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by edmccard 9y ago
>still I find it strictly better to have a part of the population with access to life extension than nobody with access to it. But that's already the case. There are people right now who will live longer than others because they h
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by edmccard 9y ago
>People on welfare have access to better healthcare than the richest person on Earth did 50 years ago. They have access to pocket computers and communication systems far more powerful than the military could have afforded 50 years ago. W
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by edmccard 9y ago
>But isn't insane that things like life extension and genetic engineering are becoming a victim to this? I wouldn't have even thought these issues were controversial or political. You don't think there are any political ra
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by edmccard 9y ago
> Breaking it up allows each sentence to be reshared more easily, which seems like it has interesting possibilities. That's not a result of the length restriction; it's how quoting works -- right here in this very comment, I&#x
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This Is How Hummingbirds Drink(theatlantic.com)
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by edmccard 9y ago
>I'm disagreeing with the premise that because someone doesn't speak up, they must agree with the status quo What do you think about the notion of "the standard you walk past is the standard you accept?" >They simp
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by edmccard 9y ago
>The population stands at 7.68 million ... in 2000, it was 6.7 million. So that's about a 14% growth rate since 2000, compared to Houston's 35% growth in the same time period (3.4 to 4.6 million). And I've heard that Houst
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by edmccard 9y ago
> Subgenii annoy me, because they do tend to make everything a joke They've even got a slogan about that.[1] [1] http://subgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Slogans
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by edmccard 9y ago
Arch linux 4.12.8-2 came out in August.
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by edmccard 9y ago
>an analogy to machine learning neural nets, so the analogy is not biological. Except that "neural nets" are only "neural" by a (biological) analogy to neurons. So he is describing a biological phenomemon by compariso
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by edmccard 9y ago
Who says he's comparing it to anything? Maybe the remark is not about contrasting capitialism to some other system, but more about comparing its purported benefits to its actual outcome.
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by edmccard 9y ago
>That’s because having a freeze in place should block Equifax from being able to ask you the four KBA questions. My father put a freeze on all three agencies when the news of the breach came out. Today, I tried to help him sign up for in
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by edmccard 9y ago
>A language that avoided it would have to be very close to C while making it only mildly more difficult to foot shoot. Says who? A language where every single memory access did NOT have the potential to be a buffer overflow would be mu
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by edmccard 9y ago
>Nobody would criticize assembly for letting you shoot yourself in the foot, C is much the same. But I bet they would criticize programs for being written in assembly, if they didn't need to be. If you could have a language with a
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by edmccard 9y ago
>...(gap buffer and piece table) don't seem well suited to operations that affect the entire buffer With a gap buffer, you can just move the gap to the beginning (or end -- whichever is closer) of the buffer, and you'll have th
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by edmccard 9y ago
>with a conservative bent ... what are the chances Cloudflare will wake up one morning and shut me down >are they willing to abide by their role as utility? I can remember when the conservative position was to support freedom of assoc
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by edmccard 9y ago
"We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume!"
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by edmccard 9y ago
Very off-topic: ... At the Ramada Inn in Tuscaloosa I sat outside by the swimming pool about five o’clock one afternoon ... It looks like the illustration at the top is supposed to depict this part of the story, but I wonder why an arti
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by edmccard 9y ago
I think the point is not that some news outlets are doing sloppy reporting in exchange for eyeballs, but that all of them -- even those that used to be able to trade on their reputation for good reporting -- now have to chase the same e
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by edmccard 9y ago
> Would you still want it gone if it caused a net gain in proficient engineers, but a net loss in total engineers? Do you have any reason to believe that arrogance and proficiency are correlated?
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by edmccard 9y ago
>If we allow that conflation, it then becomes more difficult or requires more words to express what "begging the question" really is. By analogy with Huffman coding, the meanings that are used less often should require more w
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by edmccard 9y ago
>if you have got the time to cement over barracks for 1000 people surely you have time to pack up! FTA: "a concrete floor laid by the Romans about 30 years after the barracks was abandoned" So the people covering it up were pro
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by edmccard 9y ago
>...tickets for RustFest are more expensive for people who don’t belong to an underrepresented group. Have you ever used a discount that was available only for "new customers"? EDIT: I see that 'Manishearth pointed out tha
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by edmccard 9y ago
The "Z-Machine Standards Document"[1] has an appendix[2] with a very brief summary of the history of the Z-Machine; several of the other sections have tables (for the opcodes, and header formats, etc) with "V" or "V
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by edmccard 9y ago
See also "I, Libertine"[1], which started out as a joke (by Jean Shepherd of "A Christmas Story" fame) and made it on to the bestseller list before it had even been written. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by edmccard 9y ago
why the equal and greater negative stereotypes against women in law, medicine, etc were completely powerless They weren't powerless; it took several class-action lawsuits and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints in the
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by edmccard 9y ago
>Because that's how you transform a recursive call into an iterative one, not nested for loops. I came to understand recursion through nested for-loops, though, but that might just be a historical accident. In the summer of 1988 I h
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by edmccard 9y ago
>The top 10% of income earners pay 90% of the taxes? Nope. According to several sources[1][2], the top 10% earn ~40% of total income and pay ~70% of total taxes, while the top 25% earn ~70% and pay ~90%. [1] https://www.mercatu
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by edmccard 9y ago
>It seems like the officer forgot to turn on his body camera while originally finding the drugs FTA: "So maybe this was a reenactment based on a true story. This scenario, which is where I would place my money ..." It'
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by edmccard 9y ago
>do I need to do something to turn it on? I think it doesn't display if your profiles take less than 500ms to load. EDIT: Just tested with a clean profile with the line "Start-Sleep -m xxxx" for various values of xxxx, and

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