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by feklar 10y ago
I avoid MOOCs lately as they are often too slow paced, or lacking in specific and/or advanced material and instead find a university with a public accessible calendar and cherry pick what I'm interested from there. For example thi
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by feklar 10y ago
Those cities are also destinations for migrant homeless. How would this SLC system cope if new homeless were showing everyday from out of city like they are in Seattle or SF, or where I live as the eastern street youth population migrates o
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by feklar 10y ago
Friend of mine runs a tiny and successful to-go cafe. His most unexpected problem was competitor restaurants around him constantly phoning city hall to "complain" about his business in hopes they regulate him off the street. The m
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by feklar 10y ago
Nil interface/nil pointer in the interface errors also explained in this 'Go landmines' post https://gist.github.com/lavalamp/4bd23295a9f32706a48f
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by feklar 10y ago
I remember reading an article about AirBnB breaking into Japan, where the local resistance wasn't the usual complaints of limiting the monthly rental supply therefore jacking up rental rates, but that AirBnB 'encouraged more forei
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by feklar 10y ago
According to 4/2chan posters from Japan it's all about money. Men are expected to have a career by age 30something and be set for a family, if they don't it's seen as shameful so they don't try to date. Too many low
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by feklar 10y ago
I have a new habit of reading a Princeton University Press book a week, it's good to get a modern update from a professor on the status of Greek history research, and other subjects. For example this book was one of the best books I&#x
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by feklar 10y ago
This is how RMS has made a living for 2 decades. One advantage to attending these is being able to briefly talk to the speaker afterwards if they stick around, like asking RMS about his papers in the 1970s about propagation, dependencies an
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by feklar 10y ago
No real time, some months at a pretrial, some months at a state prison then transferred to BOP and deported. BOP I was constantly transferred around, for unknown reasons. Sometimes after a week, three weeks, or a few days (same with my frie
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by feklar 10y ago
Indeed, you don't have to win any fights in prison you just have to be willing to fight. This is usually instigated by The Punk Test, where somebody will try to incrementally take advantage of you, by either saying something and seeing
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by feklar 10y ago
Some state prisons still allow weight stacks, they post their weight lifting competitions on youtube all the time (illegally, not sure how prisoners get phones). Here's some guy in a no weight stack prison, with a contraband phone show
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by feklar 10y ago
There are "Prison Consultants" that exist for this. Besides survival their main avenue of expertise is how to influence the decision on where you will be sent and/or transfer to your prison of choice. Madoff hired a consultan
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by feklar 10y ago
Another annoying trend is only offering remote workers half vacation as the other half is 'a paid company retreat with the team!'. I do not want to ride bikes or go sailing with my coworkers and boss in Thailand for 2 weeks I want
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by feklar 10y ago
Would tuition also follow by being more affordable? The government guarantees loans for everybody so institutions jack up their fees accordingly it seems.
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by feklar 10y ago
They don't have to fear for their life on a 24/7 basis while doing hard time http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3338209&post... I understand the position that why should criminals get anythin
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by feklar 10y ago
The media report wasn't very clear. First Manning is in solitary because of the suicide attempt, which every prison does when an inmate tries to kill themselves. You get put in a room under 24/7 surveillance with only a blanket us
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by feklar 10y ago
BOP (feds) is the worst of all the systems when it comes to having any kind of blog/fb/twitter or speaking to the media. A friend of mine once posted his prison band, and apparently they weren't supposed to have access to ins
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by feklar 10y ago
Can script all that yourself if you properly document it so somebody else can come along a figure out exactly what is going on should you disappear/quit/call in sick/hit by bus. Elastic Search 'beats' ( https:&#x2
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by feklar 10y ago
Many had this feature (and Paypal for a while) but dropped it for some reason. My guess is they want to encourage subscription/repeat billing or some kind of fraud was rampant generating temporary numbers.
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by feklar 10y ago
There's always Antergos which is essentially Arch + magic (installer + scripted updates). It just works with little configuration. Problem with Arch or any rolling release is you will download a gigantic amount of updates every day it
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by feklar 10y ago
ID-Kick-Fucking-Ass, ID-Delta-Quit-Delta was a made up frat of college dropouts
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by feklar 10y ago
The tax only really affects landed immigrants who live and work in BC, and foreign capital investments in new developments as the Chinese speculators with billions who want to park money in Vancouver have already found ways around it becaus
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by feklar 10y ago
0.8% vacancy rate, good luck renting also landlords all use fix term year leases now where you agree to move after it expires in order to bypass the provincial rent increase cap and raise your rent +30% https://www.biv.com/a
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by feklar 10y ago
I used https://bitcoin.co.th/ to pay out to an ATM w/code, not sure if they still offer it.
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by feklar 10y ago
Since there's not one technical detail on their marketing site I'm going to assume this is reskinned Firefox with SQLCipher dropped in.
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by feklar 10y ago
I was also under the impression that kids who plan out STEM majors typically bypass single variable (Calc I) and other freshman intro programs through advanced placement. https://www.cmu.edu/mcs/prospective/ap.html
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by feklar 10y ago
Found the original post that explains the algorithm better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665250 It is hard if the book has an incomplete index or poorly named chapters forcing you to skim around.
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by feklar 10y ago
There are also plenty of incompetent dealers like the one here who mixed up his crack and fentanyl stash causing 39 ODs http://vancouversun.com/news/crime/36-drug-overdoses-in-one-...
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by feklar 10y ago
If I remember correctly this method was advised in the comments of an HN article about Concrete Mathematics by Knuth et all. I used this for undergraduate texts, mainly in math that I had collected over the years and never got around to rea
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by feklar 10y ago
Somebody here once recommended when doing any kind of text with exercises to open to a random chapter and attempt the first exercise. If you can't do it research through the index/book where the information to help you solve it is

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