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by civilian 10y ago
I agree. I got the message, and hung up the phone. My friend is also have difficulty leaving the path. A couple of months ago my buddy & I got some urgent texts from him-- he had taken a really large dose of LSD and ended up spending t
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by civilian 10y ago
It's the blog of a print magazine... I'm equally disappointed but not at all surprised.
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by civilian 10y ago
There's some cred that's given to any company that's a "startup". Which is why successful startups do their best to extend the use of that term-- claiming that their culture stays the same. The same way that job ti
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by civilian 10y ago
It's the cost of being an Apex predator!
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by civilian 10y ago
Is it? A lot of the people are pretty solid on meetup.com, but my autism radar has gotten _so_ much better since going to meetup events. Unfortunately, it only takes a couple of bad conversationalists to make a good conversation difficult.
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by civilian 10y ago
Fingers crossed that Seattle heads for this direction! I've been trying to imagine a scenario which would cause Amazon not to hire for 2-3 years, (and thus tank housing prices? hopefully?) without hurting my own (software engineering)
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by civilian 10y ago
As long as we're being pedants, it's actually more like 2.6% (8.406 / 318.9) of Americans who live in NYC. The author does have a grip on reality, I think it's just they aren't talking about what you want them to ta
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by civilian 10y ago
Why would a civilization be exactly 500 years ahead of us? While evolution is a powerful trend, I think there's so much randomness about... when their planet cooled off enough (and had enough alkaline vents) to support abiogenesis, whe
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by civilian 10y ago
I've read them--- how and why are you reminded of them by this story?
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by civilian 10y ago
Have you looked at CSound? http://csound.github.io/documentation.html I'm really into the idea of having a standard for music scoring, and not just for music scoring, but also for like... identifying the instrument.
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by civilian 10y ago
It's one thing when a billionaire gives away their money and are able to direct it at the charities they want. It's another thing when it's taxed and coordinated by the government. The United States government has the bias
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by civilian 10y ago
I don't think that's the case? My worst drivers are usually people who just don't have experience driving. They drive slow, they don't know the city, or they get confused other ways. Or they're just timid and don&#x
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by civilian 10y ago
It's because I've seen your comments before and you have a consistent pattern of curtly disagreeing without adding to the conversation. It's frustrating and I want HN to be better. Yes, they tested each piece, probably in 55
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by civilian 10y ago
This might be for you: http://owlturd.com/post/148836283844/a-and-b-smell-the-flowe...
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by civilian 10y ago
> We have validated 63% of recoded genes by individually testing 55 segments of 50 kilobases each. We observed that 91% of tested essential genes retained functionality with limited fitness effect. Yes it has. http://science
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by civilian 10y ago
I think in this analogy, it compiles & runs & passes it's unit tests, but it hasn't been deployed or had integration tests run on it.
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by civilian 10y ago
Oh damn the SPIDER is really cool. It checks the bag quality of the airship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EAzvXrESg It's like a cross between a roomba and those magnetic scrubby brushes you use for fishtanks.
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by civilian 10y ago
Yeah! I was thinking about how I estimate tasks, and I always add storypoints when there's uncertainty involved.
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by civilian 10y ago
If my memory from last year serves me, this is less a wormhole and more of a "magnetically-shielded tunnel". Cool and potentially useful, but I wish they didn't use the word wormhole.
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by civilian 10y ago
IDK, I'm hoping that there are enough people who don't check stars and choose a repo simply because it was the first one they found or because they think it works better with their existing code or for other reasons. And honestly
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by civilian 10y ago
My heuristic is: 1. Google for a blog comparing them, and eliminate any candidates with major red flags 2. Go with the one that has the most stars on it's github repo.
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by civilian 10y ago
But it's an auction? Assuming that there are enough buyers with the multi-hundred-k around, they will get close to the market value.
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by civilian 10y ago
Because we're brainstorming here! They're not assuming anything. But yes, that's exactly the theory, that the starship is somewhere between us and them, and it sometimes dips into the focal point of light.
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by civilian 10y ago
Comeon, we're not foolish and hubristic enough to fuckin claim the moon . Hell, we wouldn't claim anything. We'd just say that we're exploring for all of humanity and harvesting our operating expenses from the 'be
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by civilian 10y ago
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", and this is the weirdest star we've seen. Your claims of clickbait are out of line, because we really don't know and alien megastructures is a reasonable theory. And
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by civilian 10y ago
Wow, Latvia, Croatia, Qatar? These aren't exactly high-tech countries but they do seem stable enough that they could host an aerospace company's operations.
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by civilian 10y ago
> 3,000 people a month die because of psychiatry. Citation?
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by civilian 10y ago
The team I joined uses feature flags like this a lot. > When are those conditionals deleted? For us, almost never. A few weeks after the feature flag becomes True everywhere, we just never even look at what would happen if the flag is F
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by civilian 10y ago
Yup! Additionally the Chinese government is not a smart investor, and that's led to overcapacity. Eventually these bad investments will punish China, but it make take some time. http://www.economist.com/news/busin
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by civilian 10y ago
We were fast friends and one of us was bold to make fun of the spilled food on the other's shirt, and it led to "oh man I'm glad you told me before I walked into that meeting" which led to "oh yeah let's always

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