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by danaliv 9y ago
> blood loss from periods ...is a whopping 10-35 mL per period—hardly enough to cause a nutrient deficiency.
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by danaliv 9y ago
A jerk is someone who borrows your car and doesn't pay for the dent he puts in the bumper. What happened at Uber was the creation of one of the most insanely hostile work environments in living memory, where flouting not just the law,
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by danaliv 9y ago
Is there a difference in heat-resistance between the bacteria and the spores?
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by danaliv 9y ago
Funny; it's always reminded me of Pascal.
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by danaliv 9y ago
> code in Go tends to be easy to read, uniform, very well suited to work on in a team This was not my experience working on a moderately sized Go codebase. In fact, it was one of the messiest agglomerations I've ever had the displ
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by danaliv 9y ago
> most people who argue about generics, do not write go and probably wouldn't touch it even if it had generics. I wrote Go at work for two years and the lack of generics made me want to scream on a near-hourly basis.
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by danaliv 9y ago
> "if you trust such and so (i.c. Alex Jones), you're a moron a priori." This type of reasoning should be discouraged A fine position on its face in the general case, but let's be real here: if you trust Alex Jones
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by danaliv 9y ago
> Atmosphere acting as radiation shield? Does Mars have much atmosphere to speak of? The figure on Wikipedia is that surface pressure is a measly 0.6% of mean sea level pressure on Earth. And there's no magnetosphere at all.
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by danaliv 9y ago
"…users now have the ability to turn off all forms of auto-play, including silent videos. " (Emphasis added.)
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by danaliv 9y ago
None of this solves the fundamental problem with ad-centered revenue models, which is that advertising has driven down the quality of content by forcing sites to optimize for cheap clicks. Even if you're blocking ads, you're still
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by danaliv 9y ago
I think the problem with the "calories in < calories out" idea is that while it's not necessarily untrue, it's too simplistic to be useful. It's a bit like saying, well, if you'd just stop putting cocaine up
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by danaliv 9y ago
Immigrants don't just "take" jobs. Their presence also creates new ones. It's not as though people come here, go to work, and then never put money into the economy.
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by danaliv 9y ago
> London and other major global cities have formed something almost akin to the science fiction concept of a breakaway civilization. They are their own global meta-nation. Meanwhile the interior and rural districts… Almost, except that
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by danaliv 9y ago
I was told by my sailing instructor, with tongue slightly in cheek, that a yacht is a boat you can sleep on.
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by danaliv 9y ago
If you're in management, you're responsible for these things. You don't get to be "just" a technologist when you're in a leadership position. You're responsible for the well-being of everyone who works for
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by danaliv 9y ago
Indeed, I was taught very clearly that civil disobedience includes accepting punishment, and that this is a very, very important facet of it. (Noted not to dispute your point about civics education, but to stress this to other people who ma
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by danaliv 9y ago
Watch this and get back to us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
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by danaliv 10y ago
Then don't waste your time. The point is, a public post like this reads badly.
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by danaliv 10y ago
Being publicly critical of a former employer like this, unless you're talking about major ethical issues, seems like a bad move. There's just no way to do it without it coming across as sour grapes. If you have constructive critic
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by danaliv 10y ago
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
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by danaliv 10y ago
When I was little my dad would always treat spiders with care and respect. I'm glad he did, because now as a grown-up I find them sort of adorable. Don't get me wrong, I don't want them in my bed, but when I see one at home m
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by danaliv 10y ago
Fun little bit of trivia: those slots in the wheels are Morse code, and they spell out "JPL." The original design had the letters JPL emblazoned on the wheels but they felt this was a little too tooting-your-own-horn, so they made
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by danaliv 10y ago
> I don't see why you aren't responsible if you lend your car to someone else. Are you serious? Because he wasn't the one speeding. If I lend you a screwdriver and you stab someone with it, should I go to prison?
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by danaliv 10y ago
Oh man, do I feel this. I started programming in the late '80s and it really was a creative exercise. Now you just string together other people's stuff and call it a day. Lower barrier to entry is better for the world overall, but
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by danaliv 10y ago
> How (learning) Go made you better programmer? It didn't. Go offers nothing that a dozen other languages haven't already offered, and fails to include important features that are standard in every other modern language. It i
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by danaliv 10y ago
The question was whether people should expect to be paid less if they de-locate than they would if they stayed in/near SF.
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by danaliv 10y ago
And it's the number one way you're going to get injured. Keep your seatbelt buckled, even when the sign is off.
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by danaliv 10y ago
Sure, but it'd be nice not to have everything in the known universe depend on JavaScript.
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by danaliv 10y ago
Whoever named this company has literally never spoken to a woman.
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by danaliv 10y ago
Ah, funny, I was just reading about Kotlin yesterday. I haven't tried it but it looks interesting!

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