y ago
Then he should have done a better job representing himself. At any time he could come out and say exactly what he means and doesn't mean, and apologize for any harm done. Instead, he allied himself with the very people whose views you
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by aisengard 7y ago
I always thought it was because the recruiter only cares about whether you accept the offer, not really how much the offer is, and so will either negotiate based on that, or else pressure you to accept whatever offer they can muster. Plus,
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by aisengard 7y ago
But if you know the answer to all of them, what are they really measuring? Once you study enough there's not really much new under the sun. It's a really fatal flaw in the typical interview process.
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by aisengard 7y ago
I mean, the story was that the Soviet Union was spying on its allies. Klaus Fuchs went to jail. All of this is pretty much accepted statecraft. Are we supposed to think that something _went wrong_ when Klaus Fuchs was caught spying and went
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by aisengard 7y ago
Unfortunately, your role is "customer support engineer". Ideally there is another team that does not directly interact with the client that is actually able to get real work done on the product. Try to get on that team.
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by aisengard 7y ago
Yes, we need to clear certain streets for primarily bus usage. This recently happened on 14th street to humongous success. The hope is this can extend to other heavily-trafficked routes in the near future.
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by aisengard 7y ago
Yes, and moderate-distance trips are the least-common trips that I tend to take. Plus, those would probably be better-served by better bus service anyway.
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by aisengard 7y ago
I wonder what the average trip is for Americans in large cities. For me in Brooklyn, it's about 4 miles to my office in Manhattan. Even in an ideal world with no cars, I still wouldn't really be able to bike to work (in terms of m
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by aisengard 7y ago
Dynamic language people also typically write _less_ code, at least when it comes to Python.
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by aisengard 7y ago
The hash value is a bunch of bytes. A "string" would need to be some encoded version of those bytes, commonly hexadecimal representation.
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by aisengard 7y ago
Sounds like a good system to make sure tiny minorities don't end up in power.
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by aisengard 7y ago
It actually resulted in not enough evidence, due to massive amounts of obstruction. What we continue to see today is a pretty good indicator that the basic tenets are likely accurate, and that there is much more to be uncovered.
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by aisengard 7y ago
I've come to expect nothing less than grifters like Taibbi. He thinks he ate the red pill.
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by aisengard 7y ago
I have to ask - why? I understand if you're dealing with an external resource that you can't change, but I'd still like to ask them the same question. JSON's strength, it seems to me, is that it's great for human co
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by aisengard 7y ago
> The real solution is revolution. Take the table, take the world, break free from this failed system. Ah yes, violent revolution, where the lower class gets killed en masse (a "noble sacrifice") and autocracy takes even greate
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by aisengard 7y ago
Many an evening was spent with clicking on Mindmaze
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by aisengard 7y ago
This argument doesn't really seem to hold much merit, as you can use this exact same logic to say that we shouldn't have any sort of enforcement around working hours. We already had this fight. The argument ended in favor of enfor
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by aisengard 7y ago
And historically the best way for people to band together to collectively do the same thing is via government action. Far more important to do activism and press the government to solve it than to inconvenience yourself and think "Well
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by aisengard 7y ago
This is insane. I used to think this way in high school - "wow, girls have it so easy, every man wants sex and if girls want sex they just have to raise their hand, it's so hard for men!" Then I lived in the real world and re
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by aisengard 7y ago
Yeah, how dare people care more about who's currently in power (and doing far worse damage) than those who aren't. You, sir, are clearly smarter than those partisan fools!
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by aisengard 8y ago
It's nominally the law in my state too, but apparently it's fine to weed out the "non-performers" i.e. whoever you want. Public schools then have to take on the extra burden of the "undesirables". https:/

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