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by arkh 8y ago
The problem is multiple vague parts which taken together can be a bad thing. >Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include: >Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting Follo
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by arkh 8y ago
> given that school also serves the purpose of gov't sponsored day care, i'm not sure what they could really do better aside from granting tardiness allowances for students with bona-fide sleeping disorders. Remote school. Lot
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by arkh 8y ago
> A society where american mega-corporations are dominating while avoiding taxes kills competition because smaller competitors don't have the same advantages. Here is an idea: remove the taxes so everyone is on an even playing field
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by arkh 8y ago
> Since 1981 (or so) the price of books has been fixed by law. Nobody can sell them lower than that price. If you walk through Paris (or most cities) you'll see a number of small library shops that contribute to local economy and cu
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by arkh 8y ago
The joy of hearing sick people coughing or sneezing. Or raging people. Or their family. Their barking dogs. The best being when they use speakers so you get some echo. That's usually when they get muted because fuck their lazy-ass.
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by arkh 8y ago
> I just don't get it. My opinion only, I'm sure other people playing those kind of games will have other motivations. Those games are fun because (and it goes with the article) there is competition against other humans. If you
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by arkh 8y ago
Not really Stockholm syndrome. GW2 (experienced at launch for 6 months): awesome game to create random groups as everyone gains from it. Hard to be an ass and you get nothing but maybe some sick joy from it. Honestly: I did not get any huge
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by arkh 8y ago
My own experience feels different than yours like how friendship is different in some areas. In the good community games usually things are not deep: people are nice but no one will really risk anything or inconvenience themselves for you.
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by arkh 8y ago
> targeted, sustained efforts—probably by nation states—have resulted in extremist political content being in the feeds of almost anyone who uses these platforms. It has more to do with the targeting algorithm used. Once you start watchi
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by arkh 8y ago
Use noscript then.
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by arkh 8y ago
> Maybe 5MB doesn't matter to most people. You sure won't see those in your analytics dashboard.
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by arkh 8y ago
"Just" use an automating tool: AutoIT if you're ready to do coding or Sikuli if you like their picture based system.
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by arkh 8y ago
PostgreSQL allows dollar quoted strings. $whoohoo$this is a string $whoohoo$. A really good way to include strings in strings as the tag can be almost anything you want. I think it is more flexible than heredoc and friends. https:/&#x
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by arkh 8y ago
In France, the most sought after enginnering schools use an entrance exam. No need to check for old academic performances as everyone is tested on the same things. They usually also have alternate admittance system but that's for 2% or
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by arkh 8y ago
Shouldn't an IDE be able to do most of this?
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by arkh 8y ago
And don't forget you usually don't work from home: so you pay for gas or public transportation. As you're at some shit job you lose opportunities to network or get new skills. You're not there for your children. All for
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by arkh 8y ago
Insects can give some different texture to a dish. Just don't do an "only insect with some seasonning" dish: make something like veggies or pasta and add some insects for the crunchy feel. Think Paella, not barbecued steak.
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by arkh 8y ago
> Unless a new system, that allows individuals more fine grained control over how their data is designed to aggregate with mass numbers of other users’ data DRM for user data: you have a stock of data about yourself and everytime someone
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by arkh 8y ago
I think a huge part of the shiny tech proliferation comes from the pseudo-agile movement. Usually pseudo agile means one thing: no spec. You get a team tell them "let's do this widget" with no detail, no edge case scenario, n
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by arkh 8y ago
> You could take this further for normal non-DB code too - they could warn me when I have inefficient O(n) search in a loop and so on. For phpstorm you have the EA extended plugins which gives lot of hints like that. I'm sure you co
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by arkh 8y ago
> the residents sort their recyclables and compost into thirteen distinct bins 13. There's a moment you have to choose between the fine and getting the fuck out of stupid land. Around 3 different bins will do it for me: consumers wa
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by arkh 8y ago
The most useful part of JSON support is making your query return data from multiple joins and sub-queries in one field. Then you can just json decode the result instead of fetching tons of rows. You could already do that with xmlagg but now
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by arkh 8y ago
> I’m talking looooonnnnggg time horizons here. Maybe a decade or more. The life of a social moth. Always going for shining lights. Getting burnt. And having so low a life expectancy that 10 years is long-term.
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by arkh 8y ago
> In selling away the rocket equation you buy yourself drag. Lots of energy up front means lots of drag. Overcoming that drag means more energy and, hence, more drag. The middle child of this solution is tremendous G force. Would it be p
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by arkh 8y ago
This comment generalizing a US centric problem to the world is full of imperialist overtones. Best to keep this kind of comment away from sites with a global audience.
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by arkh 8y ago
It is always a cost analysis : even if small powerful processors are available, should you use them? If you're shipping a million units a 30ct difference can pay for a year of a good dev.
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by arkh 8y ago
I like the example given in the RMS essay: open source DRM. You're free to improve your shackles.
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by arkh 8y ago
> Average U.S. wedding cost $30k in 2014 Averages are mostly useless for this kind of things where some people can go crazy on prices. What is the median? Are other deciles available to check? But I think the most important would be with
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by arkh 8y ago
> Any good suggestions? "Conqueror of worlds". Robert Conqueror of Worlds Smith sound like you know what you're doing when handling a nuke.
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by arkh 8y ago
I'm sure you could almost double the number of drivers by getting some "girls can drive big trucks too" program.

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