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by amalcon 3y ago
Milli Vanilli was 30 years ago now. That act literally replaced the singers with better looking people for marketing reasons. A baby born the day The Monkees formed would be retiring now. That wildly popular band was literally created for
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by amalcon 3y ago
If you live in a representative democracy, and Google has a presence there, contact the offices of those representatives. These things don't always seem like they matter, but sometimes they do. Big tech generally (and Google specific
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by amalcon 3y ago
> was compatible with all modern browsers, but more compatible with Chrome Is Animal Farm not required reading in Orwell's home country? Or was that a misquote, or maybe just something from a random support worker? It's alm
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by amalcon 3y ago
This is essentially a backdoor attempt to TiVoize[0] web browsers. The only difference is that, instead of directly using hardware to prevent you from running a modified browser, the intent is to use network effects to accomplish the same
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by amalcon 3y ago
This is not true, in a number of ways. The most obvious example: A person overdoses on something and is taken to the emergency department, treated, and then asked to pay. If they don't have the money, well, tough -- that cost simply
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by amalcon 3y ago
Correct, and I did say so. While "your spouse will lose his or her job if you do X, Y, or Z" is not technically a legal requirement, for most people it's a distinction without a difference.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Your spouse can definitely affect your ability to get a security clearance. Last I heard, cannabis use is still relevant to this, even if you live in a state where it's legal. Your spouse being a foreign national can also be signific
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by amalcon 3y ago
Yes, that's intentional. They are still exceptions because there are rare cases where you want to catch them. They're unchecked because it's not worth the hassle of declaring them everywhere. Python's KeyboardInterrup
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by amalcon 3y ago
"throws IOException" is too much code? Or is the issue more that you can't really do autocoercion to a declared thrown type in Java the same way that you can do in Rust? Proliferation of types is an issue in Java, but the wh
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by amalcon 3y ago
The fundamental thing an exception does is allow you to choose where in the stack to react to the exception. The fundamental thing a checked error does is force you to actually choose (even if that choice is to bubble all the way up and cr
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by amalcon 3y ago
What's confusing here is that desktop Linux almost doesn't have "regular users". You're a power user already if you are running apt, much less curl|bash. It's not super meaningful to ask what the small number
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by amalcon 3y ago
I actually like operator overloading, but overloading the shift operators for I/O was still a mistake IMO. It's a mistake even if you ignore that it's a theoretical misuse (I/O and binary shifting have nothing to do wit
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by amalcon 3y ago
In theory, since the argument to the sleep must necessarily devolve to an integer eventually, it could use a radix-sort or similar to perform in linear time. There are problem spaces where that can be a win, even after introducing a depe
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by amalcon 3y ago
"Any [person] who [disagrees with me] is [committing an error]" is a thought-terminating statement. Best to avoid using that kind of language -- it doesn't particularly hurt anyone else, but it will hurt the growth of one&#x
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by amalcon 3y ago
I would contend that in the context of reporting specifically on a water shortage, a unit like km^2*cm is actually superior to m^3. First of all, that conversion is actually nontrivial to do in your head. Yes, it's easy enough if you
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by amalcon 3y ago
The problem is that "news" is a space where the free market doesn't really accomplish what the theory suggests it should. Consumers don't have a good way to judge the quality of a newspaper, so they end up competing sol
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by amalcon 3y ago
"Volume that can flood a defined area A to depth B" isn't a totally unreasonable way to measure large volumes of liquids that are replenished by falling from the sky over an area. Of course it's a bit odd because it uses
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by amalcon 3y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-s... I'm not sure what fraction of HN is between 15 and 35 years old, but it's probably pretty high. Lots of people want to get a career in the new
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by amalcon 3y ago
The usual (and suboptimal) solution to that one is to just use the biggest airport in the metro area -- e.g. servers in Chicago are tagged ORD even if they happen to be located next door to Midway. However, IATA does provide city codes even
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by amalcon 3y ago
> The point of elected representatives is to represent the views of their constituents, not to obtain special advantages for their constituents. A lot of said constituents' views are, in practice, that they should receive special ad
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by amalcon 3y ago
The political reality is quite a bit more complicated than that, but frankly I don't want to get into it both because this isn't the right place and because it's depressing. Cheers, though; hopefully we can still find a way
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by amalcon 3y ago
> the next time they have power. This action would require a simple majority in the House, a 3/5 majority in the Senate, and either the presidency or increasing both of those to 2/3 majorities. The last time the Dems had that
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by amalcon 3y ago
The problem with a game of chicken is that eventually everyone loses. This is why having that kind of debt limit is a mistake: the only thing it does is allow one party to unilaterally force the other into games of chicken. I'm by no
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by amalcon 3y ago
They could obviously just issue new debt, though.
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That sort of direction wouldn't be meaningful anyway, since money is fungible.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Saying that the government is spending too much money is such a triviality. The facts are that there is no serious appetite in U.S. politics today to reduce law enforcement budgets[0], and that reducing the budget of the U.S. Marshals woul
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by amalcon 3y ago
What does your suggestion of "starting there" actually mean? What sort of action could anyone but the children themselves take to reduce or eliminate this behavior[0]? I do happen to think this kind of privacy is important, but I
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by amalcon 3y ago
Yeah, the banks are basically falling all over themselves to sell CDs, since this is how a bank can borrow with a longer time horizon. CDs exist to hedge the kind of risk that has been causing these failures.
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by amalcon 3y ago
Stockpiling unleaded gasoline in or near your home is a poor idea. It's more likely to suffer exothermic depreciation than to successfully hedge against anything in particular. Unleaded will generally last less than a year without st
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by amalcon 3y ago
I have a propane camping stove (a slightly modernized version of the classic Coleman model). This is the main reason why. They aren't that expensive, and you can also take it camping or set it up near your outdoor grill to prepare a

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