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I seriously enjoy humor or political / debate podcasts, especially while commuting, but technical podcasts never stick. I find when getting into a new framework (something like Rails or React) then it's an interesting bit of &quot
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Agreed! And I'm thinking that some sort of language (or document format with technical markup) is going to become normalized to take advantage of this software, shifting from pure "prose".
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No surprises there.
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Sounds like typical "rational actor" arguments. Everyone was trying to make the most money possible using the tools and information available, and if your political / moral philosophy can't distinguish that from "mo
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My copy of PSP 5 came with my computer, and may have been my gateway into graphic design. I'd still take Photoshop over it, but it was a surprisingly solid alternative.
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I have a Dell tablet that was crazy cheap one day like 4 years back, maybe 60 dollars, that came with Windows 8 and now runs a full x86 Windows 10. Haven't used it in a while, but I'm sure it could run VS Code without any issues.
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Seconding sports tournaments. The World Cup has been much easier to follow on Wikipedia, often in real time, than FIFA's own site.
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There's no way a single software dev in the States could live that close to work, in a nice part of a major city, and also be able to afford space to house and take care of two kids. So his story seems pretty relevant. Besides, if you&
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This is a great example of a simple, useful idea done just right. The only thing missing that you haven't mentioned is generating shots on devices that aren't directly facing the camera. I really like isometric shots of designs an
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It wasn't even 100 years ago that women couldn't even vote, and equal rights for various minority groups took even longer to catch up. I would argue that those groups at that time must have justifiably felt significantly more &quo
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You don't need to rack up six figures of debt to make human connections or gain experiences. There are a number of ways to accomplish this without all the debt and in arguably more useful ways than memorizing things you'll never h
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I enjoy articles like these, personally.
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The actions that led to the conditions of the gilded age were most certainly selfish acts of the ruling class. The conditions were not created for the sake of it, or because it was funny etc. I sincerely doubt the people making all the mone
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Ignoring that it's very odd to retroactively justify immoral behavior because of unintended, positive side effects: I'm saying that being critical, like asking if the slave-like conditions of most of the population were actually n
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The choice isn't between no benefits and the status quo for lower classes / income brackets. It's about lower classes getting a bigger piece of the pie. You're acting as though questioning how resources are divided among
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And if you have morals, you can also say they weren't worth it. You could make the same argument about slavery, etc, but suggesting it was totally worth would be pretty bonkers. Humanity can accomplish great things without dehumanizing
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In some cases they might benefit from the same policies, but usually disproportionately so. What was labelled the "death tax", which somehow became a grassroots issue, was taxes on inheritance over roughly 5 million. It's now
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They never did an straight adoption like Tarantino did, but almost every Coen bros movie uses the same tropes as many Leonard novels: - Incompetent criminals (organized crime and / or desperate ordinary people) drive story - Kidnapping
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I've enjoyed his prose for exactly these reasons, though he's not a favorite author or anything. If you're a film buff, you can thank him for Quentin Tarantino + Joel & Ethan Coen. If his story-telling philosophy sounds a
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Someone linked me to this roughly a year ago, and it seemed like the most obvious example of correlation != causation. I'm not sure how it got published, really.
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How?
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Previous landlord was a nightmare, and renter's rights in VA are non-existant. He was clearly well versed in the law but because he didn't own an absurd amount of active rental units all the normal rights didn't apply. He liv
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But wouldn't transaction fees, which are already really rough for people making a first-world salary, be even more unsustainable if that fee is a whole day's wage (or more) in the places you're describing? And how would those
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That's an absurdly specific grievance that won't effect 99.9% of people in any given year, and it certainly doesn't answer why Bitcoin isn't in a bubble.
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What exactly is going to inform them within the 4 years they spend at a college that they should not go to that college? Will one of their professors politely inform them they're getting scammed? And when will they be adult age? Even i
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People apply and pick colleges when they're teenagers, because their school system and parents and our entire culture demands it of them. They're hardly "rational actors" and they won't fix this system alone.
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Agreed. My latest project has a Vue front-end (it's a small tool) and Rails does a wonderful job just dumping JSON for the front-end to render. Even if it is a little excessive (which I don't think it is), I have features planned
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What are Bitcoin's alternative uses?
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This is what I'm waiting for someone to explain. It's the same with blockchain, though. It's all a very neat concept, but it doesn't solve anything real-world except to power Bitcoin. Smart contracts just sound like... n
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Paying customers are "free-loaders"? That's so nonsensical.

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