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by avar 6y ago
And write your shared business logic in what language? If it's a C library perhaps you could do this on iOS and Android, but how is that going to run in a browser? I'm aware of things like the LLVM based C to JS compilers, but the
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by avar 6y ago
> the scrapyard owner's wife noticed everyone was getting sick and notified the authorities[...] The Wikipedia article and the Portuguese source it links to seems ambiguous on the matter of whether it was because she notified the au
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by avar 6y ago
GTA:O shows advertisements for in-game purchases on the loading screen. How many advertisements you see is a function of how long the loading screen takes. Something tells me this "problem" was discovered long ago at Rockstar HQ,
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by avar 6y ago
That's like saying the term "stunted growth" in children is bad because we keep finding examples of increasingly taller or obese children. "Global warming" always referred to an on-average increase in warming on a g
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by avar 6y ago
Even if AaronFriel's assertion is true and they received no special deal, it's a naïve view of corporate governance and SAAS v.s. in-house devleopment to say that (as an example) if their license fee was high enough that they&#x27
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by avar 6y ago
> The Person has the right to refuse that his bag be checked by company employees and ask to involve the police. Why would the employee ask to involve the police? You can just refuse, period. If your employer has evidence of a crime they
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by avar 6y ago
Have you tried asking your local psychotherapist? M-x doctor RET I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. Why does Emacs need Symbolic Integration?
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by avar 6y ago
> GPS absolutely requires up to date orbital parameters for each satellite it's using. Who is going to constantly ping the server for up to date ephemerides every 30 seconds when the GPS chip can give you them for free? I agree with
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by avar 6y ago
> IOW, just like in the standard prisoner's dilemma, choosing to act is less about increasing your potential gains than it is about limiting your potential losses. You seem to be assuming that the potential gains are limited to curr
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by avar 6y ago
We're really just telling the compiler to find a file called stdio.h and act as though its contents were included at that part in our program. Whether the full function is there or linked later is a matter of implementation (some heade
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by avar 6y ago
Just use email, the problem you cite with it is configurable by simply using another client for these notification emails. You can also use Telegram plus telegram IRC to use IRC bots for notification.
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by avar 6y ago
Just emerge from the package in the middle of customs wearing a hi-vis vest and clipboard.
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by avar 6y ago
> You're simply changing the goalposts. First you start off with saying that the oil embargo was casus belli [...] you're also confused about the timing of the oil embargo. Where did I mention anything about the oil embargo? Yo
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by avar 6y ago
> Trump was the first but won’t be the last US president pushing for disengagement from the Old World[...] It was Obama who started pushing for the 2% policy and got NATO countries to agree to ramp spending up to that before 2024[1]. Bef
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by avar 6y ago
How is the argument that EU countries won't stand up to the US refuted by the desire of some politicians in the EU to create an EU army. As long as that army doesn't exist those EU countries still rely heavily on the US for securi
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by avar 6y ago
> You seem to imply that these things just "happen" and that no one is in control or making decisions [...] Tojo and his warmongers sought out conflict in the region, dismissed counsel from wiser heads, and set Japan on a cours
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by avar 6y ago
How is whether or not a state is prepared to take implied threats of war unless large and unconditional concessions are made out of touch with Japan's record in China and Manchuria? I'm not suggesting anything about Japan's m
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by avar 6y ago
Yes of course, the US has had the technical ability to glass North Korea since the 50s or 60s, but that's not the "it" we're talking about here. The point oblio is maintaining upthread is that because SK and her allies h
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by avar 6y ago
Taking a swing at Mike Tyson in the parking lot before the match is pretty dumb, but if your alternative is facing him in the ring it's probably your best option. That was the context of Japan attacking the US at Perl Harbour[1]. The U
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by avar 6y ago
It can't be done in both directions. The reference to Seul's proximity to the border is that it's within the range of North Korean artillery. The reverse isn't true.
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by avar 6y ago
leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant The Icelandic legal system operates on the well-established principle that later laws implicitly repeal earlier ones if they conflict[1]. So no, killing a Basque person would have been
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by avar 6y ago
A vaccine is most effective if it manages to break chains of transmissions. That means you'd want to optimize for likely chains of transmissions, and not only for giving it to those vulnerably to the virus. So grandma might need to wai
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by avar 6y ago
> Or maybe the Crusades are considered a touchy subject by someone at Youtube? Or more plausibly and less conspiracy-esque, a company like YouTube will eventually come up with a formula like: threshold=1.5 if hassle(topic) &#x2
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by avar 6y ago
Your other comments reveal you're living in The Netherlands. The farming sector there is massively subsidized both via EU and local funds. Now during COVID-19 the state is bankrolling up to 70% of the revenue of the horticulture indust
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by avar 6y ago
> If you kill all the mammals, then the birds of prey will go extinct Birds of prey eat a lot more than just mammals, e.g. fish, reptiles, other birds etc. So no, if there magically weren't any mammals tomorrow most species of birds
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by avar 6y ago
Livestock breeding isn't inherently unsustainable. E.g. you can have closed-off poultry or pork farms with greenhouse-fed animals, all powered by wind or solar, with sewage processing to ensure there's no external pollution. This
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by avar 6y ago
The "Butler" in Butlerian Jihad is a reference to a person whose surname is "Butler". It wasn't started by a bunch of butlers: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Jehanne_Butler
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by avar 6y ago
It doesn't cost a lot, in fact you can often get it for free. This EconTalk episode is a good reference: https://www.econtalk.org/adam-minter-on-secondhand/ The problem is that people by and large don't want
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by avar 6y ago
If you consistently use feature branches and have meaningful summary commit messages in the merge commits as they land on the mainline branch what you're describing is simply: git log --max-parents=1 git log --min-parents=2
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by avar 6y ago
It's about government transparency and the precedent that's being set. You may not care about parking enforcement (neither do I, really), but in 10 years time this won't be the last thing ML is being used for. We're repl

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