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by dictum 8y ago
I'm yet to see a clear explanation for citizens not being as much of a risk as, say, a random foreigner located far away from your country. If anything, a citizen is more capable of carrying out a terrorist attack, or just doing any ac
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My hunch is that because most women had more children (on average) than contemporary women in developed countries, they either had the miscarriage after they'd already given birth to other children, or at an early age, with still plent
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Disclaimers: I have no sympathy for the plight of the incel community, and anyone who even jokingly desires forced/unwanted relationships or rape deserves way worse than just ostracism. Still, I take issue with how the word entitlemen
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Not sure that's a goal of his, but in many countries a candidate will enter the primaries (or the general election, in a minor party) campaigning on a single issue, and then join the government later as a secretary (or minister) to eit
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Skepticism is a rather paradoxical word/concept to imply trust-by-default.
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This debate, like most political debates that touch on philosophy, is amazing but impossible to conduct with the general public. It's the kind of thing you can only discuss with people who are already open to question certain norms.
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It looks a bit like the Domino's Pizza logo (but the whitespace inside the blue area wouldn't bleed so much into the outside, I think) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Domino%27s_pizza_logo.svg
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This is when I spare a thought for people whose job is to moderate user-posted content. None of these pictures have signs of immediate physical violence, but just looking at them and thinking of their possible backstories makes my stomach c
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At what IQ does one act upon the opportunities and circumstances available at present time?
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This is Dongle Inc. we're talking about. These days, hard drives should be outside the iMac chassis, and its internal storage should be SSD only. Fusion Drive is a hack.
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There's something between French leaders and fortune tellers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Anne_Lenormand
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> But on the commercial side, companies are a lot more interested in acquiring the personal, financial, and medical data of the rich That's not what VC's obsession about scale is all about. Volume matters. Millions of poor pa
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> Sketch also can’t do much more design-wise than you can with HTML and CSS, a good thing as it’s too easy to put things into a design with photoshop or illustrator that are a pain to implement. On the other hand, it's a poor replac
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> Play the game well enough. An economic and social system with many games one must play does sound an awful lot like a gambling house. (Edit: substituted "games one must play" for "many games for one to play" — it&#x
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You can state the facts without making a judgment in passing ("This isn't news. At all.") To clarify my comment: saying "this isn't news" is akin to downvoting for disagreement. It questions the conversation it
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by dictum 8y ago
Not to comment on Greenwald personally, but how can you (outside of very cynical nihilism) analyze political/social activities and relationships in depth and not be, to some degree, an activist yourself?
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It's a basic DOM element — a block of content. Without native support, it's simply shown by default, instead of hidden by default, so nothing is broken, and even the default on non-supporting browsers can be changed with JS and CS
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Different teams, but Kenneth Auchenberg of Microsoft had quite a take earlier this year, when the Edge team announced the switch to Chromium. I wouldn't rule out a general attitude of not caring about other browsers/engines for
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> I have often suggested that every comment represents a failure to make the code self explanatory. Part of why Worse Is Better is that relying on self-discipline and a healthy environment is a risky bet. When code comments are presented
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Circular reasoning isn't data, though. "The procedures at companies X, Y and Z are correct because their operations require their procedures to be correct" sounds entirely accurate, but doesn't prove that the procedures
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Books telling women how to behave have always been written. I'm not judging their intentions or consequences, but your conjecture isn't a remote possibility. Men wrote the foundational texts for many religions. Many revered books
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The typeface is inspired by stencil lettering. Puzzling design is definitely not a contemporary trend. It was more common in the 1980-90s, but the style reached its height when CSS wasn't available, most visitors were unfamiliar with t
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by dictum 8y ago
You're right, but community support around a certain pattern often makes it the de-facto practice, so defaults matter even for a non-opinionated library (where "defaults" are essentially what tutorials and thought leaders p
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I know how the sausage is made, so I know that making a full web app work without JS isn't at reach for most teams/products. By knowing how the sausage is made, I'm also aware that the line marking the aforementioned certain
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I recently found out that the sidebar menus on pages within https://developers.google.com/web don't work with JS off (usually a trivial thing: show sub-items by default and hide them with JS). Almost every Alphabet web
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The latest Instagram influencer frontier? Medical promotions(vox.com)
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It's a tale as old as time. https://fablesofaesop.com/the-farmer-and-the-snake.html
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A case of Baader-Meinhof today: I was reading about AltaVista an hour or so before this was posted. (Hyperlink trail: DARPA's Memex -> Memex -> Paul Flaherty)
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Irrespective of motivations/agenda, we can look at the current state of the consumer-facing Internet (the trend continues): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421072
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This is unduly paternalistic: a story is whatever the HN community decides to pay attention to, even if that leaves out important stories or puts a spotlight on minor trivia. > You know what would be an actual story though? If Google u

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