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by bweitzman 12y ago
I don't think the distinction between exhaustive and non-exhaustive constituents is something that most people would pick up on. Using overly precise wordage that not everybody understands is just as bad as not being precise enough. In
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I'm of the ilk that grammar should for the most part be prescriptive while dictionaries should be descriptive. And this is actually not a grammatical problem but a semantic one. "The book is composed of many pages" "The
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by bweitzman 12y ago
> He even admitted Apple would be happy to pay more tax, but only if there was a "dramatic simplification of the corporate tax code" including a "reasonable tax on foreign earnings that allows the free flow of capital back
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by bweitzman 12y ago
The airlines aren't suing passengers though, they are suing Skiplagged. Whether or not you agree with the way that airlines charge for tickets, the ticket is a contract between the passenger and the airline and breaking that contract
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by bweitzman 12y ago
I actually worked on an iPad app when I was in school that does this: https://github.com/benweitzman/retune (please excuse the terrible code/project layout, I was just learning iOS at the time)
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Another thing to keep in mind: head and neck injuries might go up because accidents which would have resulted in death now result only in an injury.
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by bweitzman 12y ago
Being a project maintainer is already a burden. It can be a rewarding burden, but it's a burden nonetheless.
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Agreed. A project maintainer's job is to accept comments and improvements from the community. It is completely irrelevant if someone is getting paid for their contributions, as long as the quality of their submissions are up to snuff.
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by bweitzman 12y ago
gradi3nt had it right Free fall feels like floating Standing still (in the presence of the Earth's gravity) feels like being accelerated.
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just cut the seat post and get a new one, a cheap one is maybe 10 bucks.
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AI is a funny field. As soon as we understand something (read: build something) that we think is AI, it's no longer AI, it's just the result of some computation. As humans, and more importantly in this context, things with "r
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by bweitzman 12y ago
This is neat. I did some work on a data storage platform through a bittorrent tracker/community back in 2010. There was no concept of a currency instead relying on the tracker to prioritize downloads since nobody would have any incenti