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by beerbajay 10y ago
Textbooks which are essentially the same are available in europe for like 1/3 of the price of the american versions. I bought $70 books for my master's courses in Sweden that would have been $300 in the US (where I did my undergra
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by beerbajay 10y ago
> that can be interpreted as anti-feminist or has an anti-refugees sentiment This is a lie.
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by beerbajay 10y ago
This headline is terrible. The issue is not the cost; it's political will even by the social democratic party. As it says in the caption of the main image: > Toyota has been using the shorter workday there for more than a decade. Th
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by beerbajay 10y ago
> In the first six months of 2016, highway deaths jumped 10.4 percent, to 17,775, from the comparable period of 2015, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11&#
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by beerbajay 10y ago
Is the source history of these editors saved in the UNIX history GitHub project[1]? Is there significant code overlap or is your diagram more along the lines of inspired-by relationships? [1] https://github.com/dspinellis&#x
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by beerbajay 10y ago
> Stop the hate in the streets. Go tell that to the people scrawling white power slogans, painting swastikas, putting up signs for "colored" drinking fountains, wearing blackface, calling people "niggers", etc. > v
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by beerbajay 10y ago
Obamacare is a compromise and it's a compromise required because of the Republican party, there was never enough votes to get real health care legislation. So: not Obama's fault, though it is the fault of the Democratic party lett
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by beerbajay 10y ago
I've been vegan for over 15 years. While a vegan diet is generally more healthy than the standard American diet, there are many healthy (easier) diets than veganism. Basically (imho), veganism is only compelling for ethical reasons. Ea
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by beerbajay 10y ago
The Post is not now not has it ever been "the left"
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by beerbajay 10y ago
In Sweden, when I moved into a new apartment I was able to get fiber broadband from one of EIGHT providers. This was because the fiber network was owned by a corporation created by the city. The result? For $65/mo I could get 500/
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by beerbajay 10y ago
Do you have a better term for young, white, arrogant, entitled young men?
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by beerbajay 11y ago
> access was revoked so I had to log into the hosting dashboard to reset the root password You should have asked your coworkers why your access was revoked. Of course, they probably should have communicated the reason in advance.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
> "The research group" is an extremist left-wing group > Sweden Democrats is not at all far-right, it is more like a conservative social party Hmm, where's the bias here, I wonder... The Swedish Democrats are basically
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by beerbajay 11y ago
It can still be "free as in beer" if there's side-effects; doesn't beer force you to deal with certain kinds of pain, even though it's free?
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by beerbajay 11y ago
"image detection" isn't a thing. Unless they mean finding subcomponents of images which are themselves images. Which they don't.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
You just have to wait for a security worker to manually edit them out
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Nexus Mod Manager is impressively bad. The interface is insanely laggy; select a mod, wait a second, list starts to refresh, wait a second, list finishes refreshing, wait a second, the mod info shows up. It's really easy to do things b
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by beerbajay 11y ago
The only winning move is not to play?
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by beerbajay 11y ago
I agree that whitespace scope delimiting is a bad idea, but I was thinking more about general syntactical clarity. Just because C++ uses every possible typographical symbol doesn't mean rust should. Simple example which had me WTFing:
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by beerbajay 11y ago
I also tried rust for a couple of weeks, but holy hell is it ugly. Why improve on c++ and not improve the syntax or containers? It's like python never existed.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
It is systems that allow for bad results. Blaming the individual is silly. If people are ignorant, there is a system keeping them so.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
I wrote my master's thesis in Constraint Programming. The textbook for my CP course was Apt's "Principles of Constraint Programming"[1], but I have to admit to barely using it. Most of the books and "introductions&q
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by beerbajay 11y ago
I solved this a while back. It's a bit challenging, but mostly due to the fact that the clues aren't really completely determining the solution, so you can't deduce each square like you can in e.g. sudoku. You have to make so
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by beerbajay 11y ago
> Google Analytics thrives on developers' laziness in my opinion. It's almost never "developers" who are deciding to use GA; it's middle managers or marketing departments.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
I think you're ignoring the profit to be made in extending the time between now and when ANY kind of regulation (pollution OR climate change) kicks in. Industries have historically avoided responsibility for various kinds of pollution
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by beerbajay 11y ago
David Brooks is the 'intellectual' for conservative rich white new yorkers who want to feel cultured and insightful but lack any self-critical impulse. The New York Times version of "kids today..."
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by beerbajay 11y ago
Oh god, more stories please, this sounds amazing.
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by beerbajay 11y ago
> there is simply nothing that compares with WebKit, as this engine began its life in a fairly insignificant manner as the heart of Apple's [not very widely deployed] Safari browser. KHTML?
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by beerbajay 11y ago
This is Tatjana J. van Vark: http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/index.html
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by beerbajay 11y ago
The code currently given in the stream is `while [ "$(date)" != "Sat Oct 31 16:00:00 EDT 2015" ]; do \ sleep 1; done` ... so I hope the process wakes up on the correct millisecond.

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