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by cassowary 9y ago
As for the diet of kangaroo, yeah they're grazers. You can go out and see them grazing on grasslands in the national parks around the city. Apparently it's pretty high in the good Omega 3 oil too. Sometimes I've eaten kangaro
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by cassowary 9y ago
Could they just get around the requirement by using the HTML5 storage stuff? It's such a silly legal requirement. There's significant privacy concerns. And they make me close this silly message that has nothing to do with privacy
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by cassowary 9y ago
I think the other problem is that static analysis is a great tool for a new code base. But a new code base has no dead code. Or to put it another way, when you're designing a system, please think about the benefit static analysis will
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by cassowary 9y ago
Well, privates that are unused or only used by something like $method = 'get' . $command; $this->$method; are marked in grey. Which means some methods that you need to keep are grey. Not necessarily helpful. And ot
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by cassowary 9y ago
Try sending an email to your local Labor MLA (state lower house) if you have one, or MLC (state upper house) if you don't. They're real people who care, you just need to make them care about this stuff. Which needs lots of people
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by cassowary 9y ago
They've finally begun backtracking on function parameter bivariance. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/06/12/annou... They still think they're right: "Our experience has bee
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by cassowary 9y ago
conspiracy <> secret + unconstitutional i think to reach the level of a conspiracy theory, you need a lot of people doing something outrageous. for instance, if you have the army, the navy and fbi and the russian kgb (or whatever they
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by cassowary 9y ago
There's so rarely such thing as abusive workers. There's often bad and irresponsible ones, sure. But you have to have power over someone to be abusive. The company almost by the nature of the relationship is telling a person what
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by cassowary 9y ago
I've always assumed a UBI would involve reducing (or removing) the tax free threshold, so a person on an average or greater income would actually have no net change in their position, or may even be worse off. Perhaps I'm wrong on
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by cassowary 9y ago
As for me, I understood it immediately. I understand the grammatical term "subject", but I don't know how to read "school subject" as a grammatical term. I would appreciate some help. (in case this is regional: I&#x
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by cassowary 10y ago
I don't mind the hamburger menu because at least there's a consistent UI that tells me where I can click to find stuff. Otherwise agree, undiscoverable hidden UIs must die, and so must these flat UIs (which are equivalent to undis
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by cassowary 10y ago
It isn't the default rule. Maybe it used to be. But today most people have nowhere near the resources of most companies, so we regularly regulate those who act to harm their customers.
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by cassowary 10y ago
Psychology students aren't required to study physics, despite most psychologists believing that psychology is basically just physics at an abstraction
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by cassowary 10y ago
Major donors have better access to the media than me. I can't educate them if the major donors are spinning opinions. My HN post will reach a negligible proportion of the voters; their prime time ad will reach a huge number.
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by cassowary 10y ago
If in the first election there's no-one worth voting for, stand at the next election.
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by cassowary 10y ago
I look forward to the grey haired revolution.
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by cassowary 10y ago
It's compatible with both propositions. At the moment we literally have good grounds for making either conclusion, although we have plenty of weak grounds in both directions.
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by cassowary 10y ago
There may be some relationship between that and subjective experience, but it's not really the same thing. You're describing essentially "know how" instead of "know that". But here we're talking about some
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by cassowary 10y ago
Well, that's precisely intrinsic to the problem of being subjective. You cannot objectively describe subjective experience, because otherwise it would cease to be subjective and become objective. It is reasonably probable that subjecti
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by cassowary 10y ago
I am sceptical of these kinds of changes. Why is it that governments are going to such trouble to essentially eliminate tobacco, but they are permitting another problematic drug? And it's usually the same side of politics who wants to
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by cassowary 10y ago
Instead of Facebook, just talk to your friends and family semi-often. If one of them has a baby or goes to Europe a lot of them will know and someone will mention it. On occasion you will hear about something three years after the event but
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by cassowary 10y ago
I played Duck Duck Goose when I was a kid in Australia.
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by cassowary 10y ago
Hm yeah. I use DDG except for error messages when I use Google.
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by cassowary 10y ago
really? It's been a while since I've programmed in Haskell, but something like this is about right: data Data = Data { thing :: Int, that :: Boolean }} addToThing :: Int -> State Data Int addToThing n = do x &
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by cassowary 10y ago
Yes. The article was sufficiently terrible that I don't know anything about it. The journo was generally wrong and the article was about a researcher rather than research. I know there's something there that I want to know, but un
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by cassowary 10y ago
As I was reading some of the illustrations, I began to wonder why anyone would prefer to use Lisp instead of Haskell. Can anyone mention a few advantages? Mostly, I find Haskell attractive because of the fantastic type system which allows m
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by cassowary 10y ago
I don't think that's a fair characterisation of Javascript development. It's more that people gradually realised they want to do more and more. But when they've finally understood what they want to do, they quickly adopt
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by cassowary 10y ago
I think WordPress, wikis and Google (Docs) would disagree with you about word processing being a solved problem. And they seem to do well enough. They offer a fundamentally different notion of what you're trying to do when you're
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by cassowary 10y ago
Yeah... I've found Mac/iOS to be quite frustrating actually. Especially nowadays that their UI's a designed by designers who like things to be pretty — and you just can't change something no matter how bad it is (unless
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by cassowary 10y ago
I've always found the problem with alt os's is that I have to pick my device to match the OS. I just want a small but adequately powerful laptop, so Linux is my only real choice.

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