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by edmccard 10y ago
>How much CO2 could these pump out? There are around 60-80 volcanic eruptions per year; for a total of about 300 million tons of CO2; so all four together, even if they produce twice as much as an average eruption, would account for abou
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by edmccard 10y ago
>For example, is Facebook a web page or a web app? Is this a trick question? :) On the scale from pages to apps, where one end is someone's static geocities page about their cats and the other end is, let's say, github: Faceboo
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>I don't think primitive data structures like a gap buffer are useful anymore. Emacs seems to do just fine with gap buffers. And thinking about algorithms with greater complexity as being less primitive can obscure the fact that the
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by edmccard 10y ago
>humanity is the quality of being humane, or benevolence That's one definition; my dictionary also lists "the human race; mankind; people."
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>do you really think those jobs will return given the cheapness now of solar and natural gas? In the county and state where I live (Somerset County, PA) the majority of coal production is metallurgical, so we are more sensitive to the de
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by edmccard 10y ago
>I think it's fair to argue that it's a tenant of faith for liberals that all conservatives hate gays, hate minorities, hate women, etc. Well, to paraphrase your next sentence: "that these people exist in the Democratic pa
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by edmccard 10y ago
>I don't understand how people who can understand and believe in things like quantum and multiple realities think that the only outcomes our world are strictly binary: Nazism or Progressive Liberalism. That's a bit of a strawma
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The Skeletal Welsh Horse You Must Beat in a Battle of Rhymes(hyperallergic.com)
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by edmccard 10y ago
>> and CurvePreferences to avoid unoptimized curves The key word being unoptimized. In the article, the code snippet has a comment "Only use curves which have assembly implementations" and he mentions that "a client usi
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by edmccard 10y ago
>> Salted cucumbers, sugar, and yogurt might work, but if you count the salt, that’s four ingredients, not three. You might not like the thought of potatoes, mayonnaise and cabbage, but someone has invented a corned beef salad that ha
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by edmccard 10y ago
>It only works when your function returns error of the same type as expression inside 'try!' or '?' macros. So in a lot of cases it doesn't work or forces programmer to return underlying type of error Or you can
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by edmccard 10y ago
>the Kappernick debacle Earlier this year, ESPN had 10 million fewer subscribers than they had in 2013; they lost 1.5 million of them between February and May of this year[1]. That was months before Colin Kaepernick's first anthem p
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by edmccard 10y ago
>The 6502's two-phase clock throws a wrench in direct clock speed comparisons, no? Not really? The two phases are more or less just inverted versions of each other[1], but 1 clock cycle, for the purposes of counting cycles-per-instr
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by edmccard 10y ago
>* It takes way more effort to compose a careful, persuasive comment about political issues on HN and... >* The rest of the tech community does not appreciate thoughtful political commentary on HN Maybe the two are related? If someone
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by edmccard 10y ago
>a few years ago mine started requiring a full set of fingerprints for driver's license renewal. Is it Texas? I think they gave up on that last year: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2015/02/06
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Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change(theatlantic.com)
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by edmccard 10y ago
>How many kids are hospitalized/die from swallowing batteries? For button batteries: poison.org[1] lists 54 fatalities since 1977; the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has a page [2] that mentions "Fifteen children have
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Rust hash iteration+reinsertion: accidentally quadratic(accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com)
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by edmccard 10y ago
>the judge was a member of SDLRLA, an extremely political Latino advocacy organization. The SDLRLA (La Raza Lawyers Association) is a Latino bar association. The NCLR (National Council of La Raza) is the political Latino advocacy organiz
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by edmccard 10y ago
>How does it compare with the great buffalo herds that roamed the plains 200 years ago? There are about 92 million cows and calves in the U.S. today.[1] Estimates for the number of bison at their peak range from 30 million to 60 million.
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by edmccard 10y ago
>When they rise up against you at the ballot box... Fewer votes than Hillary. Fewer votes than Romney's failed 2012 run. Hardly an "uprising".
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Don’t claw back employee options(benkuhn.net)
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by edmccard 10y ago
>It's not the anti-racism, it's the incessant lecturing. Get it? Since when is "linking to another site" some kind of "incessant lecturing"? If you don't want to read stories on theundefeated.com, don&#
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by edmccard 10y ago
FTA: "The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber." Was that not there 15 minutes ago?
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by edmccard 10y ago
>it touches on a great deal of topics ... it's likely still a great resource for keywords, no? What? No. When a source is that biased, then the "list of topics covered" (and the keywords associated with them) do not someho
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by edmccard 10y ago
>In places where great work is being done, the attitude always seems to be critical and sarcastic It can be tricky, though, to be critical and sarcastic without using a jeering tone.[1] [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/s
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by edmccard 10y ago
or funet, or wuarchive
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by edmccard 10y ago
>Baseball players waste 9 of every 10 swings on misses. And swinging a bat is one of the skills baseball players need to use for their job. The comment you replied to was talking about skills that are not going to be used every day. So
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by edmccard 10y ago
>No ill will intended. Is that a new short version of Hanlon's Razor?
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Big Blue Disk (1986-1998) on Internet Archive(archive.org)
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