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by batty_alex 6y ago
To add to this, the high alcohol content typically found in IPAs helped with transportation, too. And, if you’re not a fan of extra-hoppy ipas, letting an ipa age will mute the hoppy flavor and could potentially make a more enjoyable beer.
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by batty_alex 6y ago
It’s not so much the vinegar as it is the acetobacter bacteria that could quickly spoil the next beer to go into it. Brewers typically keep inoculated containers separate from non-inoculated containers to prevent unwanted souring or, in thi
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by batty_alex 7y ago
When I first started lurking here, I would have agreed with you. As the community has grown, I'd say it's more center-right than center-left nowadays. There's the unsurprising pro-business attitude that has a heavy libertaria
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by batty_alex 7y ago
I recommend you look into the history of why these sorts of regulations exist. Start here: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/149661 > which is likely impossible to keep from being corrupt (easy to believe if yo
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> The subject is Amtrak which doesn't cover the intracity use case. This is how I and many other commuters use Amtrak. They even provide "last mile" bus tickets with your fare.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> I’m sorry but this is a ridiculous, unactionable answer that is functionally equivalent to “well we should make things better”. Your argument is that no one should have a conversation unless they have an action plan. > I like seeing
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> People could also replace it all with a free library card Going to the library takes a whole hell of a lot more time and work than turning on your TV.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> ...wrangling c++ dependencies Yep, I think this is my main gripe with C++ on Windows right now. vcpkg is meant to work with CMake or Visual Studio, but you still have to manually tell it where your toolchain file is - which means it&#x
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> The worst thing about C++ is the endless sequences of choices you need to make about tooling before you even write a line of code. I don't know about endless. CMake is supported in almost every IDE toolchain these days, so there&#
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> This statement is false. I've run into this issue, also. It's not Visual Studio levels of constant freezing, but it definitely pauses once in a while. Seems to mostly occur when I'm developing on Windows, though. EDIT: W
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> It's the Apocalypse about everything all the time. I just catch-up on the news once a week to avoid thinking about it too much. Yeah, there's madness, but a lot of it is beyond my reach. So, it's not really helpful for m
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by batty_alex 7y ago
Looked at from a different angle, the folks that get put into office get to decide who "wins" and who "loses" among the citizenry. That'd be enough to give me some anxiety. What if the person that gets into office h
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> But it could not be simpler or easier to bypass Google. My point was that your run-of-the-mill user doesn't do this. It is easy to bypass, but how many people actually do it? You're just saying to me that people should become
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by batty_alex 7y ago
This just isn't how a majority of people find sites, though. To your normal users, google may as well be the address bar. Hell, I've watched users go to google, type facebook.com (or wherever they're going) into google, and t
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by batty_alex 7y ago
This is true, but it's also nice to have that support circle be folks you can interact with face-to-face. It's so much better. Not that online communities aren't also great. For some reason, not having someone else look you i
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by batty_alex 7y ago
It's no conspiracy, we all encode our beliefs into what we do. I don't think the poster is suggesting it's on purpose. Occam's Razor would suggest it's more work to take bias out, I would think.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
To add to this, I appreciated that C++ had this, too: http://www.stroustrup.com/dne.html Was very insightful, in the same way your link was.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
The irony in this statement is fantastic. Thank you for humbly making this post and giving me a good laugh.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> However, technology also makes it easier for people to seek out sources that support preconceived biases. I just want to point out that the problem is fake news, not biased news. And I also want to point out that people are generally n
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> But this is an archetypal example of how the media manufactures outrage and manipulates people’s emotions. No, this is a journalist just doing their job, letting people know what's going on so they know what the hell "freedom
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> When non-profits succeed they have to ask for more money. When for-profits succeed, they fund themselves. Having managed a non-profit and having worked at a very successful one before, this just makes you sound so out-of-touch it'
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by batty_alex 7y ago
You can use templates to perform static polymorphism and duck-type the calls. If you want to do things the Java or C# way, then you're correct. You'd want a pure virtual interface, which mimics what you'd get with Java or C#.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
It's probably not malicious. They may just be skeptical of Vanguard and want to spur discussion on what they think is important. Trying to bring up topics they find are worth discussing.
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> We can all yell "pay parity" and "tie CEO compensation to worker compensation", but there are trade-offs. It means high performers who earn their pay are more likely to go elsewhere, where they'll be properly c
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by batty_alex 7y ago
> More and more this safe space bullshit is infiltrating the former bastions of free-thought. Responding to an article about Duke with this conclusion is rich. Duke is a hyper-wealthy institution that is hardly apolitical. Their neatly-m
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by batty_alex 8y ago
You're ignoring the time period it all took place. Irresponsible drinking probably skyrocketed during the Gilded Age and Great Depression. It should be no surprise that people stopped drinking so much when everything started getting be
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by batty_alex 8y ago
Sorry to weigh in this way, but yes it's a rare thing to do. Most people don't have multiple offers sitting on the table. It's a privilege. It's rare, that's all.
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by batty_alex 8y ago
I don't appreciate the incendiary remarks and you putting words in my mouth. I said none of those things. I pointed out fallacies in an argument and asked what was wrong with leveling the playing field. You neatly showcased a knee-jerk
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by batty_alex 8y ago
> The industry would be happy to pay us all 70k a year with 3% raises based on seniority, and sure, maybe the bottom third of the talent pool would benefit from that. Talk about an inflated sense of ego there. Do you not consider the fac
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by batty_alex 8y ago
> That seems so simple, but man, that is SOOO complicated. Imagine a law that made life better for 80% of people, but made 20% worse off - should it be implemented? What about 2% better off, 98% worse off, but the worst off 2% amongst us

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