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by dev_dull 8y ago
Definitely not without side effects. Loss of pain sensation in parts of the body (such as the knee) can be really scary and potentially lead to permanent damage if the pain feedback loop doesn’t report that it’s being twisted or stressed.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> The White House would do better to focus on areas where the US has legitimate grievances with China, such as intellectual property abuse, not shipments of steel. Not really. He’s smart in doing precisely the opposite. The people who
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Honestly who cares? Using the same asinine reasoning means that NY will also lose all of that money of Amazon chooses another location. Your state can compete or not. It’s a market and there’s 50 players. If having Amazon there is such a
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> Just like Gmail, SpamAssassin isn't the perfect filter for everybody right out of the box; it's really a framework that can be used to create that filter. I find gmail to be about 99% accurate “out of the box”. With today’s
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Probably similar laws and penalties as if you flooded a drivers eyes with lasers.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> And since we’re asked about it occasionally, the lasers we use are well under the eye safety limit and have been certified as Class 1 eye-safe lasers by third party labs. Oh geeze. I’ve never even considered the fact that there’s a p
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by dev_dull 8y ago
This is a really good example of an uncanny valley. Things like two staircases side-by-side of different sizes just looks... strange, even though there’s technically nothing wrong with it.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> The phenomena goes beyond just clothes, and includes makeup and grooming as well. There are many, many grooming products available for men with socially acceptable use, yet that market is much smaller compared to women. Even if th
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> There are darknet firms that independently verify that an exploit is real (staking their reputation that they won't take it and run once shown), and then open it to the market. Is this really a thing? Who are these firms and wha
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by dev_dull 8y ago
People did do it. It just wasn’t yet on enough people’s radars.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
My thought as well. This wasn’t some awesome arbitrage algo, but rather buy and hold arbitrage that requires the price to go up. Why not just bet it all on black?
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by dev_dull 8y ago
It’s going to create a legal challenge played out in courts, which would answer the question “who does the 14th amendment apply to and under what circumstances?” I don’t think it would create any executive order jurisprudence.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> The CIA does appear to have lucked out when it comes to Russia. The Intelligence Agency ring fences its Russian activities and the report states that intel chiefs were quick to harden up its Russian communications channel at the first
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> I’ve never personally felt anyone hugely opposed to hunting either, unless it some how conflicted with how they feed themselves. I think if you decided to test this theory, with say a picture of yourself with a buck on Facebook or tw
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Good reading for people with this worldview (which at one time included myself): “Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports”[1] “ https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/cultivated-disinterest-in-prof...
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> In Cali, nobody really cared about Thanksgiving, and certainly did not think to care that some people might be alone during this festive time. So true. The west coast in general seems it would rather spend a holiday alone with the in
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Sounds smart and tactical. I guess there’s a reason he’s one of the richest people in history.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Good article. The lede is definitely not buried: > Its purpose 150 years ago was to incorporate former slaves into the nation Initially I scoffed at the idea that an executive order could even attempt rescind this amendment. Reading ab
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by dev_dull 8y ago
The troubling part of this article (and especially the comments) is how easy it is to be labeled “anti science” today when questioning certain studies. I’d hate to think our culture is causing us to lose the required academic rigor to mak
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> However the Belgian government and security services were kept in the dark, something which the federal prosecutor’s report described as “exceptional between EU states, and something that could lead to a diplomatic incident.” Seems a
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Did they stagnate? Isn’t Japan one of the most advanced and prosperous countries in history? And this despite being hit with two atomic bombs even...
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> Some analysts see it as yet another indicator that rural Canada is not only struggling, but slowly decoupling from the country’s thriving urban cores. Sad story heard in a lot of towns around the US as well. What can a town do when
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by dev_dull 8y ago
It’s like they select a box for “maximum liability protection” not realizing some of it provides no protection at all
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by dev_dull 8y ago
They tolerate it because it’s largely unenforceable.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
For now.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
I’m glad I’m not the only one. When I inherited some “production notebooks” (if that’s a thing) I couldn’t believe it was nearly impossible to do basic things such as test and review changes (via version control).
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> It used to be the deal was you'd take a below market salary plus options, and the company would either IPO or go out of business in a reasonable time. It’s actually an interesting thing you mention. I’d you take a below-market r
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by dev_dull 8y ago
Are they doing anything illegal?
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by dev_dull 8y ago
From here on out I want static, compiled binaries from every new programming language.
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by dev_dull 8y ago
> No, because these are not symmetric operations. There is nothing mathematically impossible about bug free software. To me this is like saying there’s nothing mathematically impossible about a perfect vacuum. There’s always something

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