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by frank2 7y ago
The slopes I skied on in the 1970s and 1980s were copiously covered in grass during the summer.
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by frank2 7y ago
there never was a change-over from structural brick in the US: at least 90% of houses have been wood since the Europeans colonized it.
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by frank2 7y ago
Raku is the new name for Perl 6, not Perl 5.
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by frank2 7y ago
-- which will expire after you've been on it for 52 weeks [1] after which, if you still cannot work, you can resort to (US) federal disability insurance. [1] https://ca.db101.org/ca/programs/income_support&#x2
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by frank2 7y ago
Is the Unison codebase manager written in Unison? What other user-facing open-source softwares have been written in Unison? Which of those softwares has been used for months or years by at least one person?
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by frank2 7y ago
>OP didn’t say significantly. True, but he or she implied it: if it weren't significant, it would be a disservice to the advice asker to distract him or her with the information.
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by frank2 7y ago
Oh, OK. Thanks.
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by frank2 7y ago
Interesting. Oil companies frack to get petroleum, and are OK with burning the natural gas at the well head. I get the impression that a big reason they choose to capture the natural gas instead is criticism of just burning it by environmen
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by frank2 7y ago
I disagree that RSUs can be worth significantly more than cash because the recipient of the cash can use the cash to buy (unrestricted) stock units if he or she is optimistic about the stock.
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by frank2 7y ago
Tensions involving the US? Because the combination of the US and Canada has been self-sufficient in petroleum for a few years now: i.e., the US need go no further than Canada to get all the oil it needs. The US would be self-sufficient now
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by frank2 7y ago
That fact nonwithstanding, users might be better served by having more "freedom of expression", e.g., by software that lets the user type any text into any field. Of course, if the user doesn't succeed in entering a phone num
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by frank2 7y ago
American liberty ships used steam engines because US industry had been building cargo ships for the Brits and wanted to avoid the delay of switching to a more modern design. The Brits specified steam engines so they could run the ships on c
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by frank2 7y ago
617 million is a lot for the general sector. Quora has raised 226 million; the company behind Stack Exchange, 68M.
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by frank2 7y ago
Automattic has raised US$617.3 million in six funding rounds, the latest one being 3 months ago. (Source: Wikipedia.)
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by frank2 7y ago
I think you are agreeing with GP: the Marines have their own carriers, which they call amphibious assault ships, so they don’t have to rely on the Navy’s carriers the next time the Marines get pinned down like they did at Guadalcanal.
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by frank2 7y ago
Those hills funnel the wind through the Livermore pass, where there have been wind turbines for decades
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by frank2 7y ago
I think he's assuming that people are going to spend some fraction of their time at work advancing their careers and maintaining their relationships with coworkers (and that he does not include that time as "creative work").
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by frank2 7y ago
US Federal laws are enforced vigourously enough that I think the burden of proof is on those who claim they are not enforced. Whether the laws are effective at preventing the behavior they are designed to prevent is another story.
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by frank2 7y ago
With rare exceptions (mostly help-wanted signs and signs for candidates for local offices before elections) the only outdoor advertising in Marin County, CA, is on the buses, the bus shelters -- but only the shelters near highway 101 -- and
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by frank2 7y ago
Am curious what you mean by the 'sticky apps'.
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by frank2 7y ago
Did you consider giving the the user some way to configure the text color?
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by frank2 7y ago
Code in the book can easily be translated into less than 150 lines of code in a modern Lisp-like language to yield an interpreter, so someone somewhere probably has a toy implementation. But almost certainly what implementations exist are n
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by frank2 7y ago
Yes: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-light-from-lasers-reduced-by-th... ADDED. Yes at distances from the source greater than 3.3 meters
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by frank2 7y ago
My Windows 10 desktop is solid black, too. In contrast my Mac's desktop is solid white (and almost always empty).
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by frank2 7y ago
maybe http://notational.net/
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by frank2 7y ago
Space X and Blue Origin have no expertise in rocket motors with solid fuels, which are the only kind of motors used by the advanced militaries since about 1970 because it takes tens of minutes to fuel a liquid-fueled motor and then once it
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by frank2 7y ago
About 20 years ago our society gained a deep understanding of the notion of causality. (To learn more, search the web for "Judea Pearl".) According to the terminology standardized at that time, yes, if adding particulate pollution
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by frank2 7y ago
at least on mac, the public release of VLC does have it (but it can be turned off in settings).
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by frank2 7y ago
OK, but you need a stream of comments and submissions to moderate, and most attempts at creating on online discussion site never achieve that.
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by frank2 7y ago
My guess is that the most important factor in the success of HN is Paul Graham's essays, and the only reason https://lesswrong.com got any traction is Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays.

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