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by astine 8y ago
Only if you're resting for a non null value. If you test for a null value, you'll be looking for all values in one table that don't have a match in the other table.
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by astine 8y ago
Tax preparers usually file federal taxes for free while charging a fee to file state and local taxes. That's where they make their money.
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by astine 8y ago
I don't know about you, but it usually takes me less time overall to make coffee at home than to get it at a coffee shop or gas station once I factor in travel time.
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by astine 8y ago
"If you want to claim the "narrative", you need a link to an actual article with actual quotes" This is essentially what you're looking for: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019
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by astine 8y ago
"While these people may not drive and thus are seemingly cheated out of tax money, I have to ask, where do they get their groceries and other goods? How do they expect medical services to reach them in an emergency? How do they expect
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by astine 8y ago
"It seems to me SQL is, paradoxically, too low level, much like assembly language, in the sense that it makes you specify the joins. Over and over and over again. Why doesn't it infer them from the structure of the database (the
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by astine 8y ago
“As Rome took over, it surged in popularity because it was the one system of ethics that worked well for the rich and powerful.” Is this really true? Were Epicureanism or middle Platonism really adverse to being wealthy and powerful? I ha
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by astine 8y ago
The time cube was the product of a single, elderly, schizophrenic man. People in that demographic post to Facebook these days, I think. Flat earth, I think, is caused by crazy people finding it easier to find each other with the Internet an
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by astine 8y ago
"Because it was a single, continuous political entity." It really wasn't. There were various major changes in the constitution of the Roman Empire between the reign of Augustus and the time of the Byzantines, especially durin
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by astine 8y ago
The comparison is apt to the point I was making: that it is not the genetic nature of autism that makes it difficult to treat but our ignorance of its mechanisms (perhaps also the nature of the mechanisms themselves.) I think that you'
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by astine 8y ago
Myopia is typically genetic but is can treated or cured (to a large degree) in a number of ways. Just because something is genetic doesn't mean that there is not treatment to effectively 'cure' it. The problem with autism is
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by astine 8y ago
Sub-Saharan Africans absolutely had agriculture, wheels, and domesticated animals. This was especially true in the kingdoms of western Africa which had the most contact with Europeans. It's a myth that the bulk of Sub-Saharan African l
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by astine 8y ago
I don't think the incentive structure is all that different. You're still guaranteeing a certain amount of income to each individual. Where you set that income is probably the bigger deal. If you set it just below a living wage pe
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by astine 8y ago
Technically, a negative income tax is actually a different but similar policy proposal. It has the advantage that it requires a smaller increase in taxes overall and uses existing governmental infrastructure.
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by astine 8y ago
Yeah, but whether the hit is permanent or long lasting is still up in the air (unlike the 737 Max 8). On the one hand this could just turn out to be a coincidence or an easily fixed issue and Boeing's stock will rebound quickly. Or it
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by astine 8y ago
This article is about the massacre in Vendee, which was a particularly nasty chapter in the already nasty French Revolution. I feel that 'genocide' is the whole word for what happened because the peasants in Vendee were just as Fr
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by astine 8y ago
That's a fair point, but I think that there is also a valid concern about distraction. Does focus on FAANG companies result in less attention given to the potentially more dangerous ISPs? Could the ISPs use concern about Amazon, etc as
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by astine 8y ago
I read it through to completion. The article spends a lot of time associating Haidt and Lukianoff with Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson, and various members of the Alt-Right: "If there is a new right-liberal dispensation, the two-st
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by astine 8y ago
This is an ironically condescending statement.
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by astine 8y ago
It's relevant to a discussion of free-speech absolutism in a public forum. Free speech as a principle is valuable and if the cost of millions of people being able to express their views is that one random Nazi gets to have his say, t
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by astine 8y ago
It's generally unreasonable to expect that people be able to directly fact check or debunk every argument or thesis put forward be others. We have too little time and most of us have too little expertise in fields separate than our own
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by astine 8y ago
I'll bite. What exactly is the danger?
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by astine 8y ago
I once replaced an export operation that depended on COM calls to Excel with some text manipulation code and brought the run time down from 30 minutes to an hour to just a few seconds. So in at least that case it did matter in practice.
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by astine 8y ago
Is there any technical reason that a password manager cannot be made to work with split logins or hidden fields? Shouldn't they have access to the same web browser that user does? I'd think that could be scripted to handle these t
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by astine 8y ago
"The random order I don't understand either unless the "keylogger" is also recording mouse positions." I would bet that that is exactly what they are worried about. This seems to me to be a really hacky way to solve
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by astine 8y ago
This sounds a lot like COM, which is one of my least favorite features of Windows programming.
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by astine 8y ago
"Anecdotal, but I'm making much less errors and paying more attention to the code, now." Could be correlation rather than causation. Presumably, you're a more experienced programmer now than you were three years ago and
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by astine 8y ago
Yeah, Windows has traditionally been worse than Linux in this capacity, but my point is that dependency management is a non-trivial problem. My experience is that package managers usually work but not always (I've had occasional issues
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by astine 8y ago
It seems to me that the issue isn't between shared code and no shared code but between statically and dynamically linking that code. It's a question of bundling dependencies. You can generally statically link a GUI toolkit; you ju
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by astine 8y ago
Genghis Khan was arguably also a questionable human being but if I found myself at the head of clan of steppe tribemen about to square off against another clan of steppe tribemen, then I might want to know how the great Khan would have hand

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