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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Back before Starbucks bought them, Evolution was magical. They sold cold-pressed orange juice in the store that tasted fresh. I lived by that stuff!
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
It's weird that this appears on the home page twice.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
This comment made me learn that I wouldn't have been eligible, but am now. (Grandpa was born in Canada.)
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
That was the first part that jumped out at me. Apparently the state AGs dropped one of the charges that would have led to a more reasonable number there to try to make the decision easier for the jury.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
And then the restaurant lobby got the CA one rescinded for restaurant junk fees, which were probably the biggest culprit most people encounter day-to-day.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
The one that pisses me off is when the waitress tells you to pay with your phone, and it's charged a "convenience fee."
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Finally! I never understood the PR=branch model GitHub defaulted to. Stacked commits (ala Phabricator/Gerrit) always jived more with how my brain reasons about changes. Glad to see this option. I guess I'll have to install their
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
You're working awfully hard to be pedantic without comparing the actual language: > to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes" https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
That's arguing around the point. If the law is broken, fix the law. Don't pervert logic to pretend that the existing law dictates what you want is correct. If Roe v Wade is based on faulty logic, cool - overturn it. But it then
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
It's not about decriminalizing marijuana - it's about the absurd assertion that the federal government can regulate what you do personally because "yadda yadda yadda…interstate commerce!"
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I don't even smoke - it just offends me deeply to see the Supreme Court rule in a direction that's so blatantly against the Constitution.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Do this one next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich The Supreme Court somehow held that the feds can regulate what you do in your own home (in this case, growing marijuana for personal use) because it cou
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I'm from the West Coast. My national park experience includes Yosemite, Volcanoes, Arches, Zion, Bryce, Redwood, Crater Lake, and Lassen. (I've technically also been to the Grand Canyon, but it was so foggy, it was more like goin
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
The MTA knows the nights you want to take it, and ensures it doesn't go past Bedford-Nostrand on precisely those nights.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Holy shit - according to the same article, an autistic teen last hacked them and was sentenced to life in an asylum!
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Sounds like Wine + FEX
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
The problem is they've got a doc that declares "when you say balacalaboozy, you're declaring that a specific set of legal conditions is met. You must say balacalaboozy to proceed." Newcomers see everyone saying balacala
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Signed-off-by is already a custom/formality that is surely cargo-culted by many first-time/infrequent contributors. It has an air of "the plans were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lava
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
The thing that made Flash magical was that it had the approachability of a design tool (and it really did have some of the best design tools ever), with the extensibility of a scripting language. You could start by drawing on a canvas and
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
This was 15 years ago. Maybe it was less developed then, or maybe my memory conflated that drive with another part of that trip.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I'm from Nevada. Very aware that California has more regulation (and hence more cost than us), but know little about the regional cost differences between Maine and Massachusetts.
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I'm from Nevada, another state that people presume is all desert. (Really, it's all mountains.) The only part of Texas I've driven is between Austin and S Antonio. It was perhaps the least-beautiful wilderness I've dri
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I know little about this region. Why would it be unreasonably more expensive to build on one side of the state line than another?
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I know that Hacker News can be for anything "hackers find interesting," but I really hope it doesn't become yet another political doomland. There are so many other places to go to raise your anxiety - I'd rather this rem
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Blogspam about this Quora post from the founding engineer's wife: http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets...
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
This is excellent. YUV appears to be a PAL-specific color space. I wonder how off an NTSC Wii would be. Presumably it would have the wrong color space until an equivalent conversion scheme was devised for NTSC. I was surprised to see regi
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
> Readers with a keen eye might notice some issues: > - Everything is magenta. was fun too
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
The Android and Xbox PC versions look more like forks for a shared codebase. Most of the platform-specific code is abstracted to a bridge, but even the bridges aren't consistent across the codebases. (Android's save system uses d
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
I'm really curious how they do version control. The Steam version was created by one guy, but the platform ports have a couple different authors. The Google Play and Xbox PC versions, for instance, have divergences. I wonder how the po
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by bsimpson 6mo ago
Dispatch too. If your odds are above a certain threshold, the mission is a gimme.

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