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by bjterry 9y ago
Why don't we deliver all antibiotics as a triple? Wouldn't that eliminate antiobiotic resistance?
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by bjterry 9y ago
> The issues page of this repo is disabled on purpose, for help please go to the yue/help repo where users help themselves. >To report a bug, you have to create a pull request with a test case of your problem, or you can choose t
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by bjterry 9y ago
> A beagle, to my knowledge, has never killed anyone Wikipedia mentions two cases in the US[0], but what's more interesting is the existence and thoroughness of this Wikipedia page. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by bjterry 9y ago
I have a friend who works at Verizon and still has a ringback tone.
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by bjterry 9y ago
Most people who create Blender (a 3D graphics app) video tutorials use an addon that includes the keys they are typing on the screen. It is very useful, and would be interesting especially for emacs or Vim users who use a lot of bindings.
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by bjterry 9y ago
Food is highly sensitive to cultural and social context. Even with deep-fried fruits, the part that stuck with you the most was the "kitsch" rather than the flavor, texture, aroma, size, cost, or any other objective fact about the
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by bjterry 9y ago
I recently moved to a company using Flow from one using TypeScript, and it seems like the tooling ecosystem for TypeScript is way better than flow. The emacs plugin for flow in particular is practically nonexistent, and doesn't even pr
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by bjterry 9y ago
I would appreciate if the mods would change the title of this post. It's misleading and clickbait. I was expecting an article about how Google Forms works offline, and was curious why someone would even want such a thing. All I got was
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by bjterry 9y ago
Typically it would be called dead-code elimination. The creator of rollup who popularized the term tree-shaking disagrees that they are the same, but his argument is not super compelling (not that it really matters either way). https:&#x2F
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by bjterry 9y ago
People do a morally equivalent thing in Javascript, on occasion. You can use Object.assign() to build an object's functionality from multiple unrelated objects. For example, see the section on concatenative inheritance here: https:&#x
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by bjterry 9y ago
Optionality basically just means that there isn't a straightforward linear relationship between the price of something and how much you earn out of it. It's a very general term. With preferred shares, investors have the option o
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by bjterry 9y ago
One danger of having a bunch of custom eslint rules is that you may be papering over weak abstractions in your codebase. Sometimes it's a problem with lack of macros (or a powerful type system) but other times rethinking the way you ar
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by bjterry 9y ago
It may be worth noting that if your water is only chlorinated with chlorine (and not chloramine, which is quite common now as well), leaving it in the fridge overnight can allow some of the chlorine to evaporate, making your water taste bet
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by bjterry 9y ago
'self' is also the global variable when you are in a WebWorker context, so it's sort of like overwriting 'window'. When you are in a window context 'self' is also identical with 'window' but peop
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by bjterry 10y ago
You should put your e-mail in your Hacker News profile so people can contact you!
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by bjterry 10y ago
> Each investor will need to figure out listing, trading, clearing and settlement, et cetera mostly on their own. I would think at a minimum Spotify would convert all equity holders to common stock and would register the shares with the
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by bjterry 10y ago
For a simple example, this is like the difference between function sum(lst) { if (length(lst) > 0) { return head(lst) + sum(tail(lst)); } return 0; } vs. function sum(lst, currentSum
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by bjterry 10y ago
Perhaps society pays undue attention to things that can be improved with 10,000 hours of practice. There are many skills that could possibly be learned only after more than 10,000 hours. Probably so few people have the dedication that they
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by bjterry 10y ago
There is a fairly interesting TED talk[1] on this subject by David Epstein that covers changing technology and better selection of body types optimized for individual body types, in the context of how records keep being beaten. There is a t
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by bjterry 10y ago
I think this expectation has mostly dropped away in the last couple years. A lot of apps now have interfaces inspired by apps (e.g. Airmail on Mac OS X acts like an iPad app) or web apps (all the Electron apps). Obviously this isn't sa
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by bjterry 10y ago
It is theorized that cephalopods can see color through chromatic aberration because of the unusual shape of their pupils. They don't have cone cells like humans. http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/05/weird-
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by bjterry 10y ago
You may be interested in this case study of a man who underwent a 382-day medically supervised water fast. He lost 276 lb (from 456 to 180 lb). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/
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by bjterry 10y ago
That only helps as long as there aren't many insurance companies. If there are many insurance companies, competition between them drives the costs down to marginal cost plus normal profit, in theory.
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by bjterry 10y ago
This link adds nothing compared to the original source: http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/33424
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by bjterry 10y ago
Binary options per se are not banned in America, but you have to have proper regulatory approval. The companies running binary options gambling operations wouldn't be able to meet the approval requirements, because usually those compan
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by bjterry 10y ago
A true vacuum is literally impossible. It's not a category that can exist in nature, because particles aren't actually little balls that bounce around. Every volume has some probability of a particle being in it in the great unive
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by bjterry 10y ago
This reminds me of an article I read which said that 95% of the soldiers in Vietnam who had become addicted to heroin simply stopped when they came back to America. 1: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-
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by bjterry 10y ago
Peleton is a word referring to the main group in a bicycle endurance race, so it's not the same as calling your software "Wal-Mart." In this case it seems like the fact they are in completely different markets would be suffic
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by bjterry 10y ago
Zulip is an open source project with no way to purchase it from what the home page shows, so doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
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by bjterry 10y ago
If I am understanding his point, the Company machine is basically finance/accounting, legal, HR, and office management. It is a common pattern at mid-stage startups to have some or all of these people report to a CFO. If your product

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