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by fapjacks 8y ago
That sounds reasonable, sure. You might also try contacting the author directly. Authors tend to know way more about their books than the person answering your email at the publisher, and certainly would have a good idea what their print ed
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I've been reading a lot about this problem specifically with respect to Chinese culture. Insofar as we can say any one thing about a national culture of more than a billion, on the whole, the Chinese simply don't care about attrib
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Actually these books are likely counterfeit, being produced overseas and sold on Amazon as the real deal. It's easy because neither the publisher nor Amazon (nor the customer for that matter) can know that someone listing a product is
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Jeez, I don't think it's possible for this writer (Ryan Kailath) to be any more milquetoast if he tried. Amazon's reviews are completely bullshit. I never buy anything from Amazon (or Yelp, or...) without running the produc
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by fapjacks 8y ago
As to your last point: Totally! Old code is proven code, and battle experience is the hardest kind of experience to earn. The longer something's been working correctly, the higher the degree of confidence you can have in it to continue
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Is that real? Which phones are doing this to their consumers? That is fucking awful.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Most of the whataboutism in response to this idea boils down to some form of "But but muh feelings" and I think really shows how little people know about both history and life outside the developed world. The other thing I find un
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Life will go much smoother and make a lot more sense if you stop thinking of groups of people as individuals with individual memories, skillsets, capabilities, and experiences. "We" are capable of anything you've read about i
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by fapjacks 8y ago
It looks like this listing ended about the same time that I posted about it, or at least in the time between my posting about it and six hours ago. Now there are only $499 kits by third-party sellers. But when there was still FBA inventory
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by fapjacks 8y ago
It looks like this listing ended about the same time that I posted about it, or at least in the time between my posting about it and six hours ago. Now there are only $499 kits by third-party sellers. But when there was still FBA inventory
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by fapjacks 8y ago
You mean they purchased enough loot boxes to unlock the in-game upgrade.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
This is still what I tell people in interviews was my most difficult technical challenge. I had nothing but an old 386 and the K&R book -- no Stack Overflow back in those days, and I didn't know any programmers well enough to ask t
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I've purchased a handful of Dante Labs 30x WGS kits on Amazon over the last couple of days. You didn't hear it from me, but the kits are still on sale on Amazon for $349... ... And an additional secret $100 discount during checkou
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by fapjacks 8y ago
... Is this reply for real? This is absurd and disingenuous. Google is one of those 30% app stores. Google/Youtube also absolutely does not cover 100% of the expenses and certainly doesn't "go out and get for you" the
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I use Glacier quite a lot for things like this. It is essentially free to store what most people reasonably consider "a shitload" of personal data. The cost is putting it into Glacier and then of course getting it out again. I&#x2
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by fapjacks 8y ago
It's important to state here that over-consumption of living space in Sweden means something almost completely different than what an American would think it means. Also, Swedish cities are small compared to American cities, but more d
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by fapjacks 8y ago
So, like... Europe.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
... While also silently pushing their "service agreement" across the table. That agreement explicitly enables ads from which Google takes 45% of the revenue. [0] [0] http://download.blender.org/institute/Contr
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Those stupid, swarthy Germans. [0] [0] https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...
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by fapjacks 8y ago
This is exactly my experience, as well. I started companies twice in my life before out of necessity, literally to pay the rent. Now, I'm doing it because I want to do it and I have the resources available.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Are you implying that there are property rights beyond those permitted by the few individuals who control the organizations whose names are sewn onto the shoulder patches worn by the men in black uniforms with automatic weapons?
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I really hate being stoned. Really, really hate being stoned. But man, I love being high! You don't have to get stoned smoking weed anymore than you have to get drunk drinking beer. A gram of cannabis can last me a week. And some of
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by fapjacks 8y ago
On the contrary. It's very useful for certain people and certain uses.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I know a person that uses a paintball gun to keep people out of his apartment building's dumpster (identity theft from documents stolen out of trash is a huge problem where he lives) and also to tag delivery trucks and (yikes) delive
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Right, this is what I was driving at. This does not belong on HN, as it is neither interesting nor novel. And it's self-promotion which, when it's also completely unimpressive, stinks even more in my opinion. If the OP had posted
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by fapjacks 8y ago
I am sort of a hobby linguist, though I do have some years of formal linguistics (and computational linguistics) education, which is why I was interested in your wild idea and how it relates to animal language. Are you using the term "
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by fapjacks 8y ago
How do you know that about the communication of other animals? Or is it just an assumption?
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by fapjacks 8y ago
This is not true. Non-human animal populations exist in which specialized, learned skills (mostly around hunting food) are taught to new generations.
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Haha that's a great question, but no, there is actually a different set of companies selling patterns for sewing and knitting (traditionally to their target demographic of older ladies). Companies that typically sell patterns to places
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by fapjacks 8y ago
Well, this is just a Python web scraper, and Instagram does in fact attempt to detect and prevent/rate-limit this kind of scraping. They rely very heavily on the source IP to help them determine when to cut you off.

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