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by dmm 8y ago
js-joda offers a lot more than lightweight native Date type wrappers like date-fns. It offers separate time and date implementations which allows you to more precisely model your problem. The native Date object always consists of a time, d
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by dmm 8y ago
> then why did the governments had to intervene in 2008? To protect the bankers?
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The FBI have trouble compromising iphones despite having unlimited physical access so that isn't true in general. What I'm worried about is closing these holes while preserving the ability to run whatever software I want. And also
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by dmm 8y ago
It would help a lot if full-time meant <20hrs a week. EDIT: As recommended by Keynes.
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by dmm 8y ago
> t's just not something we talk about very openly because it's not socially accepted. It's not openly talked about because it's illegal. The next time a 50yo applies inform him that you're looking for someone un
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by dmm 8y ago
Worst case for social security is that no funding changes are made and payouts stabilize to around 70% of what was promised. Very bad for a lot of people but far from the disaster that is many state's pension systems. Medicare on the o
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by dmm 8y ago
Autism has also been linked to maternal age. Maybe older women just happen to also have more DDT because they had more time to accumulate it or they were alive longer for when DDT was widely used.
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by dmm 8y ago
> Used wisely Federal mandatory spending was $2.5 trillion in 2017. Mandatory spending includes social security, medicare, medicaid, unemploy. comp., veterans benefits, EIC, etc. Interest on the debt was $263 billion. Defense spending wa
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by dmm 8y ago
What does SHTF really look like? An invading army? Some sort of nuclear exchange? Everyone losing their jobs and hyperinflation over the course of weeks/months? What are some examples from history? The Japanese invasion of Manchuria? T
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by dmm 8y ago
1) Should children suffer the mistakes of their parents? It's a question of values. 2) I don't follow what you're trying to say here? If the fed. govt. mandates paternity leave the unfairness will be a bigger issue? Sure but
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by dmm 8y ago
> IMHO, all employees should get the same amount of time off, regardless of whether or not they have children. Parents get more time off than non-parents and that's unfair? That's an understandable perspective but here's
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SCOTUS has ruled that the death penalty _is_ cruel and unusual punishment in many circumstances. For example, in 1980 they ruled that it could only be applied only if it involves a precise and aggravating factor[0]. Louisiana had a law that
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by dmm 8y ago
Lots of leaders are abusive. Steve Jobs would go into meetings and shout at people calling them "fucking dickless assholes". Did you find it similarly remarkable that Apple thrived under Jobs? What's the difference? I can thi
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by dmm 8y ago
I see object detection systems often compared by accuracy percentages but rarely by speed. I ask because I'm building a surveillance system that uses object detection to answer simple questions, like: "Is there a squirrel on my bi
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by dmm 8y ago
Thanks, I was unaware.
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by dmm 8y ago
> Signal You can sideload signal and it works without google cloud messaging. I use signal every day. It works fine. > Firefox You can sideload Firefox or use Fennec from fdroid, a firefox rebuild without proprietary software. > Wh
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by dmm 8y ago
> I can't remove the Google search box from my home screen for example. You can remove it if you disable "Google Play Services" in Settings -> Apps. Of course if you do then can't use the android store or most apps
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by dmm 8y ago
> Would-be whale watchers knew where to go: There’s an app. Judging by the vernacular this is not from 1970.
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by dmm 8y ago
On my Kinesis Advantage I type =+m to change to mac keybindings.
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"Do you think you'll like the next empire better?", dmm asked with a small nod west over the pacific.
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by dmm 8y ago
> most importantly llvm + clang is actually open source (more open) via a MIT license instead of gpl. Being allowed to do more things isn't necessarily freedom. For example, is a society where I can enslave people a freer society? I
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by dmm 8y ago
It's a standard ACPI feature to provide different tables for different operating systems. Computer makers could have enabled S3 for anything not microsoft.
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by dmm 8y ago
Hopefully you don't buy anything that goes on or in your body from Amazon. Fake Dove Soap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17217290 Fake Diapers: https://jenniferlabit.com/2016/07/21&#x2F
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by dmm 8y ago
> The optimum solution is a recumbent bike Recumbents are cool and much faster in some situations but pro cycling exists mainly to sell stuff and upright bikes look cooler.
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by dmm 8y ago
I've run my own email for years and I don't have a serious spam problem despite posting my email everywhere. I get maybe 1-2 spam messages a week. The only spam mitigation I use is greylisting and the zen.spamhaus.org blacklist.
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by dmm 8y ago
If you ask a lay person from any human culture how do you know when a person is dead I think you would get similar answers along the lines of: - no heartbeat - no breath - their body temperature falls to ambient temperature - blood pools on
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by dmm 8y ago
> If we can have self-driving vehicles that are twice as safe as the average human, then they should be allowed on the streets. Coal power plants kill about 100,000 people a year so a reasonable target for nuclear power is 50,000 a year.
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by dmm 8y ago
The GeForce 10 series is 2+ years old and are still selling around MSRP. Is that normal?
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> Wouldn’t a UI in WebAssembly make it impossible to block ads? In the future machine learning will be applied to detect and disable ads visually.
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> If the repository is served ... with Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories set to true(the default is false, thankfully) So you're saying if I explicitly disable an important security feature my system is less secure? No t

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