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by bmelton 5y ago
Maybe, maybe not, but replacing "man page" to "person page" to submit a breaking PR probably is? Note that "man page" is an abbreviation of "manual," which etymologically derives from 'manus&#x27
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The PR is from 2 days ago
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Twitch
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ahem PRIMER
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The thing with tropes is that they weren't always tropes. This reminds me of the Seinfeld effect. Seinfeld was arguably brilliant, but even if you disagree with its brilliance, enough people thought it was brilliant that practically ev
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This probably isn't the venue for it, but your refusal to engage in the sort of content moderation the entire rest of the industry has determined "necessary" cannot be commended enough Societal pressure on this has been inten
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Maybe I don't understand the question enough because I'm wondering if DeFi is excluded as a viable answer, but possibly you're just not aware of it? But it seems like it's making lots of people money and that seems inclu
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Jeep Cherokee does so periodically, but Mopar is relatively well known for having a high quality infotainment system. This may be generally true for any infotainment systems running Android Auto / Apple CarPlay because they need to kee
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Arguably, Joe has done more for Spotify than Spotify has done for Joe (ignoring the $100 million deal) Him moving to Youtube or somewhere that isn't paywalled likely increases his availability to those who aren't willing to pay to
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by bmelton 6y ago
This is somewhat dated, but the median salary on planet Earth is ~9k a year. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
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Agreed. It probably should have occurred to me before, but a lot of the Wacom and Huion drawing tablets with screens use HDMI for display and some kind of USB for input. Obviously that would be better if they were upgraded to thunderbolt mo
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The python/django experience on dotCloud was really rather nice, actually. Perhaps much of that sympathy was coming from people were comparing Rails/Heroku with Rails/dotCloud, where Heroku has a rather big head start, but
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FWIW, there are waterproof Kindles now.
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A few years back, we had a snowstorm that knocked out power for 7 days. Knocking out power for 7 days meant our electric well pump didn't work. Our electric well pump not working meant that we didn't have water. We were snowed in
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The 1967 Mulford Act originated in California with the goal of disarming BLack Panther Party members to restrict their (lawful) armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods. It was introduced by a Republican, garnered bipartisan support, and enac
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The window is measured in size and location. A window that includes fascism can be big or small, but is likely very far to the right. Similarly, a window that includes legalizing cocaine while banning political speech would need to be ver
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If the Twitter API is down, then you'll have blank spots on your page where there are supposed to be tweets. If Netlify goes down, you won't be able to publish, but your statically rendered site should still load just fine unless
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I agree with this completely, with one small addendum. A large and diverse network is likely to offend more as more people come into contact with people they don't already have familiarity with, and less as they are less likely to come
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bdcravens is correct. m3o is a numeronym for 'micro' and does not relate to the version number. The format of a numeronym is to take the first letter of a string (micro) + x + the last letter of the string, and replace x with the
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Framed as you have it, I would agree...but I always understood a conflict of interest to be one which might compel an attorney to violate your confidence, or fail to keep your confidences sacrosanct. Publicly stating "we do not agree w
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by bmelton 6y ago
I appreciate the correction, but I think it's noteworthy that they expect would-be defendants to waiver away the ACLU's disdain for them as a condition of representation. Perhaps this is normal in the legal realm?
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This memo[1] seems to assert that they would not be friends to free speech against encroachment by the government if the speech were speech they didn't like. [1] http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/document
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They did recently (2017/2018) defend Milo Yiannopoulis' right to advertise his event in the DC metro, but after pushback related to that, they've softened their stance in a lot of ways, carving out exceptions, for example the
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> There may be an objective reason why the ACLU doesn't support armed demonstrations They flatly do not believe that firearm ownership is an individual right, rather that it is a collective right. This used to be plainly displayed o
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Note: The cancellation fees for US Citizenship can be quite high!
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Dwellsy | Remote (USA) | Los Gatos, CA | Full-time | Dwellsy.com Dwellsy is a spunky little search engine for home and apartment rentals that is dedicated to preventing against the kind of fraud found on Craigslist, while being less exclus
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Anecdotally amongst lawyers, perhaps, but I've heard tale by many that this is largely accomplished by choosing to arrest someone just a few minutes before their shift ends, which requires them to get overtime for the hours of paperw
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It seems like folks have been demanding the regulations be fixed for some time now to no avail. Moreover, it isn't always so easy to just 'fix' a regulation. Qualified Immunity isn't a regulation in the traditional sense
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a) I'm not spreading falsehoods. b) I've made no critiques of M4A. c) You're wrong to the point of malice, perhaps deliberately.
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> Mischaracterizing M4A as a policy I did not do that > Yours are exactly the words I would expect to hear from scaremongers I quote the author and it's scaremongering? Yeah, count me out of this conversation altogether. You&#x27

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