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by beeworker 12y ago
What if he's a 10x engineer? He's a massive PR liability because of our insane outrage culture, but he's a very valuable asset for, you know, his actual job.
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by beeworker 12y ago
For now. RIP.
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by beeworker 12y ago
It's a tempting thing, given the sun will eventually burn out.
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by beeworker 12y ago
I don't use the Surface Pro 3, but my friend does. He used it as his work "laptop" for the duration of a gig at one company. The dock attachment is a good addition if you want it for that purpose, but its tablet form factor m
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by beeworker 12y ago
Ah, but how would you easily access the number 6 out of the nested list '((((5 4 3 2 1) 6) 7) 8 9) without one of the cute compositions of "car" and "cdr"? In this case, "cadaar". (Rhetorical question. &qu
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by beeworker 12y ago
> There are dynamical reasons to argue for the fact that a planet has to have cleared it's orbit Maybe so, but as the wiki article points out in its criticism section, this excludes Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune from being plane
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by beeworker 12y ago
I also have the same reaction, but not so much for the irrationality of being excited. Generally it feels good to win, and it feels good to watch someone you like win, regardless of why you like them. What I really really dislike about the
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by beeworker 12y ago
Yes, sometimes the problem is that a cell refuses to die. SENS has come up with a list of 7 general problems (it's increasingly unlikely to be any more) that collectively form the problem of "aging" and need to collectively b
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by beeworker 12y ago
Huge may be an overstatement... http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/v...
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by beeworker 12y ago
Just about everything is better than Go. Nim, Rust, OCaml, Haskell... Did you read the submission? And for further enlightenment, the link to the previous post on the blog about what makes Nim special? Here's a link to a rant comparing
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by beeworker 12y ago
For the sake of argument let's assume the only person you hurt by watching porn is yourself, and let's not worry yet about the degree of harm or the potential mitigation from "responsible" usage. (This applies to various
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by beeworker 12y ago
Antarctica is a herring. (And similar analogies like building an underwater city.) It's inhospitable, but land usage rights are tied up among the international community (not for bad reasons) so you can't just take a ship of pilgr
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by beeworker 12y ago
If these numbers are believed, less than the Iraq War: http://www.quora.com/How-much-money-did-World-War-II-cost (Also efficient wars cost less time, and that one was even against a much more formidable enemy.)
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by beeworker 12y ago
Ah, but most of the US debt is denominated in US currency... It's a convenient loophole to use if it ever becomes a more serious problem.
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by beeworker 12y ago
sago hits the nail on the head to answer the "why". When the People have any sort of influence at all, everything becomes politicized, and those who don't want the system to crumble insist that all voters be educated in an ev
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by beeworker 12y ago
Or even just CS bachelors.
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by beeworker 12y ago
Worst case scenario: you die, or you die after lots of torture. Why not look at the most probable case, which is nothing happens? There's a quote from Richard Stallman that applies here: "They seem to have learned the habit of cow
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by beeworker 12y ago
What's your lifeboat for our species?
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by beeworker 12y ago
I rarely get that experience of being tiny -- just as the balancing look at the fundamental particles rarely gives me the experience of being gigantic. When I look, I see a great hand reaching into the stars, humanity's hand, humanit
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by beeworker 12y ago
It would also be good if users could install the app but without approving the full set of permissions. Developers would have to catch an exception, but it's worth it. (Supposedly with one of the recent Android releases this feature wa
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by beeworker 12y ago
So? They could be arguably much worse. It doesn't matter. You only need to be good enough to notice asymmetries (such as your (b), or certain mathematical asymmetries as another example) and set them up in your favor. There are plenty
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by beeworker 12y ago
I believe you mean Putin removed Syria's declared chemical weapon stock pile ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemic... ) -- without Russia the US could have officially gone to war with Syria.
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by beeworker 12y ago
When you don't include short-term discouraged workers, it's easier to get better headline numbers even if the overall trend is about the same. Adding an estimate for long-term discouraged workers, it's not quite as clear that
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by beeworker 12y ago
If you read my comment carefully you'll see I don't advocate this strategy, I'm just exploring it. Extermination can be an attractive strategy, it just doesn't work very well against endless foes. The part you quote is s
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by beeworker 12y ago
Getting enforcers to quit or be fired is the general idea of focusing in on them -- if there are no enforcers then nothing is enforced regardless what the policy makers say. It's another solution to solving the problem of bad policy be