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by alexhill 12y ago
Yeah, that gives me the heebie jeebies. Fair enough if you want to use magic comments for an entirely third-party system like MyPy, but using them for a built-in language feature feels wrong. Besides, how necessary is it? Presumably those c
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by alexhill 12y ago
Cool, I like this. I think I prefer your reuse of the collection literal syntax to the syntax in Guido's proposal.
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by alexhill 12y ago
> The author does a poor job explaining the macro-economic effects. You get a glimpse of the reasoning in the last few lines, where he states that the ratio of corporate profits over GDP doubled, from 6% to 12% of GDP from pre-80s to now
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by alexhill 12y ago
In recent decades renewable have enjoyed much more investment than nuclear. People love renewables, so governments love renewables, so industry builds renewables. However, they aren't going to displace coal any time soon, which is what
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by alexhill 12y ago
Some sites are in theory fine without encryption or an alert. Others are definitely not. The problem is that the browser (software) can't possibly know the difference, especially because the sites that "should" be encrypted i
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by alexhill 12y ago
Well, nothing, but that's bug hunting: you try it and see. Whether or not this helps to recreate the problem on demand, you know more than you did before.
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by alexhill 12y ago
You're putting words in his mouth with this comment. I think he understands the legal situation just fine. He's accusing them of being "pretty fucking rude", not taking them to court.
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by alexhill 13y ago
They vary voltage in response to a magnetic field. Among other things they're used to detect current in a wire without interrupting the circuit.
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by alexhill 13y ago
Nexus 5: 69.17 x 137.84 x 8.59 mm [1] Nexus 4: 68.7 x 133.9 x 9.1mm [2] It's wider, taller but half a mm thinner. [1] http://www.google.com.au/nexus/5/ [2] http://www.google.com.au/nexus&#
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by alexhill 13y ago
I honestly don't perceive many mental effects from caffeine at all, besides jitters if I have too much, so I much prefer to use alcohol as the example. The majority of people have felt the effects of alcohol, and most of those have bee
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by alexhill 13y ago
I really think you should re-read that paragraph - using "drugs" to include caffeine, nicotine and alcohol is exactly the point. I'll cite it. The first sentences: I have a daughter who will one day take drugs. Of course, I
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by alexhill 13y ago
I think it's pretty inaccurate to say this article ignores the negative effects of drugs or pretends that LSD is harmless. Quoting verbatim: This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics. As I will make clear below, these