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by cwmma 7y ago
considering that the .su domain still works fine, I kinda doubt .io will ever go away even if the sea swallows the islands
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by cwmma 7y ago
NPM got a new CEO and then let go some people in a rather shitty way with severeness dependent on signing a non-disparagement clause
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by cwmma 7y ago
depending on accent, those pronunciations can be pretty close
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by cwmma 7y ago
what-wig
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by cwmma 7y ago
in the article you'll note that his log tedious rant on the state of the 'gig economy' is one of his better paying articles he's gotten.
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by cwmma 8y ago
at least the hamburger is physically possible, the beer one was much worse.
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by cwmma 8y ago
at least your paying for a sandwich, I feel like this guy is doing the equivalent of using the bathroom at a Chick-Fill-A and then stealing all the honey on the way out
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by cwmma 8y ago
she was Greek though so probably not a great example
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by cwmma 8y ago
Like maybe a distributed ledger of some sort?
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by cwmma 8y ago
The main thing I miss in physical books is the ability to flip around in them, so while it's technically possible to do this in a kindle, any time there is like a map or something similar in a book I end up just finding a picture of it
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by cwmma 8y ago
How speed limits are enforced in America always bothers me, because there is this great disconnect between planners and everybody else. Planners think of speeds of roads being intrinsic to the design of the road thus if a people are going t
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by cwmma 8y ago
the thing about dead reckoning is that anything less then perfect tends to have degraded usefulness after a while unless supplemented with some outside data to reference again. Now thing about a soldier underground who might be subjected to
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by cwmma 8y ago
you'd need to measure against something, since you probably won't have GPS and dead reckoning probably work very long
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by cwmma 8y ago
that's why you need to set up a lockstep https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-worldbuilding-in-lockstep-is-so-...
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by cwmma 8y ago
I don't know, I'm hearing a lot of buzz with angel investors about this.
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by cwmma 8y ago
Complexity costs of decision making is actually at the core of behavior economics, for instance one of the biggest insights (which sounds really obvious in hindsight) is that people stick to the defaults. You can see this insight everywher
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by cwmma 8y ago
Bananas emit both beta particles (e.g. electrons) and gamma rays
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by cwmma 8y ago
Fun fact: the 13 digit ISBNs are actually UPCs (aka bar codes) but with the country code set to "Bookland" 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland
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by cwmma 8y ago
The ember part is a giveaway too since it's a language that has a small but passionate base you'd expect the person behind it to care about ember. That being said the reasoning doesn't rule out wycats.
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by cwmma 8y ago
On top of that even if they were able to sequence things perfectly the thing they are actually measuring is a very fuzzy thing. Like it's no surprise that one of the test had one twin from England but the other from Scotland/Irel
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by cwmma 8y ago
the other issue was that a module that doesn't import, export or require anything and doesn't specify strict mode will get parsed differently depending on whether it is a CJS or an ESM and their is no in band way of telling which
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by cwmma 8y ago
presumably through the web interface
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by cwmma 8y ago
the $3000 on your own card is actually a perk for some people as it allows you to get credit card points
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by cwmma 8y ago
Boy scouts have been doing this for decades, the rule was you were never to be alone with an adult you weren't related to.
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by cwmma 8y ago
ponzicoin did exactly what it said on the tin https://web.archive.org/web/20180125000227/https://ponzicoin...
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by cwmma 8y ago
> This is only a bad thing if you assume that tax dollars in the government's pocket benefit society more than those dollars in the bank accounts of private individuals. I think that assumption is far to generous to the efficiency o
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by cwmma 8y ago
The thing is, once somebody starts offering incentives, then everybody has to because anyone who doesn't get's left behind so after the dust settles everything is the same except everybody now collects a lot less taxes, it's
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by cwmma 8y ago
this is, in fact, what the article advocates, making it illegal to offer such subsidies and prevent the race to the bottom between jurisdictions.
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by cwmma 8y ago
Why would they switch to PDT year round as opposed to just switching to MST ?
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by cwmma 8y ago
> It doesn't accomplish anything except paying the land lord more money. well yes this is the idea, and then more people want to be land lords to get the sweet sweet rent subsidy money, which ideally would then cause more homes to b

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