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by dev_dull 7y ago
Time heals all wounds, except of course wounds preserved in digital formaldehyde.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Personally I reserve the unalienable right to change my mind. What do you do when you’re wrong?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> It's simple. Don't say ignorant things on the internet, especially when it's tied into your real life identity. Kind of like saying “People who go to prison just shouldn’t commit crimes.” I don’t believe in making a ca
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I’m okay with internet rot and you should be too. I’m not sure where we got the idea that “our data must be preserved forever”. This can be especially harmful for teens and young adults whose indiscretions now follow them forever. Think of
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Every language should just have a go fmt. Go showed us a better way. All languages should copy this design.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> in the original order I agree with most of what you said, but so many albums include awful filler music between hit songs. This was one of the reason mp3 downloads became so popular. Everybody knew record companies were just adding f
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Do you live in the Bay Area?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I was a little surprised when traveling in India the first time and I got a soda. They expect you to wait and give them back the glass bottle once you’re done. This was at a local stand, of course there’s plastic bottles elsewhere. At first
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Digging holes through mountains etc is easy. Getting bureaucrats to approve wildlife impact surveys? Now there’s a challenge.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Unix time is the number of seconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC > If I wait exactly one second, Unix time advances by exactly one second > Unix time can never go backwards I think it’s okay to say that these things are gen
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Another option other than malicious intent is that people are choosing to live this way even though they know it makes them unhappy. Where is the pressure to live differently? It used to come from family and community.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Just because something is regulated doesn’t mean it’s safe and definitely doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed. For example, US social security funds are solvent until 2035 according to our own government accounting[1]. 1. https://www.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Such as an employee sponsored 401k?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Even within the comments I’m seeing “fossil fuel subsidy” amounts jump around. Besides, are basic “all business” subsidies included in that number, such as depreciation? How much of it is specifically for fossil fuels
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Or, more likely, most people don’t think the situation is as dire as certain politicians and costal elites make it out to be.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I hate to break it to you, but Twitter is fairly meaningless to almost everyone in the world except a specific type of people in coastal cities.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> However, looking more closely at the data for the students who started learning after the age of 20, there are a lot of late learners who outperformed many native English speakers. Anyone who has been around expats and their children
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Does anybody know the oldest version of Photoshop you can buy and not license? Can you still buy the software second hand?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
That article specifically says they’re not “healthy” per se: > Thousands of trees in the city, assessed by the contractor Amey as dying, diseased or dangerous, have been axed.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I really hated that. It’s a system that punished people who were trying to do the right thing.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Better option is to find cities impounding abandoned scooters and auctioning them off. They can be repurposed with a new IC from China.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
What an awful article. Not a single mention of required setback laws at play in virtually every major city? We're required to keep 25 feet of setback. That means 25 feet of dead grass, water-guzzling lawn, or some mixture of other thin
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> There are lots of bottom feeders and IBMs spectacular age is legacy entrenchment, not a magic sauce. This can actually be said of almost every “modern” technology now and hot startup now.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Lately this seems to be virtually every story related to “spygate” from the times. One persons “scoop” is another powerful person’s attempt to shape narrative.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Pretty amazing you could even reset it. If that happened on iOS you’d be out of luck.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I guess it depends on if it was an honest mistake or gross negligence. I don’t think people should be fired for mistakes. I also don’t think everyone should be trusted with important tasks.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Discovery of all the certs is what I think is the harder problem.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
It’s funny to me that people talk about this limitation as if it were some kind of virtue.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Increasingly partisan news media made possible by more fragmented media (first cable, then the Internet) Isn’t the entire mainstream media owned by only like 6 corporations[1]? https://www.google.com/amp/s/a
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I’m not sure I agree. When they debated how our democracy should function, they were actually quite aware of the power of the mob. How easily swayed and passionate people can become. They built safeguards for it everywhere . But at the end

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