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by donw 6y ago
I think you're on to something here. There's this sliding scale ranging from "lower taxes, fewer public services" to "higher taxes, more public services". Really, anything on that spectrum is going to be workab
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by donw 6y ago
Nah, I'm pretty much the same online as I am in person. Having to support multiple personalities is just too much work. Moreover, the whole "different person online" thing reminds me pretty strongly of one of the more common
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by donw 6y ago
> I suspect this is why your friend seems like a completely different person online. I disagree, and strongly. Considering a different perspective does not in any way require that you become a different person. You may end up doing so, b
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by donw 6y ago
I recall a lot of coloring, playing outside on a dedicated playground for kindergarteners, and frozen green grapes at snacktime during the summer. Also scheduled naps which I never took. We had tables for coloring and crafts, but not desks,
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by donw 6y ago
Trust is this really funny thing. It takes a long time to build, and but a moment to sacrifice. I believe, down in my sub-cockle area, that Yelp is just going to both show me and not-show me reviews, ratings, and rankings on the basis of &q
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by donw 6y ago
I think a bit of context about `this` is important. Using `this` in a callback -- where you expect your caller to provide your local binding -- is straight-up bad juju. Pass arguments instead. Using `this` in an object instance to namespace
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by donw 6y ago
England and Switzerland come to the top of my mind, I’ll need to dig for a comprehensive list.
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by donw 6y ago
It’s one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer per day, swapping for wine on Sundays. More than I get through, but low for a serious boozer.
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Requiring citizens to keep arms was actually quite common up until the 1800s, with some municipalities actually purchasing firearms for residents, with the expectation that they would be paid back as was manageable.
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by donw 6y ago
> The current (public) system has evolved to be frugal Oh no it hasn't. California averages $12k per student on an annual basis. Illinois averages $15k per student. Both are more than the median for private schools, and in a private
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by donw 6y ago
Goes to show just how much of a cultural phenomenon The Expanse is, in that I read this in a Belter Creole accent.
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by donw 6y ago
More accurately, they have created a crowdsourced digital fish doorman. Which is, incidentally, the name of my next acid jazz band.
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by donw 6y ago
Oh, absolutely. It does prompt the question: what education systems do you favor?
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by donw 6y ago
It depends on what your goals are. We had similar volunteer programs where I grew up. Things were clean enough, but the classrooms were still a mess, and people still threw their trash away on the street for the volunteers to pick up. For A
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by donw 6y ago
I'm not sure how cleaning schools requires the sempai-kohai system...? Besides, while I'm not a fan of the whole sempai-kohai thing, it's not like bullying isn't absolutely rampant in US schools which wholly lack that cu
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by donw 6y ago
I've been asked to step in and take this over for our neighborhood, so I'm learning about this process. Doing so has really showcased one thing that I truly like about Japan: people tend to take care of their communities. This sta
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by donw 6y ago
Right, but they have to look at that data to create those hashes, no?
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by donw 6y ago
Not a lawyer, but if that's true, how could sites like http://haveibeenpwned.com exist?
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by donw 6y ago
I live in Japan, and long ago disabled emergency alerts for earthquakes on my phone... because they trigger whenever somebody closes a door a little too forcefully. The core rule for any alerting system is to trigger if and only if those-to
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by donw 6y ago
> Do you think giving and receiving feedback well is a trainable skill? Absolutely! I've successfully built and run such training. Most things are trainable skills. For example, I'll never be able to run as fast as Usain Bolt,
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by donw 6y ago
Not sure why're you're being downvoted. The common name for this is Gell-Mann Amnesia[1], and is casually observable. Pick any field where you would be considered by the layperson to be a subject-matter expert. Then, go and consum
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by donw 6y ago
While I don't think you should be downvoted, the reality is that there are a lot of people that think they want open and honest advice or criticism, but will respond very poorly when they actually receive anything of the sort. This is
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by donw 6y ago
> The brilliance of her product is basically marketing. I was glad when my sister said, “I am eating to many of her frozen dinners. I’m beginning to think they are not good for me?” My food philosophy is simple: I use the most basic ingr
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Ask HN: How do you host your mailing lists?
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by donw 6y ago
I think a better answer is to first build a pricing model that your customers can understand. AWS pricing works well, because it aligns with how sysadmins and operations folks used to -- and still do! -- buy hosting space and datacenter res
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by donw 6y ago
I'm with you on this one, right up until the last two versions of OSX. Stability seems to have gone right out the window, with my machine crashing on a daily basis. It really doesn't like being plugged and unplugged from its Thund
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by donw 6y ago
I don't think so. My father taught English, and had a long-standing rant about how universities since about the 80s or so produced writers that were amazingly talented at using a thousand words to say absolutely nothing.
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What would you change to make screenplays better from a design perspective?
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I honestly love the “ja!” brand, though. It looks basic, but not shameful, and with the bonus that I can go to REWE and buy myself a liter and a half of “YES!” (with or without bubbles!)
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by donw 6y ago
Not the parent poster, but I'll take a stab at this. I'd wager that the parent poster doesn't have any sort of direct relationship with the local pet shelter: there's no contract, or handshake agreements, nothing like th

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