daltonlp

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by daltonlp 6y ago
Hi! I bought your game a couple days ago :) - The music is excellent. - There are some really nice visual touches (screen shake, the expand/fade enemy death) - Switching apps on android restarts the game! Critical blocking
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by daltonlp 6y ago
That's a very nice tool! I attempted something similar ( https://nicediff.com ), and found the textual approach to be basically useless: Tax form example: https://www.nicediff.com/view/7a5f41ba3c76ae9bb
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by daltonlp 6y ago
> I believe it's highly unlikely that they'd lie so directly. That's why lying so directly works so well! In their T&C page, the "Removal of Content" section (6A) says they remove content, or portions thereof
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by daltonlp 6y ago
Those sound like perfectly legal words. A stripe customer is free to tell Stripe "Your fees are too high, and I'd prefer switching processors than raising prices". I could be wrong. Is there an example of an illegal cartel,
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by daltonlp 6y ago
Hey, that's great! Can you help me decipher the difference between the PlaceKeys "zzw-222" and "222-222"? I'd love to know what those stand for on the user end.
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by daltonlp 6y ago
You can use this code to make your own placekeys, without the API: https://github.com/Placekey/placekey-py/blob/4b63d090b1082c4...
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by daltonlp 6y ago
Are you sure? It looks you started using to this slogan in 2019. Prior to that, it was "Work Happy": https://web.archive.org/web/20181116030147/https://www.paymo... But there was at least one
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by daltonlp 6y ago
> The nuke was not "armed" and had lots of fail-safe devices to ensure it would never go off. Whew! Though in fairness, the rocket wasn't supposed to explode in the silo either. A good book about the incident is Command an
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by daltonlp 6y ago
This book pairs with "Into That Darkness" by Gitta Sereny. A semi-biography of the commandant of Treblinka, based on interviews with him.
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by daltonlp 6y ago
Just gonna leave this here :) http://www.daltonlp.com/de/
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by daltonlp 6y ago
That invisible inflection point in a company's growth, where the prevailing attitude switches from "we succeed or fail together" to "I could still succeed, even if you fail." This is the earlier post, BTW: https:&#
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by daltonlp 6y ago
There's an extension for that :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
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by daltonlp 6y ago
Direct link to the live editor: https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid-live-editor Another diagram-from-text tool: https://www.diagram.codes/
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by daltonlp 7y ago
There's a nifty interactive tool for playing with costs! https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54351 I gave it a whirl. There are some built-in constraints. For instance, you can't take away minuteman missiles.
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by daltonlp 7y ago
His "Uncle Tungsten" is in my lifetime top 10 favorite books. It is ridiculously amazing.
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by daltonlp 7y ago
You are not the only one. This piece is almost a self-parody. Here's a quote: Get him started on the subject, ale in hand at The Garden Gate, or on those rare occasions he called in to correct a glib host on talk radio, and Van Alle
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by daltonlp 7y ago
> I do think that the US government propagandizes inside, and outside all the time and has done so continuously, since the birth of the modern communication era. This is a valid point, and one that deserves focused thought. Because it&
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by daltonlp 7y ago
> Because laws in this area are often vague, I can see that dragonfly would apply varying levels of censorships "Vague" is a neutral way of putting it. The laws are "whatever the party declares today. Also, whatever the p
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by daltonlp 7y ago
This isn't a flame piece. This is what journalism looks like. This sort of elbow-throwing happens at every level of reporting, from local ordinances on garbage collection to international politics. > 100's of millions of do
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by daltonlp 8y ago
William Manchester is about the only writer who comes near Robert Caro. If you liked The Power Broker, you may want to read his American Caesar , or The Arms of Krupp. The Private Life of Chairman Mao is another tremendous account of
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by daltonlp 8y ago
http://www.colr.org/ does something very similar.
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by daltonlp 8y ago
You're saying the "pointless legislation" had a point. Just not one that you agree with. This is a guess, but I suspect the point had to do with data privacy. Maybe someone wrote legislation that prohibits public websites
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by daltonlp 8y ago
> Hopefully the US military will be able to upgrade the nuclear triad in time to maintain MAD and eliminate this potential threat. I consider MAD to be a greater threat. We are talking about extinguishing all human life. Some reference
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by daltonlp 8y ago
"Backbone all day." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13944631 Choose a stable foundation. Think about the tradeoffs, and accept them. There is much beauty and satisfaction in using a framework that is straig
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by daltonlp 9y ago
Some fun facts and thoughts: - Seuss sought input on the book from his acquaintance, marine General Victor H. Krulak. - Like The Lorax , the story is structured as a tale from an older generation to a modern one, where the younger characte
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by daltonlp 9y ago
The article links to https://founderbliss.com/ , which has no site. The author's linkedin profile links to http://bliss.ai , which is a domain placeholder in Chinese. A google search yields http://
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by daltonlp 9y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775647.The_Private_Life_...
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by daltonlp 9y ago
This is totally anecdotal, but I want to post it here. In 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, the math curriculum was extremely boring. Lots and lots of repetitive basic operations. Day after day. But all around the edge of the room was optional
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by daltonlp 10y ago
Also excellent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187234-wolf-boys
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by daltonlp 10y ago
That's certainly not true. The fundamental "strategy" of the cold war, specifically the production of ~70,000 nuclear weapons, was about ensuring that no aggressor would survive. Submarine-launched missles are the primary

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