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by consonants 13y ago
Perhaps your addiction is influencing your perception of your coding performance. The best way to test this is to find an impartial third party to compare your caffeine-code to code you wrote before you started drinking coffee (as in, not
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by consonants 13y ago
As an opiate addict in recovery, and having experienced caffeine withdrawal: taper, taper, taper. There is no excuse not to. Going cold turkey is an ego-motivated action, in my opinion. It's the 'If I can endure this acute sufferi
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by consonants 13y ago
Fun fact: decaf actually has some caffeine in it [1], and is probably the factor in how it helps the transition from a caffeine fueled lifestyle to general normalcy. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132260
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by consonants 13y ago
I doubt any person in power would advocate such a radical shift that could possibly alter their favorable status quo. As the Citigroup papers says, the current political and social environment almost solely serves the the interests of wealt
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by consonants 13y ago
Is anyone else unable to resolve bell-labs.com? I've tried with my local connection, then SSH'd into my home machine, and tried via 3G on my phone and no luck. Any links to a mirror or what not?
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by consonants 13y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by consonants 13y ago
The wealthy would fight tooth and nail against this as it threatens their positions of power. If their needs are met, who would toil for them to earn meager amounts of money just so that they can eat and have a roof over their head? Capital
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by consonants 13y ago
The post you are replying to is why I take evo-psych explanations with a grain of salt, as your post is just as plausible while it doesn't try to stretch the findings in the article by reducing complex evolutionary processes to explain
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by consonants 13y ago
Mass unemployment ensures that there is always someone who will trade their labor for the lowest possible price so that they don't starve. It's built into the system, less of a plague and more of necessary requisite for capitalism
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by consonants 13y ago
Super helpful comment, tptacek
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by consonants 13y ago
Is this mature enough to run dosbox in wine compiled for OS X? I want to know how deep this rabbit hole can go.
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by consonants 13y ago
>So freaking expensive. It seems someone hasn't visited their local asian food market ;)
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by consonants 13y ago
Like the other domesticated animals that once had a vital purpose in human society, there will be people who will continue to raise them simply because they view them as companions and not a commodity. That's a noble goal, in my opinio
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by consonants 13y ago
The issue at hand isn't whether or not it is easy or hard to learn, it's that the rabbithole can go on forever as all language implementations will manifest inadequacies which you will have to 1) be familiar with 2) know how to wo
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by consonants 13y ago
Honestly, I blame the way history is taught in America. It's neutered any sense of class solidarity, riddled with retroactive ideological lensing and the worship of personalities.
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by consonants 13y ago
Yes, let me learn this domain specific language for a domain specific language so that I can learn another domain specific language whenever this one stops trending.
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by consonants 13y ago
> distribution of child abuse photos legal That's the problem. So long as there is a channel for distribution of images depicting child sexual exploitation, there will always be someone abusing even more children to produce more mat
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by consonants 13y ago
The proprietary software as evil thing comes as a morality judgment, that the potential evils from such software/licensing far outway whatever positive nuance it could bring to the table. A nuanced reading of the past 75 years of copyr
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by consonants 13y ago
Weird how you come to that conclusion. Cultural hegemony comes to mind, which is important in analysis of anthropological and sociological studies, claims the exact opposite of this: that the lower-classes emulate and internalize the mores
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by consonants 13y ago
Doubt it. If firms could analyze and deconstruct the purchasing decisions and preferences from such 24/7 feeds, it will just allow them to more efficiently funnel money from the consumer to the top. The lower income market is intensely
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by consonants 13y ago
Once whatever successor to Google Glass becomes ubiquitous, I can see this becoming a reality. This is an advertising research agency's wet dream come true, unfortunately.
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by consonants 13y ago
>Those things are not related. So what if you get paid less than the value you add? That doesn't mean that suddenly its not a job that you love. For some the cognitive dissonance that comes with such alienation doesn't sit well
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by consonants 13y ago
Implementing a negative income tax or minimum income would do wonders for the first world poor. It's been done before with overwhelming success. Honestly, having profit as the sole motivation for enterprise in society is strangling the
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by consonants 13y ago
This market fetishism sounds familiar, have you been trawling through von Mises or something? I've heard the same diatribe from vocal internet libertarians and am curious as to the source of this meme.
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by consonants 13y ago
As someone who shelled out for the N770/N810, I can't help but engage in a bit of schadenfreude w/r/t Nokia's decision to drop Maemo in favor of the Windows phone platform and their subsequent adoption rates.
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by consonants 13y ago
Ah, yes, maximizing profit for the owners at the expense of laborers. This has never happened before. I'll argue that the money saved could also be used to fund further automation of the labor that is one of their largest annual expens
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by consonants 13y ago
Government is the one institution that pays lip service to and can be influenced directly by the populace it's supposed to be accountable to. Obviously, in practice it serves the will of those already in power. As someone who doesn&#x2
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by consonants 13y ago
The NSA has specifically stated that they have the ability to preliminarily gather data through PRISM a week before going to FISC for a warrant. What is presented to the judge as evidence is usually that very collected data.
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by consonants 13y ago
> (which would have hurt innocent civilians - does the US even care about that anymore?) No. This is a standard tactic the US has used to economically intimidate Latin/South America for political, but usually economic reasons. After
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by consonants 13y ago
No, but before the internet the realm of completely untested novel psychoactive chemicals was confined to certain circles of chemists, academics, psychiatrists, and social commentators/reformers. The first person to test 2C-* series wa

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