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by dxdm 6y ago
You seem to be assuming that "contribution to society" should be the only factor when portioning out health care, and that there should be only one "best" proxy to measure such a factor. Why?
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by dxdm 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? I'd expect it to be more complicated than that.
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by dxdm 6y ago
That guy doesn't need additional credit here, and I think he's getting paid in dollars to do this job. I think he's doing a pretty good one, too. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley&
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by dxdm 6y ago
Thanks a lot for explaining your perspective. It's interesting to me, since all the things you mention are not part of my experience at all, despite working with Python a lot. Even diffing, as you said, is easy because of the "ign
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by dxdm 6y ago
Now after reading all of the above, I'm painfully aware that I have no idea whether what you just said is true or random BS. :(
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by dxdm 6y ago
After checking the Wikipedia disambiguation page, I'm assuming that SRS means Spaced Repetition Software here? Clicking through to the next article, "spaced repetition" itself seems to be a flash card based learning technique
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by dxdm 6y ago
> It’s somewhat miraculous how many people in developed countries don’t live that way anymore. Instead of invoking the supernatural, I'd prefer to call it quite fortunate that human ingenuity has allowed us to exploit vast energy so
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by dxdm 6y ago
> entirely different countries currently in the things that matter. I don't know, there seems to be quite some common ground when it comes to food and drink, for example. That's part (and the result) of some shared culture, I&#
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by dxdm 6y ago
> the lack of explicit start/end markers for code blocks is a very unfortunate choice. > It was a bold choice by Python, but in my experience it turned out to be a poor choice Could you explain why? I've heavily used languag
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by dxdm 6y ago
> If those workers were capable of earning enough money to no longer be eligible for public benefits, they would choose to take those jobs instead. It seems weird to me to accept it quasi as a law of nature that large parts of the popula
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by dxdm 6y ago
I think it's also enough to live comfortably in many other cities in almost any country of your choice - Berlin, for example, is well within reach. You can of course insist on living in an expensive place, but maybe it's worth tra
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by dxdm 6y ago
You could also make the argument that old people have seen and lived through more, while young people are impressionable and more prone to following "fads". For example, look at how much support certain ideas had among young folks
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by dxdm 6y ago
No, the expectation of false positives should mean that a positive match is not enough to keep somebody locked up for multiple days.
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by dxdm 6y ago
I just read that old complaint thread you linked to. Sorry you had to deal with that, and thank you for making software for all of us people, polite or not.
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by dxdm 6y ago
I don't get it, how does that answer the question about the economics of lifting fuel into orbit? Could you elaborate your point?
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by dxdm 6y ago
Thank you for mentioning the original title.
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by dxdm 6y ago
It's interesting to me to learn about novel targets for phishing attacks, and it's probably even educational for book authors and other trusting folks to learn that they can be targeted this way. The answer to your second question
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by dxdm 6y ago
> Not virtually. Actually. "virtually" also means "almost", which is what GP was using it for.
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by dxdm 6y ago
This is awesome news! Now I only need to find where I can buy some gold-plated Cat-48kHz network cables.
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by dxdm 6y ago
What's a "spike" in this context? This one's hard to google. I'm assuming something like "area of competence", but a more precise definition would be nice to know.
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by dxdm 6y ago
They have a text-only version of their site. For single articles, just replace the 'www' subdomain with 'text': https://text.npr.org/944594193
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by dxdm 6y ago
Good grief, maybe it's time to change to a different native language! Or if you can't for some reason, you could try if using a less strong word to express your displeasure will actually make you feel less of it and make happier -
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by dxdm 6y ago
I also never use chemistry knowledge for anything, ever. But I find it quite interesting to know a little bit about how matter works, and how it combines into things that make up my body and (hey, let's go there) mind. I had to take an
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by dxdm 6y ago
> Examples: Pocket Wait, pocket is a Mozilla thing? When that first popped up in Firefox, I just assumed they partnered with some business and sold out a little chunk of my data. Now that I'm reading up on it, I see that it's m
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by dxdm 6y ago
(Apparently there was a response to your question already, but it didn't load until after I wrote mine.)
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by dxdm 6y ago
Not GP, but there seems to be a ~8h difference between your comment and the one you were responding to. It's possible the comments they saw then were different from what you saw. For whatever reason you didn't think of that. I agr
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by dxdm 6y ago
> you are being manipulated to not think This is where it crosses from insightful into conspiracy theory territory for me. People seem perfectly capable of groupthink-deluding themselves. Why cheapen your argument by postulating some mas
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by dxdm 6y ago
Why Python version 3.5 specifically?
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by dxdm 6y ago
Are you the guy doing youtube vids on submarine stuff? I like those, but it's unexpected to find you here, snarking over people's spelling. If you're not the guy, I recommend looking him up if you're interested in this s
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by dxdm 6y ago
> Microsoft has a gigantic market share in basically every vertical What's a "vertical" in this context? The article uses it as well, but also doesn't explain. This is the first time I've heard the word used this

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