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by anothergoogler 9y ago
For real. Trying to imagine the reaction I'd get to "hey mom, want to go in with me on a multi-family building?"
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
That's just a random Quora user's opinion. Southern MI sees plenty of powerful tornados. For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Kalamazoo_tornado and https://www.weather.gov/grr/
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
It's just another click-bait title. "Surprisingly"? To whom? Are these the results of a study? An internet survey? Who knows, better click it!
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
What did the five fingers say to the face?
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
Pretty tasteless of the author to headline the post with a picture of sex tourists when talking about regular tourists and expats. I'd like to see some evidence of the "long-talked-about sexual appetite for women of color" gi
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
The Pax Americana has never been free of contentiousness or outright war. People (especially young people) forget how fragile things were prior to the fall of the USSR. The complete US dominance of the '90s and '00s is not the nor
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
Pax Romana lasted 200 years. It's been 70 so far for Pax Americana. You seem certain that it's on the brink. Why is that?
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
Wal-Mart engages in anti-competitive practices and also might be too big, so I'm not sure it's a good reference point.
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
I've been vanquished!
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
<snipped crappy script>
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
> Now I'm 40, and time is going faster, but it's possible that life is only half over. Maybe it's only 1/3 over, or depending on medical advances, less than that!
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
Didn't HN once keep April Fools joke posts in a single thread?
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16639605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726117
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
Yea I mean isn't parent's comment just a ripoff of that entire thread?
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
* See my note about the trackpoint ... it's sort of terrible now. Matter of taste, granted. * Yep. Never got good results. * Yep, the issue was not with display layout (I did configure with arandr and then xrandr directly, but that had
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
I bought a Carbon X1 in 2015 and it was so awful on Linux that I was grateful to unload the thing for $500 after a couple years (cost $1500). Issues: * Palm detection. Good luck with that. Constant clicking when typing basically made the ma
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
HN is not allowing me to edit my adjacent comment (11 minutes ago...), but I meant to add: I'm sort of amazed that the implicit var args don't bother you... with var args promoted to first class syntax in ES6, the only reason they
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
> Javascripts approach to threading - default single threaded event loop, but with message passing to communicate with other threads is actually a pretty good model for people who want to write multi-threaded code that doesn't break
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
A bit? MSFT is a few points below its two week high!
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by anothergoogler 9y ago
Single-threaded in a multicore world is nice? Implicit type coercion on par with PHP is nice? Implicit var args are nice??? (That's the worst part by far). I would choose pretty much any non-shell mainstream programming language over J