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beart
7y ago
One example off the top of my head: It used to be (may still be) the case that you needed admin rights to install and run the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Sure, you might not need this to do your job, but IT is not really in a position to d
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7y ago
Is it possible the damage caused by these animals being irradiated is less impactful than the damage caused by over harvesting? That is, if the radiation is scary enough to prevent people from harvesting them.
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beart
7y ago
Automatic assault weapons are not freely available. You need a class 3 FFL license to possess fully automatic weapons and private ownership of any fully automatic firearm made after 1986 is banned.
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beart
7y ago
What? An open door doesn't mean you are shouting your conversation out of it.
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beart
7y ago
It's also possible that the Saudi Prince's ethics are merely different from someone at Facebook but I don't think beheadings are commonly considered a good thing in the U.S.
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beart
7y ago
I read this as, there is no longer a compelling reason to speed up your site if AMP always wins by default.
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beart
7y ago
It may be worth noting that Walmart has a lot of products on the shelf designed specifically for them to be cheaper. So, not counterfeit, but the SKU might not be exactly the same as another store.
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beart
7y ago
> Kavanaugh was viewed as one of the best supreme court justice nominations for all sides What is this based on? Everything I've read up to today, even ignoring the confirmation events, has indicated that Kavanaugh is not a desirabl
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7y ago
> - $350,000/month to improve railroad crossings Unless I missed something, this number is incorrect according to https://www.icc.illinois.gov/railroad/ > Each month $3.5 million in state motor fuel tax rece
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7y ago
> To reduce the chance of error we don’t destroy columns or tables. Does this mean you have a lot of unused tables and columns deprecated in the database?
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beart
7y ago
The one small thing I've often wished for is to place the from clause before the select clause. Having to type out the columns before the table means auto completion never works well.
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7y ago
Misinformation driven in part by conspiracy theories has increased the spread of measles back into areas where it was thought to be eradicated. > An unfounded fear of vaccines has spread around the world in recent years, with childhood v
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beart
7y ago
How does your theory jive with the fact that his news is censored within China? Wouldn't Xi want it to be public?
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beart
7y ago
I imagine the primary cost is labor. These are street lights that can't just be swapped out in 30 seconds.
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beart
7y ago
Boeing employs over 150,000 employees. Do you think they all deserve to lose their jobs? Do you think the millions of connected family members that would be impacted by that deserve it?
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beart
7y ago
I can't help but think that this is better late than never. Every few years over the last 15, I attempt a move to *nix and every time I am disappointed for various reasons (drivers, package versioning, documentation and support, users
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beart
7y ago
It looks like these layoffs were planned ahead of the current issues. Seems like a bad PR move not to delay them.
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beart
7y ago
I'm concerned this will actually discourage companies from updating to move away from IE11. It's a lot easier to install a new browser than it is to actually update whatever is running in it.
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7y ago
It's interesting comparing this to the airline safety issues in the news lately. Every single thing on an airplane is designed with safety in mind but for road traffic, they just put up a stop sign and call it a day. These aren't
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7y ago
Isn't part of the reason they are so dominate in all these areas due to the fact that their product is high-quality and free? Once they start monetizing and either perceived quality goes down or price goes up, competition may be able t
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7y ago
> Believing in conspiracy theories seems pretty innocuous. Sorry - Aren't we in the middle of a measles outbreak (U.S.A)?
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7y ago
> Except that having a child is an optional activity that you choose to do I get what you are saying, but this is not a universal truth. Life gets complicated.
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8y ago
I don't know much about Uber in particular, but in general, I don't think you should claim a company is not exploiting employees based on the assumption that those employees don't have to work there. If Uber puts a taxi compa
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8y ago
The framing of this headline bothers me. It implies the money always belonged to the children from the start. "Gave away" is also an interesting choice over "donated". At least in my mind, they conjure different thoughts
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8y ago
Slaves aren’t hired.
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8y ago
You _briefly_ used both of these and found JetBrains to be _personally_ better, then follow up by asking why not just use a "good IDE?" The simplest response with a similar level of effort is - I disagree with you and find VS Cod
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beart
8y ago
The Vue browser extension has some time travel features.
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beart
8y ago
I'm not sure that's a safe point. I've had problems with my corporate provided machine in the past (non-apple) that I let linger because I can't afford to be without it for repairs, less I miss a pending deadline.
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8y ago
Not if the plane lands on a nuclear power plant
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8y ago
In our case, we travel frequently so it isn't completely unjustified. However, in practice, everyone just started working remotely after the change so now there's rows of empty desks.
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