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by evan_ 6y ago
they might also be able to get their hands on a copy of the white pages
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by evan_ 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply you had. We're all trying to figure this out together.
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by evan_ 6y ago
There might not be. The USDA is a ghost town. Trump’s Ag Secretary abruptly (and possibly illegally) moved all of the research to Kansas City and a huge number of scientists didn’t make the move. https://www.npr.org/2019&#x2
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by evan_ 6y ago
It isn’t really even clear that it is an attack...
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by evan_ 6y ago
What if the money collected for the theoretical tax on sugar-containing products went directly to subsidize the sugar producers? Then again just ditching the subsidies would get the same thing done with less paperwork...
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by evan_ 6y ago
The premise is that this would be pasted in its entirety into a reply to a usenet or listserv post, with the text of the appropriate line- or lines- modified from "( )" to "(x)". The implication is that amateur calendari
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by evan_ 6y ago
how about we just do away with months altogether. One or two days per year that aren't in a month would be weird but 365ish days should be fine, right?
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by evan_ 6y ago
there's nothing stopping anyone from building that right now- a private twitter account (e.g. @_celebrity) that only allows certain subscribers to follow, and an API that republishes tweets to the real account (@celebrity) after a time
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by evan_ 6y ago
they get more quality filters, such as the ability to only see replies from other verified users, or only users who have verified phone numbers
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by evan_ 6y ago
DMs from fans are probably not the interesting thing, DMs between personal friends would be far more interesting because they would contain information the person was trying to keep from the public. Hackers might publish 99% real content wi
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by evan_ 6y ago
Here's the reason I think it would be a problem for an imaginary, abstract incubator (because I don't think YCombinator actually does have this) to have a rule "To apply here you need to have alive parents, who like you, with
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by evan_ 6y ago
can't really do that if your parents share an 800 square foot public housing apartment with your sister and her kids. or if they're in prison, or dead, or abusive, or they threw you out for not conforming to their religious choice
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by evan_ 6y ago
I do think that's important. I practice that by writing readable, well-formatted code, commenting liberally, and avoiding "too-clever" hacks. I don't think using a well-documented feature for the purpose it was intended
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by evan_ 6y ago
There's also a risk that someone less experienced hits themselves in the thumb with a hammer, and then hits themselves between the eyes with the claw, and then drops the hammer on their foot.
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by evan_ 6y ago
along with useImperativeHandle for writing your own imperative functions like focus() or whatever
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by evan_ 6y ago
I would ignore whoever told you not to use an empty array for the dependency argument. Change your linter rules. It's fine.
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by evan_ 6y ago
I do worry about anti-vaccine people. I don't think that because someone falls for propaganda they should die from a preventable disease. Their kids shouldn't either.
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by evan_ 6y ago
This is from The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXIII", Season 24 episode 2. This segment starts at 14:45 on the Disney+ version. There's a relatively low-quality cut on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by evan_ 6y ago
We all agree that it would be wrong to poison the reservoir. We all agree it’s wrong to pool our money to hire someone to poison the reservoir. If I vote for the mayoral candidate who promises to poison the reservoir, why should that sudden
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by evan_ 6y ago
many people are explicitly and intentionally voting for the bad policies and actions though, can I blame them for that?
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by evan_ 6y ago
There’s a very good running joke on the show Childrens Hospital, which is about a children’s hospital: even though it is a hospital for children, it got its name from its founder, Dr. Arthur Childrens.
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by evan_ 6y ago
What a lousy bribe! I’m sure some money changed hands as a signing bonus or something but if I’m running a scam I don’t want to have to pretend to be an executive afterwards!
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by evan_ 6y ago
In many cases states have tried to obtain supplies directly from manufacturers and suppliers only to have the Federal Government step in and prevent them from actually taking possession of the needed materials. https://nymag.com&
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by evan_ 6y ago
This seems really cool but it doesn't seem to let me choose which webcam to use- it seems to default to a virtual device I use for streaming that isn't set up right now so I can't really try it out.
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by evan_ 6y ago
Put a couple hundred line breaks at the top of your .env file so if you open it it’s just white space
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by evan_ 6y ago
I don't see us getting to the levels of vaccinations that would be necessary for eradication. A quarter of the people in the US think the whole thing is a ploy to implant everyone with microchips and nothing will ever convince them oth
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by evan_ 6y ago
The link you posted sources all of its images from Ars. As in, the src of all of the images is literally pointed at Ars Technica's CDN. "ICrowdNewsWire" is probably just publishing Ars’s RSS feed. If you click around most of
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by evan_ 6y ago
Jokes are supposed to be funny, our health care and education are tragedies
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by evan_ 6y ago
Pun on “mission accomplished”
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by evan_ 6y ago
Taking on a lot of new employees and increasing production cost a lot of money up front that you won't recoup instantly, cashflow is a killer

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