cwmma

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   by cwmma 8y ago

   There's a quote to the extent of "the US never lost a battle in the Vietnam, but still lost the war" which is probably what they were getting at, which just honestly proves the point that America was really optimizing for the
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   I have to wonder, about the different levels of reported contact, how much is actual VCs over estimating how much they contact they have with companies, and how much is that the VCs who actually responded to the survey were possibly atypica
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   If they were going to do a subset of ZIP files, then they should have prohibited some of the weirder quirks of the format such as files being deleted 'in place' and multiple central directories (the valid one is the last one)
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   the principle of parsimony is just that, given equal evidence one way or the other, the simpler explanation (flight only evolved 1 time in birds) is more likely then the more complex one (birds gained flight, lost it, then gained it again).
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   This seems to say that forests were gone, so all tree dwelling birds died out and thus all modern birds are descended from ground dwelling birds. Looking at the paper [1] it seems to only say 'reduced flight capacity' which makes
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   Not shape, Brazil and Greenland are both distorted
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   It's a reference to the Mexico City Policy[1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_policy
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   I think you are confusing it with this bench https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jamacia-pond-bench
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   by cwmma 8y ago

   I run a bot swarm that tweets transit delays in Boston and this has been affecting some of the most prolific accounts (i.e. the one that tweets bus delays), that being said, it's been super easy to get them reactivated and I havn'
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    I've never used a heated bidet or put another way I have had no problem with cold water shock.
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    I think you're downplaying the shit show that was XHTML. It was the epitome of standards people chasing the ideal of a perfect platonic ideal of a standard at the cost of actual usability. E.G. a single parse error in an XHTML document
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    I loved using bidet's in Europe and about a year ago learned that they are not actually expensive, I got one for like $20 that I was able to install myself and I can not recommend it more highly.
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    So according to wikipedia [1] they have been looked into, they would fall under the category of MACHOs 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Baryonic_matter
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    British isn't actually the closest to the root, American English is actually far more conservative then British English, for instance the dropping of Rs seen most places besides American English is actually an innovation.
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    The JS api is more of an SDK so it doesn't expose urls or anything and doesn't have all the features of the site. There are url endpoints but they are pretty limited and I'd highly doubt it's dog fooded.
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    you'd need a very thick bagel
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    Yeah about that... you're about 17 tokens away there.
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    Patent in case anyone is curious https://encrypted.google.com/patents/US9817662
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    It wasn't a policy it was a spam heuristic
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    According to some people I knew who worked there, they were owned by Samsung
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    I wonder if that's in effect yet ?
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    you sure about that? the Wikipedia page on Afilias doens't list IO as one of their domains, and the Wikipedia page on .io says tje 'Internet Computer Bureau' runs it, with them also running the .sh and .ac domains.
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    Are you in the north east, if so then you're probably right because in the north east winter is so cold that being homeless is rarely a 'rational' choice, but on the west coast where things are a little milder the the calculu
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    Since we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a good hacker news formatted that works with quantum?
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    It took an embarrassedly long amount of time for me to notice this was on chrony website. Might be better described as 'things chroney has, it's competitors don't have and may or may not be important.'
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    or it could be pages that mention the people link to the articles
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    I work in Boston MA which has this problem since it annexed a couple different other munis and didn't change the street names, so there are 2 different twin addresses to my work address, not a big deal except for the fact that for some
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    For many of my apps, the main reason the core isn't open source is simply because there is too much stuff specific to how we deploy, our deploy target, and specific workflows in the app to be generally useful. It's pretty understa
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    though it also suggests that a 'social-networking system' can be interpreted very broadly
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    by cwmma 9y ago

    If you want more information, somebody wrote a PhD thesis on this very topic http://wiumlie.no/2006/phd/