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by coolgeek 8y ago
Too late to edit my comment, but my numbers seem to be wrong, or at least out of date. During the Bush years, military spending was in the 25% (or greater) range. SS/MC was lower (as a percentage of the budget) than today, but it was c
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by coolgeek 8y ago
Roughly speaking, 25% of spending goes to the military, 25% to SS/Medicare, and the other 50% to everything else. It is important to note that the 25% for SS/MC is funded by a separate tax, targeted to those programs. Without get
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by coolgeek 8y ago
LightSail has (or at least had) a hard limit of 20 instances. They also have a soft limit of 2 instances, after which you must request an upgrade to a higher limit. I had to submit a support request explaining my intended usage. It took
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by coolgeek 8y ago
> 'I was obviously joking' That's not at all reflective of the cited text. First off, he never even implied 'obvious' - which is used to blame the reader/listener for not getting it. Second, while he does re
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by coolgeek 8y ago
Sorry, I did not intend to mislead. I thought that "Show HN" was simply about things built/written by HN users. Thanks
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by coolgeek 8y ago
Hey HN - Founder of SRSoterica here. This is not another SRS platform. This is a comprehensive SRS flashcard deck for learning the Python programming language. The deck is built for use in Anki. I'm here to answer any questions or cha
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Learn Python via Spaced Repetition(srsoterica.com)
5 points by coolgeek 8y ago|3 comments
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by coolgeek 8y ago
Ah, I overlooked that last sentence in the parent post on the first read.
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I'm not sure what your point was in posting this. A few points: First off, Reddit isn't news media, it's social media Second, "the top ten" is a collection of links from other sites that rise or fall based on their
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> there is no number seven There is cardinality. There is ordinality. The "number seven" is a label for specific points in the cardinality and ordinality spaces. > Color is mental construct triggered by perception of EM fr
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Also the possibility of confusing (reversing) cause and effect
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by coolgeek 9y ago
They are not banning discussions. They are "forbidding transactions for certain goods and services" It's literally the first sentence of the post Edit to add that the HN title is misleading, too. The post says nothing about
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by coolgeek 9y ago
This is not an example of bikeshedding. Bikeshedding is fighting over trivial details in order to delay or avoid a decision (perhaps subconsciously) This is an example of gaming the system in order to steer a decision in a particular direc
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Actually, it's not an article, it's an Op-Ed. You'll see that if you click through.
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> You aren't one of those filthy alt-righters who voted for Trump are you? Yeah, nice try. No platform is banning people "who voted for Trump" They're banning people who are openly trying to recreate Nazism, the KKK,
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by coolgeek 9y ago
> To say something and receive "mean words" or "consequences" can usually means that nobody is engaging your argument. Advocating genocide (e.g.) is not deserving of engagement. Anyone attempting to persuade you that
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by coolgeek 9y ago
He's a Polk Award-winning journalist, he has a History PhD from Brown, and he has written for many other publications over at least the last 20 years. Given that he has a wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos
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by coolgeek 9y ago
Your job was to provide examples of "extremely misleading" statements by Oliver. You didn't actually disprove any of the four examples that you cited. You merely posited alternate theories or additional causes. As such, I&#
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We'll be here waiting
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> labour disputes involving a few shootings Like, what's a few dead employees between friends?
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Looks like the Make: Electronics bundle is back. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/electronics-programming-m... I missed that the last time
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This isn't an either-or situation. Both your issue, as well as the parent's, are true
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Political skill can certainly get some people, in some situations, a lot further than they deserve. But technical prowess is absolutely not secondary to political skill in any general sense And you can substitute just about anything else f
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by coolgeek 9y ago
> This, as an aside, reflects the changing power situation between Google and Facebook. This is about as clear a case of anecdata as I've ever seen
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September1942 – Making the New York Times(mashable.com)
1 points by coolgeek 9y ago|0 comments
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Are you (and kesselvon) suggesting that otherwise viable businesses are getting wiped out because they are in small towns? And the reason for that is that regional banking is "drying up"? That seems improbable to me, especially a
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It's both - it is meant to be humorous, but it is a real statement
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> until we free up the concentration of capital that favors dense urban areas What is this supposed to mean? Is "favor[ing] dense urban areas" somehow wrong? What dark force is driving this concentration of capital? What is
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Occam's razor is not in any way either now or historically restricted to scientific theories - proven or otherwise.
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> for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content. Why does that trigger concerns for you about 'political content'?

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