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by couchand 8y ago
What do you mean by "f.x."?
872.
by couchand 8y ago
Well, maybe not completely made up? The post from the Park points you to this article from The Naked Scientists, describing the phenomenon occurring during World War I. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/featu
873.
by couchand 8y ago
I'm confident it is, though back in 1987 it was just called sarcasm.
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by couchand 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that this essay is farcical, sarcastic, and/or ironic. Also, I'm guessing from the style and topic this is the same Jared Diamond who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel? Particularly the clock idea I believe is rep
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G.O.P. Pushes to Overhaul Law Meant to Protect At-Risk Species(nytimes.com)
1 points by couchand 8y ago|1 comments
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by couchand 8y ago
The author does a fantastic job arguing against a straw man and distracting the reader. Hey, sometimes conventional farms actually use reasonable techniques! That means they're just as good, right? Hey, look at my cute granddaughter.
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by couchand 8y ago
> Everybody developing WebAssembly is interested in making the web better and pretty much only that. This is demonstrably untrue. Please peruse the design repo, I think you'll find that there are very frequently discussions of non-
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by couchand 8y ago
I don't think it's as simple as rebelling against your parents -- plenty of my schoolmates are perfectly content to be slaves to their cars, and a good number of my city friends grew up here. We, at least, do have the option of dr
879.
by couchand 8y ago
Well, the elementary school is two blocks away, the middle school is two blocks the other way, and there is a high school about four blocks away (though by high school the neighborhood school isn't as relevant, at least in NYC). There
880.
by couchand 8y ago
It's true that America isn't only New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, but those three areas do make up over 10% of the population, which is nothing to sneeze at.
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by couchand 8y ago
I walk a block to the locally-owned hardware store and give my dollars to my neighbor, obviously. What do you do, throw your money into the giant corporate black hole?
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by couchand 8y ago
I'm a parent to a one-and-a-half year old in New York City, and I grew up in a mid-sized midwestern city. I'm obviously biased, but I think we've got it much better off here. A block and a half away is one of the best playgr
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by couchand 9y ago
From the Court of Appeal opinion: "In support of a different argument that the trial court's injunction forced them to operate a parking business at a net loss, appellants point to testimony from the manager of Martins Beach that
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by couchand 9y ago
Yep, it's basically just lying on your citizenship application and joining a terrorist organization. Not nothing, but also not a terribly "high standard".
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by couchand 9y ago
Nice job moving the goalposts there.
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by couchand 9y ago
> generally for less well to do immigrants, we hold them to high standards if they wish to retain citizenship (even though that results in us creating stateless people) [citation needed]
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by couchand 9y ago
From the Court of Appeal opinion: "Prior to appellants' purchase of the Martins Beach property, appellants were told by San Mateo County that '[t]here is existing parking [and] access to the beach at Martins Beach. This acce
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by couchand 9y ago
One common reason is to provide a flexible table for things that may not have an identical schema. For instance, an event log might have details about each event that differ based on the event type.
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by couchand 9y ago
It's purely syntactic sugar. You can even get the new protection yourself: function Cat() { if (!(this instanceof Cat)) { throw new Error("please use new!"); } } or, if you want to be a bit n
890.
by couchand 9y ago
Clearly, since they failed so miserably here. But -- here's the crux of the thing -- it's not a new goal, it's the same goal they (should) already have.
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by couchand 9y ago
> having a second system running that can't coordinate with the self-driving system It seems like "not running into stuff" is about the only level of coordination necessary here.
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by couchand 9y ago
Oh no, we could never have that. It would squash innovation! We can't possibly have any regulation of self-driving cars or we'll lose to China.
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by couchand 9y ago
> Ideally, at first, we'd see components in consumer vehicles We do, though. Look at the cruise control or auto-park on a vehicle produced in the last few years. The totally autonomous car may make headlines, but these sorts of fe
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by couchand 9y ago
> all self-driving cars have to do is be a little bit better for net safety to improve. That's true abstractly but ignores several important real-world factors about the adoption of self-driving cars. On the one had, autonomous cars
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by couchand 9y ago
> Design patterns were meant to future proof code That's a misguided but unfortunately common view. Best practice is to refactor to patterns, don't try to divining them from the start. > paper over limitations of your langu
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by couchand 9y ago
All of Ward's Wiki.
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by couchand 9y ago
Why not? Does your office not look kindly on high renaissance paintings?
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by couchand 9y ago
That doesn't make sense. It's a unicode code point, after all, the rendering is immaterial.
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by couchand 9y ago
This should probably be titled "Show HN:".
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by couchand 9y ago
Use a toaster oven or a skillet, they both work great! https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/60 https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/59 I've been skilletting my boards (fabbed by OSHpark) for the

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