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by dictum 9y ago
I'd ask how come nobody ran a money laundering scheme with those collectibles, but then, anyone who succeeds in a money laundering scheme isn't exactly aching to tell the story. Maybe that's a testament to the work of the IRS
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Discussions of "PC" fill me with existential dread, but here's my anecdata: I've seen a good share of rude and disrespectful people who chalk it to being "un-PC", and I've seen a good share of people who t
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Russia pretty much wrote the hypothetical NSA worst-case into law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law > Most of the act's amendments came into effect on 20 July 2016. Amendments that require telecom o
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Election fraud in the 1800s involved kidnapping and forced drinking (2016)(atlasobscura.com)
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I can already see the antennas being harmonized into scrap metal.
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Oh well, I remember fondly that one time I had an important deadline whooshing by (with that lovely sound Douglas Adams knew) and I happened across this cute little bug: http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/
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An study on the subject: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236002770_Face_to_F...
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Why are new cars angry-looking? (2014)(roadandtrack.com)
3 points by dictum 9y ago|1 comments
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It's more that all the optimizations and strategies which apply to a browser built to hold many open tabs at once, support many standards and protocols and quirks etc. must be loaded into memory for a simple application that is not a b
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When it's about UI design, you know the advice is good when you see a lot of comments panning it on HN ;) I just have two nitpicks: different font sizes are not a problem as long as the hierarchy is clear (i.e. sizes not seemingly chos
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While it doesn't violate your argument (freedom of association) I'm less happy about how this isn't specifically about what's published in Medium: the criteria is specific individuals: "We do not allow posts or acco
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If I were discussing the politics of taxi regulation, I'd be ashamed of my comment. But I'm not. It's a general observation on the difficulty of defining what is ethical and how even those who call for ethics can have differe
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> that's why politics isn't a solved problem There's another problem: under certain viewpoints, it's unethical to not send the bastards to a concentration camp, gulag, etc.
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Oh, reading it again, I agree with you. I had read your comment as if you were translating the original comment, but it's actually replacing the original terms to make the phrase more accurate.
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My intent isn't name calling. I saw treis's comment and thought it fitting not in the literal terms, but in spirit: that you can communicate issues without personal attacks. I still agree with that comment and stand by the message
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This has been pointed out here before, but that's not entirely inaccurate for a significant number of users, whose stack is: - Entering a query that is sent to Google by one of many channels (google.com, browser omnibox, Android omnibo
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It's a lot harder to offer your service for free (80% of "better" here) when you don't run a highly vertically integrated and dominant advertising system.
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> If you're going to take a dump on the street, litter or shoot up drugs and leave your gross needle laying around, that absolutely should 100% be illegal. Please think about the implications of this well-meaning proposal. If you ma
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You hope to become a boss in time to watch the corporate reorg in which the scenario will have you as the boss, and your brainchild AI as the AI researcher.
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Both of you are speaking of granular points that ultimately lose to immediate, local concerns. One side says some variant of bigots, the other some variant of coastal elites.
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The media did not create the situations you listed, but it did create a lot of "get a load of this guy" pieces about him exactly when he wanted them most: when he was the kooky loudmouth unlikely to be nominated.
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I refuse to give up comments too. For personal projects, I prefer to keep comments outside the code as much as possible, in separate documentation files, so I can read more code vertically (no comment folding solution ever fit my needs). Fr
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> if in 50 years you still want to be wearing plaid, drinking craft beer, and listening to lcd soundsystem At risk of playing armchair psychologist, this is something I notice in American debates on diversity: people seem to be looking f
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Somehow the first substitution makes the analogy more arrogant. Whereas the original comment ultimately refers to those who are qualified for engineering jobs ("engineers") the substitution suggested here implies the engineer mi
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> It was fantastic until someone told the VP, and the VP asked me if I was actually doing that, whereby they informed me that it was corporal punishment and absolutely against the rules Funny how being told to perform physical activity i
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> In Norway, cooking, nutrition and house work is a subject in school called heimkunnskap (Home knowledge) In the US, the equivalent subject was called Home Economics, and was focused on women. This article goes through the history of th
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> For instance, our standard arithmetic algorithms are somewhat bizarre - they are the end result of a human process of codifying arithmetical thinking, designed with the extra goal of using as little of precious 17th-century ink as poss
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There's only so much you can get with good tiling. I used to not care about the aspect ratio debate until I started increasing font sizes in my applications. My eyesight is still good, but being able to work farther from the screen fee
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The title clearly qualifies the claim: "MacOS may lose data _on APFS-formatted disk images_ " I didn't know there were APFS-formatted disk images (new in 10.13). Even when you consider the many different kinds of disk images

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