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by cjensen 12y ago
A tailings pond 1 mile across instead of dumping the sludge into a river? I'm genuinely uncertain about what is supposed to outrage me, and the article's tone implies I should be outraged. It's problematic that it sounds like
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by cjensen 12y ago
The evidence is: (1) Palm Trees in Central Australia are related to those from Northern Australia and arrived 30Kyr ago and (2) an Aboriginal tale of gods carrying the Palm Tree seeds from the North. The quoted professor concludes from this
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by cjensen 12y ago
It is nearly impossible to be objective about your own brain. If you suspect X makes you happier, then it probably will. After it works once, you will probably believe X makes you happier, and if definitely will. In other words, even if fis
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by cjensen 12y ago
All of the new codecs the author proposed as alternatives have the same issue: companies who took no part in creating the codec may someday decide that the codec infringes their patents and make everyone using the codec pay for a license.
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by cjensen 12y ago
This cannot be said often enough: "non-profit" is a phrase relating to the tax situation of a corporation. It is not synonymous with "good", "charitable", or even "not greedy." On the flip side, &quot
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by cjensen 12y ago
I wouldn't care. Also, it is very bad form to ask since the answer provides no additional legitimate information, but could be seen as a probe into your health or age.
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by cjensen 12y ago
That's my new pet peeve -- using "page down" on an article only to have some of the content I want to read hide under an idiotic header floating over the content.
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by cjensen 12y ago
You're right. A more nuanced way of putting it would be that the Republicans prefer that government interfere less with economy. To that end, they support regulation which restrains government from interfering with the economy, and are
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by cjensen 12y ago
It has everything to do with politics: one party is more prone to regulation than the other, and it's easier to build where there is less regulation. There's a spectrum of regulation levels in the country, and Republican areas ten
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by cjensen 12y ago
Your link goes somewhere unrelated to this drug. Copy pasta error?
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by cjensen 12y ago
Yes, but those ALL work by observing the driver's driving, so that won't work.
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by cjensen 12y ago
"Mostly self-driving" just seems crazy to me. As soon as the car is able to drive on a major highway, you're going to have "asleep at the wheel" issues, and the car cannot simply hand back control to the driver. The
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by cjensen 12y ago
Guinea pigging a hormone only expressed during development runs a very serious risk of giving yourself cancer. Fortunately, these scammers are probably shipping something harmless instead of the actual product, so no one is likely to die.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Interesting that every advertisement on the page has a button to click to report issues with the ad, but Amazon does not have a button to report the product. Sure, you can report a lower price elsewhere, but if you want to report that the p
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by cjensen 12y ago
WikiVoyage forked to join the Wikimedia family of sites after WT's owner failed to keep its infrastructure up to date (30 seconds to make commit an edit). That the owners of WikiTravel (Internet Brands) literally sued contributors for
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by cjensen 12y ago
Is the typo in the first sentence (the letters in "to" are reversed) a joking reference to the the topic "text SEQUENCE"?
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by cjensen 12y ago
Don't feel silly -- many Valley cities have strict rules on building height too. Ideally, we'd like high-rise living next to mass transit, but I outside of downtown San Jose, I doubt any city would approve.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Your alternative is mass-transit. If your work is in reasonable proximity to BART, Caltrain, or a Ferry, then check out where that mass transit leads to and see if you can afford to live there near a station and if you can stand the commute
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by cjensen 12y ago
I'm a 40+ Programmer making good money with a family of five. A year ago I thought long and hard about moving away. In the end, I decided to stay because we have family here. Here's my unsolicited advice: if you are less than 30 a
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by cjensen 12y ago
No. The Valley is geographically constrained. The mountains enclosing it are too rugged to safely build on. The best you could do would be to permit high-rise housing which would provide some expensive housing to the high-end. A better idea
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by cjensen 12y ago
I expect the charger will be a USB hub.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Yep. I haven't been there in 25 years, but the clues in the article told me exactly where it was. Checking Google Earth versus the photos confirmed it.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Why not Hawaii then? Would the rocket overfly the Americas at an appropriate height?
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by cjensen 12y ago
> More or less, what I want to archive can be done with old world NSData: data.getBytes(&i, length: sizeofValue(i)) That doesn't work in C/C++ if you are using a modern optimizer. C does not have the other Swift issues the
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by cjensen 12y ago
Let me come about this from the point of view of an employer: If you are fresh out of school, you are a huge potential. The better the school, the greater the potential. We think you have so much potential that we expect you'll be a le
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by cjensen 12y ago
If UC Berkeley acted as the author thinks they ought, I would have graduated in 1989 with outstanding skills focused on Fortran, VMS, sccs, troff, and XView. My design skills would probably have included an awesome ability to draw block dia
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by cjensen 12y ago
> Is my conclusion that Apple should get a free pass for hamstringing their web evangelists? No. Get your Safari team a blog, Apple. Let them give a talk at a fucking conference. https://www.webkit.org/blog/
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by cjensen 12y ago
It was warmer 8000 years ago due to orbital effects. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
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by cjensen 12y ago
Yosemite will only allow you to run signed executables. That by itself is the only security measure you need. In theory, a bad actor could sign an evil program. In practice, that's never happened. If it did happen, the signature would
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by cjensen 12y ago
FizzBuzz is best asked during the interview, possibly with a whiteboard. It has nothing to do with our business.

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